Distributed Systems Contracts in South London

Distributed Systems
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems 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 31 35 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 4 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.16% 2.89% 3.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.25% 9.86% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £618 - £451
25th Percentile £627 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.87%
75th Percentile £689 - £458
90th Percentile £699 - -
London median daily rate £700 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Generic Skills
South London

Distributed Systems 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 64 71 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 34.59% 29.34% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 96
10th Percentile £196 £191 £285
25th Percentile £447 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £938 £575 £652
90th Percentile - £690 £800
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 4
10th Percentile - £16.37 £11.28
25th Percentile - £17.25 £17.69
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +4.44% -51.91%
75th Percentile £17.18 £46.86 £31.06
90th Percentile £72.68 £83.75 £44.20
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in South London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in South London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in South London

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the South London 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
Croydon +4 4 £656 - 1
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) WireMock
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Process Management
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk