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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 462 522
Rank change year-on-year -80 +60 +83
Contract jobs citing BYOD 52 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.034% 0.060%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.098% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 3 9
10th Percentile £352 £268 £150
25th Percentile £425 £355 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £265
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% +88.68% -33.75%
75th Percentile £569 - £388
90th Percentile £688 - £577
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £265
% change year-on-year +2.00% +88.68% -41.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £12.72
25th Percentile £32.12 - £13.86
Median hourly rate £34.23 - £14.18
75th Percentile £36.35 - £15.81
90th Percentile - - £16.31
UK median hourly rate £34.23 - £14.48
% change year-on-year - - -14.50%

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 13,482 8,205 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.29% 34.43% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 5,344 7,369
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 708 337 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.34 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.17
Median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.23% -3.80% +59.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.65 £82.78 £71.14
UK median hourly rate £41.46 £32.05 £34.00
% change year-on-year +29.36% -5.74% +54.55%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -47 27 £500 - 3
South East - 11 £563 - 1
North of England -65 10 £436 -
North West -31 9 £448 -
West Midlands - 2 £518 -
East of England - 2 £510 -
Midlands - 2 £518 -
North East - 1 £275 -
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 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (17.31%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 2 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 7 (13.46%) AWS
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) Firewall
2 6 (11.54%) HTTP
2 6 (11.54%) Network Security
3 5 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (9.62%) Wireless
4 4 (7.69%) LAN
4 4 (7.69%) WAN
5 2 (3.85%) DHCP
5 2 (3.85%) DNS
6 1 (1.92%) 802.11
6 1 (1.92%) BGP
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (1.92%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.92%) HSRP
6 1 (1.92%) OSPF
6 1 (1.92%) TACACS
6 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.92%) VLAN
6 1 (1.92%) VPN
6 1 (1.92%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) DataStage
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.92%) MSI
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Advertising
7 1 (1.92%) International Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Designer
3 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Designer
4 6 (11.54%) Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Security Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Scala Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Administrator
8 1 (1.92%) Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Architect
8 1 (1.92%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Deployment Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (1.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.92%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) Middleware
2 5 (9.62%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth
4 1 (1.92%) OpenID
4 1 (1.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Data Centre
1 9 (17.31%) Mainframe
1 9 (17.31%) VSAM
2 7 (13.46%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) AIX
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
1 9 (17.31%) Solaris
1 9 (17.31%) Unix
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Android
3 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 14 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (25.00%) Migration
4 12 (23.08%) E-Discovery
5 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (21.15%) High Availability
6 10 (19.23%) Business Case
6 10 (19.23%) Information Security
7 9 (17.31%) Agile
7 9 (17.31%) Change Management
7 9 (17.31%) Design Patterns
7 9 (17.31%) Process Improvement
8 8 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
8 8 (15.38%) Security Operations
9 7 (13.46%) Cloud Security
9 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
10 6 (11.54%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (11.54%) PLM
10 6 (11.54%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.31%) COBOL
3 2 (3.85%) C#
3 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (3.85%) Scala
3 2 (3.85%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Degree
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (15.38%) MCSA
3 8 (15.38%) MCSE
4 7 (13.46%) CISSP
5 6 (11.54%) CISM
6 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.77%) CCNA
7 3 (5.77%) CCNP
7 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) GDPR
1 10 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (19.23%) NIST
2 7 (13.46%) SLA
3 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
3 6 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (9.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (17.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) VMware
3 9 (17.31%) IBM
4 6 (11.54%) Cisco
5 4 (7.69%) Aruba
5 4 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.92%) Citrix
7 1 (1.92%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Qualys
7 1 (1.92%) Zscaler