NB-IoT Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NB-IoT in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NB-IoT over the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NB-IoT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

NB-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 674 656 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 30.93% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 408 587
10th Percentile £361 £356 £325
25th Percentile £457 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £799 £838 £832
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.80% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £46.75
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% -25.65% -29.70%

NB-IoT
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 2G
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR