Parallel Processing Contract Job Trends

Parallel Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Parallel Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 541 601
Rank change year-on-year -35 +60 +188
Contract jobs citing Parallel Processing 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.006% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.006% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £349 - £728
25th Percentile - £613 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £625 £950
Median % change year-on-year -42.72% -34.21% +72.73%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £1,050
90th Percentile £713 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Parallel Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Parallel Processing job vacancy trend in the UK

Parallel Processing
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Parallel Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parallel Processing over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Parallel Processing in the UK

Parallel Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Parallel Processing
Top 8 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 Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England -34 5 £358 -42.72% 5
UK excluding London - 5 £358 - 1
North of England - 4 £358 -
North West - 3 £358 -
Work from Home -1 2 £358 -42.72% 1
London -5 1 £725 +16.00% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
Scotland - 1 - -

Parallel Processing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MRS
1 1 (16.67%) SAP PM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) DataStage
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Hazelcast
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ABAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP PM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) BAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Ehcache
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Cache
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SOLID
3 1 (16.67%) Spatial Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) ABAP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Murex
1 1 (16.67%) SAP