Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Distributed Architecture
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.021% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.059% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
England median daily rate £650 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Distributed Architecture 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,703 1,149 1,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.73% 32.49% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 639 883
10th Percentile £214 £203 £263
25th Percentile £363 £350 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £587
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 46 64
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.10 £17.14
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.88% +37.18% +3.45%
75th Percentile £56.69 £38.31 £45.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £54.63
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.51% +25.12%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the North of England

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Architecture within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
North East - 1 £575 -
Distributed Architecture
England

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes