Distributed Architecture Contracts in London

Distributed Architecture
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in London. 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 337 349 408
Rank change year-on-year +12 +59 +78
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 16 42 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.71% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 66
10th Percentile £450 £413 £563
25th Percentile £503 £572 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% -11.48%
75th Percentile £750 £613 £825
90th Percentile £764 £682 £850
England median daily rate £725 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +20.83% -7.73% -13.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Generic Skills
London

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 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 Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture in London

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Architecture in London

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Architecture in London

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Architecture in London

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture 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 - - 1
Central London +4 2 £675 -11.48% 1
Distributed Architecture
England

Distributed Architecture
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 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 2 (12.50%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Matillion
2 2 (12.50%) Route 53
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) BigCommerce
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Multicast
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Impala
3 2 (12.50%) Looker
3 2 (12.50%) Spotfire
3 2 (12.50%) Tableau
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) GCC
1 4 (25.00%) GDB
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) C++ Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Java Swing Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 4 (25.00%) STL
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) Swing
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.25%) Next.js
4 1 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (18.75%) Fixed Income
4 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
4 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (6.25%) Grid Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
5 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) High Availability
2 5 (31.25%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) Python
4 5 (31.25%) C++
5 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (12.50%) Scala
7 1 (6.25%) C#
7 1 (6.25%) Perl
7 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
1 2 (12.50%) Informatica
1 2 (12.50%) StreamSets
1 2 (12.50%) Sybase
1 2 (12.50%) Talend
1 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Sitecore