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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 125 146
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing BYOD 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.14% 0.069%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.46% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £353 £238 £651
25th Percentile £395 £336 £691
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £788
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -36.51% +142.31%
75th Percentile £555 £563 £891
90th Percentile £591 £600 £934
Central London median daily rate £480 £500 £788
% change year-on-year -4.00% -36.51% +142.31%

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 663 653 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.14% 30.83% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 407 590
10th Percentile £360 £356 £325
25th Percentile £456 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £775 £838 £834
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £19.31
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.80% +57.75% -29.70%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £45.64
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% -24.59% -30.69%

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 19 October 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%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Boomi
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
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%) Applications Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Records Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Supply Chain Management
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow