Distributed Systems Contracts in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems 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 101 100 135
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +22
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 18 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 1.23% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.94% 3.99% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 31
10th Percentile £423 £560 £525
25th Percentile £451 £599 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £678 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.82% +12.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £666 £712 £700
90th Percentile £731 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £513 £678 £600
% change year-on-year -24.35% +12.92% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £84.09

All Generic Skills
City of London

Distributed Systems 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 Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
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 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) FTP
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (11.11%) SMTP
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) MLflow
3 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
1 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
1 4 (22.22%) Lead
1 4 (22.22%) Team Leader
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Grid Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 3 (16.67%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) JWT
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (5.56%) PySpark
4 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.56%) CUDA
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Continuous Deployment
2 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (38.89%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
3 6 (33.33%) Market Making
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) API Development
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) API Design
6 2 (11.11%) Chaos Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) C++
4 6 (33.33%) C
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (11.11%) Go
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (5.56%) Clojure
7 1 (5.56%) Elixir
7 1 (5.56%) Haskell
7 1 (5.56%) Rust
7 1 (5.56%) Scala
7 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Confluent
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Okta
2 1 (5.56%) TIBCO