Distributed Applications Contract Job Trends 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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 496 549
Rank change year-on-year -26 +53 +171
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 12 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.041% 0.071% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 26
10th Percentile £278 £402 £432
25th Percentile £279 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +23.71% -19.17%
75th Percentile £559 £725 £600
90th Percentile £650 £745 -
UK median daily rate £358 £600 £485
% change year-on-year -40.33% +23.71% -20.82%

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 10,595 9,650 12,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.35% 31.21% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,608 5,783 8,847
10th Percentile £290 £296 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £782
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 292 462
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.73 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.27
Median hourly rate £28.13 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.79% +6.74% +64.94%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £77.95
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £43.92
% change year-on-year -31.98% -8.93% +62.79%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in England

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Applications

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Applications in England over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in England

Distributed Applications
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Applications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Distributed Applications

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 3 November 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 -6 6 £563 +9.76% 6
North of England -35 5 £278 -31.27%
Yorkshire - 5 £278 -
Midlands -31 1 £358 -44.92%
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Distributed Applications
UK

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (50.00%) Mule
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) GCP
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Contentful
4 1 (8.33%) Contentstack
4 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (8.33%) Storyblok
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) Gatling
3 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Fastify
1 1 (8.33%) MACH
1 1 (8.33%) Next.js
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
1 8 (66.67%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) F5