NB-IoT Contract Job Trends in Central London

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NB-IoT in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NB-IoT over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NB-IoT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.053% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
London median daily rate £463 - -

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 723 734 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.40% 31.31% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 470 664
10th Percentile £360 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £688 £712 £738
90th Percentile £775 £838 £847
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £16.96 £24.28 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.79 £25.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -24.59% -30.69%
75th Percentile £36.00 £43.38 £44.54
90th Percentile £70.21 £72.85 £53.00
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.13 £29.72
% change year-on-year -22.93% +14.82% +10.16%

NB-IoT
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NB-IoT within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
City of London - 1 £475 - 1
NB-IoT
London

NB-IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 2G
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR