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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 113 126
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing BYOD 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.060% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £253 - £268
25th Percentile £280 £325 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £320
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £406 £375 £359
90th Percentile £425 - £376
Central London median daily rate £350 £350 £320
% change year-on-year - +9.38% -20.00%

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 723 574 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.06% 34.66% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 365 457
10th Percentile £369 £357 £271
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £711 £700
90th Percentile £800 £824 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £565
% change year-on-year - +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £18.85 £23.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.34 £26.50 £14.38
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +34.78% -42.25%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £63.13 £86.20 £36.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £27.76 £23.40
% change year-on-year -5.94% +18.63% -33.14%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BYOD in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BYOD in the City of London

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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) 802.11
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) HSRP
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) TACACS
2 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) VRRP
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) International Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Freshdesk
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware