CUDA Contract Job Trends in England

NVIDIA CUDA
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CUDA in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CUDA over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 - 561
Rank change year-on-year - - +187
Contract jobs citing CUDA 20 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.065% - 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £180 - £485
25th Percentile £344 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.93%
75th Percentile £616 - £825
90th Percentile £696 - £895
UK median daily rate £575 - £638
% change year-on-year - - +42.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Generic Skills
England

CUDA 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,187 9,716 12,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.13% 32.04% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 5,852 8,375
10th Percentile £285 £294 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 306 460
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.82 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £23.59 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%
75th Percentile £57.63 £67.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

CUDA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CUDA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CUDA job vacancy trend in England

CUDA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CUDA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CUDA

CUDA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CUDA in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CUDA in England

CUDA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CUDA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CUDA

CUDA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CUDA in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CUDA in England

CUDA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CUDA within the England region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 8 £58 - 3
London - 4 £575 -
East of England - 3 - - 4
North of England - 2 £450 -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 £450 -
CUDA
UK

CUDA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (5.00%) CMake
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GoogleTest
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) CUDA Developer
4 1 (5.00%) CUDA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) CUDA Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Operations Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (5.00%) Faiss
2 1 (5.00%) HEVC
2 1 (5.00%) LangChain
2 1 (5.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) ONNX
2 1 (5.00%) OpenCL
2 1 (5.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (5.00%) OpenMP
2 1 (5.00%) SciPy
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (5.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (5.00%) Rocky
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) AI
3 6 (30.00%) Integration Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (30.00%) UML
4 5 (25.00%) Memory Management
4 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) OO
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (15.00%) OOP
6 3 (15.00%) Signal Processing
7 2 (10.00%) Agile
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
7 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) C++
2 7 (35.00%) C
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Embedded C++
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (10.00%) CISM
4 2 (10.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.00%) OSCP
5 1 (5.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Lustre
2 3 (15.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (10.00%) GPFS
4 1 (5.00%) Ceph
4 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) SELinux
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) NVIDIA
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Mellanox
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Supermicro