Distributed Computing Contracts in England

Distributed Computing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 515 571
Rank change year-on-year +88 +56 +120
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 63 34 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.091% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 57
10th Percentile £405 £553 £516
25th Percentile £423 £631 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -38.13% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £773 £875 -
90th Percentile £862 £920 £828
UK median daily rate £500 £725 £734
% change year-on-year -31.03% -1.16% +23.02%

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Computing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,758 11,372 15,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.73% 30.45% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,612 7,303 10,962
10th Percentile £303 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 846 541
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.20 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.85 £37.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +66.78% -15.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.27 £22.34
% change year-on-year -15.91% +62.40% -17.22%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in England over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in England

Distributed Computing
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 Computing within the England region over the 6 months to 26 June 2025. 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 +73 48 £750 -6.25% 113
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 6
Midlands - 6 £393 - 20
North of England +15 4 £475 -13.64% 20
Yorkshire +2 3 £513 -6.82% 8
East of England - 3 £430 - 22
South East +40 2 £500 +38.89% 25
North West - 1 £475 - 11
Distributed Computing
UK

Distributed Computing
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 46 (73.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (20.63%) Apache
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) Azure
3 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.59%) Dagster
6 1 (1.59%) Prefect
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.76%) LAN
2 3 (4.76%) NAS
2 3 (4.76%) SAN
2 3 (4.76%) WAN
3 2 (3.17%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (41.27%) Big Data
2 24 (38.10%) Hadoop
3 11 (17.46%) Apache Hive
4 7 (11.11%) Data Mining
5 6 (9.52%) Power BI
5 6 (9.52%) Tableau
6 5 (7.94%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.94%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (7.94%) GIS
6 5 (7.94%) QGIS
7 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.76%) HBase
7 3 (4.76%) Impala
7 3 (4.76%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.59%) Flink
8 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) Git
2 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
3 2 (3.17%) JUnit
3 2 (3.17%) Mockito
3 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.17%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 31 (49.21%) Finance
2 25 (39.68%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.63%) Banking
4 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Financial Institution
5 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Developer
2 15 (23.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 13 (20.63%) Java Developer
4 11 (17.46%) Data Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Apache Spark Developer
6 7 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Big Data Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Senior
8 5 (7.94%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Data Scientist
9 4 (6.35%) Java Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Lead
9 4 (6.35%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Administrator
10 3 (4.76%) DevOps Administrator
10 3 (4.76%) Gen AI Specialist
10 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.57%) PySpark
2 9 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (11.11%) TensorFlow
4 5 (7.94%) GeoPandas
4 5 (7.94%) PostGIS
4 5 (7.94%) Ray
5 3 (4.76%) CSS
5 3 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (4.76%) HTML
5 3 (4.76%) Kafka
5 3 (4.76%) LDAP
5 3 (4.76%) Pandas
5 3 (4.76%) scikit-learn
6 2 (3.17%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.17%) JMS
6 2 (3.17%) NumPy
6 2 (3.17%) Spring
7 1 (1.59%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.59%) MyBatis
7 1 (1.59%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.87%) Algorithms
2 10 (15.87%) Market Risk
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (6.35%) Credit Risk
4 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.76%) Clustering
5 3 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.17%) Derivative
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.17%) Equities
6 2 (3.17%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (3.17%) Tandem
7 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.59%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.76%) Unix
3 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 23 (36.51%) Analytics
3 23 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (30.16%) Mathematics
6 18 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 15 (23.81%) Deep Learning
8 14 (22.22%) Data Science
8 14 (22.22%) Risk Management
9 13 (20.63%) Low Latency
10 12 (19.05%) Agile
10 12 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (17.46%) Code Quality
11 11 (17.46%) Data Modelling
12 9 (14.29%) Memory Management
12 9 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (14.29%) Risk Analytics
13 8 (12.70%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (68.25%) Python
2 33 (52.38%) Java
3 18 (28.57%) C++
4 15 (23.81%) SQL
5 11 (17.46%) C
6 8 (12.70%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.94%) Scala
8 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Degree
2 17 (26.98%) Master's Degree
3 15 (23.81%) PhD
4 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MCP
6 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.17%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Databricks
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) Bloomberg
2 3 (4.76%) Foundry
2 3 (4.76%) Google
2 3 (4.76%) NetApp
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle
2 3 (4.76%) Palantir
2 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.76%) Refinitiv
3 2 (3.17%) Solace
4 1 (1.59%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.59%) Teradata
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