Distributed Computing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Distributed Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 428 576
Rank change year-on-year +96 +148 -129
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 14 44 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.54% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 32
10th Percentile - £550 £490
25th Percentile £475 £621 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £844 - £675
90th Percentile £875 - £738
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £600
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Distributed Computing is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,362 8,137 13,908
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.55% 31.47% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 5,726 9,922
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 151 228
10th Percentile £15.43 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £31.38 £20.56
Median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +29.21% +28.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Distributed Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Computing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing.

Distributed Computing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Distributed Computing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing.

Distributed Computing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (50.00%) Big Data
3 4 (28.57%) Parquet
4 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
5 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (7.14%) Looker
6 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 4 (28.57%) Front Office
3 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Qualitative Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Quantitative Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) PySpark
2 4 (28.57%) Apache Avro
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) MLlib
3 1 (7.14%) NumPy
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Equities
1 4 (28.57%) Fixed Income
1 4 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Grid Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Analytics
2 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 6 (42.86%) ETL
4 5 (35.71%) Data Science
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (28.57%) Mathematical Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
5 4 (28.57%) Numerical Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Physics
5 4 (28.57%) Quantitative Finance
6 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 2 (14.29%) DevOps
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (7.14%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) C++
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Perl
2 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft