Distributed Computing Contracts

Distributed Computing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 615 727
Rank change year-on-year +86 +112 -95
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 42 72 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 81
10th Percentile £475 £522 £450
25th Percentile £563 £598 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £730 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +21.67% -3.07%
75th Percentile £875 £750 £725
90th Percentile £900 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £634 £503
% change year-on-year -25.02% +26.07% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Computing 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 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in the UK

Distributed Computing
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +75 36 £800 +9.59% 38
London +79 31 £800 +6.67% 29
Work from Home +69 13 £575 -23.33% 11
UK excluding London +53 9 £475 -25.02% 18
Scotland - 5 £475 - 2
North of England +27 4 £550 -9.91% 4
Yorkshire +9 4 £550 -9.91%

Distributed Computing
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 4 (9.52%) Apache
1 4 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) GCP
2 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (9.52%) Vertex AI
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.38%) dbt
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Big Data
2 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.52%) Bigtable
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (9.52%) Parquet
6 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (7.14%) Power BI
7 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (4.76%) GIS
7 2 (4.76%) Looker
7 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.76%) Tableau
8 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.38%) KDB
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) Git
3 6 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 4 (9.52%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Investment Banking
4 7 (16.67%) Front Office
4 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Back Office
7 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Architect
3 9 (21.43%) Analyst
3 9 (21.43%) Senior
4 8 (19.05%) Qualitative Analyst
4 8 (19.05%) Quantitative Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Data Architect
5 5 (11.90%) GCP Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Python Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Site Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) C++ Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (4.76%) Geospatial Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) PySpark
2 7 (16.67%) RESTful
3 6 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.52%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.76%) PostGIS
5 2 (4.76%) SOAP
6 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.38%) Django
6 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.38%) Flask
6 1 (2.38%) Guice
6 1 (2.38%) HTML
6 1 (2.38%) HTML5
6 1 (2.38%) JDBC
6 1 (2.38%) OpenFin
6 1 (2.38%) React
6 1 (2.38%) XML
6 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (14.29%) Equities
4 5 (11.90%) Fixed Income
5 3 (7.14%) Derivative
5 3 (7.14%) Grid Computing
6 2 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Unix
2 6 (14.29%) Linux
3 5 (11.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Analytics
1 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (35.71%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) DevOps
3 11 (26.19%) Data Modelling
4 10 (23.81%) Observability
5 9 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (21.43%) ETL
5 9 (21.43%) Mathematics
6 8 (19.05%) Physics
7 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 7 (16.67%) Quantitative Finance
8 6 (14.29%) Data Architecture
8 6 (14.29%) Data Science
8 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 6 (14.29%) Numerical Analysis
8 6 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
8 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 21 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (21.43%) C++
3 9 (21.43%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) C#
4 6 (14.29%) Go
5 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 5 (11.90%) VBA
6 4 (9.52%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
7 1 (2.38%) VC++
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Degree
2 7 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Opsgenie
1 6 (14.29%) Terraform
2 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Databricks
1 8 (19.05%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 6 (14.29%) New Relic
3 6 (14.29%) PagerDuty
3 6 (14.29%) Splunk
4 5 (11.90%) Adobe
4 5 (11.90%) Salesforce
4 5 (11.90%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) ESRI
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) Sybase
6 1 (2.38%) Solace