CUDA Job Trends in England

NVIDIA CUDA
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CUDA in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited CUDA over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 628 666
Rank change year-on-year +44 +38 +247
Permanent jobs citing CUDA 18 34 17
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.034% 0.071% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.097% 0.19% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 14
10th Percentile - £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,163 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% +56.07%
75th Percentile £77,875 £81,250 £161,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £187,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +7.41% +56.07%

All Generic Skills
England

CUDA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,582 18,054 17,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.44% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,413 8,499 13,221
10th Percentile £27,787 £34,000 £31,549
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

CUDA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CUDA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

CUDA job vacancy trend in England

CUDA
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CUDA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CUDA

CUDA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CUDA in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CUDA in England

CUDA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CUDA within the England region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +35 11 £40,000 - 9
London +62 2 £73,750 - 9
South East +11 2 - - 16
South West -6 1 £77,500 - 4
CUDA
UK

CUDA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) InfiniBand
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Weaviate
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Consultant
1 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) CUDA Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) CUDA Software Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Development Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) PyTorch
2 9 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 7 (38.89%) Google JAX
3 7 (38.89%) JAX
4 3 (16.67%) OpenGL
4 3 (16.67%) vLLM
4 3 (16.67%) Vulkan
5 2 (11.11%) Faiss
5 2 (11.11%) LangChain
5 2 (11.11%) LangGraph
5 2 (11.11%) Ollama
5 2 (11.11%) OpenCL
6 1 (5.56%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (16.67%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Android
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Machine Learning
2 10 (55.56%) Physics
3 9 (50.00%) AI
4 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 7 (38.89%) Computer Vision
4 7 (38.89%) Mathematics
4 7 (38.89%) Prototyping
4 7 (38.89%) Rapid Prototyping
5 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) LLM
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (16.67%) Software Architecture
7 3 (16.67%) Validation
8 2 (11.11%) Image Processing
8 2 (11.11%) Memory Management
8 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) C
4 3 (16.67%) GLSL
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) OSCP
5 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NCSC
2 2 (11.11%) Def Stans
2 2 (11.11%) JSP 440
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) GPFS
1 2 (11.11%) Lustre
1 2 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) NVIDIA
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Intel