Edge Computing Contracts in England

Edge Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Edge Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Edge Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 523 647
Rank change year-on-year +58 +124 +108
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 20 19 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.051% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.059% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile - - £656
25th Percentile £463 £475 £778
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £850
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -41.18% +34.92%
75th Percentile £675 £601 £875
90th Percentile £726 £646 -
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £850
% change year-on-year +3.00% -41.18% +34.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Edge Computing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Edge Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Edge Computing in England

Edge Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Edge Computing in England.

Daily rate trend for Edge Computing in England

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Edge Computing in England

Edge Computing
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 Edge Computing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +48 8 £475 - 30
London - 6 - - 24
South West +47 3 £515 - 9
Midlands +22 3 £650 +30.00% 16
West Midlands +14 3 £650 +30.00% 8
Edge Computing
UK

Edge Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) 5G
2 4 (20.00%) LTE
2 4 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (10.00%) Modbus
3 2 (10.00%) MQTT
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
1 7 (35.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Designer
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
3 4 (20.00%) Domain Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms Architect
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IoT Architect
6 1 (5.00%) IT Architect
6 1 (5.00%) IT Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.00%) Django
3 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.00%) Flask
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) IoT
2 4 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (20.00%) SCADA
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) NB-IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (20.00%) Network Design
5 4 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) LLM
6 3 (15.00%) MLOps
7 2 (10.00%) API Design
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Siemens