Distributed Computing Contracts in England

Distributed Computing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 570 687
Rank change year-on-year +75 +117 -117
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 36 70 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 61 55
10th Percentile £563 £519 £516
25th Percentile £663 £600 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £730 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +12.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £875 £750 £788
90th Percentile £925 - -
UK median daily rate £751 £730 £600
% change year-on-year +2.81% +21.67% -3.07%

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Computing 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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +79 31 £800 +6.67% 29
North of England +27 4 £550 -9.91% 4
Yorkshire +9 4 £550 -9.91%
Distributed Computing
UK

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.56%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) GCP
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.11%) Vertex AI
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Big Data
2 6 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
4 4 (11.11%) Bigtable
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (5.56%) GIS
6 2 (5.56%) Looker
6 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Power BI
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.56%) Tableau
7 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.78%) KDB
7 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.00%) Git
3 6 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 4 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) Maven
5 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Banking
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 7 (19.44%) Front Office
4 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Qualitative Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Quantitative Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Data Architect
5 5 (13.89%) GCP Architect
5 5 (13.89%) Site Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.56%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Geospatial Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Platform Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) RESTful
2 6 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (11.11%) PySpark
4 2 (5.56%) PostGIS
4 2 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.78%) Django
5 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.78%) Flask
5 1 (2.78%) Guice
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) HTML5
5 1 (2.78%) JDBC
5 1 (2.78%) OpenFin
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) XML
5 1 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (16.67%) Equities
4 5 (13.89%) Fixed Income
5 3 (8.33%) Derivative
5 3 (8.33%) Grid Computing
6 2 (5.56%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
1 6 (16.67%) Unix
2 5 (13.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Analytics
1 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (38.89%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Observability
4 9 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 8 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (22.22%) Physics
6 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
6 7 (19.44%) Quantitative Finance
7 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 6 (16.67%) Numerical Analysis
7 6 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (13.89%) Data Science
8 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
8 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (13.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Python
2 20 (55.56%) Java
3 9 (25.00%) C++
3 9 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) C#
4 6 (16.67%) Go
5 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.89%) VBA
6 4 (11.11%) Perl
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.78%) VC++
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Degree
2 7 (19.44%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Opsgenie
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Google
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) Databricks
3 6 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 6 (16.67%) New Relic
3 6 (16.67%) PagerDuty
3 6 (16.67%) Splunk
4 5 (13.89%) Adobe
4 5 (13.89%) Salesforce
4 5 (13.89%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) ESRI
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Solace
6 1 (2.78%) Sybase