Distributed Systems Contracts in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 129 160
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 -61
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 27 43 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.23% 1.18% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.96% 3.30% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 26
10th Percentile £560 £525 £525
25th Percentile £599 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £712 £700 £838
90th Percentile £788 £800 £893
Central London median daily rate £678 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +12.92% -7.69% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,305 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.88% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 891 1,104
10th Percentile £279 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £845 £860 £805
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.97 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.31 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% -9.90% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.70%) Endur
1 1 (3.70%) ION MarketView
1 1 (3.70%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (14.81%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.41%) NuGet
5 1 (3.70%) Akamai
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) KDB
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Redis
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Scylla
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) Gradle
3 2 (7.41%) Maven
3 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Mockito
4 1 (3.70%) Pylint
4 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) Spinnaker
4 1 (3.70%) TestNG
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Front Office
6 2 (7.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Site Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Python Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Architect
5 2 (7.41%) C# Architect
5 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) React Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Blockchain Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Pricing Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Kafka
2 11 (40.74%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (33.33%) RESTful
4 4 (14.81%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
5 3 (11.11%) React
6 2 (7.41%) Spring
7 1 (3.70%) Akka
7 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.70%) HTML
7 1 (3.70%) LDAP
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (3.70%) pytest
7 1 (3.70%) SAML
7 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.70%) Web Services
7 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Algorithms
1 7 (25.93%) Data Structures
2 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (33.33%) Microservices
5 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Analytical Thinking
6 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
7 6 (22.22%) Agile
8 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 2 (7.41%) Analytics
10 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (7.41%) Dependency Injection
10 2 (7.41%) Electronic Trading
10 2 (7.41%) Functional Programming
10 2 (7.41%) Low Latency
10 2 (7.41%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Python
2 15 (55.56%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) Shell Script
4 8 (29.63%) C++
4 8 (29.63%) Go
5 4 (14.81%) C#
6 2 (7.41%) Scala
6 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.70%) Ruby
7 1 (3.70%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (40.74%) Grafana
3 10 (37.04%) Consul
3 10 (37.04%) Prometheus
4 7 (25.93%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Opsgenie
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
1 10 (37.04%) SaltStack
2 3 (11.11%) New Relic
3 2 (7.41%) Adobe
3 2 (7.41%) PagerDuty
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk