Hybrid/Remote Parallel Computing Contract Job Trends

Parallel Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Parallel Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 303 353
Rank change year-on-year -28 +50 +117
Contract jobs citing Parallel Computing 3 7 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.025% 0.070% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.077% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £575 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £875
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -31.43% +30.84%
75th Percentile - £625 £938
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £465 £600 £863
% change year-on-year -22.50% -30.43% +59.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Parallel Computing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,599 9,095 13,549
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.36% 91.03% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,870 6,241 9,028
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 224 563
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.20 £15.03
25th Percentile £27.71 £19.87 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.98% +1.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%

Parallel Computing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Parallel Computing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Parallel Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Parallel Computing
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NVIDIA