Parallel Processing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Parallel Processing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Parallel Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parallel Processing 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 302 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing Parallel Processing 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £360
25th Percentile £613 - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £360
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.47%
75th Percentile £638 - £361
90th Percentile - - £361
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £471
% change year-on-year -20.00% +32.63% -14.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Parallel Processing 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Parallel Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Parallel Processing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Parallel Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Parallel Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Parallel Processing
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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform