Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Distributed Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 102 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 16 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.068% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £500 £688 £600
% change year-on-year -27.27% +14.58% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 955 499 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.42% 34.15% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 307 388
10th Percentile £300 £200 £271
25th Percentile £408 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £646
90th Percentile £750 £650 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 46
10th Percentile £15.01 £17.98 £10.42
25th Percentile £18.04 £21.30 £14.71
Median hourly rate £32.24 £33.91 £23.58
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +43.84% -14.27%
75th Percentile £47.50 £50.00 £40.38
90th Percentile £70.11 - £58.75
England median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Birmingham - 13 £425 - 1
Solihull - 3 - -
Distributed Architecture
England

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (87.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) GCP
3 11 (68.75%) GitHub
4 10 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Selenium
2 14 (87.50%) Cucumber
2 14 (87.50%) Git
2 14 (87.50%) JIRA
2 14 (87.50%) JMeter
2 14 (87.50%) JUnit
2 14 (87.50%) WebDriver
3 11 (68.75%) GitLab
3 11 (68.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) Gatling
4 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.25%) Serenity BDD
General
1 14 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
1 8 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 8 (50.00%) Tester
2 7 (43.75%) Automation Tester
2 7 (43.75%) Senior Automation Tester
3 5 (31.25%) Lead
4 4 (25.00%) Test Leader
5 3 (18.75%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Integration Tester
7 1 (6.25%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Integration Tester
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Systems Tester
7 1 (6.25%) Systems Tester
7 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) Spring
1 14 (87.50%) WireMock
2 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
1 15 (93.75%) Microservices
1 15 (93.75%) Test Automation
1 15 (93.75%) Test Strategy
1 15 (93.75%) Validation
2 14 (87.50%) BDD
2 14 (87.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 13 (81.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (81.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 13 (81.25%) Load Testing
3 13 (81.25%) Observability
3 13 (81.25%) TDD
4 12 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (62.50%) Agile
5 10 (62.50%) Data Validation
5 10 (62.50%) Stress Testing
6 8 (50.00%) Performance Testing
7 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (31.25%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
1 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Grafana
1 13 (81.25%) Kubernetes
1 13 (81.25%) Prometheus