Edge Computing Contracts

Edge Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Edge Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Edge Computing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 712 820
Rank change year-on-year +133 +108 -150
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 19 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.012% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.013% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 24
10th Percentile - £656 £398
25th Percentile £475 £778 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £850 £630
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +34.92% +68.00%
75th Percentile £601 £875 £738
90th Percentile £646 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -9.09% +37.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Edge Computing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Edge Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +141 19 £500 -41.18% 11
UK excluding London +83 19 £500 -9.09% 5
South East +31 6 - - 1
East of England - 5 - - 1
North of England - 3 - - 2
Midlands - 3 £500 -
North West - 3 - - 2
West Midlands - 3 £500 -
Work from Home +131 2 - - 5
South West - 2 - - 1

Edge Computing
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) 5G
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) LAN
2 5 (26.32%) SD-WAN
2 5 (26.32%) WAN
2 5 (26.32%) WLAN
3 3 (15.79%) MQTT
4 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Law
1 6 (31.58%) Legal
2 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Network Manager
2 6 (31.58%) Procurement Manager
3 5 (26.32%) Telecoms Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Domain Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Server Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Operational Technology
2 6 (31.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (21.05%) IoT
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
4 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
4 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (10.53%) Robotics
6 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Contract Management
1 6 (31.58%) Customer Experience
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (31.58%) Line Management
2 5 (26.32%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
3 3 (15.79%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (15.79%) Presales
3 3 (15.79%) Sales Enablement
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (10.53%) QMS
5 1 (5.26%) Architectural Design
5 1 (5.26%) Business Case
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.26%) Prototyping
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) C#
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
1 3 (15.79%) Virtual Servers
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco
1 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
1 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.79%) VMware