Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Distributed Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.15% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £515 - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 899 592 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.25% 36.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 327 521
10th Percentile £259 £300 £205
25th Percentile £366 £425 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.00% -1.87%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 20 61
10th Percentile £20.34 £17.96 £17.64
25th Percentile £26.17 £24.37 £22.61
Median hourly rate £81.25 £53.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.30% +76.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £60.39
90th Percentile £94.30 £87.60 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +69.23% -8.45% -16.47%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Berkshire - 2 £410 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £515 -
Distributed Architecture
South East

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM