Distributed Systems Contracts in Central London

Distributed Systems
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 139 163
Rank change year-on-year +33 +24 -52
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 31 36 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.30% 0.98% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% 2.73% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 26
10th Percentile £565 £463 £531
25th Percentile £628 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £715 £675 £822
90th Percentile £788 £739 £884
London median daily rate £675 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 -
% change year-on-year -34.59% - -

All Generic Skills
Central London

Distributed Systems 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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 743 1,317 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.05% 35.69% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 895 1,147
10th Percentile £265 £315 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £845 £803
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £29.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -23.08% +139.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £83.75 £57.25
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.62 £42.02
% change year-on-year -22.01% -17.61% +22.90%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Distributed Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Systems in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in Central London

Distributed Systems
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Systems within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +36 31 £700 +16.67% 1
Distributed Systems
London

Distributed Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.23%) Endur
1 1 (3.23%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) NuGet
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Datadog
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) KDB
3 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Scylla
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.45%) Gradle
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
3 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) JUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Mockito
4 1 (3.23%) Pylint
4 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.23%) Spinnaker
4 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (41.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Front Office
4 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
1 11 (35.48%) Site Engineer
1 11 (35.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Python Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Java Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Development Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Architect
6 2 (6.45%) C# Architect
6 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Pricing Developer
6 2 (6.45%) React Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (54.84%) Kafka
2 15 (48.39%) RESTful
3 12 (38.71%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (12.90%) .NET
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Core
5 3 (9.68%) React
6 2 (6.45%) Spring
7 1 (3.23%) Akka
7 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.23%) HTML
7 1 (3.23%) http4s
7 1 (3.23%) OAuth
7 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.23%) pytest
7 1 (3.23%) SAML
7 1 (3.23%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (3.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Algorithms
1 10 (32.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (6.45%) Equities
4 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (45.16%) DevOps
3 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
4 12 (38.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 11 (35.48%) Microservices
6 10 (32.26%) Analytical Thinking
6 10 (32.26%) Task Automation
7 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (19.35%) Agile
9 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
10 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
11 3 (9.68%) API Development
11 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
11 3 (9.68%) E-Commerce
11 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading
11 3 (9.68%) Multithreaded Programming
11 3 (9.68%) Multithreading
11 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
11 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 18 (58.06%) Java
3 11 (35.48%) Shell Script
4 10 (32.26%) C++
5 9 (29.03%) Go
6 4 (12.90%) C#
7 2 (6.45%) Scala
7 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.23%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (19.35%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Consul
2 11 (35.48%) Grafana
2 11 (35.48%) Prometheus
3 7 (22.58%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
1 11 (35.48%) SaltStack
2 2 (6.45%) New Relic
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe
3 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.23%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk