Distributed Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Distributed Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 442 554
Rank change year-on-year +102 +112 -124
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 4 29 69
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.36% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 24 46
10th Percentile £670 £536 £450
25th Percentile £675 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 £650 £669
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -2.80% +33.75%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £794
90th Percentile £700 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £750
% change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Distributed Architecture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,361 8,067 13,944
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.43% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 5,673 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +8.79%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 153 228
10th Percentile £15.45 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.14 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%

Distributed Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Distributed Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) RSVP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) http4s
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce