Distributed Applications Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Distributed Applications
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - £585
% change year-on-year - - +17.00%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Distributed Applications 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 319 168 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 37.53% 28.82% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 112 158
10th Percentile £237 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £628 £575
90th Percentile £634 £689 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 17
10th Percentile £17.13 £19.00 £19.05
25th Percentile £18.20 £28.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% -53.15% +268.48%
75th Percentile £23.50 £55.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £24.72 £58.08 £68.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.08 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +13.98% -4.35% +19.90%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Applications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus