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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 266 312
Rank change year-on-year +30 +46 -57
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 155 225 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.88% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 2.45% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 167 249
10th Percentile £401 £463 £485
25th Percentile £513 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £791 £725 £775
90th Percentile £900 £863 £828
England median daily rate £625 £623 £625
% change year-on-year +0.40% -0.40% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 -
90th Percentile - £89.32 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.42%

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 5,824 9,165 14,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.31% 36.04% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,644 10,291
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 105 201
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.62 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -22.01% -17.61% +22.90%
75th Percentile £50.25 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.98 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year +60.37% -13.66% +1.96%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +33 31 £700 +16.67% 3
East London - 5 £435 -
South London +6 4 - -
West London +30 3 £450 - 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 6 (3.87%) Apache
2 5 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.58%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (7.10%) ION MarketView
2 5 (3.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.65%) RMDS
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.16%) AWS
1 39 (25.16%) Azure
2 23 (14.84%) GCP
3 11 (7.10%) Serverless
4 9 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.16%) NuGet
6 7 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.23%) Azure API Management
9 4 (2.58%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.58%) Datadog
9 4 (2.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) DNS
1 3 (1.94%) Firewall
2 2 (1.29%) Internet
2 2 (1.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) HTTP
3 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.26%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.61%) KDB
2 18 (11.61%) MongoDB
3 17 (10.97%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.39%) NoSQL
5 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.23%) Big Data
6 5 (3.23%) MySQL
7 4 (2.58%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.29%) Bigtable
9 2 (1.29%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.65%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.65%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 28 (18.06%) Git
2 19 (12.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.23%) Pylint
4 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.94%) GitLab
5 3 (1.94%) JUnit
6 2 (1.29%) Gradle
6 2 (1.29%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.29%) Maven
6 2 (1.29%) Mockito
6 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) Babel
7 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.65%) TestNG
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 57 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.42%) Finance
3 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.61%) Banking
4 18 (11.61%) Front Office
5 10 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 79 (50.97%) Developer
2 48 (30.97%) Senior
3 27 (17.42%) Senior Developer
4 26 (16.77%) Java Developer
5 20 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (12.26%) Site Engineer
7 14 (9.03%) Python Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) Software Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Backend Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.81%) C# Developer
12 8 (5.16%) Architect
12 8 (5.16%) Python Developer
12 8 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Software Developer
13 7 (4.52%) Front Office Developer
13 7 (4.52%) Senior Software Developer
14 6 (3.87%) Senior Java Developer
15 5 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.23%) Kafka
2 25 (16.13%) REST
3 24 (15.48%) RESTful
4 16 (10.32%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (9.68%) Node.js
6 14 (9.03%) React
7 13 (8.39%) Spring
8 12 (7.74%) HTML
9 11 (7.10%) .NET
9 11 (7.10%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (6.45%) .NET Core
11 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
12 8 (5.16%) gRPC
12 8 (5.16%) Web Services
12 8 (5.16%) WebSockets
12 8 (5.16%) YAML
13 7 (4.52%) GraphQL
13 7 (4.52%) SOAP
14 6 (3.87%) CSS
15 5 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.48%) Data Structures
2 23 (14.84%) Algorithms
3 21 (13.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (10.32%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.45%) Derivative
5 10 (6.45%) Public Cloud
6 9 (5.81%) Management Information System
7 8 (5.16%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (5.16%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (5.16%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.87%) Fixed Income
9 5 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.58%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (2.58%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.94%) Equities
11 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.39%) Linux
2 9 (5.81%) Unix
3 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.65%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (45.16%) Agile
2 54 (34.84%) DevOps
3 47 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 44 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (27.74%) CI/CD
6 38 (24.52%) Microservices
7 28 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (18.06%) Multithreading
7 28 (18.06%) SDLC
7 28 (18.06%) Test Automation
8 26 (16.77%) Design Patterns
8 26 (16.77%) E-Commerce
9 22 (14.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (13.55%) Analytics
10 21 (13.55%) OO
11 20 (12.90%) TDD
12 19 (12.26%) Low Latency
12 19 (12.26%) Multithreaded Programming
13 16 (10.32%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (10.32%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (61.29%) Java
2 84 (54.19%) Python
3 43 (27.74%) SQL
4 38 (24.52%) C#
5 35 (22.58%) JavaScript
6 28 (18.06%) Go
7 24 (15.48%) C++
8 19 (12.26%) PowerShell
9 16 (10.32%) Shell Script
10 10 (6.45%) TypeScript
11 8 (5.16%) Scala
12 6 (3.87%) Bicep
13 5 (3.23%) Rust
14 4 (2.58%) C
15 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.94%) Perl
15 3 (1.94%) Ruby
16 2 (1.29%) Clojure
16 2 (1.29%) Groovy
16 2 (1.29%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 23 (14.84%) Degree
2 9 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) MiFID
3 1 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (21.94%) Docker
2 12 (7.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 55 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.71%) Terraform
3 15 (9.68%) Grafana
4 14 (9.03%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.74%) Consul
6 6 (3.87%) Opsgenie
7 5 (3.23%) Ansible
8 3 (1.94%) Istio
9 2 (1.29%) Argo
10 1 (0.65%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.39%) ION Trading
3 12 (7.74%) Google
3 12 (7.74%) SaltStack
3 12 (7.74%) Splunk
4 8 (5.16%) New Relic
5 7 (4.52%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.52%) Oracle
5 7 (4.52%) PagerDuty
5 7 (4.52%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.23%) Adobe
6 5 (3.23%) SAP
7 4 (2.58%) Tradeweb
8 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.29%) Genesys
8 2 (1.29%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.29%) MarketAxess
8 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.29%) TIBCO