Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Distributed Systems
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.25% 4.00% 4.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.45% 17.86% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £516 £624 -
25th Percentile £516 £641 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% - -
75th Percentile £539 £663 -
90th Percentile £543 £685 -
South London median daily rate £526 £650 -
% change year-on-year -19.15% - -

All Generic Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31 28 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 34.83% 22.40% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 19
10th Percentile £163 £244 £138
25th Percentile £320 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +13.64% +20.88%
75th Percentile £541 £675 £600
90th Percentile £620 £700 £653
South London median daily rate £513 £554 £525
% change year-on-year -7.45% +5.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £15.03
25th Percentile - £17.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £64.75 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +213.19% +4.44%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Croydon

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) WireMock
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker