Grid Computing Contracts

Grid Computing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grid 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 570 670 828
Rank change year-on-year +100 +158 -153
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 14 27 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.049% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.15% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 13
10th Percentile £425 £450 £672
25th Percentile £451 £463 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £704
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -4.13% +4.31%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £825
90th Percentile £750 £791 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 -
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46.63 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 - -
75th Percentile £49.69 - -
90th Percentile £49.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.75 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Grid 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Grid Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Grid Computing in the UK

Grid Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Grid Computing in the UK

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grid Computing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Grid Computing in the UK

Grid Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Grid Computing in the UK

Grid Computing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grid Computing within the UK 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
England +74 14 £613 -9.26% 10
UK excluding London +32 10 £460 +2.11% 8
Midlands +15 5 £449 -0.22%
South East - 5 £470 - 8
London +67 4 £725 +7.41%
East Midlands - 4 £449 -
Work from Home +106 2 £750 +11.15%
West Midlands +13 1 £625 +38.89%

Grid Computing
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) npm
3 1 (7.14%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) InfiniBand
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.14%) KDB
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Babel
2 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (21.43%) Data Science
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Acquisition
5 1 (7.14%) OOD
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) NFS
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Satellite
1 5 (35.71%) SCCM
1 5 (35.71%) SCOM
1 5 (35.71%) SCSM
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) CFEngine
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 3 (21.43%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle