Smart City Contracts

Smart Cities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart City over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 691 836
Rank change year-on-year +101 +145 -149
Contract jobs citing Smart City 1 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.024% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.008% 0.073% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 9
10th Percentile - £471 £460
25th Percentile £513 £535 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £750 £738
90th Percentile - £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £669 £650
% change year-on-year -21.50% +2.88% +33.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

Smart City 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 13,067 19,290 28,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.26% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 13,245 20,158
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 636 708
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.25 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart City in the UK

Smart City
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smart City in the UK

Smart City
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart City within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +102 1 £525 -25.00% 12
UK excluding London +45 1 £525 -21.50% 7
North of England - 1 £525 - 1
North West - 1 £525 - 1

Smart City
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NEBOSH