Distributed Computing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Distributed Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 406 565
Rank change year-on-year +74 +159 -108
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 13 53 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.088% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.68% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 47 38
10th Percentile - £565 £450
25th Percentile £475 £621 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £875 - £673
90th Percentile - - £729
UK median daily rate £751 £730 £600
% change year-on-year +2.81% +21.67% -3.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 7,821 13,928
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.79% 31.56% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,892 5,532 9,968
10th Percentile £325 £372 £360
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £650
90th Percentile £825 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 152 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £84.42 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.41 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.51% +4.05%

Distributed Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Computing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing.

Distributed Computing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Distributed Computing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Computing.

Distributed Computing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (46.15%) Big Data
3 4 (30.77%) Parquet
4 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.69%) Looker
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
3 4 (30.77%) Front Office
3 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Qualitative Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Quantitative Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Python Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) PySpark
2 4 (30.77%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Equities
1 4 (30.77%) Fixed Income
1 4 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (15.38%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Analytics
2 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) ETL
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Data Science
5 4 (30.77%) Mathematical Modelling
5 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
5 4 (30.77%) Numerical Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) Physics
5 4 (30.77%) Quantitative Finance
6 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
8 1 (7.69%) Data Ingestion
8 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) C++
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Perl
2 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 4 (30.77%) VBA
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft