InfiniBand Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

InfiniBand
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring InfiniBand skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 - 398
Rank change year-on-year - - +80
Contract jobs citing InfiniBand 1 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.042% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £302
25th Percentile £606 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £515
75th Percentile £619 - £584
90th Percentile - - £587
UK median daily rate £538 £650 £583
% change year-on-year -17.31% +11.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 £73.38 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

InfiniBand falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,397 2,236 3,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.54% 16.75% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,316 2,109
10th Percentile £196 £185 £205
25th Percentile £313 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -1.05% +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £659 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -3.75% +4.17% -7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 108 310
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.41 £14.27
25th Percentile £16.59 £21.00 £20.87
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -36.42% +163.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.12
% change year-on-year +1.43% -18.82% +123.39%

InfiniBand
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

InfiniBand job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

InfiniBand
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

InfiniBand
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing InfiniBand.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing InfiniBand

InfiniBand
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 InfiniBand within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
East of England - 1 £613 - 1
InfiniBand
UK

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