Slurm Workload Manager Contract Job Trends

Slurm Workload Manager
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Slurm Workload Manager skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 549 597
Rank change year-on-year -14 +48 +203
Contract jobs citing Slurm Workload Manager 24 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.009% 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 0.53% 0.073% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 6
10th Percentile £358 - £213
25th Percentile £406 £625 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £650 £469
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +38.67% -
75th Percentile £556 £675 £513
90th Percentile £623 - £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 - £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £47.50

All System Software Skills
UK

Slurm Workload Manager falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,499 4,125 5,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.23% 11.99% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,984 2,673 3,785
10th Percentile £213 £205 £198
25th Percentile £400 £368 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £613
90th Percentile £688 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 88 231
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.46 £18.39
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.71 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% -37.43% +83.52%
75th Percentile £72.13 £64.50 £67.94
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £31.00 £42.04
% change year-on-year +101.61% -26.26% +108.83%

Slurm Workload Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Slurm Workload Manager relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Slurm Workload Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Slurm Workload Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slurm Workload Manager.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slurm Workload Manager

Slurm Workload Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Slurm Workload Manager over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Slurm Workload Manager in the UK

Slurm Workload Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slurm Workload Manager.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Slurm Workload Manager

Slurm Workload Manager
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Slurm Workload Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 -21 20 £465 -28.46% 7
Work from Home +11 14 £413 -36.54% 1
UK excluding London -44 12 £454 - 6
East of England - 11 £454 - 5
London -2 6 £495 -23.85% 1
South West - 1 - -

Slurm Workload Manager
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 6 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) SAS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Weka
2 1 (4.17%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.83%) InfiniBand
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (4.17%) SSH
3 1 (4.17%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) TimescaleDB
General
1 5 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Performance Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
1 1 (4.17%) Flask
1 1 (4.17%) LAMP
1 1 (4.17%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
1 1 (4.17%) libvirt
1 1 (4.17%) OpenMP
1 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Grid Computing
1 6 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 5 (20.83%) Public Cloud
3 4 (16.67%) CUDA
4 2 (8.33%) Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Life Science
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.17%) Rocky
3 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) AI
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (8.33%) Architectural Design
6 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
6 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.33%) Software Deployment
6 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) R
4 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) CESG Certified Professional
1 2 (8.33%) CISM
1 2 (8.33%) CISSP
1 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) OSCP
2 1 (4.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.17%) JSP 440
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Lustre
2 12 (50.00%) Docker
3 10 (41.67%) GPFS
4 3 (12.50%) Ceph
5 2 (8.33%) Firmware
6 1 (4.17%) iptables
6 1 (4.17%) KVM
6 1 (4.17%) NFS
6 1 (4.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (41.67%) Ansible
3 6 (25.00%) Terraform
4 4 (16.67%) Puppet
4 4 (16.67%) Salt
5 3 (12.50%) Packer
5 3 (12.50%) SELinux
6 2 (8.33%) Grafana
6 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.17%) Consul
7 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) NVIDIA
2 2 (8.33%) Dell
2 2 (8.33%) Mellanox
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) Supermicro
3 1 (4.17%) ANSYS
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Siemens
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk