Hybrid/Remote Distributed Systems Engineer Contract Job Trends

Distributed Systems Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Distributed Systems Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Distributed Systems Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.031% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,041 11,725 19,208
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 93.49% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,960 7,505 13,575
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 286 436
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.13 £16.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £32.01 £24.74
Median hourly rate £38.70 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £69.06
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Distributed Systems Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Distributed Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Systems Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Distributed Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Distributed Systems Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Distributed Systems Engineer job vacancies

Distributed Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Distributed Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Distributed Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline

Distributed Systems Engineer Skill Set
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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Sharing
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python