Grid Computing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Grid Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Grid Computing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 450 -
Rank change year-on-year +50 - -
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 3 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.029% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.049% 0.090% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - £465 -
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £723
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.57% +7.04%
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 median hourly rate £48.75 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Grid Computing 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,067 7,770 9,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.36% 32.49% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 5,260 6,780
10th Percentile £210 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £616 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 435 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.34
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Grid Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Grid Computing in the UK excluding London

Grid Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grid Computing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Grid Computing in the UK excluding London

Grid Computing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East - 2 - - 3
Midlands +23 1 £625 +38.89%
West Midlands +20 1 £625 +38.89%
Grid Computing
UK

Grid Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) InfiniBand
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) CFEngine
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware