Parallel Computing Contract Job Trends

Parallel Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Parallel Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 511 578
Rank change year-on-year -113 +67 +119
Contract jobs citing Parallel Computing 3 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.054% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.060% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £475 £786
25th Percentile - £513 £803
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £863
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -30.43% +59.72%
75th Percentile - £750 £941
90th Percentile - £825 £946
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 - -

All Process & 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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

Parallel Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Parallel Computing job vacancy trend in the UK

Parallel Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Parallel Computing
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 Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Work from Home -25 3 £465 -22.50% 6
UK excluding London - 2 £465 - 3
Wales - 2 £465 - 1

Parallel Computing
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NVIDIA