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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 459 521
Rank change year-on-year -90 +62 +118
Contract jobs citing BYOD 46 13 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.053% 0.051%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 7 10
10th Percentile £413 £209 £155
25th Percentile £453 £268 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £320
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% +28.13% -36.00%
75th Percentile £576 £494 £547
90th Percentile £794 £500 £620
UK median daily rate £525 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +50.00% -17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £12.68
25th Percentile - - £13.85
Median hourly rate - - £14.48
75th Percentile - - £16.25
90th Percentile - - £16.37
UK median hourly rate - £24.18 £14.48
% change year-on-year - +66.99% -18.27%

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 12,894 8,296 11,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.97% 34.06% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,192 5,451 7,567
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £673
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 312 812
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.29
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.66 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.50 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +31.77% +22.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £66.98
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.53%

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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 2026. 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 -43 24 £555 +25.42% 3
South East -42 11 £563 +164.71% 2
North West -24 9 £448 -
North of England -64 9 £448 -
West Midlands - 2 £518 -
Midlands - 2 £518 -
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 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (19.57%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) Firewall
2 6 (13.04%) HTTP
2 6 (13.04%) Network Security
3 5 (10.87%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (10.87%) Wireless
4 3 (6.52%) LAN
4 3 (6.52%) WAN
5 1 (2.17%) 802.11
5 1 (2.17%) BGP
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (2.17%) DHCP
5 1 (2.17%) DNS
5 1 (2.17%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.17%) HSRP
5 1 (2.17%) OSPF
5 1 (2.17%) TACACS
5 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.17%) VLAN
5 1 (2.17%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) DataStage
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.87%) Banking
6 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Advertising
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) International Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Designer
2 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Designer
3 6 (13.04%) Security Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Consultant
4 5 (10.87%) Security Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Scala Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Head of Information Security
7 1 (2.17%) Head of Security
7 1 (2.17%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) Middleware
2 5 (10.87%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.35%) OAuth
3 2 (4.35%) OpenID
3 2 (4.35%) SAML
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
1 9 (19.57%) Mainframe
1 9 (19.57%) VSAM
2 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.87%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) AIX
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
1 9 (19.57%) Solaris
1 9 (19.57%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Roadmaps
2 14 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (28.26%) E-Discovery
4 11 (23.91%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (23.91%) High Availability
4 11 (23.91%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (23.91%) Security Operations
5 10 (21.74%) Business Case
5 10 (21.74%) Information Security
5 10 (21.74%) Risk Management
6 9 (19.57%) Agile
6 9 (19.57%) Design Patterns
6 9 (19.57%) Migration
6 9 (19.57%) Process Improvement
7 8 (17.39%) Cloud Security
8 7 (15.22%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
9 6 (13.04%) Information Governance
9 6 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.57%) COBOL
3 2 (4.35%) Scala
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (19.57%) CISSP
4 8 (17.39%) MCSA
4 8 (17.39%) MCSE
5 6 (13.04%) CISM
6 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (6.52%) CCNA
7 3 (6.52%) CCNP
7 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
9 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) GDPR
1 11 (23.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (23.91%) NIST
2 6 (13.04%) PCI DSS
2 6 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (19.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) IBM
2 9 (19.57%) VMware
3 5 (10.87%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) Aruba
4 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.17%) Qualys
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Zscaler