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 in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 434 538
Rank change year-on-year +65 +104 -109
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 31 48 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 45
10th Percentile £574 £550 £493
25th Percentile £663 £625 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £875 - £775
90th Percentile £918 £813 £788
England median daily rate £800 £750 £606
% change year-on-year +6.67% +23.71% -3.00%

All Generic Skills
London

Distributed Computing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +38 2 £837 +4.56%
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 7 (22.58%) 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 5 (16.13%) Front Office
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Architect
4 6 (19.35%) Qualitative Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Quantitative Analyst
5 5 (16.13%) Data Architect
5 5 (16.13%) Site Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Architect
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) C++ Developer
7 3 (9.68%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Python Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (6.45%) Platform Architect
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 7 (22.58%) Equities
3 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
4 5 (16.13%) Fixed Income
5 3 (9.68%) Derivative
5 3 (9.68%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (9.68%) Grid Computing
6 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Unix
2 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) 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%) Numerical Analysis
6 7 (22.58%) Physics
6 7 (22.58%) Quantitative Finance
7 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
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 Analysis
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%) 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