Distributed Applications Contracts in Central London

Distributed Applications
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 131 171
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +23
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.082% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.27% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £539 £549 -
25th Percentile £559 £584 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £663 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% - -
75th Percentile £659 £734 -
90th Percentile £676 £766 -
London median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +6.38%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in Central London

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in Central London

Distributed Applications
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Applications within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 2 £613 -7.55%
Distributed Applications
London

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JBehave
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM