Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends 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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 321 364
Rank change year-on-year -102 +43 +47
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 28 41 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.31% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.80% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 17
10th Percentile £434 £438 £574
25th Percentile £459 £453 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £825
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% -9.09% +26.92%
75th Percentile £528 £825 £875
90th Percentile £614 £872 £935
England median daily rate £520 £483 £612
% change year-on-year +7.77% -21.16% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +145.45% - -

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 7,645 5,139 5,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.87% 38.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,795 3,326 3,616
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 118 69
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -11.29% +0.81%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in London

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 16 September 2026. 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
West London - 10 £520 - 7
Central London -33 5 £600 -20.00% 8
South London - 1 £300 - 4
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
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 7 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Collibra
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
4 5 (17.86%) GCP
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) dbt
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) Delta Lake
2 11 (39.29%) Metadata
2 11 (39.29%) Parquet
3 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) Big Data
4 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (3.57%) Base SAS
6 1 (3.57%) Data Mart
6 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.57%) KDB
6 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.57%) Power BI
6 1 (3.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Product Owner
1 10 (35.71%) Technical Product Owner
2 6 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Product Owner
4 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 2 (7.14%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Research Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) PySpark
2 5 (17.86%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Flask
3 3 (10.71%) Pandas
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.57%) LangChain
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) pytest
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Product Ownership
2 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (3.57%) Grid Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 17 (60.71%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (50.00%) Observability
4 13 (46.43%) Data Modelling
4 13 (46.43%) DevOps
4 13 (46.43%) ETL
5 12 (42.86%) Agile
5 12 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 12 (42.86%) Decision-Making
6 11 (39.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (39.29%) Data Governance
6 11 (39.29%) Metadata Management
7 10 (35.71%) AI
7 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (35.71%) Roadmaps
7 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (25.00%) Product Backlog
9 7 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) Python
2 23 (82.14%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) Scala
5 2 (7.14%) C
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) Rust
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PhD
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) EMIR
2 3 (10.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk