IoT Contracts with Work from Home Options

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 393 422
Rank change year-on-year +96 +29 -82
Contract jobs citing IoT 40 74 208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 0.92% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 48 142
10th Percentile £355 £409 £398
25th Percentile £463 £458 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -4.26% +11.90%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £790 £752 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £25.30 £22.35
25th Percentile £18.50 £35.50 £24.38
Median hourly rate £19.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.45% +29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £19.50 £77.50 £61.50
90th Percentile - £89.50 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.78% +27.57%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,323 8,043 13,993
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.54% 31.45% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,652 9,983
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £644
90th Percentile £800 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 153 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.37
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.18
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

IoT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IoT trend for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IoT.

IoT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IoT over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

IoT daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IoT.

IoT hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.50%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP MII
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Serverless
4 4 (10.00%) PaaS
4 4 (10.00%) SaaS
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) AWS IoT
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) VPN
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
3 2 (5.00%) LAN
3 2 (5.00%) MPLS
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) BGP
4 1 (2.50%) DSL
4 1 (2.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.50%) IPsec
4 1 (2.50%) MQTT
4 1 (2.50%) OSPF
4 1 (2.50%) SSL
4 1 (2.50%) TACACS
4 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.50%) Wireless
4 1 (2.50%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.50%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) gulp
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Marketing
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 2 (5.00%) German Language
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Developer
1 8 (20.00%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Agile Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.50%) IoT Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (7.50%) React
2 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 2 (5.00%) Django
3 2 (5.00%) JSON
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) Node.js
3 2 (5.00%) Symfony
4 1 (2.50%) JSON Schema
4 1 (2.50%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) OAuth
4 1 (2.50%) OpenID
4 1 (2.50%) PySpark
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) SAML
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.00%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (5.00%) SCADA
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.50%) BYOD
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.50%) Mashup
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (5.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
1 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Agile
2 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (20.00%) DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) SDLC
3 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (17.50%) B2B
5 6 (15.00%) Analytics
5 6 (15.00%) OWASP
6 5 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 5 (12.50%) Microservices
6 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 4 (10.00%) API Design
7 4 (10.00%) Business Case
7 4 (10.00%) Business Process Mapping
7 4 (10.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (10.00%) Security Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) PHP
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) BC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.50%) CCDP
2 1 (2.50%) CCIP
2 1 (2.50%) CCNA
2 1 (2.50%) CCNP
2 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.50%) CISSP
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) ADVA
4 1 (2.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (2.50%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
4 1 (2.50%) Cognizant
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Juniper
4 1 (2.50%) Kepware
4 1 (2.50%) PTC
4 1 (2.50%) Remedy