Grid Computing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Grid Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grid 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 301 343 470
Rank change year-on-year +42 +127 +152
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.013% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.045% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £714 £750 £634
25th Percentile £716 £750 £651
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +7.18% -
75th Percentile £766 £751 £775
90th Percentile £771 £751 £885
UK median daily rate £738 £700 £680
% change year-on-year +5.43% +2.94% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Grid Computing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Grid Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Grid Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Grid Computing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Grid Computing.

Grid Computing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Grid Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (33.33%) DataSynapse
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Grid Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Equities
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) API Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (66.67%) IBM