BYOD Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 114 123
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +53
Contract jobs citing BYOD 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.093% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.67% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £333 £279
25th Percentile £413 £345 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £380 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £438 £405 £463
90th Percentile - £411 £508
Central London median daily rate £388 £410 £375
% change year-on-year -5.49% +9.33% -6.25%

All Generic Skills
City of London

BYOD 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 715 600 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.35% 34.68% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 393 497
10th Percentile £356 £365 £270
25th Percentile £459 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.39%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £18.92 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +63.16% -63.11%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.88
90th Percentile £63.13 - £59.65
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £29.07 £19.00
% change year-on-year -3.68% +53.00% -45.71%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BYOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

BYOD job vacancy trend in the City of London

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BYOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BYOD

BYOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 802.11
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (50.00%) HSRP
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) TACACS
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VRRP
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) International Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto