IoT Contracts in the South West

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 159 164
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 -39
Contract jobs citing IoT 14 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 0.79% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile - £425 £330
25th Percentile £210 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -20.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £502 - £788
90th Percentile £540 £795 £810
England median daily rate £506 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.96% -4.17% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.58 £44.25 £59.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% -25.00% +24.21%

All Generic Skills
South West

IoT 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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,058 1,017 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 33.08% 28.05% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 703 658
10th Percentile £300 £263 £205
25th Percentile £450 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £588
90th Percentile £691 £725 £666
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 138 58
10th Percentile £13.69 - £15.46
25th Percentile £15.62 - £25.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +359.18% -80.30% +0.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the South West

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in the South West.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the South West

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the South West

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Bristol +25 9 £475 -20.83% 21
Gloucestershire - 4 £220 - 2
IoT
England

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
General
1 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Housing
2 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IoT Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 1 (7.14%) Edge Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C
1 5 (35.71%) C++
2 3 (21.43%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft