Distributed Computing Contracts

Distributed Computing
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 644 753
Rank change year-on-year +110 +109 -132
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 44 72 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.37% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 63 80
10th Percentile £475 £522 £480
25th Percentile £563 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £730 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +21.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £875 £750 £728
90th Percentile £900 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £650 £503
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,166 19,644 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.26% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,481 13,496 20,500
10th Percentile £263 £309 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £658
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 642 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.29% -16.13%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +76 38 £800 +9.59% 39
London +95 33 £800 +6.67% 24
Work from Home +93 13 £575 -23.33% 50
UK excluding London +52 9 £475 -26.92% 18
Scotland - 5 £475 - 2
North of England +20 4 £550 -10.24% 5
Yorkshire +15 4 £550 -9.91%

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (11.36%) Apache
2 4 (9.09%) Confluence
3 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.55%) ArcGIS
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) GCP
2 11 (25.00%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (9.09%) Vertex AI
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.27%) dbt
8 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Big Data
2 10 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (15.91%) Data Lake
3 7 (15.91%) NoSQL
4 6 (13.64%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.09%) Bigtable
5 4 (9.09%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (9.09%) Parquet
6 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.82%) Power BI
7 2 (4.55%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (4.55%) GIS
7 2 (4.55%) Hazelcast
7 2 (4.55%) KDB
7 2 (4.55%) Looker
7 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.45%) Git
3 6 (13.64%) Visual Studio
4 4 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (2.27%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) Maven
5 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (40.91%) Finance
2 12 (27.27%) Banking
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Investment Banking
4 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 7 (15.91%) Front Office
6 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.55%) Marketing
7 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Back Office
8 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Public Speaking
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Architect
3 10 (22.73%) Senior
4 9 (20.45%) Analyst
5 8 (18.18%) Qualitative Analyst
5 8 (18.18%) Quantitative Analyst
6 6 (13.64%) Data Architect
6 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
7 5 (11.36%) GCP Architect
7 5 (11.36%) Python Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Site Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Architect
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
9 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (4.55%) C++ Developer
10 2 (4.55%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) PySpark
2 7 (15.91%) RESTful
3 6 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.09%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.55%) Guice
5 2 (4.55%) HTML
5 2 (4.55%) HTML5
5 2 (4.55%) OpenFin
5 2 (4.55%) PostGIS
5 2 (4.55%) React
5 2 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.27%) Django
6 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.27%) Flask
6 1 (2.27%) JDBC
6 1 (2.27%) XML
6 1 (2.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.64%) Equities
3 6 (13.64%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.82%) Derivative
4 3 (6.82%) Grid Computing
4 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Unix
2 7 (15.91%) Linux
3 6 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Analytics
1 18 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (36.36%) Agile
2 16 (36.36%) DevOps
3 11 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (22.73%) Observability
5 9 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (20.45%) ETL
5 9 (20.45%) Mathematics
6 8 (18.18%) Physics
7 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven
7 7 (15.91%) Machine Learning
7 7 (15.91%) Quantitative Finance
7 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.64%) Data Science
8 6 (13.64%) Decision-Making
8 6 (13.64%) Microservices
8 6 (13.64%) Service-Level Objective
8 6 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (13.64%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) Python
2 23 (52.27%) Java
3 10 (22.73%) SQL
4 9 (20.45%) C++
5 6 (13.64%) C#
5 6 (13.64%) Go
5 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
6 5 (11.36%) VBA
7 4 (9.09%) Perl
8 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.55%) Scala
9 1 (2.27%) VC++
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Degree
2 7 (15.91%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Opsgenie
1 6 (13.64%) Terraform
2 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Google
2 8 (18.18%) Databricks
3 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
4 6 (13.64%) Dynatrace
4 6 (13.64%) New Relic
4 6 (13.64%) PagerDuty
4 6 (13.64%) Splunk
5 5 (11.36%) Adobe
5 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
5 5 (11.36%) SAP
6 2 (4.55%) ESRI
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (4.55%) Solace
6 2 (4.55%) Sybase