Grid Computing Contract Job Trends in England

Grid Computing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grid Computing over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 473 564
Rank change year-on-year -62 +91 +105
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.015% 0.016%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 0.046% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £675 £510
25th Percentile £406 £694 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +7.14% -1.41%
75th Percentile £419 £800 £750
90th Percentile £539 £815 £750
UK median daily rate £413 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -45.00% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £47.50

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,314 8,625 11,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 32.81% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,221 5,178 7,823
10th Percentile £281 £268 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £538
% change year-on-year -5.08% -2.00% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 242 676
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.70
Median hourly rate £30.30 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +7.14% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.43 £67.76 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.64 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £34.61
% change year-on-year -19.64% +1.14% +53.90%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Grid Computing job vacancy trend in England

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grid Computing in England over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Grid Computing in England

Grid Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grid Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grid Computing

Grid Computing
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
East of England - 5 £413 -
London -23 2 - - 1
Grid Computing
UK

Grid Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (75.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) InfiniBand
3 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Endur Architect
1 1 (12.50%) OpenLink Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Private Cloud
2 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Rocky
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Benchmarking
5 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) ETRM
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
1 7 (87.50%) GPFS
1 7 (87.50%) Lustre
1 7 (87.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 2 (25.00%) Salt
4 1 (12.50%) Consul