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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 423 509
Rank change year-on-year +39 +86 -73
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 9 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.031% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.096% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £590 £465 -
UK median daily rate £613 £675 £704
% change year-on-year -9.26% -4.13% +4.31%
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 6,014 7,313 9,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.54% 32.16% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 4,897 6,909
10th Percentile £210 £219 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 414 427
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.83
25th Percentile £14.18 £10.63 £16.24
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £61.88 £63.00 £44.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.93 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.13 £26.99
% change year-on-year +60.45% -18.03% +5.84%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grid Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 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
South East - 5 £470 - 9
Midlands +15 4 £449 -0.22%
East Midlands - 3 £449 -
West Midlands +4 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 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) InfiniBand
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
1 4 (44.44%) SCOM
1 4 (44.44%) SCSM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CFEngine
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat