Distributed Applications Contracts in London

Distributed Applications
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in London. 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 343 378 476
Rank change year-on-year +35 +98 +73
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 10 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.073% 0.063%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
10th Percentile £520 £465 £509
25th Percentile £525 £525 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £650
90th Percentile £730 £743 £661
England median daily rate £588 £642 £625
% change year-on-year -8.47% +2.70% +18.48%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in London

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in London

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in London

Distributed Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Applications in London

Distributed Applications
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
South London - 3 - -
Central London +4 2 £613 -7.55%
Distributed Applications
England

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (20.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
1 3 (30.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) OLTP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) JBehave
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Front Office
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 3 (30.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Java Swing Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
1 3 (30.00%) Swing
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (20.00%) gRPC
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Pyramid
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) ADO
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
3 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (30.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) SOLID
5 2 (20.00%) Evolutionary Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) C#
3 4 (40.00%) Go
4 3 (30.00%) Scala
4 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Podman
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Sybase
2 2 (20.00%) TIBCO