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

Agentic AI Engineer - 6G Networks & Intelligent Protocols

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 - £700 per day
research team, focused on building the next generation of intelligent, AI-driven network systems. The group operates at the frontier of agentic AI, distributed systems, and future mobile network architectures, with direct influence on global standards. This role is suited to an engineer who enjoys building tools … driven behaviour can be embedded into future mobile networks. The focus is on hands-on engineering within a research environment: turning concepts into working systems, testing them in lab-based deployments, and feeding the results into standards-relevant technical contributions. Key Responsibilities Design and implement agentic AI systems ...

Software Engineer Kotlin

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£65,000 - £80,000 per annum
solve complex problems that contribute to a greener, more sustainable world? Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. You'll join one of their core teams, diving deep into production systems … driving long-term architectural decisions that support scale, resilience and product growth. What You'll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems. Analyse production systems to uncover and resolve performance issues. Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset. Collaborate across ...

Typescript Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £560 per day
looking for a TypeScript Engineer to help shape the services and tooling behind this transformation. The team's mission is to replace legacy systems with clean, event-driven services and provide consistent, reliable data to applications across the business - from customer-facing products to operational systems. The Role … work closely with engineers, analysts, and product specialists to design scalable services, contribute to architectural improvements, and help evolve the company's approach to distributed data and developer experience. Day-to-day responsibilities include: Designing and implementing backend services in TypeScript using Node.js (REST, GraphQL, workers, event-driven consumers ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£300 - £350 per day
Oracle PL/SQL coding/debugging and MQ/NDM/SFTP integration Active involvement in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native microservices-based containerized applications Strong Hands-on experience of CI/CD processes/methodologies and DevSecOps toolsets Extensive Unix ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Oracle PL/SQL coding/debugging and MQ/NDM/SFTP integration Active involvement in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native microservices-based containerized applications Strong Hands-on experience of CI/CD processes/methodologies and DevSecOps toolsets Extensive Unix ...

Specialist Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Shefford, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America. Whether it's delivering high-throughput services, designing fault-tolerant systems, or accelerating internal developer productivity, our teams are tackling impactful technical challenges across the company. You'll contribute to these efforts while helping … future of our architecture, development practices, and engineering culture. Your Responsibilities (Up to 10, avoid repetition) Design and build high-performance, stable, scalable systems deployed in an enterprise setting Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and designers Build ...

Sr. Staff Engineer (Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Shefford, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £450 per day
that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America. Whether it's delivering high-throughput services, designing fault-tolerant systems, or accelerating internal developer productivity, our teams are tackling impactful technical challenges across the company. You'll contribute to these efforts while helping … future of our architecture, development practices, and engineering culture. Your Responsibilities (Up to 10, Avoid repetition) Design and build high-performance, stable, scalable systems that will be deployed in an enterprise setting Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers ...

Senior Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Shefford, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America. Whether it's delivering high-throughput services, designing fault-tolerant systems, or accelerating internal developer productivity, our teams are tackling impactful technical challenges across the company. You'll contribute to these efforts while helping … engineering culture. Your Responsibilities (Up to 10) Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and designers. Build scalable, performant, and resilient backend systems that support critical business needs. Participate in system design and architecture reviews to influence technical direction. Drive software quality through code reviews, testing ...

Staff Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Shefford, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America. Whether it's delivering high-throughput services, designing fault-tolerant systems, or accelerating internal developer productivity, our teams are tackling impactful technical challenges across the company. You'll contribute to these efforts while helping shape … Your Responsibilities (Up to 10, Avoid repetition) Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and designers Build scalable, performant, and resilient backend systems that support critical business needs Participate in system design and architecture reviews to influence technical direction Drive software quality through code reviews, testing ...

Cloud Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter LTD
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
integrating PaaS and SaaS services into cloud platforms Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and support senior stakeholders Hands on experience debugging and supporting distributed systems in production Experience with at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, Go or Powershell Active SC or DV clearance, with ...

Platform Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£800 - £900 per day
integrating PaaS and SaaS services into cloud platforms • Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and support senior stakeholders • Hands on experience debugging and supporting distributed systems in production • Experience with at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, Go or Powershell • Active SC or DV clearance, with ...

Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
focus is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join their Group Technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to develop, support, and enhance business systems and applications using .NET technologies and SQL Server, while contributing to technical improvements across the department. Your new role As a Software Engineer … software testing methodologies including TDD Excellent understanding of object-oriented design principles Ability to deliver complex software solutions Highly desirable Experience with concurrent programming, distributed systems, and microservices Exposure to cloud-based infrastructure and scalability projects Microsoft certification What you'll get in return Hybrid working ...

.Net Developer E-Trading & Front Office

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£0 per annum
Server Must have experience with multi-threading programming Experience with asynchronous and event driven programming Experience developing real-time applications Familiar with building distributed systems Knowledge of networks and topologies Firm grounding of common algorithms Excellent oral and written communication skills Proactive team player with ...

Fullstack API Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Vallum Associates Limited
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £500 per day Inside IR35
years' experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization Expertise in distributed system design including microservices, Springboot Experience working with Kafka, Docker, k8s, service mesh Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
RCRTR
Location
Swansea, City and County of Swansea, West Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£470 - £500/day
frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot. Create robust, well-governed API architectures (RESTful, event-driven, synchronous/asynchronous). Lead the design of distributed microservices, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability. Apply schema-driven design principles (e.g., JSON Schema, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI) to ensure consistent and reusable domain models. … AWS. Strong hands-on background in Java, Spring Boot , and JVM-based service architectures. Deep experience with APIs (REST, event-driven, messaging), microservices, and distributed system design. Strong understanding of schema-driven design , using tools such as JSON Schema, OpenAPI, or AsyncAPI. Solid understanding of cloud security, identity ...

Cloud Architect

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £650 per day
align solution architecture. Provide technical leadership to internal teams and external partners. Must Haves: Strong experience in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, distributed systems). Hands-on background in chaos engineering (Chaos Toolkit, Gremlin, Litmus, etc.) and resilience/failover testing. Proven ability to design ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Vallum Associates Limited
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 per day
consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures. For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications. Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems Perform … reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards Keep ...

Test Manager Connected Services

Hiring Organisation
Signet Resources
Location
Bracknell, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 per day
recommendations based on results and risk. Lead risk-based testing, identifying, managing, and mitigating quality risks throughout the lifecycle. Validate integration architecture across multiple systems, including APIs, microservices, and third-party platforms, ensuring testability is built into system design Assess and challenge architectural decisions that may compromise system stability … Waterfall) and integration into test management practices. Understanding of API technologies and integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven) with hands-on experience testing distributed systems and microservices architectures. Working knowledge of OWASP standards, common security vulnerabilities, and experience conducting or coordinating security testing including SAST, DAST, and penetration ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
RCRTR Limited
Location
Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 per day
frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot. Create robust, well-governed API architectures (RESTful, event-driven, synchronous/asynchronous). Lead the design of distributed microservices, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability. Apply schema-driven design principles (e.g., JSON Schema, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI) to ensure consistent and reusable domain models. … AWS. Strong hands-on background in Java, Spring Boot, and JVM-based service architectures. Deep experience with APIs (REST, event-driven, messaging), microservices, and distributed system design. Strong understanding of schema-driven design, using tools such as JSON Schema, OpenAPI, or AsyncAPI. Solid understanding of cloud security, identity ...