Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Workington

Distributed Systems
Cumbria > Workington

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Workington. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Workington 66.67% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
Workington

Distributed Systems 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 requiring generic IT skills in Workington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Workington 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £481 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.49 - -
Cumbria median hourly rate £30.52 £28.75 £13.00
% change year-on-year +6.16% +121.15% -84.58%

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Workington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes