Distributed Systems Contracts

Distributed Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies. 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 344 395 413
Rank change year-on-year +51 +18 -78
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 245 315 538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.56% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.69% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 222 385
10th Percentile £357 £463 £458
25th Percentile £427 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -0.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £717 £725 £775
90th Percentile £858 £813 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £562 £600
% change year-on-year -21.71% -6.33% +16.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 16
10th Percentile - - £45.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 £57.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% +36.45% -5.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 £65.54
90th Percentile - £89.32 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.63
% change year-on-year - - -5.94%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK

Distributed Systems
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +29 203 £625 +0.40% 141
London +37 155 £675 +8.00% 107
Work from Home +66 89 £613 +2.08% 55
UK excluding London +63 73 £440 -21.71% 45
Scotland +56 25 £440 -41.33% 7
South East +1 22 £285 -48.18% 13
North of England +40 19 £500 +8.11% 11
North West +31 11 £525 +13.51% 5
Yorkshire +25 8 £400 - 5
Midlands +20 3 £450 -32.84% 2
West Midlands +11 3 £450 -32.84% 2
East of England +1 2 £600 +20.00% 4
South West - 2 £800 - 6

Distributed Systems
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 15 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.45%) Apache
4 5 (2.04%) Confluence
4 5 (2.04%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.82%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) JBoss
5 2 (0.82%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.49%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.04%) Endur
3 4 (1.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 82 (33.47%) AWS
2 65 (26.53%) Azure
3 40 (16.33%) GCP
4 17 (6.94%) Serverless
5 14 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.49%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.27%) GitHub
10 8 (3.27%) NuGet
11 6 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.04%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.04%) npm
12 5 (2.04%) Yarn
13 4 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.08%) HTTP
1 10 (4.08%) SAN
2 5 (2.04%) DNS
3 3 (1.22%) Firewall
3 3 (1.22%) Internet
4 2 (0.82%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) DSL
5 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.41%) SNMP
5 1 (0.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.10%) Relational Database
2 28 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 23 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 20 (8.16%) SQL Server
5 18 (7.35%) KDB
6 6 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.45%) Big Data
6 6 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.45%) Redis
7 5 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.04%) Bigtable
7 5 (2.04%) MySQL
8 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.63%) Cloud Spanner
8 4 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.22%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (15.10%) Git
2 21 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.67%) GitLab
4 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.45%) JIRA
4 6 (2.45%) Karma Test Runner
5 5 (2.04%) Pylint
5 5 (2.04%) webpack
6 4 (1.63%) ClearCase
6 4 (1.63%) ClearQuest
6 4 (1.63%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.63%) JUnit
6 4 (1.63%) Mocha
6 4 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.22%) Mockito
8 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.82%) Gradle
8 2 (0.82%) JMeter
8 2 (0.82%) Maven
8 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.06%) Finance
3 26 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.98%) Banking
5 18 (7.35%) Front Office
6 14 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.67%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Electronics
10 3 (1.22%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (47.76%) Developer
2 63 (25.71%) Senior
3 46 (18.78%) Java Developer
4 31 (12.65%) Senior Developer
5 22 (8.98%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (7.76%) Site Engineer
9 18 (7.35%) Architect
10 16 (6.53%) Backend Developer
10 16 (6.53%) Python Engineer
11 14 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (5.71%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.49%) Scala Developer
14 10 (4.08%) C# Developer
14 10 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (23.27%) Kafka
2 46 (18.78%) RESTful
3 28 (11.43%) REST
4 27 (11.02%) Spring
5 25 (10.20%) React
6 23 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (8.16%) Node.js
8 19 (7.76%) Spring Boot
9 18 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (6.53%) .NET
10 16 (6.53%) Web Services
11 13 (5.31%) .NET Core
11 13 (5.31%) HTML
12 10 (4.08%) gRPC
13 9 (3.67%) Akka
13 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.67%) YAML
14 8 (3.27%) OAuth
14 8 (3.27%) Play Framework
14 8 (3.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.55%) Data Structures
2 33 (13.47%) Algorithms
3 21 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (7.76%) Cloud Native
5 16 (6.53%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (4.90%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (4.49%) Public Cloud
9 10 (4.08%) Data Centre
9 10 (4.08%) Derivative
10 8 (3.27%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (3.27%) Equity Derivative
10 8 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (3.27%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.45%) Fixed Income
11 6 (2.45%) Product Ownership
12 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.86%) Linux
2 25 (10.20%) Unix
3 3 (1.22%) Windows
4 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.41%) CentOS
5 1 (0.41%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (45.31%) Agile
2 76 (31.02%) CI/CD
3 75 (30.61%) DevOps
3 75 (30.61%) Software Engineering
4 73 (29.80%) Microservices
5 58 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.73%) E-Commerce
6 41 (16.73%) Test Automation
7 38 (15.51%) Computer Science
7 38 (15.51%) SDLC
8 37 (15.10%) OO
9 35 (14.29%) Multithreading
9 35 (14.29%) Scrum
10 34 (13.88%) Continuous Integration
11 30 (12.24%) Design Patterns
12 28 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (11.02%) Analytics
14 26 (10.61%) TDD
15 25 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (9.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (58.37%) Java
2 107 (43.67%) Python
3 50 (20.41%) SQL
4 47 (19.18%) JavaScript
5 44 (17.96%) Scala
6 43 (17.55%) C#
7 35 (14.29%) Go
8 27 (11.02%) C++
9 23 (9.39%) PowerShell
10 16 (6.53%) Shell Script
11 14 (5.71%) Kotlin
12 11 (4.49%) TypeScript
13 8 (3.27%) Perl
14 7 (2.86%) C
15 6 (2.45%) Bicep
15 6 (2.45%) Rust
16 3 (1.22%) Ruby
17 2 (0.82%) Clojure
17 2 (0.82%) Groovy
17 2 (0.82%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 36 (14.69%) Degree
2 19 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.12%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.49%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.82%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.41%) PhD
7 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.12%) PCI DSS
2 11 (4.49%) SLA
3 5 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.04%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 59 (24.08%) Docker
2 13 (5.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 84 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 47 (19.18%) Terraform
3 21 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 17 (6.94%) Grafana
5 12 (4.90%) Consul
6 8 (3.27%) Ansible
7 7 (2.86%) Zipkin
8 6 (2.45%) Opsgenie
9 5 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.63%) HP ALM
11 3 (1.22%) Istio
11 3 (1.22%) Kibana
12 2 (0.82%) Argo
13 1 (0.41%) logstash
13 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.41%) QRadar
13 1 (0.41%) TADDM
13 1 (0.41%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (8.57%) Google
2 19 (7.76%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.71%) Splunk
4 13 (5.31%) ION Trading
5 12 (4.90%) Databricks
5 12 (4.90%) SaltStack
6 11 (4.49%) HP
7 9 (3.67%) Oracle
8 8 (3.27%) New Relic
9 7 (2.86%) Dell
9 7 (2.86%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.86%) PagerDuty
9 7 (2.86%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.04%) Adobe
10 5 (2.04%) SAP
11 4 (1.63%) Okta
11 4 (1.63%) Roku
11 4 (1.63%) Sparx
11 4 (1.63%) Tradeweb
12 3 (1.22%) Atlassian