NVIDIA CUDA
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CUDA in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited CUDA over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 824 942
Rank change year-on-year +159 +118 +201
Permanent jobs citing CUDA 19 61 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.062% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.17% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 12 50 39
10th Percentile £42,125 £39,500 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,188 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% -17.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - £88,000 £76,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year +35.00% +15.61% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CUDA.

Salary trend for CUDA in the UK

CUDA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CUDA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for CUDA in the UK

CUDA
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CUDA within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +178 19 £67,500 +35.00% 25
England +141 13 £70,000 +27.27% 41
South East +90 6 £67,500 +35.00% 8
South West +112 4 £70,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Midlands +52 2 - - 1
West Midlands +44 2 - -
Wales - 2 £42,500 -
Work from Home +165 1 £65,000 +18.18% 21
North West - 1 £60,000 -
North of England - 1 £60,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (10.53%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) CMake
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (10.53%) TestRail
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Automotive
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Senior
3 6 (31.58%) Developer
4 4 (21.05%) C# Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior C# Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) C++ Developer
6 2 (10.53%) C++ Software Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) OpenCL
1 6 (31.58%) OpenGL
2 5 (26.32%) Vulkan
2 5 (26.32%) WinForms
2 5 (26.32%) WPF
3 4 (21.05%) GStreamer
3 4 (21.05%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (21.05%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) HTML5
4 2 (10.53%) OpenMP
4 2 (10.53%) QML
4 2 (10.53%) Qt
4 2 (10.53%) VTK
5 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Algorithms
2 5 (26.32%) Video\Live Streaming
3 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 4 (21.05%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (15.79%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (15.79%) Device Driver
4 3 (15.79%) PCIe
5 2 (10.53%) SIMD
6 1 (5.26%) FPGA
6 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
3 10 (52.63%) Computer Science
4 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
6 7 (36.84%) Multithreading
6 7 (36.84%) Scrum
7 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
7 6 (31.58%) OO
7 6 (31.58%) OOP
7 6 (31.58%) Physics
8 5 (26.32%) Analytics
9 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
9 4 (21.05%) Low Latency
9 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 4 (21.05%) Microservices
9 4 (21.05%) Video Analytics
9 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) C++
2 12 (63.16%) C
3 10 (52.63%) Python
4 9 (47.37%) C#
5 6 (31.58%) Bash
6 5 (26.32%) Fortran
7 2 (10.53%) C-shell
7 2 (10.53%) Java
7 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) NVIDIA
2 3 (15.79%) Graphcore
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft