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 have cited Grid Computing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 680 850
Rank change year-on-year +96 +170 -216
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 7 27 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.045% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.053% 0.13% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 7
10th Percentile £590 £450 £663
25th Percentile £613 £463 £673
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £680 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -6.21% +7.41%
75th Percentile £750 £735 £794
90th Percentile £750 £794 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £450 -
% change year-on-year +38.89% - -
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 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 13,288 20,071 29,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.44% 33.28% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,518 13,779 20,528
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 665 729
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £11.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -16.67% +3.85%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -16.67%

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 23 April 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 7 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 23 April 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 +96 7 £700 +2.75% 6
London +88 4 £725 +0.69%
UK excluding London +51 3 £625 +38.89% 4
Work from Home +116 2 £750 +7.18% 2
South East +19 2 - - 2
West Midlands +32 1 £625 +38.89%
Midlands +30 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 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) npm
3 1 (14.29%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) InfiniBand
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) KDB
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Babel
1 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (42.86%) Data Science
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) CFEngine
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware