Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends 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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.72% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 - -
London median daily rate £600 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -13.79%

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 88 78 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 31.65% 30.12% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 48 128
10th Percentile £225 £206 £239
25th Percentile £350 £359 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £681
90th Percentile £588 £591 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile - - £31.67
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £43.59
Median hourly rate £28.95 £26.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -52.94% +234.85%
75th Percentile £43.94 £42.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £46.98 £73.60 £81.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.13 £29.72
% change year-on-year -22.93% +14.82% +12.15%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in West London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Distributed Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Distributed Systems

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 19 October 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 - 2 £512 -
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Flink
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus