Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Distributed Architecture
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.097% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £515 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -31.33% +25.00% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 328 144 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 31.66% 28.63% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 98 136
10th Percentile £190 £185 £164
25th Percentile £349 £318 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £447 £435
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +2.76% -3.33%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £563
90th Percentile £646 £591 £625
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 17
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.63 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.47 - -
Median hourly rate £22.54 £13.81 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.20% -1.36% -30.00%
75th Percentile £25.63 £16.11 £20.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £38.41 £24.84
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.50 £28.13
% change year-on-year +31.77% +22.67% +25.00%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Architecture within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 1 £500 -
Distributed Architecture
England

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Rust Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes