Distributed Applications Contracts

Distributed Applications
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 555 681
Rank change year-on-year +51 +126 +38
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 15 45 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.10% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.34% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 23
10th Percentile £398 £432 £480
25th Percentile £516 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £642 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +2.70% +19.05%
75th Percentile £619 £778 £656
90th Percentile £636 £850 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £629 £500
% change year-on-year -12.61% +25.88% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Applications over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Applications.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +37 13 £550 -14.31% 27
London +29 7 £538 -17.31% 17
UK excluding London +32 6 £550 -12.61% 15
Work from Home +38 4 £550 +1.62% 22
Midlands +4 3 £630 -3.08% 1
East Midlands - 3 £630 -
South East +42 1 £413 -4.62% 1
North West - 1 £320 -
East of England - 1 £550 - 3
North of England - 1 £320 - 3

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (13.33%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JBehave
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Front Office
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Swing Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) VMware Architect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Middleware
1 4 (26.67%) Swing
1 4 (26.67%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Rendezvous
3 1 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) Akka
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) ISPF
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Play Framework
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
2 4 (26.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) High Availability
1 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Application Security
5 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) JCL
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) CA Endevor
2 1 (6.67%) Podman
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) NetApp
2 2 (13.33%) Sybase
2 2 (13.33%) TIBCO
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft