Grid Computing Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Grid Computing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grid Computing over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.53% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £613 - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 87 58 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 46.03% 30.53% 48.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 50
10th Percentile £360 £338 £180
25th Percentile £438 £414 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £512
90th Percentile £754 £638 £576
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 8
10th Percentile £17.25 £22.44 £53.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £38.75 £56.56
Median hourly rate £44.00 £57.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -14.81% +309.84%
75th Percentile £73.13 £69.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +81.82%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Grid Computing in Cambridge

Grid Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) Lustre
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform