IoT Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing IoT 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.54% - 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% - 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £225 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - -31.54%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 133 99 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 35.95% 33.11% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 62 76
10th Percentile £180 £265 £235
25th Percentile £335 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -5.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £577
90th Percentile £675 £613 £663
East of England median daily rate £463 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 19
10th Percentile £23.00 £16.93 £25.00
25th Percentile £27.29 £19.49 £35.51
Median hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.22% -58.18% +39.93%
75th Percentile £45.00 £53.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £67.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.79% +23.18% -16.03%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

IoT job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

IoT
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing IoT

IoT
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing IoT

IoT
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
Peterborough - 1 - -
IoT
East of England

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) 5G NR
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Kepware
1 1 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens