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 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 505 510
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 +93
Contract jobs citing BYOD 52 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.033% 0.069%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.091% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 4 11
10th Percentile £237 £180 £111
25th Percentile £381 £209 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £240 £185
Median % change year-on-year +101.04% +29.73% -35.09%
75th Percentile £526 £360 £261
90th Percentile £569 £549 £575
UK median daily rate £483 £250 £185
% change year-on-year +93.00% +35.14% -35.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £12.60
25th Percentile £32.12 - £13.30
Median hourly rate £34.23 - £13.87
75th Percentile £36.35 - £15.06
90th Percentile - - £16.61
UK median hourly rate £34.23 - £13.87
% change year-on-year - - -13.56%

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 15,334 9,866 10,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.54% 35.75% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,357 6,236 6,512
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 496 505
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £19.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.83 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.84% -34.34% +9.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £78.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.98 £30.00 £44.52
% change year-on-year +36.60% -32.61% +1.66%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -54 25 £425 +4.94% 9
Midlands - 12 £508 -
West Midlands - 12 £508 -
South East - 6 £563 -
North of England - 5 £367 -
East of England - 3 £493 - 2
North East - 3 £275 -
North West - 1 £459 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South West - 1 £388 - 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 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (3.85%) HCL Notes
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) CICS
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 8 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.62%) AWS
4 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.77%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.85%) dbt
7 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.85%) Prefect
7 2 (3.85%) SaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Network Security
2 4 (7.69%) DHCP
2 4 (7.69%) DNS
2 4 (7.69%) Firewall
2 4 (7.69%) HTTP
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (5.77%) Wireless
4 2 (3.85%) BGP
4 2 (3.85%) EIGRP
4 2 (3.85%) LAN
4 2 (3.85%) OSPF
4 2 (3.85%) SAN
4 2 (3.85%) VLAN
4 2 (3.85%) VPN
4 2 (3.85%) WAN
4 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.92%) TACACS
5 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) Metadata
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
3 1 (1.92%) DataStage
3 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) MSI
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Digital Health
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) Consultant
3 4 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 3 (5.77%) Administrator
4 3 (5.77%) Analyst
4 3 (5.77%) Designer
4 3 (5.77%) Senior
4 3 (5.77%) User Researcher
5 2 (3.85%) Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Desktop Support
5 2 (3.85%) Developer
5 2 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) IT Support
5 2 (3.85%) Lead
5 2 (3.85%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Scala Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Senior Scrum Master
5 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.85%) .NET
2 2 (3.85%) PySpark
3 1 (1.92%) Express.js
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) Middleware
3 1 (1.92%) Node.js
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) Spring
3 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.77%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.85%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.85%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.85%) iPad
3 2 (3.85%) iPhone
3 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Thin Client
3 2 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) PDA
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.69%) Android
3 4 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.77%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.92%) AIX
6 1 (1.92%) Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Solaris
6 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) Agile
2 9 (17.31%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (15.38%) Migration
3 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (13.46%) Change Management
4 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
4 7 (13.46%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
5 6 (11.54%) AI
5 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.54%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (11.54%) DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (11.54%) SFIA
6 5 (9.62%) Incident Management
6 5 (9.62%) Information Security
6 5 (9.62%) ITIL
6 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) SQL
2 4 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) C#
4 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.85%) R
4 2 (3.85%) Scala
4 2 (3.85%) X++
5 1 (1.92%) COBOL
5 1 (1.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (15.38%) Degree
3 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.69%) CISM
5 4 (7.69%) CISSP
6 2 (3.85%) CCNP
6 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.85%) MCSA
6 2 (3.85%) MCSE
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CCNA
7 1 (1.92%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.62%) GDPR
2 5 (9.62%) NIST
2 5 (9.62%) SLA
3 4 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 4 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.77%) BitLocker
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Cisco
3 4 (7.69%) Google
4 3 (5.77%) Databricks
4 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.77%) VMware
5 2 (3.85%) Citrix
5 2 (3.85%) Dell
5 2 (3.85%) HP
5 2 (3.85%) Lotus
5 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.92%) Aruba
6 1 (1.92%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.92%) Foundry
6 1 (1.92%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.92%) IBM