Distributed Applications Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Distributed Applications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Applications 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 300 329 461
Rank change year-on-year +29 +132 +59
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 4 16 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.10% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.36% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £534 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -13.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £572 £703 £650
90th Percentile £581 £754 £660
UK median daily rate £575 £642 £625
% change year-on-year -10.42% +2.70% +19.05%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Distributed Applications 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Distributed Applications
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Applications trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Distributed Applications.

Distributed Applications daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Fabric
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Swing Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) Swing
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) Akka
2 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared