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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Grid Computing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 615 760
Rank change year-on-year +90 +145 -165
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 8 25 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.052% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.072% 0.15% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 11
10th Percentile £500 £450 £671
25th Percentile £584 £463 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £675 £704
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -4.13% +4.31%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £794
90th Percentile £750 £794 £825
UK median daily rate £663 £675 £704
% change year-on-year -1.85% -4.13% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
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 is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,143 16,318 23,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.61% 33.66% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,356 17,075
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 576 631
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +2.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.41 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.51% +4.05%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 May 2024. 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 +80 4 £725 +6.42% 1
Midlands +18 2 £537 +19.33%
South East - 2 - - 9
West Midlands +19 1 £625 +38.89%
East Midlands - 1 £449 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) npm
3 1 (12.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) KDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Babel
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Analytics
1 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (37.50%) Data Science
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) CFEngine
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
1 1 (12.50%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Databricks
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
16 Grid Computing jobs Nationwide