Distributed Computing Contracts in London

Distributed Computing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing 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 307 358 443
Rank change year-on-year +51 +85 +81
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 46 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.02% 0.56% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 42
10th Percentile £473 £563 £550
25th Percentile £538 £663 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £809 £875 -
90th Percentile £878 £900 £775
England median daily rate £575 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -28.13% +14.29% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
London

Distributed Computing 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 Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
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 Computing 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
Central London +13 10 £750 - 5
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
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 30 (65.22%) Apache Spark
2 10 (21.74%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 5 (10.87%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) Kong
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (47.83%) Big Data
2 15 (32.61%) Hadoop
3 7 (15.22%) Data Mining
3 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (13.04%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.70%) Apache Hive
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.35%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.17%) DB2
8 1 (2.17%) Hazelcast
8 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 23 (50.00%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Publishing
8 1 (2.17%) Advertising
8 1 (2.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Apache Spark Developer
5 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Big Data Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Gen AI Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Lead
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) Spark Streaming
2 8 (17.39%) PySpark
3 7 (15.22%) Ray
4 5 (10.87%) TensorFlow
5 3 (6.52%) Kafka
6 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.35%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.17%) Guice
7 1 (2.17%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Market Risk
2 9 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (10.87%) Derivative
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.70%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (8.70%) Tandem
6 3 (6.52%) Credit Risk
7 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
7 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (4.35%) Equities
7 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.17%) Grid Computing
8 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Machine Learning
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 18 (39.13%) Analytics
4 16 (34.78%) Computer Science
4 16 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (34.78%) Deep Learning
5 15 (32.61%) Mathematics
5 15 (32.61%) Risk Management
6 14 (30.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (28.26%) Code Quality
7 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (23.91%) Low Latency
8 11 (23.91%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (21.74%) Parallel Computing
10 9 (19.57%) Memory Management
10 9 (19.57%) Regulatory Compliance
10 9 (19.57%) Risk Analytics
10 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (17.39%) Batch Processing
11 8 (17.39%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (76.09%) Python
2 27 (58.70%) Java
3 21 (45.65%) C++
4 13 (28.26%) C
4 13 (28.26%) Shell Script
5 8 (17.39%) SQL
6 2 (4.35%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Degree
2 17 (36.96%) Master's Degree
3 14 (30.43%) PhD
4 4 (8.70%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.35%) Databricks
1 2 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle
2 1 (2.17%) Refinitiv
2 1 (2.17%) Solace