Parallel Programming Contract Job Trends

Parallel Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Parallel Programming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 - 620
Rank change year-on-year - - +195
Contract jobs citing Parallel Programming 1 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile - - £825
90th Percentile - - £855
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £800
% change year-on-year - - +36.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Parallel Programming 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,023 32,245 42,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 86.03% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,678 19,407 28,733
10th Percentile £294 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,886 1,245 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.07 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.79% -8.14% +70.09%

Parallel Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Parallel Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Parallel Programming job vacancy trend in the UK

Parallel Programming
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Parallel Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Parallel Programming

Parallel Programming
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Parallel Programming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Parallel Programming

Parallel Programming
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parallel Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
South West - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1

Parallel Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Research Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft