Distributed Systems Contracts in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 328 382 377
Rank change year-on-year +54 -5 -54
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 73 48 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% 0.66% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 27 86
10th Percentile £280 £452 £350
25th Percentile £383 £494 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -8.33% +18.23%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £625
90th Percentile £650 £775 £681
UK median daily rate £569 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -8.27% -0.80% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £45.13
25th Percentile - - £49.06
Median hourly rate - - £61.63
75th Percentile - - £65.14
90th Percentile - - £68.43
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.40%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the UK excluding London

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Scotland +68 25 £440 -41.33% 7
South East +6 22 £285 -46.10% 5
North of England +33 19 £500 +1.27% 9
North West +25 11 £525 +13.51% 2
Yorkshire +21 8 £400 - 6
West Midlands +15 3 £450 -32.84% 4
Midlands +14 3 £450 -32.84% 5
East of England +1 2 £600 +20.00% 5
South West - 2 £800 - 3
Distributed Systems
UK

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (13.70%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (12.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.48%) Confluence
4 3 (4.11%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.74%) JBoss
6 1 (1.37%) CMS
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.68%) AWS
2 25 (34.25%) Azure
3 16 (21.92%) GCP
4 10 (13.70%) Snowflake
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.59%) Serverless
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.48%) GitHub
7 4 (5.48%) npm
7 4 (5.48%) Yarn
8 3 (4.11%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) SAN
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.14%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.85%) Redis
4 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.11%) Bigtable
5 3 (4.11%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (4.11%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Flink
7 1 (1.37%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) GitLab
2 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.85%) JIRA
3 4 (5.48%) Jasmine
3 4 (5.48%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (5.48%) Mocha
3 4 (5.48%) webpack
4 3 (4.11%) ClearCase
4 3 (4.11%) ClearQuest
4 3 (4.11%) JUnit
4 3 (4.11%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.74%) JMeter
5 2 (2.74%) Mockito
6 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
General
1 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.48%) Banking
2 4 (5.48%) Finance
2 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.74%) Public Speaking
3 2 (2.74%) Retail
4 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (41.10%) Developer
2 24 (32.88%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Architect
4 9 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Snowflake Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Senior
7 6 (8.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Backend Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Break Fix Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) GCP Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Lead
9 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.40%) Kafka
2 17 (23.29%) Spring
3 15 (20.55%) RESTful
4 13 (17.81%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (17.81%) Spring Boot
5 11 (15.07%) React
6 10 (13.70%) Web Services
7 7 (9.59%) OpenTracing
8 6 (8.22%) Node.js
9 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.85%) REST
9 5 (6.85%) SAML
10 3 (4.11%) .NET
10 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
10 3 (4.11%) .NET Framework
10 3 (4.11%) Lucene
10 3 (4.11%) OAuth
10 3 (4.11%) OpenID
11 2 (2.74%) Mustache
11 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.66%) Data Structures
2 10 (13.70%) Data Centre
3 9 (12.33%) Algorithms
4 8 (10.96%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (5.48%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
6 4 (5.48%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Unix
2 10 (13.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Agile
2 23 (31.51%) Microservices
3 22 (30.14%) Scrum
4 21 (28.77%) CI/CD
4 21 (28.77%) Software Engineering
5 20 (27.40%) DevOps
6 17 (23.29%) Computer Science
7 15 (20.55%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (16.44%) OO
8 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (15.07%) SDLC
10 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
10 10 (13.70%) DataOps
10 10 (13.70%) E-Commerce
10 10 (13.70%) GitOps
10 10 (13.70%) Incident Management
10 10 (13.70%) MLOps
10 10 (13.70%) TDD
11 9 (12.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.01%) Java
2 24 (32.88%) Scala
3 21 (28.77%) Python
4 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.07%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.22%) SQL
7 5 (6.85%) Go
8 4 (5.48%) C#
8 4 (5.48%) Perl
9 3 (4.11%) C
9 3 (4.11%) C++
9 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) Degree
3 6 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Server+ Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) PhD
6 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) SLA
2 3 (4.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.74%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.74%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (34.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.81%) Terraform
3 7 (9.59%) Prometheus
3 7 (9.59%) Zipkin
4 3 (4.11%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.74%) Grafana
5 2 (2.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Databricks
2 10 (13.70%) HP
3 7 (9.59%) Dell
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.11%) Sparx
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 2 (2.74%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.37%) Red Hat