Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Distributed Architecture
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 220 142 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 26.76% 42.39% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 64 76
10th Percentile £175 £433 £258
25th Percentile £350 £484 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £613
90th Percentile £694 £684 £681
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £459
% change year-on-year -4.45% +8.99% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 39 60
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.95 £54.00
25th Percentile £18.35 £28.52 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% +3.59%
75th Percentile £82.25 £82.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.88% +13.33% +14.29%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Watford - 1 £550 -
Distributed Architecture
East of England

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes