Beowulf Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Beowulf
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Beowulf in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Beowulf over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Beowulf 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
UK median daily rate £413 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Beowulf 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,002 4,672 6,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.05% 31.16% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,713 2,631 3,929
10th Percentile £204 £203 £213
25th Percentile £358 £359 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 251 377
10th Percentile £13.01 £17.63 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -28.11% +52.12%
75th Percentile £64.04 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

Beowulf
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Beowulf relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Beowulf job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Beowulf
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Beowulf.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Beowulf

Beowulf
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Beowulf within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
East Midlands - 1 £413 - 1
Midlands - 1 £413 - 1
Beowulf
UK

Beowulf
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) Jupyter
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Contract for Difference
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA