Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Distributed Computing
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 77 95
Rank change year-on-year -62 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.094% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.98% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile - £464 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £477 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% -13.27% -9.91%
75th Percentile - £545 £600
90th Percentile - £578 £630
England median daily rate £542 £500 £750
% change year-on-year +8.45% -33.36% +11.15%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 804 307 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.61% 34.77% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 201 274
10th Percentile £325 £208 £265
25th Percentile £423 £343 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £448
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.14% -14.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 42
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.10 £11.75
25th Percentile £15.96 £26.25 £12.18
Median hourly rate £35.88 £32.81 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% +124.34% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £41.50 £21.16
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.59 £23.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £35.00 £30.58
% change year-on-year -4.29% +14.45% +35.91%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -59 1 - - 2
West Yorkshire - 1 £575 -
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Log4j
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Cache
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware