Distributed Architecture Contracts in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 117 125 170
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 +16
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.091% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.30% 0.61%
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 -
Central London median daily rate £675 £763 £800
% change year-on-year -11.48% -4.69% +39.13%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 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 Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Architecture in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
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%) 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