19 of 19 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £800 to £1,000 per day
Infrastructure Engineer (GPU, Distributed Systems, AI Platforms) A leading AI business is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer who has experience with GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms. Hybrid/Remote options available. Outside IR35. Paying between £800 to £1000 per day. Experience and skills required … Infrastructure Engineer, GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms ...

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 800 - 1,000 Daily
Infrastructure Engineer (GPU, Distributed Systems, AI Platforms) A leading AI business is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer who has experience with GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms. Hybrid/Remote options available. Outside IR35. Paying between £800 to £1000 per day. Experience and skills required … Infrastructure Engineer, GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms JBG81_UKTJ click apply for full job details ...

Golang Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£280 - £300 per day
ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend applications and microservices. This role requires hands-on experience with distributed systems, REST APIs, cloud technologies, and modern software engineering practices. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices using Golang. Build … Cassandra. Knowledge of Docker and containerized applications. Experience with Git version control. Strong understanding of Linux/Unix environments. Experience developing scalable and distributed applications. Cloud & DevOps Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration. Experience with CI/CD tools such ...

Senior Data Engineer - Scala/Spark

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £550 per day
Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating large-scale data platforms that support advanced machine learning and recommendation systems used by millions of users globally. This is an opportunity to work on highly complex distributed systems, developing production-grade data pipelines … performance, reliability and operational health of production data pipelines. Develop tooling and infrastructure that supports machine learning workflow execution and deployment. Optimise data processing systems for throughput, scalability and efficiency. Collaborate closely with Data Engineers, ML Engineers and Research teams to deliver high-quality datasets and platform capabilities. Identify ...

Senior Gen AI Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
powered applications. The role would suit a strong software engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, and taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities: * Design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications using enterprise GenAI services* Develop production-grade microservices … applications* Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements around security, scalability, resiliency, performance and cost Essential skills: * Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex distributed systems* Proven experience building and deploying production-grade applications that embed AI capabilities* Strong Python experience* Experience with LangGraph, Strands and DeepEval* Strong ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing (TDD/… Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js), backend development (Java or Python), and building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications. Expertise in data engineering & platforms including SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, and integration of data science and analytics. Experience ...

Senior ML Platform Engineer - Robotics

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £750 per day
archival processes* Containerise and orchestrate services to ensure reliable deployment across machines and lab environments* Partner with ML engineers on dataset building, ingestion pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, and high-throughput data workflows* Work with robotics engineers on ROS2 integration, robot data streams, deployment workflows, and hardware-adjacent platform tooling … Improve testing, CI, observability, reliability, and performance across concurrent and IO-heavy systems Essential Skills You must have: * Senior-level software engineering experience, ideally 5+ years* Strong production Python experience* Experience with typing, async/await, threading, multiprocessing, and concurrent workloads* FastAPI or another async Python web framework* Vanilla ...

Test Engineer (SFIA 4)

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£300 - £360 per day
risks, issues, and areas for improvement Produce clear reports on testing activities, outcomes, and associated risks Automate data validation and application testing processes across distributed systems Investigate production issues using data analysis to identify root causes Work with orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) to monitor workflows and troubleshoot … services, including: Monitoring and logging tools Storage and data services Compute and container services Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitLab) Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) Familiarity with Docker and containerised environments Data & Analytics Strong data analysis skills, including working with structured ...

Azure SRE Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Technology
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£575 - £625 per day
hands-on Azure engineering experience* Terraform in production environments (primary IaC tool)* Python for automation, integrations, or agent development* Designing SLOs/SLIs across distributed systems* Observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, alerting, synthetic monitoring)* Event-driven architecture (Kafka, Splunk, REST APIs, webhooks)* Cloud security best practices (RBAC, encryption, Private ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Computer Futures
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550/day
Hybrid: Leeds (2 days per week in the office) Requirements * Strong Java + Spring Boot background * Proven experience in back end engineering (APIs, microservices, distributed systems) * Ability to design and deliver solutions, not just implement tickets * Experience working across end-to-end systems with an understanding ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Purview Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
real-time stream processing Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services Hands-on experience with Databricks and large-scale data platforms Good understanding of distributed systems and scalable application design Experience with REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend ...

Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
This is a generalist engineering role suited to someone who values adaptability, enjoys learning new tools, and can contribute across a variety of backend systems and services. You'll work closely with product, data, infrastructure, and frontend teams to design, build, and maintain scalable applications that power critical business … rather than being tied to a single language or framework. Role The Backend Developer will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code across multiple programming languages. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality ...

SC Cleared Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£585 - £630/day Inside IR35
event-driven architecture and CQRS-based systems. Core Skills:CQRS (non-negotiable), Event Sourcing, .NET/Java/Python, Azure Service Bus, API Development, Distributed Systems Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering ...

Senior Architect - E-commerce Transformation

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Competitive salary
initiatives Contribute to the separation of key business platforms , including supporting technical and architectural work Help define approaches across: Customer notifications Delivery and fulfilment systems Provide clarity, structure, and momentum across evolving workstreams What We're Looking For Proven experience as a Senior Architect in complex transformational environments Strong … cross-functional, large-scale transformation programmes Experience in e-commerce, digital, or retail transformation (highly desirable) Good understanding of technology and architecture concepts (especially distributed systems) Ability to manage ambiguity and work effectively across multiple teams Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Working knowledge of scalable architecture patterns ...

Enterprise Architect – Financial Services Cloud Transformation

Hiring Organisation
Standard 8
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 per day
experience across several of the following: Enterprise and platform architecture within large-scale organisations F inancial services or heavily regulated environments Cloud architecture and distributed systems Payments, lending, cards, pensions or capital markets technology Data protection and security architecture AI, machine learning or emerging technology strategy Stakeholder management ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Winsearch
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£68 per hour
transformation and integration - Build and maintain batch and real-time data processing pipelines - Ensure high standards of data quality, integrity and traceability across all systems Elastic Stack & Platform Management - Configure, optimise and maintain Elasticsearch clusters for performance and resilience - Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines for efficient data processing - Create … such as defence, government or finance - Strong understanding of: Data ingestion and processing frameworks Real-time and batch processing architectures Data modelling for analytics Distributed system troubleshooting and optimisation - Knowledge of: Encryption and secure data handling RBAC and audit controls DevOps and CI/CD principles Git/version ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £300 to £330 per day
Please Note : Must work 3 days from the end customer's office in Belfast Role Overview Required Experience Principal-level hands-on engineer delivering distributed, cloud-native systems Solid background in Go or Java services and service modernization Strong understanding of failure modes, scaling, and data durability Experience … with Kafka or similar distributed/streaming platforms Solid background with Helm, Operators, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) Deep expertise in Kubernetes, especially stateful applications Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EBS, IAM, VPC) Nice to Have Experience adapting legacy or non-cloud-native Java apps ...

SRE - Contract

Hiring Organisation
Pixelcode Technologies Limited
Location
Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
have hands-on experience designing and deploying observability solutions across complex enterprise environments, with deep expertise in Dynatrace architecture, integrations, alerting, dashboarding, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Key Requirements 8+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in cloud and observability solutions. Expert-level experience designing, deploying, and configuring Dynatrace … complex environments. Hands-on experience with Dynatrace integrations, alerting, dashboard creation, synthetic monitoring, and distributed tracing . Strong experience implementing enterprise-scale monitoring and observability solutions. Deep expertise in AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation. Strong understanding of AWS architecture best practices ...

Lead AI Architect (Enterprise AI)

Hiring Organisation
Computershare flexible Talent
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
include: Define and own the enterprise AI architecture, including model strategy, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and integration standards. Establish architectural patterns for Generative AI, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and data pipelines at scale. Lead the selection and optimisation of the AI technology stack, balancing capability, cost, risk, and vendor … production. What you will bring to the role: Extensive experience in enterprise or solution architecture, with a strong focus on AI, machine learning, or distributed systems. Proven expertise in Generative AI technologies, including Large Language Models, agentic frameworks, and vector databases. Strong command of at least one major cloud ...