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 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 467 532
Rank change year-on-year -51 +65 +150
Contract jobs citing BYOD 23 19 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.073% 0.069% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 10
10th Percentile £285 £211 £208
25th Percentile £425 £306 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £547
90th Percentile £599 £568 £556
UK median daily rate £555 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +46.05% -24.00% +31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.19 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.59 -

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 11,068 8,902 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 32.53% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,016 5,361 7,592
10th Percentile £288 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £545
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.75% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 261 480
10th Percentile £14.34 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £40.46
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -8.55% +61.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -16.67% -13.51% +52.62%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -7 18 £555 +16.84% 1
South East -18 4 £563 +164.71%
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 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.35%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (30.43%) Entra ID
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.35%) FTP
2 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.35%) NX-OS
2 1 (4.35%) RTP
2 1 (4.35%) SSH
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Legal
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Games
6 1 (4.35%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Support Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) OAuth
1 4 (17.39%) OpenID
1 4 (17.39%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.35%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (26.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) E-Discovery
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (39.13%) Security Operations
3 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (30.43%) High Availability
4 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 7 (30.43%) Risk Management
4 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
5 6 (26.09%) AI
5 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
5 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
5 6 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Contingency Planning
6 5 (21.74%) Data Security
6 5 (21.74%) Identity Management
6 5 (21.74%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (21.74%) PLM
6 5 (21.74%) Privileged Identity Management
6 5 (21.74%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) C#
2 1 (4.35%) Go
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Degree
2 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (34.78%) CISSP
4 7 (30.43%) MCSA
4 7 (30.43%) MCSE
5 3 (13.04%) CISM
6 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (17.39%) NIST
2 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
2 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (30.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.35%) Reuters
3 1 (4.35%) VMware