Distributed Computing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Distributed Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 331 433
Rank change year-on-year +41 +102 +154
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 14 14 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.091% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 0.32% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 39
10th Percentile £463 - £550
25th Percentile £491 £475 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £675 £844 -
90th Percentile £751 £875 -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -23.33% +7.14% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Distributed Computing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Distributed Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Computing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 9 (64.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Big Data
2 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
4 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
5 1 (7.14%) HBase
5 1 (7.14%) Impala
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MLflow
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Ray
1 4 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 3 (21.43%) TensorFlow
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Pandas
3 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (7.14%) Matplotlib
4 1 (7.14%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Tandem
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Machine Learning
2 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) Low Latency
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) Data Science
4 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Parallel Computing
4 4 (28.57%) Pattern Recognition
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Debt
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) C++
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) C
3 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Refinitiv