Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BYOD over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 653 802
Rank change year-on-year +102 +149 -154
Contract jobs citing BYOD 28 47 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.078% 0.065%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 48
10th Percentile £170 £213 £188
25th Percentile £258 £271 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -19.60% +2.05%
75th Percentile £541 £556 £636
90th Percentile £606 £650 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £285 £467
% change year-on-year +75.44% -38.97% -7.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 0
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.71 -
25th Percentile £13.87 £15.53 -
Median hourly rate £14.48 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% - -
75th Percentile £16.40 £19.01 -
90th Percentile £18.79 £19.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 £16.94 -
% change year-on-year -18.10% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

BYOD 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 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BYOD over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BYOD.

Hourly rate trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BYOD within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +91 22 £320 -20.00% 19
UK excluding London +72 17 £500 +75.44% 7
London +95 11 £320 -20.00% 10
Work from Home +114 8 £525 -1.41% 6
North of England +29 3 £550 +37.50% 2
South West +19 3 - - 2
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England - 3 £265 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 - -
Midlands +27 1 £160 -
South East +22 1 £575 +101.75% 2
North West +20 1 £550 +37.50%
East Midlands - 1 £160 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

BYOD
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 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) Wireless
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) Internet
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) PBX
3 1 (3.57%) PSTN
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Power Query
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) IT Support
3 3 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Service Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) XMPP
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) iPad
1 2 (7.14%) iPhone
1 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (7.14%) PDA
1 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (7.14%) Smartphone
1 2 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 16 (57.14%) Windows 10
3 15 (53.57%) Windows 7
4 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.14%) Android
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 8 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 6 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 4 (14.29%) User Experience
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 2 (7.14%) Analytics
6 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Logistics
6 2 (7.14%) Microservices
6 2 (7.14%) Migration
6 2 (7.14%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.14%) SDLC
6 2 (7.14%) Service Management
6 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.57%) Inventory Management
7 1 (3.57%) UEBA
7 1 (3.57%) User Research
7 1 (3.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) SLA
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) SCCM
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Intel
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) Computacenter
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) Peregrine
4 1 (3.57%) Remedy