Distributed Applications Contract Job Trends 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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 126 128
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +32
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.21% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.58% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £533 -
25th Percentile £663 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £688 £688 £575
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £675 £613 £550
% change year-on-year +10.20% +11.36% -

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 795 685 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.11% 36.30% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 453 422
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £808 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £31.03 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +14.81% -27.84%
75th Percentile £47.18 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £64.47 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £25.40
% change year-on-year +32.58% +11.36% -27.43%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Applications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in the City of London

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Applications

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) IaaS
1 4 (66.67%) PaaS
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
1 4 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks