Distributed Applications Contracts in England

Distributed Applications
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications 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 469 503 626
Rank change year-on-year +34 +123 +73
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 16 39 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.10% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.34% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 21
10th Percentile £417 £429 -
25th Percentile £522 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £642 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +2.70% +18.48%
75th Percentile £688 £803 £663
90th Percentile £721 £851 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £642 £625
% change year-on-year -10.42% +2.70% +19.05%

All Generic Skills
England

Distributed Applications 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Distributed Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in England

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in England.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in England

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Applications in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in England

Distributed Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in England.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Applications in England

Distributed Applications
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Applications within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +35 10 £625 -3.85% 16
Midlands +2 3 £630 -3.08% 1
East Midlands - 3 £630 -
South East +45 1 £413 -4.62% 2
East of England - 1 £550 - 3
North of England - 1 £320 - 3
North West - 1 £320 -
Distributed Applications
UK

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (12.50%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.25%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
1 3 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
2 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) OLTP
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JBehave
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Front Office
4 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
1 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) GCP Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Java Swing Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
1 3 (18.75%) Swing
1 3 (18.75%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 2 (12.50%) gRPC
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) Pyramid
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.25%) ISPF
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Fixed Income
3 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
5 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
1 7 (43.75%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (18.75%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) Go
5 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) JCL
6 1 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Ruby
6 1 (6.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) CA Endevor
2 1 (6.25%) Podman
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) NetApp
2 2 (12.50%) Sybase
2 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft