Distributed Systems Contracts in West London

Distributed Systems
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 40 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 0.95% 0.85% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.74% 2.24% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 -
London median daily rate £700 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
London median hourly rate £74.00 £55.00 £84.09
% change year-on-year +34.55% -34.59% -

All Generic Skills
West London

Distributed Systems 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 73 134 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 34.76% 37.75% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 95 180
10th Percentile £172 £213 £350
25th Percentile £240 £250 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £563 £600
90th Percentile £600 £627 £700
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 20
10th Percentile £20.45 - £29.63
25th Percentile £20.91 £16.25 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.93 £26.98 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% -57.68% +72.02%
75th Percentile £34.19 £35.17 £75.00
90th Percentile £52.55 £51.58 £85.50
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in West London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in West London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in West London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in West London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in West London

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the West London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hounslow - 1 - - 3
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hystrix
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) JVM Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce