BYOD Contract Job Trends in England

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 502 555
Rank change year-on-year -23 +53 +145
Contract jobs citing BYOD 20 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.054% 0.030%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.17% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 9
10th Percentile £225 £173 £203
25th Percentile £285 £184 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £330 £525
Median % change year-on-year +70.45% -37.14% +38.16%
75th Percentile £579 £491 £613
90th Percentile £615 £568 £753
UK median daily rate £563 £225 £538
% change year-on-year +150.00% -58.14% +34.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.19 -
UK median hourly rate - £16.19 -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,023 9,821 12,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.46% 31.45% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,900 5,873 8,739
10th Percentile £285 £298 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.85% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 308 462
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.97 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.18 £21.27
Median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%
75th Percentile £52.81 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £77.95
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.45% +48.59%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BYOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

BYOD job vacancy trend in England

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BYOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BYOD

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BYOD in England over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BYOD in England

BYOD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BYOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BYOD

BYOD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BYOD within the England region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +22 15 £567 +22.54% 18
South East - 3 £563 - 1
BYOD
UK

BYOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.00%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Boomi
4 1 (5.00%) Datadog
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTP
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.00%) FTP
3 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (5.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (5.00%) RTP
3 1 (5.00%) SSH
3 1 (5.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Games
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Middleware Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) OAuth
1 4 (20.00%) OpenID
1 4 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (30.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (45.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (30.00%) AI
4 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
5 5 (25.00%) Data Security
5 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 5 (25.00%) Information Security
5 5 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
6 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (20.00%) E-Discovery
6 4 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (15.00%) Data Flow Diagram
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) Go
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 8 (40.00%) CISSP
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (15.00%) CISM
5 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (10.00%) Reuters
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Nexthink
4 1 (5.00%) SAP