IoT Contracts in the UK excluding London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 368 368
Rank change year-on-year +50 0 -44
Contract jobs citing IoT 73 89 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.37% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 1.15% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 63 117
10th Percentile £319 £233 £390
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -16.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £708 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 5
10th Percentile - £25.90 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £37.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +119.23% -43.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £78.00 £61.50
90th Percentile - £89.70 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.78% +27.57%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,020 7,766 9,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.28% 32.50% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 5,251 6,778
10th Percentile £208 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £615 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 436 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.34
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +11 20 £545 +32.12% 55
North of England +30 19 £450 -4.26% 25
Midlands +31 13 £675 +36.71% 28
South West +28 13 £475 -20.83% 33
North West +18 12 £450 -2.17% 8
West Midlands +31 10 £875 +92.31% 12
Scotland +38 6 £593 -12.22% 14
North East - 5 £415 - 4
Yorkshire +21 2 £441 -26.50% 13
East of England -3 2 - - 25
East Midlands +18 1 £500 +1.27% 16
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.37%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.81%) Azure
2 10 (13.70%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (8.22%) AWS
4 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.74%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.74%) GitHub
5 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 1 (1.37%) Apigee
6 1 (1.37%) AWS IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.37%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) IaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.44%) Internet
2 9 (12.33%) MQTT
3 5 (6.85%) 5G
3 5 (6.85%) AMQP
4 3 (4.11%) 4G
4 3 (4.11%) Firewall
4 3 (4.11%) Modbus
4 3 (4.11%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.11%) Wireless
5 2 (2.74%) DMZ
5 2 (2.74%) LAN
5 2 (2.74%) MPLS
5 2 (2.74%) Network Security
5 2 (2.74%) WAN
6 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.37%) LTE
6 1 (1.37%) PPP
6 1 (1.37%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.37%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) Tableau
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.74%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) gulp
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.37%) JIRA
1 1 (1.37%) Maven
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.03%) Manufacturing
3 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Electronics
4 5 (6.85%) Finance
4 5 (6.85%) German Language
5 4 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.74%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (13.70%) Analyst
1 10 (13.70%) Business Analyst
1 10 (13.70%) Software Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Consultant
6 4 (5.48%) Senior
7 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.11%) Security Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Build Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Linux Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) .NET
2 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
2 4 (5.48%) Web Services
3 3 (4.11%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.11%) RESTful
3 3 (4.11%) XML
4 2 (2.74%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.74%) HTML
4 2 (2.74%) JSON
4 2 (2.74%) Node.js
4 2 (2.74%) PySpark
4 2 (2.74%) XSLT
5 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.37%) CSS
5 1 (1.37%) CSS3
5 1 (1.37%) Laravel
5 1 (1.37%) Middleware
5 1 (1.37%) OpenID
5 1 (1.37%) SAML
5 1 (1.37%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Industry 4.0
2 7 (9.59%) Operational Technology
2 7 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.59%) Robotics
3 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.85%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.48%) Device Driver
4 4 (5.48%) NB-IoT
4 4 (5.48%) PCIe
4 4 (5.48%) Verilog
4 4 (5.48%) VHDL
5 3 (4.11%) PKI
6 2 (2.74%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (2.74%) Replication
6 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.74%) Smart Home
7 1 (1.37%) BYOD
7 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.37%) TM Forum
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (5.48%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (5.48%) VxWorks
2 4 (5.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.74%) Android
3 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) Agile
2 13 (17.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (17.81%) Software Engineering
3 10 (13.70%) DevOps
3 10 (13.70%) Roadmaps
4 9 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (12.33%) Use Case
5 7 (9.59%) Analytics
5 7 (9.59%) Change Management
5 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (9.59%) Process Management
6 6 (8.22%) Business Case
6 6 (8.22%) Computer Science
7 5 (6.85%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (6.85%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 5 (6.85%) Data Architecture
7 5 (6.85%) Digital Enablement
7 5 (6.85%) Energy Management
7 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.85%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.07%) C
2 8 (10.96%) Python
3 6 (8.22%) C#
3 6 (8.22%) SQL
4 5 (6.85%) C++
4 5 (6.85%) Java
4 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.48%) Embedded C
6 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.74%) PHP
8 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.74%) CCSP
3 2 (2.74%) CISA
3 2 (2.74%) CISM
3 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) CCDP
4 1 (1.37%) CCIP
4 1 (1.37%) CCNA
4 1 (1.37%) CCNP
4 1 (1.37%) CEH
4 1 (1.37%) CISMP
4 1 (1.37%) CISSP
4 1 (1.37%) CRISC
4 1 (1.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) MISRA
1 4 (5.48%) MISRA C
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 3 (4.11%) QA
3 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) NIST
4 1 (1.37%) COBIT
4 1 (1.37%) GRC
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Firmware
3 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Grafana
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.37%) Ansible
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) SAP
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.48%) Intel
4 2 (2.74%) Ariba
4 2 (2.74%) Atmel
5 1 (1.37%) ADVA
5 1 (1.37%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco
5 1 (1.37%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) Juniper
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle