Distributed Applications Contracts in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 330 371 453
Rank change year-on-year +41 +82 +30
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 6 28 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.13% 0.037%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.46% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 9
10th Percentile £355 £444 £490
25th Percentile £406 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £629 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +25.88% -4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £850 £675
90th Percentile - £856 £690
UK median daily rate £575 £642 £625
% change year-on-year -10.42% +2.70% +19.05%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Distributed Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding 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
Midlands +2 3 £630 -3.08% 1
East Midlands - 3 £630 -
South East +45 1 £413 -4.62% 2
East of England - 1 £550 - 3
North of England - 1 £320 - 3
North West - 1 £320 -
Distributed Applications
UK

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CA Endevor
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) NetApp
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft