Grid Computing Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Grid Computing
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grid Computing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £579 - -
England median daily rate £413 £573 £658
% change year-on-year -27.95% -12.93% -6.07%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 478 364 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.73% 27.18% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 163 343
10th Percentile £193 £233 £197
25th Percentile £363 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 81
10th Percentile £13.00 £27.38 £21.25
25th Percentile £16.96 £38.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% -6.15% +59.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +12.36% +67.92%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Grid Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Grid Computing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Grid Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Grid Computing

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grid Computing in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grid Computing in the East of England

Grid Computing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £413 - 1
Grid Computing
England

Grid Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) GPFS
1 3 (100.00%) Lustre
1 3 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Salt
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform