Distributed Architecture Contracts

Distributed Architecture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture 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 498 554 620
Rank change year-on-year +56 +66 +76
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 21 46 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 71
10th Percentile £450 £413 £550
25th Percentile £469 £572 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -7.69% -11.86%
75th Percentile £750 £613 £825
90th Percentile - £682 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

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 Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Architecture in the UK

Distributed Architecture
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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 +38 17 £725 +20.83% 40
London +9 16 £725 +20.83% 30
UK excluding London - 4 £513 - 13
Work from Home +49 3 £700 +1.27% 27
Scotland - 2 £525 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Distributed Architecture
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 (9.52%) Apache
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.52%) Camunda
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
1 2 (9.52%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
2 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (9.52%) Matillion
2 2 (9.52%) Route 53
2 2 (9.52%) Serverless
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
3 1 (4.76%) BigCommerce
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Multicast
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (19.05%) Big Data
2 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
3 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.52%) Impala
3 2 (9.52%) Looker
3 2 (9.52%) Spotfire
3 2 (9.52%) Tableau
4 1 (4.76%) DB2
4 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GCC
1 4 (19.05%) GDB
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Front Office
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 5 (23.81%) C++ Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Java Swing Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Core Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) CRM Architect
7 1 (4.76%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 4 (19.05%) Middleware
1 4 (19.05%) STL
1 4 (19.05%) Swing
1 4 (19.05%) XML
2 2 (9.52%) LDAP
2 2 (9.52%) Rendezvous
2 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) Next.js
3 1 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (4.76%) PySpark
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (23.81%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (19.05%) Fixed Income
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
5 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
6 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.76%) Derivative
6 1 (4.76%) Grid Computing
6 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
6 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) High Availability
2 9 (42.86%) Microservices
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
4 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
4 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
4 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Low Latency
6 3 (14.29%) Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) BPMN
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 8 (38.10%) Python
4 5 (23.81%) C++
5 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.52%) C#
6 2 (9.52%) Perl
6 2 (9.52%) Ruby
6 2 (9.52%) Scala
7 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Sybase
2 2 (9.52%) Cloudera
2 2 (9.52%) IBM
2 2 (9.52%) Informatica
2 2 (9.52%) StreamSets
2 2 (9.52%) Talend
2 2 (9.52%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Sitecore