Parallel Processing Contract Job Trends in the North West

Parallel Processing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Parallel Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Parallel Processing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
England median daily rate £650 £625 £950
% change year-on-year +4.00% -34.21% +68.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Parallel Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,155 1,987 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.18% 84.30% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,072 1,676
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 120 160
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.07 £23.29 £17.94
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% - +55.56%
75th Percentile £45.46 £51.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.42 £70.90 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

Parallel Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Parallel Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Parallel Processing job vacancy trend in the North West

Parallel Processing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parallel Processing within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Cheshire - 1 £358 - 1
Parallel Processing
England

Parallel Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica