NVMe (NVM Express)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NVMe in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NVMe over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 692 857
Rank change year-on-year +119 +165 -160
Contract jobs citing NVMe 5 24 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.041% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.038% 0.12% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile - £447 £509
25th Percentile £665 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £571 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% +8.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £722 £618 £675
90th Percentile - £639 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £693 £571 -
% change year-on-year +21.37% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

NVMe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,166 19,644 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.26% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,481 13,496 20,500
10th Percentile £263 £309 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £658
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 642 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.29% -16.13%

NVMe
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NVMe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NVMe in the UK

NVMe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NVMe.

Daily rate trend for NVMe in the UK

NVMe
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NVMe within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +41 5 £693 +21.37% 1
Scotland +21 5 £693 +21.37%

NVMe
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 5 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Python Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
1 5 (100.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Data ONTAP
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 5 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Storage Management
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) Storage Virtualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Investment Management
3 3 (60.00%) Wealth Management
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) NFS
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Brocade
1 4 (80.00%) EMC
1 4 (80.00%) Google
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) NetApp
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas