IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 480 509
Rank change year-on-year +44 +29 -88
Contract jobs citing IoT 147 240 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% 1.20% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 162 268
10th Percentile £267 £325 £398
25th Percentile £425 £458 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -3.36% +13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £743 £700
90th Percentile £780 £800 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £553
% change year-on-year -3.80% -10.78% +10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile - £22.78 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.33 £29.19 £23.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £44.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% -25.00% +31.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £70.13
90th Percentile - £85.50 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £33.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +80.60% +28.85% -42.22%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,286 20,043 29,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.45% 33.31% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,527 13,774 20,521
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 £650 £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 903 664 729
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £11.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -16.67% +3.85%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.33 £22.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year +19.25% +10.40% -16.67%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
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 IoT within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +61 133 £500 -13.04% 314
UK excluding London +34 74 £475 -3.80% 217
London +70 62 £575 -21.77% 101
Work from Home +84 41 £513 -14.58% 140
North of England +42 19 £450 -6.25% 24
South East 0 19 £550 +33.33% 63
Midlands +41 14 £675 +36.71% 33
South West +24 14 £469 -21.88% 32
North West +16 12 £450 -4.26% 9
West Midlands +37 10 £875 +83.25% 15
Scotland +26 6 £593 -12.22% 14
North East - 5 £415 - 1
Yorkshire +26 2 £441 -26.50% 14
East Midlands +10 2 £500 +2.56% 18
East of England 0 2 - - 48

IoT
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 1 (0.68%) Confluence
1 1 (0.68%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.77%) Azure
2 31 (21.09%) AWS
3 18 (12.24%) Serverless
4 16 (10.88%) PaaS
4 16 (10.88%) SaaS
5 14 (9.52%) IaaS
6 12 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.48%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (6.12%) GCP
9 8 (5.44%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.08%) AWS IoT
11 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.04%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.04%) GitHub
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.65%) Internet
2 11 (7.48%) MQTT
3 7 (4.76%) Firewall
3 7 (4.76%) Wireless
4 6 (4.08%) AMQP
5 5 (3.40%) Modbus
6 4 (2.72%) Network Security
6 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.04%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (2.04%) VPN
8 2 (1.36%) 5G
8 2 (1.36%) Broadband
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.36%) DMZ
8 2 (1.36%) LAN
8 2 (1.36%) MPLS
8 2 (1.36%) WAN
8 2 (1.36%) ZigBee
9 1 (0.68%) ADSL
9 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.72%) Tableau
3 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.04%) MySQL
3 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.68%) Big Data
5 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.68%) gulp
1 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.68%) JIRA
1 1 (0.68%) Maven
1 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.48%) Finance
5 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.40%) Electronics
7 5 (3.40%) German Language
7 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.40%) Marketing
8 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.04%) Retail
10 2 (1.36%) Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 2 (1.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Architect
2 22 (14.97%) Senior
3 19 (12.93%) Developer
4 17 (11.56%) Consultant
4 17 (11.56%) Security Architect
5 16 (10.88%) Analyst
5 16 (10.88%) Business Analyst
6 14 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Senior Architect
8 10 (6.80%) Senior Security Architect
8 10 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (5.44%) Cloud Security Architect
10 8 (5.44%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (4.08%) Security Consultant
11 6 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
12 4 (2.72%) IT Analyst
12 4 (2.72%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.44%) .NET
2 6 (4.08%) REST
2 6 (4.08%) Web Services
3 5 (3.40%) ASP.NET
3 5 (3.40%) Kafka
4 4 (2.72%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (2.72%) HTML
4 4 (2.72%) JSON
4 4 (2.72%) RESTful
5 3 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.04%) Laravel
5 3 (2.04%) Node.js
5 3 (2.04%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.04%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.04%) React
5 3 (2.04%) Swagger
5 3 (2.04%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.04%) XML
6 2 (1.36%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Mobile App
2 13 (8.84%) Industry 4.0
3 12 (8.16%) Operational Technology
4 9 (6.12%) Robotics
5 7 (4.76%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.72%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.72%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 4 (2.72%) PCIe
8 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.72%) Verilog
8 4 (2.72%) VHDL
9 3 (2.04%) CBDC
9 3 (2.04%) NHS
9 3 (2.04%) PKI
9 3 (2.04%) Replication
9 3 (2.04%) Web3
10 2 (1.36%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.20%) Linux
2 13 (8.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.72%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.72%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.72%) VxWorks
4 3 (2.04%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.36%) Android
5 2 (1.36%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.05%) Agile
2 22 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (13.61%) Software Engineering
4 19 (12.93%) DevOps
4 19 (12.93%) SDLC
5 18 (12.24%) Cloud Security
6 17 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (11.56%) Security Architecture
7 16 (10.88%) DevSecOps
7 16 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (10.88%) Security Testing
8 15 (10.20%) Design Patterns
8 15 (10.20%) Roadmaps
9 14 (9.52%) Application Security
9 14 (9.52%) Use Case
10 13 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (8.84%) Computer Science
10 13 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (8.16%) Analytics
12 11 (7.48%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.33%) Python
2 13 (8.84%) C#
3 12 (8.16%) C
3 12 (8.16%) Java
3 12 (8.16%) SQL
4 8 (5.44%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.44%) PHP
5 6 (4.08%) C++
5 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.40%) Go
6 5 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.72%) Embedded C
8 2 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (13.61%) Degree
2 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.08%) CISM
5 5 (3.40%) CHECK Team Leader
5 5 (3.40%) CISA
5 5 (3.40%) CISSP
5 5 (3.40%) CREST Certified
5 5 (3.40%) GIAC
6 4 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (2.72%) CCSP
6 4 (2.72%) OSCP
7 3 (2.04%) CCNA
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.36%) CCSK
8 2 (1.36%) CEH
8 2 (1.36%) CISMP
8 2 (1.36%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.33%) NIST
2 7 (4.76%) QA
3 5 (3.40%) GRC
4 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.72%) MISRA
4 4 (2.72%) MISRA C
5 3 (2.04%) GDPR
5 3 (2.04%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.36%) COBIT
6 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) ISA99
7 1 (0.68%) NCSC
7 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (6.12%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) Firmware
3 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (7.48%) Terraform
2 5 (3.40%) Grafana
3 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (10.88%) SAP
2 9 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.72%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.72%) Cisco
3 4 (2.72%) Databricks
3 4 (2.72%) Intel
4 3 (2.04%) Splunk
5 2 (1.36%) Ariba
5 2 (1.36%) Atmel
5 2 (1.36%) CA
5 2 (1.36%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.68%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.68%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.68%) Juniper
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) PTC
6 1 (0.68%) Remedy