Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Reading

Distributed Architecture
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.27% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £410 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 399 192 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 35.98% 32.38% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 127 163
10th Percentile £350 £340 £275
25th Percentile £446 £422 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £525 £583
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -9.95% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £727 £650 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £520 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.91% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 3 8
10th Percentile £20.04 £24.80 £35.98
25th Percentile £67.50 £31.44 £52.81
Median hourly rate £85.00 £45.00 £59.05
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -23.79% -11.12%
75th Percentile £88.00 £51.25 £63.22
90th Percentile - £53.50 £71.24
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £62.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +33.88% +49.39% -35.83%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Reading

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Architecture in Reading over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Architecture in Reading

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Liquibase
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware