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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 383 415
Rank change year-on-year +35 +32 +89
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 20 20 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.34% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 49
10th Percentile £390 £413 £537
25th Percentile £575 £431 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +3.45% -22.67%
75th Percentile £800 £678 £638
90th Percentile - £715 £825
England median daily rate £700 £588 £580
% change year-on-year +19.15% +1.29% -22.67%
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 5,025 5,837 9,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.91% 33.55% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,309 4,081 6,551
10th Percentile £332 £315 £363
25th Percentile £447 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £730 £738 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 129 95
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.37
25th Percentile £22.38 £21.22 £23.63
Median hourly rate £29.75 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £46.19 £50.75 £65.05
90th Percentile £64.30 £71.25 £86.98
England median hourly rate £33.00 £39.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year -15.92% +24.60% +18.87%

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 13 July 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 13 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
Central London +7 3 £675 -11.48%
South London - 3 - - 2
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 (10.00%) CMS
1 2 (10.00%) Headless CMS
1 2 (10.00%) MQSeries
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
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) 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
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) GCC
1 6 (30.00%) 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
General
1 9 (45.00%) Front Office
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) International Banking
4 5 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Publishing
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) 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%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Middleware
2 7 (35.00%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (30.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 6 (30.00%) 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%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (5.00%) PySpark
6 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) 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 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) High Availability
2 9 (45.00%) Low Latency
3 7 (35.00%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
3 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Microservices
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
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%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) C++
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Go
5 2 (10.00%) Rust
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) Ruby
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 6 (30.00%) Solace
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Sybase
2 2 (10.00%) TIBCO