Distributed Systems Contracts in London

Distributed Systems
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 246 326
Rank change year-on-year -8 +80 -84
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 143 284 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.81% 1.05% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.93% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 215 233
10th Percentile £440 £513 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £775
90th Percentile £875 £863 £820
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
England median hourly rate - £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +40.15% -8.40%

All Generic Skills
London

Distributed Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,855 9,701 14,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.88% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,140 6,966 10,347
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +10.09%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 109 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -21.35% +36.92%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.15 £71.51
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 +18 27 £678 +12.92% 6
South London +6 7 - -
East London - 4 £443 - 4
West London +20 3 £450 - 2
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
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 8 (5.59%) Apache
2 7 (4.90%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.70%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) JBoss
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.90%) ION MarketView
2 5 (3.50%) Endur
3 2 (1.40%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.70%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.70%) RMDS
4 1 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.27%) Azure
2 34 (23.78%) AWS
3 13 (9.09%) Serverless
4 12 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (8.39%) GCP
5 9 (6.29%) NuGet
6 8 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.20%) Azure API Management
9 5 (3.50%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.50%) PaaS
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.80%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) Internet
3 2 (1.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.70%) HTTP
4 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.69%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.19%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.49%) Relational Database
4 14 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.09%) KDB
6 11 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.50%) MySQL
9 4 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.10%) Big Data
10 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.10%) Redis
11 2 (1.40%) Bigtable
11 2 (1.40%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.70%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 29 (20.28%) Git
2 21 (14.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.20%) JUnit
4 5 (3.50%) Pylint
5 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.40%) GitLab
6 2 (1.40%) Gradle
6 2 (1.40%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.40%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.40%) Maven
6 2 (1.40%) Mockito
6 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.70%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.70%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.70%) JIRA
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.70%) TestNG
7 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.70%) VisualWorks
General
1 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.38%) Finance
3 19 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.29%) Front Office
4 17 (11.89%) Banking
5 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.80%) Public Speaking
9 3 (2.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (49.65%) Developer
2 45 (31.47%) Senior
3 25 (17.48%) Senior Developer
4 22 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 19 (13.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (12.59%) Site Engineer
7 14 (9.79%) Python Engineer
7 14 (9.79%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.09%) C# Developer
9 10 (6.99%) Backend Developer
9 10 (6.99%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Architect
10 9 (6.29%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.59%) Full Stack Developer
11 8 (5.59%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.90%) Software Developer
13 6 (4.20%) Python Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.68%) Kafka
2 30 (20.98%) REST
3 22 (15.38%) RESTful
4 19 (13.29%) Node.js
5 15 (10.49%) React
6 14 (9.79%) Spring
7 13 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (9.09%) HTML
8 12 (8.39%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (7.69%) .NET
9 11 (7.69%) SOAP
9 11 (7.69%) Spring Boot
9 11 (7.69%) Web Services
10 10 (6.99%) .NET Core
11 9 (6.29%) YAML
12 8 (5.59%) AngularJS
12 8 (5.59%) GraphQL
12 8 (5.59%) WebSockets
13 7 (4.90%) CSS
14 6 (4.20%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 22 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 15 (10.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (9.79%) Cloud Native
4 13 (9.09%) Derivative
5 11 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
6 10 (6.99%) Public Cloud
7 8 (5.59%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.90%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (4.20%) Fixed Income
9 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.80%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (2.10%) Wiki
13 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.57%) Linux
2 6 (4.20%) Unix
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.70%) CentOS
4 1 (0.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.06%) Agile
2 57 (39.86%) DevOps
3 44 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 42 (29.37%) CI/CD
5 35 (24.48%) Microservices
6 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (21.68%) SDLC
8 25 (17.48%) Design Patterns
8 25 (17.48%) Multithreading
9 24 (16.78%) Analytics
9 24 (16.78%) TDD
10 23 (16.08%) Test Automation
11 22 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (15.38%) E-Commerce
11 22 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (14.69%) OO
13 18 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
13 18 (12.59%) Scrum
14 17 (11.89%) Risk Management
15 15 (10.49%) Database Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (62.94%) Java
2 80 (55.94%) Python
3 42 (29.37%) C#
4 37 (25.87%) SQL
5 35 (24.48%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.69%) C++
7 20 (13.99%) Go
7 20 (13.99%) PowerShell
8 13 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 13 (9.09%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.59%) Scala
10 7 (4.90%) Bicep
11 4 (2.80%) C
11 4 (2.80%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.10%) Rust
13 2 (1.40%) Clojure
13 2 (1.40%) Groovy
13 2 (1.40%) Haskell
13 2 (1.40%) Perl
13 2 (1.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (13.99%) Degree
2 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) MiFID
3 1 (0.70%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (20.28%) Docker
2 11 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (34.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.48%) Terraform
3 16 (11.19%) Grafana
4 13 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.69%) Consul
6 7 (4.90%) Ansible
7 5 (3.50%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.40%) Argo
8 2 (1.40%) Istio
8 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 9 (6.29%) ION Trading
3 9 (6.29%) New Relic
4 8 (5.59%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.59%) Splunk
5 7 (4.90%) PagerDuty
6 6 (4.20%) Adobe
6 6 (4.20%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.20%) Google
6 6 (4.20%) Oracle
6 6 (4.20%) SAP
7 3 (2.10%) Tradeweb
8 2 (1.40%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.40%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.40%) Genesys
8 2 (1.40%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.40%) MarketAxess
8 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx