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 in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems 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 208 245 242
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 +80
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 146 148 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 0.83% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 2.50% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 109 215
10th Percentile £400 £418 £513
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £775 £775 £750
90th Percentile £875 £875 £863
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £44.05 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 £79.89
Median hourly rate £74.00 £55.00 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% -34.59% -
75th Percentile £93.75 £57.50 £88.30
90th Percentile - - £89.32
England median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +0.91% -34.59% +40.15%

All Generic Skills
London

Distributed Systems 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 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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Distributed Systems in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 -3 20 £513 -24.35% 22
South London +4 4 £656 -
West London +11 2 - - 6
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 9 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.48%) Apache
3 4 (2.74%) Confluence
3 4 (2.74%) nginx
3 4 (2.74%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.68%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.68%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.68%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.68%) MetaMask
Applications
1 17 (11.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle TCA
1 1 (0.68%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.40%) AWS
2 36 (24.66%) Azure
3 15 (10.27%) GCP
4 10 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (5.48%) GitHub
7 7 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.42%) Azure AKS
8 5 (3.42%) Serverless
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.74%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.53%) HTTP
2 9 (6.16%) DNS
3 8 (5.48%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.79%) FTP
4 7 (4.79%) SMTP
4 7 (4.79%) SSL
5 6 (4.11%) Firewall
6 2 (1.37%) VPN
7 1 (0.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 15 (10.27%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.22%) Big Data
4 11 (7.53%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.42%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.74%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.74%) Data Mining
7 4 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.74%) Power BI
8 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.05%) Redis
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.37%) Bigtable
9 2 (1.37%) Metadata
9 2 (1.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (17.81%) Git
2 20 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.48%) JIRA
4 5 (3.42%) JUnit
4 5 (3.42%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.74%) JMeter
5 4 (2.74%) Mockito
6 3 (2.05%) MLflow
6 3 (2.05%) Postman
7 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.37%) Gatling
7 2 (1.37%) GitLab
7 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.37%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.37%) Subversion
7 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.37%) Xcode
General
1 43 (29.45%) Finance
2 35 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.96%) Banking
4 15 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.90%) Front Office
6 12 (8.22%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.37%) Marketing
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.37%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (41.10%) Developer
2 26 (17.81%) Senior
3 20 (13.70%) Java Developer
4 15 (10.27%) C# Developer
4 15 (10.27%) Python Engineer
5 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
5 13 (8.90%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (6.85%) Lead
8 9 (6.16%) Front Office Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Gen AI Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Architect
11 5 (3.42%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Site Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Algorithm Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (2.74%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.08%) Kafka
2 21 (14.38%) REST
3 17 (11.64%) gRPC
3 17 (11.64%) Spring
4 15 (10.27%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.53%) RESTful
6 10 (6.85%) React
7 8 (5.48%) .NET
7 8 (5.48%) JSON
8 6 (4.11%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.11%) HTML
8 6 (4.11%) Web Services
8 6 (4.11%) YAML
9 5 (3.42%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.42%) Node.js
9 5 (3.42%) SOAP
10 4 (2.74%) Django
10 4 (2.74%) Flask
10 4 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.59%) Derivative
3 13 (8.90%) Algorithms
3 13 (8.90%) Hedge funds
4 11 (7.53%) Data Structures
5 10 (6.85%) Public Cloud
6 9 (6.16%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (4.79%) Equities
7 7 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.42%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.42%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.05%) Grid Computing
10 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.37%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.37%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.92%) Linux
2 8 (5.48%) Unix
3 5 (3.42%) Windows
4 3 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.68%) Debian
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (48.63%) CI/CD
2 49 (33.56%) Microservices
3 41 (28.08%) Agile
3 41 (28.08%) DevOps
4 37 (25.34%) Software Engineering
5 28 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 21 (14.38%) SDLC
7 20 (13.70%) Computer Science
7 20 (13.70%) Containerisation
7 20 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (13.01%) Algorithmic Trading
8 19 (13.01%) TDD
9 17 (11.64%) Electronic Trading
9 17 (11.64%) Market Making
9 17 (11.64%) Mathematics
9 17 (11.64%) Scrum
9 17 (11.64%) Test Automation
10 16 (10.96%) Machine Learning
10 16 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (58.90%) Python
2 59 (40.41%) Java
3 35 (23.97%) C++
4 31 (21.23%) C#
5 30 (20.55%) SQL
6 23 (15.75%) Go
7 18 (12.33%) Shell Script
8 17 (11.64%) C
9 13 (8.90%) PowerShell
10 11 (7.53%) Rust
10 11 (7.53%) Scala
11 8 (5.48%) Clojure
11 8 (5.48%) JavaScript
12 7 (4.79%) Elixir
12 7 (4.79%) Groovy
13 5 (3.42%) TypeScript
14 4 (2.74%) Bash
14 4 (2.74%) Bicep
15 3 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (1.37%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 22 (15.07%) Degree
2 13 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.22%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.42%) PhD
4 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) DICOM
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) HL7
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) MiFID
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 51 (34.93%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.68%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 62 (42.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.59%) Terraform
3 10 (6.85%) Grafana
4 6 (4.11%) Ansible
5 5 (3.42%) Kibana
5 5 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.05%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.37%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.37%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (11.64%) Oracle
2 12 (8.22%) Splunk
3 10 (6.85%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.48%) TIBCO
5 7 (4.79%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.11%) AppDynamics
6 6 (4.11%) Google
7 4 (2.74%) IBM
8 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.68%) Adobe
10 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.68%) Confluent
10 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.68%) New Relic
10 1 (0.68%) Okta
10 1 (0.68%) SAP
10 1 (0.68%) Solace
10 1 (0.68%) Spotify
10 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media