Distributed Architecture Contracts in Central London

Distributed Architecture
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture 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 127 131 164
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 +29
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.082% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.27% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £601 £563
25th Percentile £663 £641 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £763 £800
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -4.69% +39.13%
75th Percentile £688 £866 £825
90th Percentile - £894 -
London median daily rate £725 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% -11.48%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 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 Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture in Central London

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Architecture in Central London

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture 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 £675 -11.48% 1
Distributed Architecture
London

Distributed Architecture
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%) 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%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
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
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
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%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
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
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform