Hybrid/Remote OpenCL Contract Job Trends

Khronos Group OpenCL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenCL 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - 0.031%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.038% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £300
75th Percentile - - £304
90th Percentile - - £478
UK median daily rate - - £300

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

OpenCL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,637 3,128 4,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.88% 25.49% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,753 2,088 3,538
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 54
10th Percentile £31.05 £24.13 £41.25
25th Percentile £38.00 £36.63 £53.13
Median hourly rate £57.30 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.26% -33.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £72.81
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £84.25
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.07% -13.85%

OpenCL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenCL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenCL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OpenCL
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenCL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenCL

OpenCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ONNX
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA