Distributed Computing Contracts in London

Distributed Computing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 443 530
Rank change year-on-year +79 +87 -117
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 31 51 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.55% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 48
10th Percentile £574 £550 £520
25th Percentile £663 £625 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £653
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +14.94% +2.35%
75th Percentile £875 - £788
90th Percentile £935 £768 £791
England median daily rate £800 £730 £650
% change year-on-year +9.59% +12.31% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
London

Distributed Computing 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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,282 14,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.34% 35.88% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,122 6,700 10,271
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 112 200
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.93 £17.95
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +29.85%
75th Percentile £49.13 £63.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £84.88 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Computing in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in London

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +50 2 £837 +4.56% 3
West London - 1 £575 -
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.23%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Big Data
2 6 (19.35%) Data Lake
3 5 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.45%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (6.45%) GIS
5 2 (6.45%) Looker
5 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.45%) Tableau
6 1 (3.23%) Bigtable
6 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.23%) Hazelcast
6 1 (3.23%) KDB
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Redis
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) Visual Studio
4 4 (12.90%) JIRA
5 1 (3.23%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) Maven
5 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
3 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Investment Banking
4 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
5 6 (19.35%) Front Office
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Back Office
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Qualitative Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Quantitative Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Data Architect
4 5 (16.13%) Site Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
7 2 (6.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Platform Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) RESTful
2 6 (19.35%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (12.90%) PySpark
4 2 (6.45%) PostGIS
4 2 (6.45%) SOAP
5 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.23%) Django
5 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.23%) Flask
5 1 (3.23%) Guice
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) HTML5
5 1 (3.23%) JDBC
5 1 (3.23%) OpenFin
5 1 (3.23%) React
5 1 (3.23%) XML
5 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 6 (19.35%) Equities
3 5 (16.13%) Fixed Income
4 3 (9.68%) Derivative
4 3 (9.68%) Grid Computing
5 2 (6.45%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Unix
2 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Analytics
2 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) DevOps
3 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (32.26%) Observability
5 8 (25.81%) Mathematics
6 7 (22.58%) Physics
6 7 (22.58%) Quantitative Finance
7 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
7 6 (19.35%) Numerical Analysis
7 6 (19.35%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Data Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Data Science
8 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
8 5 (16.13%) Microservices
9 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (12.90%) High Availability
9 4 (12.90%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) C++
5 6 (19.35%) Go
6 5 (16.13%) C#
6 5 (16.13%) Shell Script
6 5 (16.13%) VBA
7 4 (12.90%) Perl
8 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.23%) VC++
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Degree
2 7 (22.58%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Opsgenie
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Databricks
2 6 (19.35%) Dynatrace
2 6 (19.35%) New Relic
2 6 (19.35%) PagerDuty
2 6 (19.35%) Splunk
3 5 (16.13%) Adobe
3 5 (16.13%) Salesforce
3 5 (16.13%) SAP
4 4 (12.90%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) ESRI
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.23%) Solace
6 1 (3.23%) Sybase