Distributed Architecture Contracts in England

Distributed Architecture
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture 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 468 500 565
Rank change year-on-year +32 +65 +85
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 17 42 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.37% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 68
10th Percentile £450 £413 £563
25th Percentile £503 £572 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.73% -13.30%
75th Percentile £750 £613 £825
90th Percentile £764 £682 £850
UK median daily rate £688 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +14.58% -7.69% -11.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Generic Skills
England

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 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 Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture in England

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Architecture in England

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Architecture in England

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Architecture in England

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture 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 +12 16 £725 +20.83% 32
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Distributed Architecture
UK

Distributed Architecture
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 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
1 2 (11.76%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Matillion
2 2 (11.76%) Route 53
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.88%) BigCommerce
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Multicast
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) Impala
3 2 (11.76%) Looker
3 2 (11.76%) Spotfire
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GCC
1 4 (23.53%) GDB
2 2 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Front Office
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) C++ Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Java Swing Developer
5 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 4 (23.53%) STL
2 3 (17.65%) Middleware
2 3 (17.65%) Swing
2 3 (17.65%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) Rendezvous
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.88%) ADO
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) Next.js
4 1 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (23.53%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
4 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
5 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) High Availability
2 6 (35.29%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Low Latency
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) ETL
6 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Java
3 7 (41.18%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) C++
5 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) Scala
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.88%) Perl
7 1 (5.88%) Ruby
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.76%) Puppet
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Cloudera
1 2 (11.76%) IBM
1 2 (11.76%) Informatica
1 2 (11.76%) StreamSets
1 2 (11.76%) Sybase
1 2 (11.76%) Talend
1 2 (11.76%) TIBCO
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Sitecore