Edge Computing Contract Job Trends in England

Edge Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Edge Computing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 523 594
Rank change year-on-year +26 +71 +172
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 24 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.033% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.039% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £463 - £565
25th Percentile £556 £425 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -28.00% +54.32%
75th Percentile £675 £475 £663
90th Percentile £680 - £685
UK median daily rate £625 £450 £700
% change year-on-year +38.89% -35.71% +70.73%

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 25,240 28,355 37,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.09% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,025 17,607 26,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £316
25th Percentile £405 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £645 £655
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,512 1,298 1,446
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.77 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%
75th Percentile £49.56 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Edge Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Edge Computing

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing in England over the 6 months to 20 September 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 20 September 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
London - 11 - - 8
South East +15 6 £650 - 10
North West - 3 £600 - 2
North of England - 3 £600 - 3
West Midlands -7 2 £650 - 1
Midlands -17 2 £650 - 1
South West +23 1 £550 +22.22% 1
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 10 (41.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) MQTT
2 2 (8.33%) Modbus
2 2 (8.33%) VSAN
3 1 (4.17%) 5G
3 1 (4.17%) Internet
3 1 (4.17%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
General
1 10 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Architect
2 10 (41.67%) Domain Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Senior
3 7 (29.17%) Senior Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Telecoms Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Designer
4 4 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (12.50%) Consultant
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Architect
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Systems Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 1 (4.17%) IT Architect
7 1 (4.17%) IT Security Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) IoT
1 7 (29.17%) Operational Technology
2 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) SCADA
4 2 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.17%) Life Science
5 1 (4.17%) NB-IoT
5 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (29.17%) API Design
4 7 (29.17%) Architectural Design
4 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
4 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (29.17%) Microservices
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
8 3 (12.50%) Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity
8 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Minimum Viable Product
8 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bicep
1 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft