Parallel Processing Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Parallel Processing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Parallel Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Parallel Processing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
North West median daily rate £358 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Parallel Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 615 437 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.24% 87.93% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 260 226
10th Percentile £268 £328 £265
25th Percentile £358 £385 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £564
90th Percentile £688 £641 £606
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 22
10th Percentile £14.96 £16.10 £17.14
25th Percentile £15.94 £21.05 £18.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +31.02% +112.37%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.75 £35.56
90th Percentile £69.45 £64.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% - +55.56%

Parallel Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Parallel Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Parallel Processing job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Parallel Processing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parallel Processing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Knutsford - 1 £358 - 1
Parallel Processing
North West

Parallel Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica