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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 98 140
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 +17
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 23 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.28% 1.20% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 3.94% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 26
10th Percentile £432 £581 £506
25th Percentile £570 £700 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £710 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +18.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £688 - £712
90th Percentile £738 £716 £744
Central London median daily rate £613 £710 £600
% change year-on-year -13.73% +18.33% -14.29%

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 676 634 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.56% 30.52% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 402 690
10th Percentile £355 £364 £324
25th Percentile £463 £485 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.13%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £813 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £600 £593 £600
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £22.39
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £30.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.00% -26.53%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £47.66
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £26.98 £25.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.59% -26.31% -28.57%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in the City of London

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.35%) Fidessa
1 1 (4.35%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) FTP
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) SMTP
2 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.70%) Big Data
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) MemSQL
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Gradle
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
3 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
3 10 (43.48%) Banking
4 6 (26.09%) Investment Banking
5 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Big Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) C# Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Test Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Software Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (21.74%) .NET
2 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) JWT
5 1 (4.35%) Kafka
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (30.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (26.09%) Fixed Income
4 4 (17.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Derivative
5 2 (8.70%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.35%) Credit Risk
6 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
6 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) Event-Driven
3 11 (47.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 9 (39.13%) Agile
6 8 (34.78%) Microservices
7 7 (30.43%) Low Latency
7 7 (30.43%) Project Management
8 6 (26.09%) Algorithmic Trading
8 6 (26.09%) Electronic Trading
9 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (21.74%) Data Science
9 5 (21.74%) High-Frequency Trading
9 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
9 5 (21.74%) Observability
9 5 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (21.74%) RBAC
9 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (21.74%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) C
6 1 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) CodeQL
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) MiFID
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (21.74%) Kibana
2 5 (21.74%) logstash
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Solace
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Okta
3 1 (4.35%) Portware