Distributed Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Distributed Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems 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 Systems over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 313 421
Rank change year-on-year +48 +108 -130
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 87 159 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.61% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.95% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 109 141
10th Percentile £400 £465 £475
25th Percentile £452 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £710 £750 £738
90th Percentile £725 £863 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 13
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile - £79.89 -
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.15% +3.45%
75th Percentile - £88.30 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +40.15% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Distributed Systems 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 4,397 8,136 13,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.46% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 5,724 9,940
10th Percentile £325 £363 £357
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 -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 151 228
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £31.38 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

Distributed Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Distributed Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
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 Systems.

Distributed Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Distributed Systems daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
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 Systems.

Distributed Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
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 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Endur
1 2 (2.30%) Shopify
2 1 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) Azure
2 23 (26.44%) AWS
3 9 (10.34%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) Serverless
5 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.75%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (4.60%) NuGet
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.30%) Apigee
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.30%) Datadog
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub
9 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) Internet
3 1 (1.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.84%) MongoDB
2 15 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (11.49%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.45%) Big Data
6 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.15%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.15%) Flink
8 1 (1.15%) KDB
8 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) Pylint
4 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.15%) JMeter
4 1 (1.15%) JUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Mockito
4 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.15%) VisualWorks
General
1 29 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.09%) Front Office
3 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.49%) Finance
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Public Speaking
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (56.32%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) Senior
3 15 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 14 (16.09%) Senior Developer
5 13 (14.94%) C# Developer
5 13 (14.94%) Python Engineer
6 12 (13.79%) Site Engineer
6 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Front Office Developer
7 10 (11.49%) Scala Developer
8 9 (10.34%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Architect
9 6 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Java Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.60%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) Kafka
2 19 (21.84%) RESTful
3 11 (12.64%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (12.64%) REST
4 10 (11.49%) React
5 9 (10.34%) Spring
5 9 (10.34%) Web Services
6 8 (9.20%) .NET
7 7 (8.05%) Akka
7 7 (8.05%) Play Framework
8 6 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
8 6 (6.90%) YAML
9 5 (5.75%) .NET Core
9 5 (5.75%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.75%) OAuth
9 5 (5.75%) OpenID
9 5 (5.75%) SOAP
10 4 (4.60%) Node.js
10 4 (4.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Data Structures
2 12 (13.79%) Algorithms
3 10 (11.49%) Derivative
3 10 (11.49%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.60%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.30%) Equities
7 2 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.59%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.68%) CI/CD
2 36 (41.38%) Agile
3 34 (39.08%) DevOps
4 31 (35.63%) Microservices
5 26 (29.89%) Software Engineering
6 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.94%) E-Commerce
7 13 (14.94%) SDLC
7 13 (14.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (13.79%) Multithreading
8 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.64%) Risk Management
10 10 (11.49%) Computer Science
10 10 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (11.49%) Greeks
10 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (11.49%) Mathematics
10 10 (11.49%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (11.49%) Scrum
11 9 (10.34%) OO
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.17%) Java
2 43 (49.43%) Python
3 24 (27.59%) C#
3 24 (27.59%) Scala
4 17 (19.54%) JavaScript
5 16 (18.39%) SQL
6 12 (13.79%) Shell Script
7 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
8 10 (11.49%) Go
9 7 (8.05%) C++
10 6 (6.90%) Kotlin
11 4 (4.60%) Bicep
11 4 (4.60%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.45%) Perl
13 1 (1.15%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) Degree
2 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.15%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Docker
2 11 (12.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (35.63%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.09%) Prometheus
3 13 (14.94%) Terraform
4 11 (12.64%) Consul
4 11 (12.64%) Grafana
5 3 (3.45%) Zipkin
6 2 (2.30%) Ansible
7 1 (1.15%) Argo
7 1 (1.15%) Kibana
7 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) SaltStack
3 6 (6.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.30%) Genesys
4 2 (2.30%) Google
4 2 (2.30%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.15%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.15%) Dell
5 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.15%) HP
5 1 (1.15%) New Relic
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.15%) Splunk