IoT Contracts in Berkshire

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 111 102
Rank change year-on-year +30 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing IoT 12 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.66% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.93% 2.17% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £253 £334 £286
25th Percentile £329 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +8.94%
75th Percentile £650 £555 £500
90th Percentile - - £528
South East median daily rate £488 £545 £413
% change year-on-year -10.55% +32.12% -25.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.55 - £19.93
25th Percentile £21.13 £18.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -27.62% +0.96%
75th Percentile £26.63 £19.50 £30.56
90th Percentile £28.05 - £32.78
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +26.32% -27.62% -55.51%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

IoT falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in Berkshire

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in Berkshire

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in Berkshire

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IoT in Berkshire

IoT
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +33 7 £255 -50.24% 14
Bracknell +18 3 £650 +17.12% 1
IoT
South East

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) 5G
1 2 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (8.33%) 4G
2 1 (8.33%) ADSL
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) PPP
2 1 (8.33%) RIP
2 1 (8.33%) SNMP
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) HBase
2 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
2 1 (8.33%) Impala
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Billing
1 3 (25.00%) Dutch Language
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Infotainment
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) NB-IoT
2 2 (16.67%) PMI
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Telematics
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) B2B
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Retention
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Time Management
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) CCDP
2 1 (8.33%) CCIP
2 1 (8.33%) CCNA
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Flume
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) ADVA
2 1 (8.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets