Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Watford

Distributed Architecture
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 1.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
Watford

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 in Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 28 9 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 28.00% 27.27% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 15
10th Percentile £186 £379 £240
25th Percentile £325 £384 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £503 £434 £593
90th Percentile £569 £436 £708
Hertfordshire median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile - £28.52 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.90 £31.49 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.98% +109.93% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £41.02 £16.50
90th Percentile - £45.55 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% +3.59%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Watford

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes