Wearables Contracts

Wearable technology
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Wearables in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wearables over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 713 855
Rank change year-on-year +120 +142 -180
Contract jobs citing Wearables 7 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.005% 0.009%
As % of the General category 0.028% 0.009% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £525 - £478
25th Percentile £536 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -4.55% +33.33%
75th Percentile £718 £563 £569
90th Percentile £750 - £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £538
% change year-on-year - - +144.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All General Skills
UK

Wearables is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,093 34,536 49,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.14% 58.47% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,826 23,949 34,580
10th Percentile £275 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £766 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,938 1,057 1,434
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +47.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -5.71%

Wearables
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wearables in the UK

Wearables
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wearables in the UK

Wearables
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wearables over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wearables in the UK

Wearables
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wearables in the UK

Wearables
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 Wearables within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +123 5 £570 +8.57% 52
East of England - 3 £550 - 16
UK excluding London - 3 £550 - 41
London +113 2 £603 +14.76% 12

Wearables
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 2 (28.57%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Angular Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analogue Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analogue IC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IC Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) NgRx
2 1 (14.29%) Nuxt
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Genomics
1 2 (28.57%) Life Science
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) ASIC
2 1 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
2 1 (14.29%) Verilog
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Dependency Management
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 1 (14.29%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (14.29%) Tcl
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cadence
1 1 (14.29%) Mentor Graphics
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft