Distributed Computing Contract Job Trends in South London

Distributed Computing
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.32% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £250 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £350 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £520 £750 £825
% change year-on-year -30.67% -9.09% +26.92%

All Generic Skills
South London

Distributed Computing 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 124 78 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 40.26% 43.09% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 39 43
10th Percentile £450 £163 £225
25th Percentile £475 £320 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +10.53% -15.56%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £567
90th Percentile £736 £785 £723
London median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 4
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £16.93 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.30 £15.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.29% -18.77% -50.53%
75th Percentile £33.60 £17.45 £34.28
90th Percentile £155.00 £17.98 £56.84
London median hourly rate £33.60 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.18% -11.29% +0.81%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Distributed Computing job vacancy trend in South London

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Distributed Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the South London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Bromley - 1 £300 - 4
Distributed Computing
London

Distributed Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Parallel Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Regtech
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EMIR
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle