Parallel Computing Contracts

Parallel Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Parallel Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parallel Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 578 702
Rank change year-on-year +73 +124 +151
Contract jobs citing Parallel Computing 15 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.009% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.011% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £463 £786 £433
25th Percentile £481 £803 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £863 £540
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +59.72% -3.05%
75th Percentile £581 £941 £688
90th Percentile £608 £946 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £520

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Parallel Computing 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Parallel Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Parallel Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Parallel Computing in the UK

Parallel Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Parallel Computing.

Daily rate trend for Parallel Computing in the UK

Parallel Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parallel Computing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Parallel Computing in the UK

Parallel Computing
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parallel Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +67 14 £450 -47.83% 16
London +48 14 £450 -47.83% 12
Work from Home +47 7 £600 -31.43% 10

Parallel Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
1 4 (26.67%) Data Mining
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Quantitative Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Ray
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (26.67%) Tandem
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Machine Learning
2 10 (66.67%) Deep Learning
3 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Low Latency
5 4 (26.67%) Pattern Recognition
5 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Technical Debt
5 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Applied Mathematics
7 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
7 1 (6.67%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) C++
3 10 (66.67%) C
3 10 (66.67%) Java
3 10 (66.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 6 (40.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) NVIDIA