NVMe Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

NVMe (NVM Express)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NVMe in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NVMe over the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NVMe 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £625
% change year-on-year -5.26% -24.00% +35.14%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

NVMe 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 requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 236 224 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.40% 36.72% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 106 149
10th Percentile £165 £192 £386
25th Percentile £328 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £569
90th Percentile £675 £622 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 9
10th Percentile £14.81 £20.93 £15.33
25th Percentile £16.06 £22.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.37 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -32.60% +85.31%
75th Percentile £41.25 £24.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.86 £60.90
Scotland median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £19.50
% change year-on-year -1.72% +23.92% +48.18%

NVMe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp