Mellanox Contract Job Trends

Mellanox
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Mellanox products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mellanox over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Mellanox Technologies.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 542 605
Rank change year-on-year -42 +63 +175
Contract jobs citing Mellanox 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.046% 0.006% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £513 - £488
90th Percentile £528 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Vendors
UK

Mellanox falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,466 15,440 19,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.19% 45.73% 45.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,122 9,193 12,424
10th Percentile £293 £285 £250
25th Percentile £408 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 457 650
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.62 £14.73
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £28.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -38.97% +78.45%
75th Percentile £44.40 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.72 £26.13 £45.88
% change year-on-year -16.87% -43.06% +103.91%

Mellanox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mellanox job vacancy trend in the UK

Mellanox
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mellanox.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mellanox

Mellanox
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mellanox within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England - 7 £488 - 6
London - 4 £450 -
Work from Home 0 3 £450 +12.50%
UK excluding London - 3 £500 - 6
South East - 3 £500 - 4

Mellanox
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
1 4 (50.00%) OSPF
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) InfiniBand
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) MPLS
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) VPLS
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (12.50%) HSRP
4 1 (12.50%) IPsec
4 1 (12.50%) NGFW
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) VRRP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) CUDA
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) SCADA
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) AI
1 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Ceph
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
1 2 (25.00%) Lustre
1 2 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) NVIDIA
2 3 (37.50%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) Meraki
3 2 (25.00%) Supermicro
4 1 (12.50%) Arista
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Solarflare
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler