Distributed Systems Contracts in Scotland

Distributed Systems
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 152 158
Rank change year-on-year +52 +6 -13
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 25 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.16% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 0.81% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 4
10th Percentile £390 £550 £422
25th Percentile £400 £688 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £460 £775 £516
90th Percentile £530 £781 £589
UK median daily rate £569 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +8.70%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 719 985 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.43% 36.44% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 667 798
10th Percentile £200 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £559
90th Percentile £651 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 21
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -69.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.10 £51.34 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Scotland

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Glasgow - 21 £440 - 4
Edinburgh +30 4 £600 -20.00% 7
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (32.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) AWS
2 19 (76.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 9 (36.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (16.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (32.00%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Backend Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) RESTful
2 10 (40.00%) Kafka
3 9 (36.00%) Spring
4 7 (28.00%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (28.00%) OpenTracing
4 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.00%) CSS
6 1 (4.00%) Guice
6 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Computer Science
1 13 (52.00%) Microservices
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 10 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (40.00%) DataOps
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) GitOps
3 10 (40.00%) MLOps
3 10 (40.00%) SDLC
4 9 (36.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (28.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (24.00%) Dependency Injection
8 5 (20.00%) Scrum
9 3 (12.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) Java
2 21 (84.00%) Scala
3 11 (44.00%) Kotlin
4 10 (40.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.00%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (40.00%) Terraform
3 7 (28.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (28.00%) Zipkin
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft