CUDA Contracts

NVIDIA CUDA
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CUDA in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CUDA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 576 716
Rank change year-on-year +66 +140 +138
Contract jobs citing CUDA 10 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.014% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 0.045% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile - £440 £443
25th Percentile £519 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £556 £534 £569
90th Percentile £588 £551 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

CUDA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CUDA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CUDA in the UK

CUDA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CUDA.

Daily rate trend for CUDA in the UK

CUDA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CUDA.

Hourly rate trend for CUDA in the UK

CUDA
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +63 10 £538 +7.50% 49
UK excluding London +65 8 £538 +7.50% 29
East of England - 7 £538 - 15
London - 2 £575 - 27
South East - 1 £575 - 11

CUDA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) 5G
1 7 (70.00%) 5G NR
1 7 (70.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Automotive
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) CUDA Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) OpenCL
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Embedded Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (10.00%) Data Science
2 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (10.00%) Parallel Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) Video Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi