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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 365 417
Rank change year-on-year +15 +52 -97
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 243 359 520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.89% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 254 363
10th Percentile £357 £468 £463
25th Percentile £432 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £775
90th Percentile £850 £834 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -14.56% -14.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 14
10th Percentile - - £47.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 £60.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% +36.45% -0.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 £65.41
90th Percentile - £89.32 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.42%

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 12,877 18,959 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.28% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,295 13,044 20,250
10th Percentile £268 £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 £668 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 627 718
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%

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 16 May 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 16 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 +19 200 £640 +2.40% 144
London +16 155 £675 +7.14% 100
Work from Home +64 91 £625 +4.17% 73
UK excluding London +64 72 £440 -14.56% 58
Scotland +52 25 £440 -41.33% 11
South East -8 21 £285 -43.84% 9
North of England +41 19 £500 -2.91% 19
North West +27 11 £525 +1.94% 12
Yorkshire +21 8 £400 - 6
Midlands +24 3 £450 -32.84% 4
West Midlands +23 3 £450 -32.84% 3
East of England +7 2 £600 +20.00% 6
South West - 2 £800 - 7

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 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.88%) Apache
4 5 (2.06%) Confluence
4 5 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.23%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) JBoss
6 2 (0.82%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.06%) Endur
3 4 (1.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.82%) Shopify
5 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) RMDS
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 77 (31.69%) AWS
2 65 (26.75%) Azure
3 37 (15.23%) GCP
4 17 (7.00%) Serverless
5 14 (5.76%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.53%) Snowflake
7 10 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.29%) GitHub
9 8 (3.29%) NuGet
10 6 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.06%) Azure API Management
11 5 (2.06%) npm
11 5 (2.06%) Yarn
12 4 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.12%) HTTP
1 10 (4.12%) SAN
2 5 (2.06%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) Internet
4 3 (1.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.82%) Network Security
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) DSL
6 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 28 (11.52%) MongoDB
3 23 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (9.05%) SQL Server
5 20 (8.23%) NoSQL
6 17 (7.00%) KDB
7 7 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.88%) Redis
8 6 (2.47%) Big Data
8 6 (2.47%) MySQL
9 5 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.06%) Bigtable
10 4 (1.65%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.65%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.23%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 36 (14.81%) Git
2 24 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.70%) GitLab
4 6 (2.47%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.47%) JIRA
4 6 (2.47%) Karma Test Runner
5 5 (2.06%) Pylint
5 5 (2.06%) webpack
6 4 (1.65%) ClearCase
6 4 (1.65%) ClearQuest
6 4 (1.65%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.65%) JUnit
6 4 (1.65%) Mocha
6 4 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.23%) Mockito
8 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.82%) Gradle
8 2 (0.82%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.82%) JMeter
8 2 (0.82%) Maven
General
1 75 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.76%) Finance
3 23 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.05%) Banking
5 19 (7.82%) Front Office
6 13 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.65%) Electronics
10 4 (1.65%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.23%) Marketing
12 2 (0.82%) Retail
13 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (46.09%) Developer
2 60 (24.69%) Senior
3 44 (18.11%) Java Developer
4 30 (12.35%) Senior Developer
5 22 (9.05%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (8.64%) Architect
6 21 (8.64%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (7.82%) Site Engineer
9 17 (7.00%) Backend Developer
9 17 (7.00%) Python Engineer
10 14 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (5.76%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (4.94%) C# Developer
13 11 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.53%) Scala Developer
14 10 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.12%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.22%) Kafka
2 44 (18.11%) RESTful
3 31 (12.76%) REST
4 27 (11.11%) Spring
5 25 (10.29%) React
6 23 (9.47%) Elastic Stack
7 22 (9.05%) Node.js
8 19 (7.82%) Spring Boot
9 18 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (7.00%) Web Services
11 16 (6.58%) .NET
12 13 (5.35%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.35%) HTML
13 9 (3.70%) Akka
13 9 (3.70%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.70%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.70%) YAML
14 8 (3.29%) CSS
14 8 (3.29%) OAuth
14 8 (3.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.70%) Data Structures
2 33 (13.58%) Algorithms
3 19 (7.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (6.58%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.94%) Derivative
5 12 (4.94%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 11 (4.53%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (4.12%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.12%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.29%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.47%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.47%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 57 (23.46%) Linux
2 24 (9.88%) Unix
3 3 (1.23%) 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 (45.68%) Agile
2 78 (32.10%) CI/CD
3 77 (31.69%) DevOps
4 72 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 68 (27.98%) Microservices
6 53 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (18.11%) E-Commerce
8 42 (17.28%) SDLC
9 41 (16.87%) Computer Science
10 40 (16.46%) Test Automation
11 37 (15.23%) OO
12 36 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
13 35 (14.40%) Multithreading
13 35 (14.40%) Scrum
14 30 (12.35%) Design Patterns
15 28 (11.52%) Analytics
15 28 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (11.52%) TDD
16 25 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 142 (58.44%) Java
2 107 (44.03%) Python
3 50 (20.58%) SQL
4 46 (18.93%) JavaScript
5 45 (18.52%) C#
6 44 (18.11%) Scala
7 31 (12.76%) Go
8 25 (10.29%) C++
9 22 (9.05%) PowerShell
10 16 (6.58%) Shell Script
11 15 (6.17%) Kotlin
12 13 (5.35%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.88%) C
13 7 (2.88%) Perl
14 6 (2.47%) Bicep
14 6 (2.47%) Rust
15 4 (1.65%) Ruby
16 2 (0.82%) Clojure
16 2 (0.82%) Groovy
16 2 (0.82%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 36 (14.81%) Degree
2 19 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.53%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
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%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) PhD
7 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.17%) PCI DSS
2 11 (4.53%) SLA
3 5 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.06%) 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 54 (22.22%) Docker
2 13 (5.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 46 (18.93%) Terraform
3 21 (8.64%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.41%) Grafana
5 12 (4.94%) Consul
6 9 (3.70%) Ansible
7 7 (2.88%) Zipkin
8 6 (2.47%) Opsgenie
9 4 (1.65%) HP ALM
9 4 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.23%) Kibana
11 2 (0.82%) Argo
11 2 (0.82%) Istio
11 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.41%) logstash
12 1 (0.41%) Puppet
12 1 (0.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (8.23%) Google
1 20 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.76%) Splunk
3 12 (4.94%) Databricks
3 12 (4.94%) ION Trading
3 12 (4.94%) SaltStack
4 11 (4.53%) HP
5 9 (3.70%) New Relic
5 9 (3.70%) Oracle
6 8 (3.29%) PagerDuty
6 8 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.88%) Dell
7 7 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.47%) Adobe
8 6 (2.47%) SAP
9 4 (1.65%) Okta
9 4 (1.65%) Roku
9 4 (1.65%) Sparx
9 4 (1.65%) Tradeweb
10 3 (1.23%) Atlassian