IoT Contracts in the City of London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 121 173
Rank change year-on-year +6 +52 +9
Contract jobs citing IoT 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.89% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £474 - £446
25th Percentile £491 £240 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £358 £725
Median % change year-on-year +39.86% -50.69% +19.98%
75th Percentile - £525 £815
90th Percentile - £593 £866
Central London median daily rate £500 £358 £725
% change year-on-year +39.86% -50.69% +19.98%

All Generic Skills
City of London

IoT 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 612 676 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.85% 30.77% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 462 889
10th Percentile £363 £276 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £849 £861
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the City of London

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Modbus
1 4 (100.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering