Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Distributed Architecture
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 0.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 43 27 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 27.22% 25.23% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 18
10th Percentile £158 £244 £137
25th Percentile £263 £491 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +16.28% +10.26%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £584
90th Percentile £648 £702 £634
South London median daily rate £513 £650 £425
% change year-on-year -21.15% +52.94% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £64.75 £47.41 £23.50
% change year-on-year +36.59% +101.72% +4.44%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Croydon

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus