Distributed Systems Contracts in England

Distributed Systems
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 357 394
Rank change year-on-year +98 +37 -10
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 245 207 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.55% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 1.82% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 143 178
10th Percentile £348 £370 £459
25th Percentile £442 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £756 £775 £700
90th Percentile £838 £910 £816
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £48.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £79.89
Median hourly rate £58.75 £55.00 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -34.59% +40.15%
75th Percentile £77.88 £57.50 £88.30
90th Percentile £81.38 - £89.32
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +6.82% -34.59% +40.15%

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Systems 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 8,715 11,382 15,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 30.40% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,596 7,313 10,964
10th Percentile £304 £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 £801 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 852 542
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.16 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.39 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Distributed Systems in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Distributed Systems in England

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +58 177 £675 - 563
South East +49 19 £383 +11.68% 95
Midlands +24 15 £463 +2.78% 30
West Midlands +15 12 £500 +11.11% 16
North of England +6 6 £481 -3.80% 127
North West -3 5 £537 +2.29% 85
South West +50 3 £525 -34.38% 23
East Midlands - 3 £420 - 13
Yorkshire 0 1 £315 -21.25% 38
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
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 12 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.27%) Apache
2 8 (3.27%) Confluence
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (1.22%) JBoss
4 3 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.82%) IIS
5 2 (0.82%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.41%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.41%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.41%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 99 (40.41%) AWS
2 51 (20.82%) Azure
3 22 (8.98%) GCP
4 18 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (6.94%) Amazon S3
5 17 (6.94%) GitHub
6 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (3.67%) Azure AKS
9 9 (3.67%) Serverless
10 8 (3.27%) AWS KMS
10 8 (3.27%) Route 53
11 7 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.08%) DNS
2 9 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.86%) Firewall
3 7 (2.86%) FTP
3 7 (2.86%) HTTP
3 7 (2.86%) SMTP
3 7 (2.86%) SSL
4 4 (1.63%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.22%) VPN
6 2 (0.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 30 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.16%) SQL Server
4 15 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.71%) Big Data
6 12 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (4.49%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.08%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.27%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.86%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.45%) MySQL
12 5 (2.04%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.04%) Metadata
12 5 (2.04%) Redis
13 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (15.92%) Git
2 31 (12.65%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.94%) JIRA
4 16 (6.53%) JUnit
5 13 (5.31%) Maven
5 13 (5.31%) Mockito
6 11 (4.49%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.27%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (3.27%) DbUnit
7 8 (3.27%) jMock
8 6 (2.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.04%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.63%) JMeter
10 4 (1.63%) Postman
11 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.22%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.22%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.22%) Subversion
11 3 (1.22%) Xcode
11 3 (1.22%) XCTest
General
1 60 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.86%) Finance
3 25 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.80%) Banking
5 20 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.31%) Front Office
7 10 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.04%) Retail
10 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.41%) Billing
13 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (43.27%) Developer
2 46 (18.78%) Java Developer
2 46 (18.78%) Senior
3 17 (6.94%) Senior Developer
4 15 (6.12%) C# Developer
5 14 (5.71%) Architect
5 14 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (5.31%) Lead
6 13 (5.31%) Software Engineer
7 11 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 10 (4.08%) Front Office Developer
9 8 (3.27%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (2.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (2.04%) Analyst
11 5 (2.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (2.04%) Gen AI Engineer
11 5 (2.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (2.04%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.04%) Technical Leader
12 4 (1.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (32.65%) Kafka
2 47 (19.18%) Spring
3 41 (16.73%) gRPC
4 38 (15.51%) Spring Boot
5 36 (14.69%) REST
6 29 (11.84%) RESTful
7 24 (9.80%) Web Services
8 19 (7.76%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.76%) Hibernate
9 16 (6.53%) SOAP
10 15 (6.12%) .NET
11 13 (5.31%) React
12 12 (4.90%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (4.90%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (4.49%) Bootstrap
13 11 (4.49%) JPA
14 9 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (3.67%) HTML
14 9 (3.67%) JSON
15 8 (3.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.16%) Derivative
3 13 (5.31%) Hedge funds
4 12 (4.90%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.49%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.49%) Equities
6 10 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (3.27%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.45%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.04%) Life Science
9 5 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.96%) Linux
2 7 (2.86%) Unix
3 5 (2.04%) Windows
4 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) Debian
5 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (40.82%) CI/CD
1 100 (40.82%) Microservices
2 76 (31.02%) Software Engineering
3 70 (28.57%) DevOps
4 69 (28.16%) Agile
5 55 (22.45%) Open Source
6 49 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (16.33%) Containerisation
8 39 (15.92%) Scrum
9 35 (14.29%) TDD
10 28 (11.43%) Observability
10 28 (11.43%) SDLC
11 27 (11.02%) Event-Driven
12 26 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (10.61%) Risk Management
13 25 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
14 24 (9.80%) Mathematics
14 24 (9.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.67%) Python
2 93 (37.96%) Java
3 52 (21.22%) Go
4 46 (18.78%) SQL
5 36 (14.69%) C#
5 36 (14.69%) C++
6 23 (9.39%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.53%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.12%) Shell Script
9 14 (5.71%) C
10 13 (5.31%) Scala
11 12 (4.90%) Rust
12 10 (4.08%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.86%) Bash
14 6 (2.45%) Bicep
15 5 (2.04%) Clojure
15 5 (2.04%) Elixir
16 4 (1.63%) Ruby
17 3 (1.22%) Groovy
17 3 (1.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (13.47%) Degree
2 18 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 13 (5.31%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.67%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.27%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (2.45%) PhD
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.82%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.04%) GDPR
2 4 (1.63%) QA
3 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.22%) NIST
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 98 (40.00%) Docker
2 8 (3.27%) Postfix
3 3 (1.22%) Platform Symphony
4 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 107 (43.67%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.43%) Grafana
3 23 (9.39%) Prometheus
4 22 (8.98%) Terraform
5 12 (4.90%) Kibana
6 8 (3.27%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (2.04%) Ansible
7 5 (2.04%) logstash
8 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (7.35%) Oracle
2 13 (5.31%) Splunk
3 12 (4.90%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.27%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.27%) Google
4 8 (3.27%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.86%) Solace
5 7 (2.86%) TIBCO
6 5 (2.04%) IBM
6 5 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.63%) Adobe
7 4 (1.63%) SAP
8 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.22%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.82%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.82%) Databricks
9 2 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.82%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.41%) Confluent
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