NVIDIA Contract Job Trends

NVIDIA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of NVIDIA products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NVIDIA over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, 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 NVIDIA.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 532 555
Rank change year-on-year -106 +23 +83
Contract jobs citing NVIDIA 34 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.055% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.12% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 6
10th Percentile - £298 £500
25th Percentile £465 £425 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £569 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +52.94%
75th Percentile £733 £620 £731
90th Percentile £749 £699 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% +21.21%

All Vendors
UK

NVIDIA 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 22,804 15,574 16,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.21% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,992 9,525 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 784 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.34 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £63.26 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -29.07% -25.00%

NVIDIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NVIDIA job vacancy trend in the UK

NVIDIA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

NVIDIA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NVIDIA over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NVIDIA in the UK

NVIDIA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NVIDIA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NVIDIA

NVIDIA
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NVIDIA within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. 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 -113 19 £689 +37.85% 74
UK excluding London -109 14 £600 +50.00% 26
Work from Home -58 13 £465 -33.57% 30
London -74 8 £711 +16.00% 55
South East -65 6 £690 +53.33% 16
Wales - 6 £465 -
South West -42 1 £675 +1063.79% 4
East of England - 1 - -

NVIDIA
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 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.88%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) InfiniBand
2 5 (14.71%) Ethernet
2 5 (14.71%) Network Security
3 4 (11.76%) BGP
3 4 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (11.76%) MQTT
3 4 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
3 4 (11.76%) VXLAN
4 3 (8.82%) DHCP
4 3 (8.82%) DNS
4 3 (8.82%) PCoIP
5 2 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (5.88%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) Firewall
6 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.94%) VPN
6 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
2 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Electronics
2 1 (2.94%) Finance
2 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.94%) Legal
2 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Architect
1 8 (23.53%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Data Centre Architect
3 4 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Linux Support
4 3 (8.82%) Linux Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Junior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) Kafka
3 4 (11.76%) gRPC
3 4 (11.76%) Keycloak
3 4 (11.76%) Protocol Buffers
3 4 (11.76%) RESTful
4 3 (8.82%) OpenGL
4 3 (8.82%) Qt
5 2 (5.88%) Spine.js
6 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.94%) PySpark
6 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.94%) WPF
6 1 (2.94%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 9 (26.47%) CUDA
3 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.94%) PKI
4 1 (2.94%) Robotics
4 1 (2.94%) Social Media
4 1 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) AI
2 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 8 (23.53%) Observability
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (17.65%) Identity Management
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (17.65%) Parallel Computing
5 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
7 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (11.76%) Kanban
7 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 4 (11.76%) Microservices
7 4 (11.76%) Presales
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
3 4 (11.76%) Rust
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) C
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.82%) CCIE
3 3 (8.82%) CCNP
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
1 7 (20.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (5.88%) vSphere
4 1 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Ansible
2 10 (29.41%) Puppet
3 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.76%) Grafana
4 4 (11.76%) Podman
4 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Packer
6 2 (5.88%) SCCM
7 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Tenable
1 4 (11.76%) VMware
2 3 (8.82%) Arista
2 3 (8.82%) Aruba
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco
2 3 (8.82%) Juniper
3 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) HP
3 2 (5.88%) Leostream
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.94%) Computacenter
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks