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 have cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 625 692
Rank change year-on-year +72 +67 -112
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 45 94 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.47% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 101
10th Percentile £413 £551 £500
25th Percentile £570 £600 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -13.30% +50.00%
75th Percentile £613 £825 £800
90th Percentile £686 £850 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £606
% change year-on-year - +7.26% +42.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Architecture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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 27 April 2024.

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 3 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 27 April 2024. 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 +80 41 £600 -7.76% 18
London +56 41 £600 -14.29% 12
Work from Home +105 4 £691 +6.35% 9

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 5 (11.11%) WordPress
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.44%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) Datadog
3 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (53.33%) BGP
1 24 (53.33%) MPLS
1 24 (53.33%) RSVP
2 17 (37.78%) Ethernet VPN
2 17 (37.78%) HSRP
2 17 (37.78%) IPv4
2 17 (37.78%) SNMP
2 17 (37.78%) VPLS
2 17 (37.78%) VRRP
3 9 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (20.00%) IOS XR
4 7 (15.56%) Firewall
5 5 (11.11%) 5G
5 5 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (11.11%) Network Security
6 2 (4.44%) HTTP
7 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) MySQL
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) JUnit
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) JMeter
3 2 (4.44%) Postman
3 2 (4.44%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Gradle
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Electronics
2 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (8.89%) Local Government
3 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Front Office
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) IP Expert
2 12 (26.67%) Senior
3 9 (20.00%) Cisco Expert
4 8 (17.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Design Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Network Design Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Network Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Scala Software Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Architect
8 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Senior WordPress Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.89%) WordPress Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Test Manager
10 1 (2.22%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (53.33%) JSON
1 24 (53.33%) XML
2 22 (48.89%) NETCONF
2 22 (48.89%) YANG
3 17 (37.78%) Jinja
4 7 (15.56%) React
5 6 (13.33%) http4s
6 5 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (8.89%) JWT
8 3 (6.67%) Kafka
9 2 (4.44%) FHIR
9 2 (4.44%) Gherkin
9 2 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (4.44%) REST
9 2 (4.44%) SOAP
9 2 (4.44%) Spring
10 1 (2.22%) .NET
10 1 (2.22%) Bazel
10 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
10 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) DevOps
2 17 (37.78%) Test Planning
3 11 (24.44%) Microservices
4 9 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (15.56%) Agile
5 7 (15.56%) Network Design
5 7 (15.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.11%) Business Strategy
7 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 5 (11.11%) OOP
7 5 (11.11%) User Experience
7 5 (11.11%) UX Design
8 4 (8.89%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Java
2 6 (13.33%) Scala
3 5 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) CCIE
1 9 (20.00%) CCIE Service Provider
1 9 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 5 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.44%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) FortiGate
3 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Nokia
2 13 (28.89%) Fortinet
3 9 (20.00%) Cisco
4 5 (11.11%) F5
4 5 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 4 (8.89%) Okta
5 4 (8.89%) Roku
6 2 (4.44%) New Relic
7 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.22%) Salesforce