Distributed Systems Contracts in London

Distributed Systems
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 255 315
Rank change year-on-year +16 +60 -61
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 155 258 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 1.00% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 2.77% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 194 240
10th Percentile £401 £493 £487
25th Percentile £513 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £775
90th Percentile £875 £863 £825
England median daily rate £640 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £79.89 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £88.30 -
90th Percentile - £89.32 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £84.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.59% +40.15% -8.42%

All Generic Skills
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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,810 9,304 14,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.28% 35.96% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,111 6,700 10,269
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 115 200
10th Percentile £15.48 £19.16 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.41 £22.08 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +29.13%
75th Percentile £49.13 £64.75 £54.59
90th Percentile £69.50 £84.50 £69.91
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Systems in London

Distributed Systems
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 Systems within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +25 30 £680 +13.33% 9
East London - 5 £435 - 4
South London -1 4 - -
West London +23 3 £450 - 6
Distributed Systems
England

Distributed Systems
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 7 (4.52%) Apache
2 5 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.58%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (6.45%) ION MarketView
2 5 (3.23%) Endur
3 1 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.65%) RMDS
3 1 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.16%) Azure
2 37 (23.87%) AWS
3 20 (12.90%) GCP
4 11 (7.10%) Serverless
5 9 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.16%) NuGet
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.23%) Azure API Management
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.58%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.58%) Datadog
11 3 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) DNS
1 3 (1.94%) Firewall
1 3 (1.94%) Internet
2 2 (1.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) HTTP
3 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.61%) MongoDB
3 17 (10.97%) KDB
4 16 (10.32%) Relational Database
5 13 (8.39%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.87%) MySQL
8 5 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.23%) Big Data
9 4 (2.58%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.29%) Bigtable
10 2 (1.29%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.29%) Redis
11 1 (0.65%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (18.06%) Git
2 22 (14.19%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.23%) Pylint
4 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.94%) GitLab
5 3 (1.94%) JUnit
6 2 (1.29%) Gradle
6 2 (1.29%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.29%) Maven
6 2 (1.29%) Mockito
6 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) Babel
7 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.65%) VisualWorks
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 55 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.77%) Finance
3 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.26%) Front Office
5 18 (11.61%) Banking
6 9 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.94%) Marketing
10 2 (1.29%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 76 (49.03%) Developer
2 48 (30.97%) Senior
3 27 (17.42%) Senior Developer
4 24 (15.48%) Java Developer
5 20 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (12.26%) Site Engineer
7 15 (9.68%) Python Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) Software Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Backend Developer
10 11 (7.10%) C# Developer
11 10 (6.45%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) Architect
12 9 (5.81%) Front Office Developer
13 8 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.16%) Software Developer
14 7 (4.52%) Python Developer
14 7 (4.52%) Senior Software Developer
15 6 (3.87%) Senior Backend Developer
16 5 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.29%) Kafka
2 26 (16.77%) REST
3 22 (14.19%) RESTful
4 17 (10.97%) Node.js
5 16 (10.32%) RabbitMQ
6 15 (9.68%) React
7 13 (8.39%) HTML
7 13 (8.39%) Spring
8 11 (7.10%) .NET
8 11 (7.10%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (6.45%) .NET Core
10 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
11 8 (5.16%) Web Services
11 8 (5.16%) WebSockets
11 8 (5.16%) YAML
12 7 (4.52%) CSS
12 7 (4.52%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.52%) SOAP
13 6 (3.87%) gRPC
14 5 (3.23%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.48%) Data Structures
2 23 (14.84%) Algorithms
3 19 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (10.32%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.74%) Derivative
6 11 (7.10%) Public Cloud
7 10 (6.45%) Equity Derivative
8 9 (5.81%) Management Information System
9 8 (5.16%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (3.87%) Fixed Income
11 6 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (2.58%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (2.58%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.94%) Equities
14 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 45 (29.03%) Linux
2 8 (5.16%) Unix
3 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.65%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (44.52%) Agile
2 56 (36.13%) DevOps
3 46 (29.68%) CI/CD
3 46 (29.68%) Software Engineering
4 39 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (22.58%) Microservices
6 32 (20.65%) SDLC
7 30 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (18.06%) Multithreading
9 27 (17.42%) E-Commerce
9 27 (17.42%) Test Automation
10 26 (16.77%) Design Patterns
11 23 (14.84%) Analytics
11 23 (14.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (14.19%) TDD
13 21 (13.55%) OO
14 19 (12.26%) Computer Science
15 18 (11.61%) Risk Management
16 17 (10.97%) Low Latency
16 17 (10.97%) Multithreaded Programming
Programming Languages
1 95 (61.29%) Java
2 85 (54.84%) Python
3 43 (27.74%) SQL
4 40 (25.81%) C#
5 35 (22.58%) JavaScript
6 26 (16.77%) Go
7 22 (14.19%) C++
8 19 (12.26%) PowerShell
9 16 (10.32%) Shell Script
10 12 (7.74%) TypeScript
11 8 (5.16%) Scala
12 6 (3.87%) Bicep
13 5 (3.23%) Rust
14 4 (2.58%) C
14 4 (2.58%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.58%) Ruby
15 3 (1.94%) Perl
16 2 (1.29%) Clojure
16 2 (1.29%) Groovy
16 2 (1.29%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 24 (15.48%) Degree
2 9 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) MiFID
3 1 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (20.00%) Docker
2 12 (7.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 54 (34.84%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.06%) Terraform
3 16 (10.32%) Grafana
4 14 (9.03%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.74%) Consul
6 6 (3.87%) Ansible
6 6 (3.87%) Opsgenie
7 2 (1.29%) Argo
7 2 (1.29%) Istio
8 1 (0.65%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.65%) Kibana
8 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.74%) ION Trading
2 12 (7.74%) SaltStack
2 12 (7.74%) Splunk
3 11 (7.10%) Google
4 9 (5.81%) New Relic
5 8 (5.16%) PagerDuty
5 8 (5.16%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.52%) Dynatrace
6 7 (4.52%) Oracle
7 6 (3.87%) Adobe
7 6 (3.87%) SAP
8 4 (2.58%) Tradeweb
9 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.29%) Genesys
9 2 (1.29%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.29%) MarketAxess
9 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.29%) TIBCO