Distributed Systems Contracts in London

Distributed Systems
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 274 313
Rank change year-on-year +30 +39 -55
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 160 223 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.89% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.74% 2.47% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 164 258
10th Percentile £402 £463 £485
25th Percentile £516 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £801 £725 £775
90th Percentile £922 £859 £838
England median daily rate £619 £614 £625
% change year-on-year +0.77% -1.76% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 -
90th Percentile - £89.32 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £61.63
% change year-on-year -34.59% +36.45% -5.97%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +36 31 £705 +17.50% 3
East London - 5 £435 -
South London +5 4 - -
West London +23 3 £450 - 3
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (4.38%) Apache
2 5 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.50%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) JBoss
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.88%) ION MarketView
2 5 (3.13%) Endur
3 1 (0.63%) RMDS
3 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.63%) AWS
1 41 (25.63%) Azure
2 26 (16.25%) GCP
3 11 (6.88%) Serverless
4 9 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.00%) NuGet
6 7 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.13%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.50%) Datadog
10 3 (1.88%) GitHub
10 3 (1.88%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (1.88%) Firewall
3 2 (1.25%) HTTP
3 2 (1.25%) Internet
3 2 (1.25%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.25%) KDB
1 18 (11.25%) MongoDB
1 18 (11.25%) Relational Database
2 17 (10.63%) SQL Server
3 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.75%) Big Data
6 5 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.13%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.13%) MySQL
7 3 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.25%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.25%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.25%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (0.63%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.63%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 28 (17.50%) Git
2 20 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.13%) Pylint
4 4 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.88%) GitLab
5 3 (1.88%) JUnit
6 2 (1.25%) Gradle
6 2 (1.25%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.25%) Maven
6 2 (1.25%) Mockito
6 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.63%) Babel
7 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.63%) JIRA
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.63%) TestNG
7 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 60 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.38%) Finance
3 26 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.13%) Banking
5 16 (10.00%) Front Office
6 10 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.63%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (50.00%) Developer
2 50 (31.25%) Senior
3 27 (16.88%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.88%) Senior Developer
4 19 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 18 (11.25%) Site Engineer
6 15 (9.38%) Python Engineer
6 15 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.25%) Backend Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Architect
11 8 (5.00%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.38%) C# Developer
12 7 (4.38%) Senior Software Developer
13 6 (3.75%) Full Stack Developer
13 6 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (24.38%) Kafka
2 26 (16.25%) REST
2 26 (16.25%) RESTful
3 16 (10.00%) Node.js
3 16 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (8.75%) React
5 13 (8.13%) Spring
6 12 (7.50%) HTML
7 11 (6.88%) .NET
7 11 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (6.25%) .NET Core
8 10 (6.25%) gRPC
9 9 (5.63%) Spring Boot
10 8 (5.00%) Web Services
10 8 (5.00%) WebSockets
10 8 (5.00%) YAML
11 7 (4.38%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.38%) SOAP
12 6 (3.75%) CSS
13 5 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.63%) Data Structures
2 24 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 21 (13.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (10.63%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.88%) Public Cloud
6 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
7 8 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (5.00%) Derivative
7 8 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.75%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.75%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (2.50%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.88%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.88%) Equities
11 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (27.50%) Linux
2 9 (5.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.63%) CentOS
4 1 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.00%) Agile
2 58 (36.25%) DevOps
3 49 (30.63%) Software Engineering
4 48 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (28.13%) CI/CD
6 40 (25.00%) Microservices
7 29 (18.13%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (18.13%) SDLC
7 29 (18.13%) Test Automation
8 28 (17.50%) E-Commerce
9 26 (16.25%) Design Patterns
9 26 (16.25%) Multithreading
10 23 (14.38%) Analytics
11 22 (13.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (13.13%) OO
12 21 (13.13%) TDD
13 19 (11.88%) Low Latency
13 19 (11.88%) Multithreaded Programming
14 18 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (10.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 99 (61.88%) Java
2 84 (52.50%) Python
3 44 (27.50%) SQL
4 38 (23.75%) C#
5 35 (21.88%) JavaScript
6 31 (19.38%) Go
7 24 (15.00%) C++
8 19 (11.88%) PowerShell
9 16 (10.00%) Shell Script
10 11 (6.88%) TypeScript
11 9 (5.63%) Scala
12 6 (3.75%) Bicep
12 6 (3.75%) Rust
13 4 (2.50%) C
13 4 (2.50%) Haskell
14 3 (1.88%) Clojure
14 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.88%) Perl
14 3 (1.88%) Ruby
15 2 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) Degree
2 10 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.63%) MiFID
3 1 (0.63%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (22.50%) Docker
2 12 (7.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 58 (36.25%) Kubernetes
2 30 (18.75%) Terraform
3 15 (9.38%) Grafana
4 14 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.50%) Consul
6 6 (3.75%) Ansible
6 6 (3.75%) Opsgenie
7 3 (1.88%) Istio
8 2 (1.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.13%) Google
2 13 (8.13%) ION Trading
3 12 (7.50%) SaltStack
3 12 (7.50%) Splunk
4 8 (5.00%) New Relic
5 7 (4.38%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.38%) Oracle
5 7 (4.38%) PagerDuty
5 7 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.13%) Adobe
6 5 (3.13%) SAP
7 4 (2.50%) Tradeweb
8 2 (1.25%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.25%) Genesys
8 2 (1.25%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.25%) MarketAxess
8 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.25%) TIBCO