Distributed Applications Contracts in the South East

Distributed Applications
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications 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 158 203 221
Rank change year-on-year +45 +18 +32
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% 0.036% 0.017%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.099% 0.13% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 £429 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £433 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -30.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £419 £436 £663
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £588 £642 £625
% change year-on-year -8.47% +2.70% +18.48%

All Generic Skills
South East

Distributed Applications 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Distributed Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in the South East

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in the South East

Distributed Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Applications in the South East

Distributed Applications
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Applications within the South East 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
Hampshire - 1 £413 - 4
Distributed Applications
England

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker