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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 524 572
Rank change year-on-year +34 +48 +93
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 20 24 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.065% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 52
10th Percentile £380 £322 £541
25th Percentile £575 £413 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -2.08% -20.00%
75th Percentile £800 £650 £681
90th Percentile - £705 £825
UK median daily rate £675 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +14.89% -2.08% -14.29%
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 9,369 11,415 16,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.65% 30.79% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,966 7,342 11,227
10th Percentile £305 £286 £313
25th Percentile £408 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 811 481
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.50 £17.30
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +25.00% +13.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £36.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.08% +31.07% +1.93%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +32 19 £688 +14.58% 35
Midlands +6 1 - -
West Midlands - 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 (10.00%) CMS
1 2 (10.00%) Headless CMS
1 2 (10.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Azure
5 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Multicast
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) Big Data
2 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) GCC
1 5 (25.00%) GDB
2 3 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (40.00%) Front Office
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) International Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Publishing
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Java Swing Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Middleware
2 6 (30.00%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (25.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 5 (25.00%) STL
4 3 (15.00%) Swing
4 3 (15.00%) XML
5 2 (10.00%) OAuth
5 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (10.00%) OpenID
5 2 (10.00%) Rendezvous
5 2 (10.00%) SAML
6 1 (5.00%) .NET
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.00%) ADO
6 1 (5.00%) CSS
6 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (5.00%) PySpark
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (15.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
5 2 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
6 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) High Availability
2 8 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 6 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.00%) Log Aggregation
7 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) C++
4 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.00%) SQL
6 2 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) Go
6 2 (10.00%) Rust
7 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) Perl
7 1 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Solace
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Sybase
2 2 (10.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft