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 21 October 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 NVIDIA.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 551 619
Rank change year-on-year +13 +68 +215
Contract jobs citing NVIDIA 19 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.016% 0.023%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.036% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £114 - £395
25th Percentile £534 - £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £575
90th Percentile £699 £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £89 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -82.20% +2.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 15,923 16,596 21,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.59% 44.79% 45.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 9,771 13,901
10th Percentile £275 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.05% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 552 677
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.71 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%
75th Percentile £37.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +102.38%

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 21 October 2025.

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 6 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 21 October 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 +11 15 £606 +21.25% 75
London +15 8 £644 -0.96% 42
Work from Home +26 7 £800 - 44
UK excluding London -4 7 £89 -82.20% 49
South West - 4 £89 - 10
South East +5 3 - - 27

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 (5.26%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) BGP
2 3 (15.79%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) Internet
2 3 (15.79%) Network Security
2 3 (15.79%) VXLAN
3 2 (10.53%) InfiniBand
3 2 (10.53%) OSPF
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
4 1 (5.26%) HSRP
4 1 (5.26%) IPsec
4 1 (5.26%) Junos
4 1 (5.26%) MPLS
4 1 (5.26%) Multicast
4 1 (5.26%) NGFW
4 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (5.26%) VRRP
4 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) Weaviate
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) CMake
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) GoogleTest
2 1 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Platform Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) LangChain
2 2 (10.53%) Faiss
2 2 (10.53%) LangGraph
2 2 (10.53%) ONNX
2 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) gRPC
3 1 (5.26%) OpenCL
3 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
3 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (5.26%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (5.26%) WebGL
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) CUDA
2 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.26%) Animation
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Fat Client
5 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.26%) NVMe
5 1 (5.26%) PCIe
5 1 (5.26%) PKI
5 1 (5.26%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (5.26%) Robotics
5 1 (5.26%) SCADA
5 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.26%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.53%) VMS
4 2 (10.53%) Windows
5 1 (5.26%) Android
5 1 (5.26%) CentOS
5 1 (5.26%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Machine Learning
2 9 (47.37%) AI
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
6 4 (21.05%) LLM
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) OCR
7 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
8 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
8 2 (10.53%) Open Source
8 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
8 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) C++
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Embedded C++
3 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) CCIE
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.26%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (5.26%) JNCIE
5 1 (5.26%) OCP
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.26%) GPFS
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) KVM
2 1 (5.26%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Ansible
3 5 (26.32%) SCOM
4 4 (21.05%) Cilium
4 4 (21.05%) Terraform
5 3 (15.79%) Grafana
5 3 (15.79%) Rsyslog
6 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
7 1 (5.26%) Kibana
7 1 (5.26%) Podman
7 1 (5.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Arista
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
1 2 (10.53%) Dell
1 2 (10.53%) Juniper
1 2 (10.53%) Mellanox
1 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
1 2 (10.53%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Aruba
2 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (5.26%) F5
2 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) Veeam
2 1 (5.26%) Zscaler