Distributed Computing Contracts in the City of London

Distributed Computing
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 173 185
Rank change year-on-year +47 +12 -49
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 1 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.046% 0.082% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.23% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £506 £550
25th Percentile - £553 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £663 £655
Median % change year-on-year - +1.15% -2.96%
75th Percentile - £778 £788
90th Percentile - £829 £925
Central London median daily rate - £800 £655
% change year-on-year - +22.14% -2.96%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Distributed Computing is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 674 1,297 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.75% 35.58% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 881 1,105
10th Percentile £274 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £856 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £21.20
25th Percentile £14.38 - £39.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -27.84% +169.82%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £64.45
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.84% +155.43%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the City of London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in the City of London

Distributed Computing
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 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Opsgenie
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk