NVMe Contracts in the UK excluding London

NVMe (NVM Express)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NVMe in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NVMe over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 398 433
Rank change year-on-year +65 +35 -
Contract jobs citing NVMe 1 5 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.024% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.024% 0.082% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - - £447
25th Percentile - £665 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £693 £571
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +21.37% -
75th Percentile - £722 £618
90th Percentile - - £639
UK median daily rate £472 £693 £571
% change year-on-year -31.89% +21.37% +8.76%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,237 6,073 7,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.15% 29.39% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,646 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £617
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 726 435
10th Percentile £16.73 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.91 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.62 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +29.55% +6.98%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.71 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.58 £22.49
% change year-on-year +4.81% +36.00% -18.24%

NVMe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NVMe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NVMe in the UK excluding London

NVMe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NVMe in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NVMe in the UK excluding London

NVMe
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 NVMe within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Scotland +9 1 £472 -31.89% 1
NVMe
UK

NVMe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas