Grid Computing Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Grid Computing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £613 - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 120 85 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.43% 20.09% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 71
10th Percentile £243 £272 £225
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £591 £538
90th Percentile £764 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £26.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £46.25 £37.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +81.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £52.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% - +53.45%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Grid Computing in Cambridgeshire

Grid Computing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 £613 -
Grid Computing
East of England

Grid Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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