Distributed Architecture Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Distributed Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture 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 301 341 447
Rank change year-on-year +40 +106 +115
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 3 4 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.026% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.091% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 25
10th Percentile - £670 £540
25th Percentile - £675 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £691 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +6.35% -1.89%
75th Percentile - £700 £825
90th Percentile - £700 £850
UK median daily rate £688 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +14.58% -7.69% -11.86%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 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 Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Distributed Architecture
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 Architecture.

Distributed Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Architecture
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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Front Office
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Swing Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Swing
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform