Distributed Applications Contracts in the City of London

Distributed Applications
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 117 125 177
Rank change year-on-year +8 +52 +13
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.091% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.30% 0.077%
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 -
Central London median daily rate £613 £663 -
% change year-on-year -7.55% - -

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 612 676 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.85% 30.77% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 462 889
10th Percentile £363 £276 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £849 £861
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in the City of London

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in the City of London

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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