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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 121 160
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 +35
Contract jobs citing IoT 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.47% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £418 £601 £304
25th Percentile £436 £603 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +8.79% -13.38%
75th Percentile £536 £628 £897
90th Percentile £559 £634 £1,184
Central London median daily rate £481 £613 £613
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -5.77%

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 696 643 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.20% 31.20% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 418 714
10th Percentile £356 £362 £314
25th Percentile £458 £481 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +2.13%
75th Percentile £700 £717 £738
90th Percentile £803 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £17.02 £18.40 £22.39
25th Percentile £20.34 £22.00 £30.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £27.00 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -32.21% -16.15%
75th Percentile £58.18 - £60.88
90th Percentile £89.88 £66.30 £74.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.63% -26.31% -26.32%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce