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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 124 153
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +41
Contract jobs citing BYOD 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.14% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.48% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £238 £651
25th Percentile - £336 £691
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £788
Median % change year-on-year - -36.51% +140.46%
75th Percentile - £563 £891
90th Percentile - £600 £934
Central London median daily rate - £500 £788
% change year-on-year - -36.51% +140.46%

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 662 622 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.64% 30.06% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 382 654
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £453 £482 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £695 £723 £738
90th Percentile £808 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £585 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -0.59% -1.92% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BYOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BYOD 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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Boomi
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Supply Chain Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP