Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends 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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 123 122
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +36
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.16% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.44% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £516 - £601
25th Percentile £522 £663 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £763
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -11.48% +32.61%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £866
90th Percentile - - £894
Central London median daily rate £613 £675 £763
% change year-on-year -9.26% -11.48% +32.61%

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 783 679 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.58% 36.37% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 446 431
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.31%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £706
90th Percentile £775 £805 £850
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 6
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £14.38
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +24.00% -56.71%
75th Percentile £47.18 £65.57 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.47 £91.00 £59.75
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £23.80
% change year-on-year +32.58% +18.84% -40.25%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Architecture in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Architecture in the City of London

Distributed Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
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 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Phoenix
3 1 (20.00%) Phoenix Framework
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Elixir
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle