Distributed Applications Contract Job Trends 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 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 373 367 412
Rank change year-on-year -6 +45 +134
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 6 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.052% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile £429 £404 £430
25th Percentile £550 £409 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -14.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £625 -
90th Percentile £673 - -
England median daily rate £355 £600 £485
% change year-on-year -40.83% +23.71% -19.17%

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 5,303 5,247 6,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.99% 33.78% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 3,361 5,008
10th Percentile £338 £325 £345
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 62 100
10th Percentile £17.04 £17.28 £18.51
25th Percentile £21.88 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £34.13 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.93% +13.75% +12.19%
75th Percentile £45.80 £58.06 £49.28
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £68.08
England median hourly rate £28.13 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.79% +6.74% +64.94%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in London

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in London

Distributed Applications
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 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
Central London +3 2 £613 - 2
Distributed Applications
England

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