Parallel Programming Contracts

Parallel Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Parallel Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parallel Programming 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 516 581 707
Rank change year-on-year +65 +126 +139
Contract jobs citing Parallel Programming 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.003% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 -

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 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 Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Parallel Programming in the UK

Parallel Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Parallel Programming in the UK

Parallel Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Parallel Programming.

Hourly rate trend for Parallel Programming in the UK

Parallel Programming
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 Programming 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 +60 4 £700 +7.69% 10
Work from Home +44 4 £700 +7.69% 6
London - 4 £700 - 3

Parallel Programming
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 4 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Design Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle