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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 466 549
Rank change year-on-year -111 +83 +98
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 8 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.021% 0.037% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.063% 0.11% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile - £710 £560
25th Percentile £406 £719 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £419 £894 £750
90th Percentile £520 £990 £750
UK median daily rate £413 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -45.00% +7.14% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.63
25th Percentile - - £47.19
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £49.69
90th Percentile - - £49.88
UK median hourly rate - - £48.75

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 12,648 8,336 11,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.35% 34.09% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,026 5,465 7,578
10th Percentile £300 £300 £262
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £670
90th Percentile £749 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.71% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 315 802
10th Percentile £15.77 £16.70 £12.49
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.61 £15.17
Median hourly rate £44.50 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.99% +25.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.70 £84.60 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% +18.18% +22.30%

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
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 30 March 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 - 4 £413 -
London -59 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
North of England - 1 £525 -
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 5 (62.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Private Cloud
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) CUDA
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) 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 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 1 (12.50%) Due Diligence
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV 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
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) GPFS
1 6 (75.00%) Lustre
1 6 (75.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft