CUDA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

NVIDIA CUDA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CUDA in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CUDA over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 - 402
Rank change year-on-year - - +95
Contract jobs citing CUDA 13 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.072% - 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £129 - £525
25th Percentile £240 - £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +135.69%
75th Percentile £463 - £838
90th Percentile £470 - £905
UK median daily rate £606 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +44.93%
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,024 4,681 6,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.20% 31.13% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,728 2,633 3,903
10th Percentile £203 £203 £213
25th Percentile £358 £360 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £666 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 254 375
10th Percentile £13.06 £17.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.90 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -28.11% +53.25%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%

CUDA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CUDA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CUDA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CUDA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CUDA

CUDA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CUDA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CUDA in the UK excluding London

CUDA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CUDA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CUDA

CUDA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CUDA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CUDA in the UK excluding London

CUDA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CUDA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
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 the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (7.69%) CMake
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GoogleTest
General
1 2 (15.38%) Law
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) CUDA Developer
4 1 (7.69%) CUDA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CUDA Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Kernel Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Research Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (7.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Integration Testing
2 6 (46.15%) UML
3 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
3 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (23.08%) OOP
5 3 (23.08%) Signal Processing
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (7.69%) AI
7 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) OOD
7 1 (7.69%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C++
2 7 (53.85%) C
3 4 (30.77%) MATLAB
4 3 (23.08%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Embedded C++
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) NVIDIA
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI