Distributed Systems Contracts in Central London

Distributed Systems
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems 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 109 106 126
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 20 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 1.10% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.94% 3.60% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 34
10th Percentile £365 £560 £533
25th Percentile £423 £599 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £678 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +12.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £622 £712 £709
90th Percentile £716 £788 £796
London median daily rate £700 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £74.00 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +34.55% -34.59% -

All Generic Skills
Central 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 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 Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
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 Systems 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 -1 18 £550 -18.82% 15
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
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 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) FTP
2 2 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (10.00%) SMTP
2 2 (10.00%) SSL
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (10.00%) Maven
4 2 (10.00%) Mockito
4 2 (10.00%) Postman
4 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
4 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.00%) Subversion
4 2 (10.00%) Xcode
4 2 (10.00%) XCTest
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) MLflow
5 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Grid Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 4 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) RESTful
2 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.00%) Kafka
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) J2EE
4 2 (10.00%) JPA
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (10.00%) Swagger
4 2 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) CUDA
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (35.00%) Electronic Trading
4 6 (30.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (30.00%) Market Making
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) API Development
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) MVC
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Java
2 13 (65.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) C++
4 6 (30.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) SQL
6 3 (15.00%) C#
6 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (10.00%) Go
7 2 (10.00%) Groovy
7 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (5.00%) Clojure
8 1 (5.00%) COBOL
8 1 (5.00%) Elixir
8 1 (5.00%) Haskell
8 1 (5.00%) JCL
8 1 (5.00%) Rust
8 1 (5.00%) Scala
8 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Confluent
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Okta
2 1 (5.00%) TIBCO