Distributed Applications Contract Job Trends 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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 349 407
Rank change year-on-year -32 +58 +108
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 11 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.084% 0.072%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.29% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile £270 £471 £449
25th Percentile £278 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £650 £483
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +34.72% -1.53%
75th Percentile £387 £725 £491
90th Percentile £475 £785 £540
UK median daily rate £358 £600 £485
% change year-on-year -40.33% +23.71% -20.82%

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 5,753 4,889 6,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.40% 29.38% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,494 2,684 4,218
10th Percentile £210 £206 £213
25th Percentile £360 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 267 381
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.62 £16.54
25th Percentile £16.87 £22.11 £21.00
Median hourly rate £26.75 £42.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.06% -7.97% +102.88%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.06 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £43.92
% change year-on-year -31.98% -8.93% +62.79%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Distributed Applications job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Applications

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 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in the UK excluding London

Distributed Applications
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Applications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Distributed Applications

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 3 November 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
North of England -35 5 £278 -31.27%
Yorkshire - 5 £278 -
Scotland - 5 £450 -
Midlands -31 1 £358 -44.92%
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Distributed Applications
UK

Distributed Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
1 5 (45.45%) Spring
1 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 5 (45.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Availability Management
3 6 (54.55%) Change Management
4 5 (45.45%) ITIL
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Fintech
5 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
6 3 (27.27%) Observability
7 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
8 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
8 1 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
8 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft