Distributed Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Distributed Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 253 325 374
Rank change year-on-year +72 +49 -92
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 89 132 260
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.75% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 90 181
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.55%
75th Percentile £710 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £795 £788
UK median daily rate £569 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -8.27% -0.80% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 17
10th Percentile - - £37.20
25th Percentile - £79.89 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.15% -8.40%
75th Percentile - £88.30 £65.54
90th Percentile - - £66.82
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.40%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Distributed Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems.

Distributed Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Distributed Systems daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Systems.

Distributed Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.25%) nginx
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Azure
2 26 (29.21%) AWS
3 12 (13.48%) GCP
4 6 (6.74%) Serverless
5 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.62%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (4.49%) NuGet
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.37%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.37%) Datadog
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.25%) Apigee
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) HTTP
2 2 (2.25%) Internet
3 1 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.72%) MongoDB
2 16 (17.98%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.36%) Relational Database
4 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.74%) Big Data
6 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.25%) KDB
8 2 (2.25%) MySQL
8 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (1.12%) ClickHouse
9 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.12%) Flink
9 1 (1.12%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) GitLab
3 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Pylint
5 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.12%) JMeter
5 1 (1.12%) JUnit
5 1 (1.12%) Mockito
5 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.12%) VisualWorks
General
1 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Finance
3 14 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.36%) Front Office
5 7 (7.87%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Public Speaking
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (58.43%) Developer
2 21 (23.60%) Senior
3 18 (20.22%) Java Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior Developer
5 13 (14.61%) Scala Developer
6 12 (13.48%) Python Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Site Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) C# Developer
8 7 (7.87%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Front Office Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) React Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.09%) RESTful
2 21 (23.60%) Kafka
3 11 (12.36%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (12.36%) React
4 10 (11.24%) Akka
4 10 (11.24%) Play Framework
5 9 (10.11%) REST
5 9 (10.11%) Spring
6 8 (8.99%) .NET
7 7 (7.87%) Web Services
8 6 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (6.74%) Spring Boot
8 6 (6.74%) YAML
9 5 (5.62%) .NET Core
9 5 (5.62%) OAuth
9 5 (5.62%) OpenID
9 5 (5.62%) SOAP
10 4 (4.49%) Node.js
10 4 (4.49%) OpenAPI
10 4 (4.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Data Structures
2 15 (16.85%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.62%) Derivative
3 5 (5.62%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.37%) Equities
5 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.12%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.21%) Linux
2 7 (7.87%) Unix
3 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.31%) CI/CD
2 39 (43.82%) Agile
3 37 (41.57%) Microservices
4 35 (39.33%) DevOps
5 29 (32.58%) Software Engineering
6 27 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (15.73%) SDLC
8 13 (14.61%) Computer Science
8 13 (14.61%) E-Commerce
8 13 (14.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (13.48%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.36%) Analytical Thinking
10 11 (12.36%) Functional Programming
10 11 (12.36%) Scrum
10 11 (12.36%) Task Automation
11 10 (11.24%) Clean Code
11 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (10.11%) Multithreading
12 9 (10.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 55 (61.80%) Java
2 37 (41.57%) Python
3 27 (30.34%) Scala
4 19 (21.35%) C#
4 19 (21.35%) JavaScript
5 17 (19.10%) SQL
6 15 (16.85%) Go
7 12 (13.48%) Shell Script
8 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
9 8 (8.99%) C++
10 6 (6.74%) Kotlin
11 4 (4.49%) Bicep
11 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.37%) Perl
12 3 (3.37%) Rust
13 1 (1.12%) Haskell
13 1 (1.12%) Ruby
13 1 (1.12%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (21.35%) Docker
2 11 (12.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (34.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.73%) Prometheus
3 13 (14.61%) Terraform
4 11 (12.36%) Consul
4 11 (12.36%) Grafana
5 3 (3.37%) Zipkin
6 2 (2.25%) Ansible
7 1 (1.12%) Argo
7 1 (1.12%) Kibana
7 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.36%) SaltStack
3 6 (6.74%) Databricks
4 4 (4.49%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Genesys
5 2 (2.25%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.12%) HP
6 1 (1.12%) New Relic
6 1 (1.12%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.12%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk