Grid Computing Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 539 614
Rank change year-on-year +55 +75 +153
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 14 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.035% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 25
10th Percentile £618 £425 £450
25th Percentile £711 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £470 £675
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -30.37% -4.13%
75th Percentile £953 £631 £713
90th Percentile £983 £683 £750
UK median daily rate £738 £470 £675
% change year-on-year +57.02% -30.37% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £48.75 -
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 9,213 11,418 15,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 30.68% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,873 7,342 11,153
10th Percentile £305 £282 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 823 513
10th Percentile £15.49 £12.24 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £12.25
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%
75th Percentile £59.00 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
% change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Grid Computing in England

Grid Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grid Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Grid Computing in England

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grid Computing in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grid Computing in England

Grid Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Grid Computing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Grid Computing in England

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 6 July 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
London +48 14 £738 +9.33% 7
Grid Computing
UK

Grid Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) DataSynapse
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
1 7 (50.00%) Front Office
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 2 (14.29%) Back Office
4 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) Grid Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Applications Support
2 3 (21.43%) Quantitative Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) TIBCO Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Endur Architect
3 2 (14.29%) OpenLink Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Applications Support
4 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Fixed Income
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Equities
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (14.29%) Derivative
3 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
1 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
1 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) API Integration
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) Log Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
4 3 (21.43%) Physics
4 3 (21.43%) Quantitative Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) ETRM
5 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 10 (71.43%) C#
4 9 (64.29%) C++
5 7 (50.00%) Java
6 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Grafana
3 5 (35.71%) Kibana
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) TIBCO
2 4 (28.57%) IBM
3 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
3 3 (21.43%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) Hitachi
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft