Distributed Systems Contracts in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 133 157
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 15 17 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.57% 0.59% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 1.83% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 4
10th Percentile - - £389
25th Percentile £280 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% -9.50% -14.53%
75th Percentile £293 £468 £541
90th Percentile £315 £487 £546
South East median daily rate £285 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -48.18% +10.00% -2.44%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 766 928 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.00% 32.40% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 613 682
10th Percentile £205 £301 £225
25th Percentile £306 £410 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 24 32
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.36% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.64 £73.69 £35.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.49
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +144.19% -42.67%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the Thames Valley

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -2 15 £285 -37.02% 2
Distributed Systems
South East

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (13.33%) Data Technician
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Operations Technician
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Technician
5 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) Mustache
4 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (6.67%) jQuery
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 6 (40.00%) Break/Fix
2 6 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) Ticket Management
7 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
7 1 (6.67%) DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Line Management
7 1 (6.67%) Process Management
7 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (6.67%) SDLC
7 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (73.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Dell
1 7 (46.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk