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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 266 312
Rank change year-on-year +28 +46 -68
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 161 224 333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.89% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 2.46% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 166 258
10th Percentile £403 £463 £485
25th Percentile £519 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £801 £725 £775
90th Percentile £920 £863 £838
England median daily rate £625 £604 £625
% change year-on-year +3.48% -3.36% +8.70%
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 5,864 9,092 14,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.23% 35.98% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 6,602 10,387
10th Percentile £315 £374 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £719
90th Percentile £850 £838 £806
England median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 106 203
10th Percentile £15.46 £17.88 £17.21
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.42 £33.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -20.81% +21.43%
75th Percentile £50.63 £58.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £68.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +3.92%

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 7 June 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 7 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 31 £700 +16.67% 4
East London - 5 £435 -
South London +5 4 - -
West London +25 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 (4.35%) Apache
2 5 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.48%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.24%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) CMS
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) JBoss
5 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.83%) ION MarketView
2 5 (3.11%) Endur
3 1 (0.62%) RMDS
3 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.09%) Azure
2 41 (25.47%) AWS
3 26 (16.15%) GCP
4 11 (6.83%) Serverless
5 9 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.97%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.97%) NuGet
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.11%) Azure API Management
9 5 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.48%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.48%) Datadog
11 3 (1.86%) GitHub
11 3 (1.86%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) DNS
2 3 (1.86%) Firewall
3 2 (1.24%) HTTP
3 2 (1.24%) Internet
3 2 (1.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) KDB
1 18 (11.18%) MongoDB
1 18 (11.18%) Relational Database
1 18 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 13 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.73%) Big Data
5 5 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.11%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.11%) MySQL
6 3 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.24%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.24%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.24%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.62%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.62%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.62%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 28 (17.39%) Git
2 20 (12.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.11%) Pylint
4 4 (2.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.86%) GitLab
5 3 (1.86%) JUnit
6 2 (1.24%) Gradle
6 2 (1.24%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.24%) Maven
6 2 (1.24%) Mockito
6 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.62%) Babel
7 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.62%) JIRA
7 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.62%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.62%) TestNG
7 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 59 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Finance
3 25 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.04%) Banking
5 17 (10.56%) Front Office
6 10 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.62%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (50.31%) Developer
2 50 (31.06%) Senior
3 27 (16.77%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.77%) Senior Developer
4 20 (12.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 19 (11.80%) Site Engineer
6 15 (9.32%) Python Engineer
6 15 (9.32%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Backend Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Architect
11 8 (4.97%) C# Developer
11 8 (4.97%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
13 6 (3.73%) Front Office Developer
13 6 (3.73%) Full Stack Developer
13 6 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (24.22%) Kafka
2 26 (16.15%) REST
3 25 (15.53%) RESTful
4 16 (9.94%) Node.js
4 16 (9.94%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (8.70%) React
6 13 (8.07%) Spring
7 12 (7.45%) HTML
8 11 (6.83%) .NET
8 11 (6.83%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (6.21%) .NET Core
9 10 (6.21%) gRPC
10 9 (5.59%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.97%) Web Services
11 8 (4.97%) WebSockets
11 8 (4.97%) YAML
12 7 (4.35%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.35%) SOAP
13 6 (3.73%) CSS
14 5 (3.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.91%) Data Structures
2 23 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 21 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (10.56%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.83%) Public Cloud
6 9 (5.59%) Derivative
6 9 (5.59%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (4.97%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.35%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (3.73%) Fixed Income
9 6 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.86%) Equities
12 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.24%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (27.33%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.62%) CentOS
4 1 (0.62%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.72%) Agile
2 58 (36.02%) DevOps
3 49 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 47 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (27.95%) CI/CD
6 39 (24.22%) Microservices
7 29 (18.01%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (18.01%) SDLC
7 29 (18.01%) Test Automation
8 28 (17.39%) E-Commerce
9 27 (16.77%) Multithreading
10 26 (16.15%) Design Patterns
11 23 (14.29%) Analytics
12 22 (13.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (13.04%) OO
13 21 (13.04%) TDD
14 19 (11.80%) Low Latency
14 19 (11.80%) Multithreaded Programming
15 18 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (10.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 98 (60.87%) Java
2 85 (52.80%) Python
3 44 (27.33%) SQL
4 39 (24.22%) C#
5 35 (21.74%) JavaScript
6 30 (18.63%) Go
7 23 (14.29%) C++
8 19 (11.80%) PowerShell
9 16 (9.94%) Shell Script
10 11 (6.83%) TypeScript
11 9 (5.59%) Scala
12 6 (3.73%) Bicep
12 6 (3.73%) Rust
13 4 (2.48%) C
13 4 (2.48%) Haskell
14 3 (1.86%) Clojure
14 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.86%) Perl
14 3 (1.86%) Ruby
15 2 (1.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Degree
2 10 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.86%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) MiFID
3 1 (0.62%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (22.36%) Docker
2 12 (7.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 58 (36.02%) Kubernetes
2 30 (18.63%) Terraform
3 15 (9.32%) Grafana
4 14 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.45%) Consul
6 6 (3.73%) Ansible
6 6 (3.73%) Opsgenie
7 3 (1.86%) Istio
8 2 (1.24%) Argo
9 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Google
2 13 (8.07%) ION Trading
3 12 (7.45%) SaltStack
3 12 (7.45%) Splunk
4 8 (4.97%) New Relic
5 7 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.35%) Oracle
5 7 (4.35%) PagerDuty
5 7 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.11%) Adobe
6 5 (3.11%) SAP
7 4 (2.48%) Tradeweb
8 2 (1.24%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.24%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.24%) Genesys
8 2 (1.24%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.24%) MarketAxess
8 2 (1.24%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.24%) TIBCO