Distributed Systems Contracts in the South East

Distributed Systems
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 184 211
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 -24
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 22 31 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.55% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 1.61% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 29
10th Percentile - £451 -
25th Percentile £280 £497 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.10% +5.75% -
75th Percentile £428 £575 £600
90th Percentile £553 £627 £688
England median daily rate £619 £614 £625
% change year-on-year +0.77% -1.76% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £46.25
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £65.27
90th Percentile - - £68.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £61.63
% change year-on-year -34.59% +36.45% -5.97%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the South East

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +8 15 £285 -37.02%
Berkshire -5 15 £285 -37.02%
Hampshire -12 4 £550 -5.74% 2
Middlesex - 2 - -
West Sussex - 1 £400 - 2
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (13.64%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Serverless
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Azure
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.55%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) ClearCase
3 3 (13.64%) ClearQuest
3 3 (13.64%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) JMeter
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Centre Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Break Fix Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (9.09%) Data Technician
5 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) IAM Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Scala Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Scala Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Centre Operations Technician
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Operations Technician
6 1 (4.55%) React Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Web Services
2 5 (22.73%) React
2 5 (22.73%) REST
2 5 (22.73%) Spring
2 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
4 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (13.64%) Kafka
5 2 (9.09%) Apache Camel
5 2 (9.09%) Mustache
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth
5 2 (9.09%) OpenID
5 2 (9.09%) SAML
6 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.55%) HTML
6 1 (4.55%) jQuery
6 1 (4.55%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) Incident Management
2 10 (45.45%) Scrum
3 8 (36.36%) TDD
4 7 (31.82%) Kanban
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Break/Fix
5 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) Data Centre Operations
5 6 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
7 4 (18.18%) BDD
8 3 (13.64%) Cross-Platform Development
8 3 (13.64%) DevOps
8 3 (13.64%) Memory Management
8 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
8 3 (13.64%) OO
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) E-Commerce
9 2 (9.09%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) C
3 3 (13.64%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) HP ALM
3 2 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) HP
2 7 (31.82%) Dell
3 3 (13.64%) Sparx
4 2 (9.09%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat