IoT Contract Job Trends in Bristol

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Bristol. 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 66 71 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing IoT 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.64% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.13% 1.48% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £484 - £388
25th Percentile £497 - £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.38%
75th Percentile £559 - £562
90th Percentile £576 - £597
South West median daily rate £475 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Generic Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 235 203 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.28% 24.70% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 75 224
10th Percentile £325 £143 £313
25th Percentile £450 £219 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -21.74% +12.09%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £675
90th Percentile £722 £698 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 49 24
10th Percentile £6.00 £53.40 £56.03
25th Percentile £15.60 £67.50 £70.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% -16.07% +28.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £84.27
South West median hourly rate £23.17 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -66.90% - +11.11%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

IoT job vacancy trend in Bristol

IoT
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing IoT

IoT
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing IoT

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) 2G
1 2 (40.00%) 4G
1 2 (40.00%) 5G
1 2 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) ClickHouse
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Tech for Good
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (40.00%) NB-IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) MODAF
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) BMC
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) BiZZdesign