IoT Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 69 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing IoT 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.16% 0.43% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 1.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £618 -
25th Percentile £500 £634 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -
75th Percentile £600 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £584 £713
% change year-on-year -14.31% -18.11% +26.67%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 288 182 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 44.65% 26.07% 36.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 107 157
10th Percentile £250 £158 £275
25th Percentile £388 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £588
90th Percentile £600 £738 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 16
10th Percentile - £17.10 £26.25
25th Percentile - £21.25 £29.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +242.11%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.75 £58.35 £68.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £27.53 £27.25
% change year-on-year +8.98% +1.02% +43.42%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IoT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

IoT job vacancy trend in Birmingham

IoT
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing IoT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing IoT

IoT
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing IoT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing IoT

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks