Grid Computing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Grid Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grid Computing over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 362 408
Rank change year-on-year -21 +46 +93
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.046% 0.028%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.16% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £426 - £475
25th Percentile £456 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -8.58% +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £475 -
90th Percentile £599 £478 -
UK median daily rate £425 £470 £666
% change year-on-year -9.57% -29.46% -4.82%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,540 5,041 6,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.72% 29.12% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 2,778 4,328
10th Percentile £220 £209 £213
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.83% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 316 362
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.36 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £52.50 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% +2.46% +127.72%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.08 £79.15
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.62% +73.08%

Grid Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Grid Computing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grid Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grid Computing in the UK excluding London

Grid Computing
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 Grid Computing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 of England - 2 £513 -
Grid Computing
UK

Grid Computing
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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) GPFS
1 2 (100.00%) Lustre
1 2 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Salt
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform