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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 516 509
Rank change year-on-year -114 -7 +83
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 5 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% 0.025% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.032% 0.069% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £427 £456 £425
25th Percentile £448 £522 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £663 £535
Median % change year-on-year -25.47% +23.83% -20.74%
75th Percentile £536 £822 £697
90th Percentile £556 £899 £740
UK median daily rate £494 £663 £535
% change year-on-year -25.47% +23.83% -20.74%

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 15,799 10,079 10,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.08% 36.09% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,532 6,319 6,164
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 514 393
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.32 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.15
Median hourly rate £35.22 £30.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -46.82% +27.15%
75th Percentile £68.32 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%

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 September 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 September 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
London -83 2 - - 15
Midlands - 1 £563 - 1
North West - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £563 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £425 -
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 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maximo
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
1 1 (20.00%) KDB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (20.00%) C# Pricing Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (20.00%) IT Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Pricing Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) FPGA
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) HPUX
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) GPFS
1 1 (20.00%) Lustre
1 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Consul
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) ESRI
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Solarflare
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk