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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 120 131
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +58
Contract jobs citing BYOD 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.34% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 1.10% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £353 £233 £378
25th Percentile £395 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -8.89% +33.33%
75th Percentile £555 £500 £500
90th Percentile £591 £575 £523
Central London median daily rate £480 £443 £450
% change year-on-year +8.47% -1.67% +33.33%

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 691 637 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.66% 31.26% 31.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 400 520
10th Percentile £350 £375 £300
25th Percentile £433 £475 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 £708 £721
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £592 £600
% change year-on-year -7.06% -1.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £22.18 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £38.69 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.85 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -44.19%

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 28 December 2025.

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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) International Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Support
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) E-Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Records Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow