NVMe Contract Job Trends in London

NVMe (NVM Express)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NVMe in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NVMe over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 361 -
Rank change year-on-year -84 - -
Contract jobs citing NVMe 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.007% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.013% 0.019% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £700 -
% change year-on-year -19.64% - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,759 5,252 5,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.30% 38.90% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 3,384 3,546
10th Percentile £354 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £549
% change year-on-year - -4.30% -0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 124 71
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.24 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £26.64 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -19.27% +13.30%
75th Percentile £56.81 £47.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 £78.40
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +25.00%

NVMe
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

NVMe job vacancy trend in London

NVMe
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NVMe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NVMe

NVMe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GLBA
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat