Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Distributed Architecture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.40% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Distributed Architecture 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 264 153 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.42% 29.82% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 111 131
10th Percentile £303 £160 £263
25th Percentile £413 £311 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.94%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 12
10th Percentile £16.79 £23.90 £18.88
25th Percentile £17.23 £31.44 £22.33
Median hourly rate £20.43 £44.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +69.23% -5.45%
75th Percentile £49.43 £48.25 £40.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £50.80 £54.80
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.24 £33.91 £23.58
% change year-on-year -4.92% +43.84% -14.27%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
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 11 (84.62%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 11 (84.62%) GCP
3 9 (69.23%) GitHub
4 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Selenium
2 11 (84.62%) Cucumber
2 11 (84.62%) Git
2 11 (84.62%) JIRA
2 11 (84.62%) JMeter
2 11 (84.62%) JUnit
2 11 (84.62%) WebDriver
3 9 (69.23%) GitLab
3 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Gatling
4 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Automation Tester
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
1 7 (53.85%) Senior Automation Tester
1 7 (53.85%) Senior Tester
1 7 (53.85%) Tester
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
1 11 (84.62%) WireMock
2 2 (15.38%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) BDD
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
1 12 (92.31%) End-to-End Testing
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
1 12 (92.31%) Test Strategy
1 12 (92.31%) Validation
2 11 (84.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (84.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 11 (84.62%) Load Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Observability
2 11 (84.62%) TDD
3 10 (76.92%) Workshop Facilitation
4 8 (61.54%) Agile
4 8 (61.54%) Data Validation
4 8 (61.54%) Stress Testing
5 7 (53.85%) Performance Testing
5 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (30.77%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
1 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Grafana
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
1 11 (84.62%) Prometheus