Distributed Applications Contracts

Distributed Applications
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Applications in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Distributed Applications over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 668 726
Rank change year-on-year +140 +58 -127
Contract jobs citing Distributed Applications 45 32 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.056% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.17% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 76
10th Percentile £432 £478 £456
25th Percentile £506 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £642 £625 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +17.92% +16.16%
75th Percentile £778 £659 £650
90th Percentile £850 £686 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £629 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +25.88% -4.76% +21.81%

All Generic Skills
UK

Distributed Applications 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

Distributed Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Distributed Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Applications over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Applications in the UK

Distributed Applications
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Applications within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +108 39 £642 +2.70% 14
UK excluding London +69 28 £629 +25.88% 11
Midlands +48 23 £650 +30.00% 2
West Midlands +35 23 £650 +30.00% 2
Work from Home +126 16 £541 -13.40% 9
London +98 13 £650 +4.00% 7
South East +21 2 £433 -30.80%
Scotland - 2 £467 - 2
South West - 1 - -

Distributed Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (4.44%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) GCP
2 6 (13.33%) IaaS
3 4 (8.89%) SaaS
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.67%) Azure
4 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (33.33%) Network Security
2 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.44%) DNS
3 2 (4.44%) Wireless
4 1 (2.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (4.44%) GIS
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) CA Gen
2 1 (2.22%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Military
5 2 (4.44%) Public Speaking
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) German Language
6 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Developer
1 6 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Blockchain Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Consultant
4 3 (6.67%) Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Blockchain Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes Consultant
4 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Full Stack Web Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Head of Technology
5 2 (4.44%) Senior
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.89%) REST
2 4 (8.89%) Smart Contracts
3 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.44%) .NET
4 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.44%) Django
4 2 (4.44%) Flask
4 2 (4.44%) Node.js
4 2 (4.44%) OpenLayers
4 2 (4.44%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.44%) Pyramid
4 2 (4.44%) React
4 2 (4.44%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (4.44%) Vue
4 2 (4.44%) Web Services
5 1 (2.22%) Akka
5 1 (2.22%) Middleware
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
2 11 (24.44%) Management Information System
3 9 (20.00%) Blockchain
4 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
6 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Linux
2 16 (35.56%) Windows
3 13 (28.89%) Android
3 13 (28.89%) Apple iOS
3 13 (28.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (46.67%) SIEM
3 17 (37.78%) Actionable Insight
3 17 (37.78%) Information Security
4 16 (35.56%) Data Management
4 16 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (33.33%) Analytics
5 15 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 15 (33.33%) Security Architecture
5 15 (33.33%) Security Operations
6 13 (28.89%) Data Analysis
6 13 (28.89%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (20.00%) Agile
7 9 (20.00%) DevOps
8 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
8 8 (17.78%) Open Source
9 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) C++
2 7 (15.56%) Java
3 4 (8.89%) Go
3 4 (8.89%) Perl
3 4 (8.89%) Scala
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (42.22%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Ansible
2 4 (8.89%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Puppet
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.44%) Genesys
2 2 (4.44%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) Guidewire
2 2 (4.44%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) CA
3 1 (2.22%) Ceridian
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle