Grid Computing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Grid Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Grid Computing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 463 613
Rank change year-on-year +121 +150 -136
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 2 8 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.031% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.099% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile £750 £635 £663
25th Percentile £750 £638 £673
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £690 £700
Median % change year-on-year +8.73% -1.43% +11.11%
75th Percentile £751 £775 £794
90th Percentile £751 £858 £825
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £723
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.57% +7.04%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Grid Computing is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,361 8,067 13,944
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.43% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 5,673 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +8.79%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 153 228
10th Percentile £15.45 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.14 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%

Grid Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Grid Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Grid Computing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft