NVMe Contracts

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 cited NVMe over the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 615 811
Rank change year-on-year +61 +196 +43
Contract jobs citing NVMe 3 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.017% 0.001%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.027% 0.054% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £418 £483 -
25th Percentile £425 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -
75th Percentile £498 £694 -
90th Percentile £507 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 -
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,155 14,931 26,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.94% 31.95% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,571 10,048 18,323
10th Percentile £285 £275 £313
25th Percentile £410 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £667 £675
90th Percentile £788 £769 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 499 573
10th Percentile £17.08 £16.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.84 £17.72
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +49.73% +18.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.16 £77.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.18 £25.81
% change year-on-year -18.80% +78.92% +29.05%

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 3 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 17 November 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 +42 3 £475 -13.64% 3
Scotland +28 3 £475 -13.64%
Work from Home +76 1 £484 -25.54% 2

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 3 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 2 (66.67%) Wealth Management
3 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Sybase
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas