NB-IoT Contracts in Cambridge

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NB-IoT in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NB-IoT over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NB-IoT 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.43% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

NB-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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 75 80 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 42.86% 39.02% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 62
10th Percentile £360 £235 £185
25th Percentile £410 £334 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +3.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £619 £537 £517
90th Percentile £665 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £473 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -0.53% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 4
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.38 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £25.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% -30.88%
75th Percentile £66.88 £66.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -45.45% -6.38% +279.03%

NB-IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing NB-IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for NB-IoT in Cambridge

NB-IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NB-IoT in Cambridge over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NB-IoT in Cambridge

NB-IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 13 (100.00%) LTE
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) DSP Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) RF Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) FPGA
1 13 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 11 (84.62%) Digital Signal Processing
2 11 (84.62%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (84.62%) Signal Processing