Hybrid/Remote Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends

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 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 - 366
Rank change year-on-year - - +135
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 14 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% - 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £463 - £465
25th Percentile £519 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £731 - £700
90th Percentile £838 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -11.11%

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 3,575 3,578 5,009
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.82% 31.05% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,247 2,273 3,452
10th Percentile £331 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £759
UK median daily rate £505 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -5.70% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 63 117
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £19.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.61 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £38.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -24.00% -17.01%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.29 £75.00 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Architecture over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Distributed Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Distributed Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
1 2 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
2 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) GCC
2 2 (14.29%) GDB
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) AppVeyor
3 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Front Office
4 2 (14.29%) International Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Local Government
5 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) C++ Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Network Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
1 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) Enzyme
2 2 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (14.29%) Jest
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) React
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) Sass
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) STL
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) JSX
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Solace
2 1 (7.14%) Aruba
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) Meraki
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) SAP