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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 104 137
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 +29
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 32 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 1.14% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.30% 3.54% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 28
10th Percentile £359 £519 £463
25th Percentile £421 £643 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £708 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +17.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £688
90th Percentile £727 £722 £724
London median daily rate £635 £683 £625
% change year-on-year -6.96% +9.20% -10.71%
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 £80.00 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +45.45% -34.59% +15.99%

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 744 762 1,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.03% 32.14% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 515 860
10th Percentile £352 £315 £299
25th Percentile £456 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £800 £845 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £19.97
25th Percentile £23.52 £16.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.80 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -40.25% -16.15%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £86.02
90th Percentile £88.75 £58.70 £88.30
London median hourly rate £29.50 £30.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.19% -13.83% -6.67%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +3 27 £645 -8.83% 18
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.13%) Fidessa
1 1 (3.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) FTP
2 2 (6.25%) HTTP
2 2 (6.25%) SMTP
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database
2 5 (15.63%) Redis
3 2 (6.25%) Big Data
3 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) MemSQL
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) Git
3 7 (21.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (18.75%) JIRA
5 5 (15.63%) JUnit
5 5 (15.63%) Maven
5 5 (15.63%) Mockito
5 5 (15.63%) Postman
5 5 (15.63%) REST Assured
5 5 (15.63%) SoapUI
5 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
5 5 (15.63%) Subversion
5 5 (15.63%) Xcode
5 5 (15.63%) XCTest
6 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.13%) GitLab
6 1 (3.13%) Gradle
6 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (65.63%) Finance
2 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 14 (43.75%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Developer
1 7 (21.88%) Java Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Grid Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.13%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Spring
2 8 (25.00%) REST
3 7 (21.88%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (21.88%) Kafka
3 7 (21.88%) Spring Boot
4 5 (15.63%) .NET
4 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (15.63%) Bootstrap
4 5 (15.63%) CSS
4 5 (15.63%) CSS3
4 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (15.63%) Hibernate
4 5 (15.63%) HTML
4 5 (15.63%) HTML5
4 5 (15.63%) J2EE
4 5 (15.63%) JPA
4 5 (15.63%) Material-UI
4 5 (15.63%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (15.63%) Spring MVC
4 5 (15.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (18.75%) Fixed Income
4 3 (9.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (6.25%) Derivative
5 2 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
6 1 (3.13%) CUDA
6 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.13%) Grid Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Microservices
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 11 (34.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
6 8 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 8 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
6 8 (25.00%) Low Latency
6 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (25.00%) Multithreading
7 7 (21.88%) Front End Development
7 7 (21.88%) Project Management
7 7 (21.88%) SDLC
8 6 (18.75%) Concurrent Programming
8 6 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (18.75%) Data Science
8 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 16 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (21.88%) Shell Script
4 7 (21.88%) SQL
5 6 (18.75%) C#
6 5 (15.63%) Groovy
6 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
7 4 (12.50%) C++
8 3 (9.38%) C
9 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (3.13%) COBOL
10 1 (3.13%) CodeQL
10 1 (3.13%) Go
10 1 (3.13%) JCL
10 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.75%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (18.75%) Kibana
3 5 (15.63%) logstash
3 5 (15.63%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (15.63%) Dynatrace
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
1 5 (15.63%) Solace
1 5 (15.63%) Splunk
2 3 (9.38%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Confluent
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Okta
3 1 (3.13%) Portware
3 1 (3.13%) TIBCO