Distributed Systems Contracts in England

Distributed Systems
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 354 391
Rank change year-on-year +2 +37 -68
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 196 313 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.65% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.93% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 226 322
10th Percentile £349 £489 £475
25th Percentile £461 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +7.67%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £775
90th Percentile £875 £856 £794
UK median daily rate £569 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 £63.25
90th Percentile - £89.32 £65.11
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £61.63
% change year-on-year -34.59% +36.45% -0.20%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,132 16,230 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.61% 33.61% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,301 11,278 16,982
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £414 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 809 575 640
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.49 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +51.21% -16.69% +2.96%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.93
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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 +13 151 £675 +7.14% 99
South East -1 21 £285 -43.84% 8
North of England +36 19 £500 -2.91% 20
North West +27 11 £525 +1.94% 12
Yorkshire +27 8 £400 - 7
Midlands +29 3 £450 -32.84% 5
West Midlands +16 3 £450 -32.84% 4
East of England +9 2 £600 +20.00% 6
South West - 2 £800 - 8
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
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 7 (3.57%) Apache
2 5 (2.55%) Confluence
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.04%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) JBoss
5 2 (1.02%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.08%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.55%) Endur
3 4 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.51%) RMDS
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.98%) AWS
2 45 (22.96%) Azure
3 28 (14.29%) GCP
4 15 (7.65%) Serverless
5 11 (5.61%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.08%) GitHub
7 8 (4.08%) NuGet
8 7 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.55%) Azure API Management
10 5 (2.55%) npm
10 5 (2.55%) Yarn
11 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.10%) SAN
2 5 (2.55%) DNS
3 4 (2.04%) Internet
4 3 (1.53%) Firewall
5 2 (1.02%) HTTP
5 2 (1.02%) Network Security
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.22%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 20 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.65%) KDB
5 13 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.57%) Redis
7 6 (3.06%) Big Data
7 6 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.06%) MySQL
8 5 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.55%) Bigtable
9 4 (2.04%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.04%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.53%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.53%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 33 (16.84%) Git
2 21 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.59%) GitLab
4 6 (3.06%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.06%) Karma Test Runner
5 5 (2.55%) Pylint
5 5 (2.55%) webpack
6 4 (2.04%) ClearCase
6 4 (2.04%) ClearQuest
6 4 (2.04%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.04%) JUnit
6 4 (2.04%) Mocha
6 4 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.53%) JIRA
8 2 (1.02%) Gradle
8 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.02%) JMeter
8 2 (1.02%) Maven
8 2 (1.02%) Mockito
8 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.29%) Finance
3 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.69%) Front Office
5 17 (8.67%) Banking
6 9 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.55%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.04%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.53%) Marketing
12 2 (1.02%) Retail
13 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (44.90%) Developer
2 55 (28.06%) Senior
3 31 (15.82%) Java Developer
4 29 (14.80%) Senior Developer
5 20 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (9.69%) Site Engineer
7 16 (8.16%) Architect
7 16 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) Python Engineer
9 12 (6.12%) C# Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.61%) Backend Developer
10 11 (5.61%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Front Office Developer
11 9 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Data Centre Engineer
13 7 (3.57%) Python Developer
13 7 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.92%) Kafka
2 28 (14.29%) REST
3 25 (12.76%) RESTful
4 22 (11.22%) React
5 21 (10.71%) Node.js
6 17 (8.67%) Spring
7 15 (7.65%) .NET
8 14 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (7.14%) Web Services
9 13 (6.63%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.63%) HTML
10 11 (5.61%) Spring Boot
11 9 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.59%) YAML
12 8 (4.08%) OAuth
12 8 (4.08%) SOAP
12 8 (4.08%) WebSockets
13 7 (3.57%) CSS
13 7 (3.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.31%) Data Structures
2 29 (14.80%) Algorithms
3 19 (9.69%) Cloud Native
4 17 (8.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (6.12%) Derivative
5 12 (6.12%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.12%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.10%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.10%) Equity Derivative
7 9 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (3.06%) Fixed Income
9 6 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (3.06%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.55%) Virtual Team
11 4 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 53 (27.04%) Linux
2 22 (11.22%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) Windows
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.51%) CentOS
5 1 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.84%) Agile
2 66 (33.67%) DevOps
3 59 (30.10%) Software Engineering
4 55 (28.06%) CI/CD
5 42 (21.43%) Microservices
6 40 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (17.35%) E-Commerce
8 33 (16.84%) Multithreading
9 32 (16.33%) SDLC
10 31 (15.82%) OO
10 31 (15.82%) Test Automation
11 30 (15.31%) Design Patterns
12 28 (14.29%) TDD
13 27 (13.78%) Analytics
14 26 (13.27%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (13.27%) Scrum
15 23 (11.73%) Computer Science
15 23 (11.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (10.20%) Event-Driven
16 20 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 112 (57.14%) Java
2 94 (47.96%) Python
3 48 (24.49%) SQL
4 44 (22.45%) C#
4 44 (22.45%) JavaScript
5 31 (15.82%) Go
6 25 (12.76%) C++
7 22 (11.22%) PowerShell
8 15 (7.65%) Shell Script
9 12 (6.12%) TypeScript
10 11 (5.61%) Scala
11 7 (3.57%) C
12 6 (3.06%) Bicep
13 5 (2.55%) Perl
13 5 (2.55%) Rust
14 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.04%) Ruby
15 2 (1.02%) Clojure
15 2 (1.02%) Groovy
15 2 (1.02%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 28 (14.29%) Degree
2 16 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.02%) Server+ Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.51%) PhD
6 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.65%) PCI DSS
2 11 (5.61%) SLA
3 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) MiFID
5 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 35 (17.86%) Docker
2 13 (6.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 60 (30.61%) Kubernetes
2 30 (15.31%) Terraform
3 17 (8.67%) Grafana
4 14 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.12%) Consul
6 7 (3.57%) Ansible
7 6 (3.06%) Opsgenie
8 4 (2.04%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.02%) Argo
9 2 (1.02%) Istio
9 2 (1.02%) Kibana
9 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.16%) Google
3 12 (6.12%) SaltStack
4 11 (5.61%) HP
4 11 (5.61%) Splunk
5 10 (5.10%) ION Trading
6 9 (4.59%) New Relic
6 9 (4.59%) Oracle
7 8 (4.08%) PagerDuty
7 8 (4.08%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.57%) Dell
8 7 (3.57%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.06%) Adobe
9 6 (3.06%) SAP
10 4 (2.04%) Sparx
11 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.53%) Tradeweb
12 2 (1.02%) Genesys
12 2 (1.02%) MarketAxess
12 2 (1.02%) TIBCO