Parallel Processing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Parallel Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Parallel Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Parallel Processing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £347 - -
25th Percentile £354 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
UK median daily rate £358 £625 £1,000
% change year-on-year -42.72% -37.50% +81.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,701 12,950 17,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.65% 87.28% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,596 7,620 11,036
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 747 1,225
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

Parallel Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Parallel Processing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Parallel Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Parallel Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parallel Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Parallel Processing in the UK excluding London

Parallel Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Parallel Processing
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 Parallel Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
North of England - 4 £358 -
North West - 3 £358 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
Parallel Processing
UK

Parallel Processing
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP MRS
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) DataStage
2 1 (20.00%) GIS
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ABAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) GIS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP PM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) BAPI
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) ABAP
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) SAP