Smart Home Contracts

Smart Home (Connected Home)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Home in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Home over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 700 851
Rank change year-on-year +116 +151 -161
Contract jobs citing Smart Home 6 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.015% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £441 - £410
25th Percentile £488 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +10.77%
75th Percentile - £500 £475
90th Percentile - £515 £513
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £449
% change year-on-year +1.39% +0.28% +12.19%

All Generic Skills
UK

Smart Home 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 13,163 19,732 29,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 13,566 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.05 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

Smart Home
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Home over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Home within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +128 6 £600 +33.33% 29
London - 4 £600 - 7
UK excluding London +53 2 £456 +1.39% 20
North of England - 1 £450 -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
South West - 1 £463 - 6

Smart Home
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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS IoT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 4 (66.67%) Electronics
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Housing
2 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Audio Visual Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Amplify
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Home Automation
2 2 (33.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript