IoT Contracts in England

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 412 459
Rank change year-on-year +50 +47 +44
Contract jobs citing IoT 109 125 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 1.12% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 78 121
10th Percentile £220 £321 £381
25th Percentile £399 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £581 £738 £743
90th Percentile £675 £780 £799
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £23.75 £21.18 £25.30
25th Percentile £30.75 £22.33 £35.50
Median hourly rate £38.02 £43.58 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% -20.77% -6.78%
75th Percentile £39.04 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £47.65 - £89.50
UK median hourly rate £38.02 £60.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.16% +10.00% +29.41%

All Generic Skills
England

IoT 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 8,217 11,187 16,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.23% 30.72% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 7,325 11,228
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £698
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 825 564
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £35.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +56.70% -15.72%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £62.97
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £32.12 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.11% +45.98% -18.52%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in England

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in England

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in England

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT in England.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in England

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in England

IoT
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 IoT within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London +41 37 £500 -25.93% 344
South East +59 34 £513 -5.09% 376
Midlands +20 24 £500 -25.93% 231
West Midlands +25 23 £500 -42.86% 106
North of England +11 13 £220 -51.11% 241
North West +10 11 £220 -51.11% 113
East of England +26 4 £400 - 203
Yorkshire +11 2 - - 99
East Midlands - 1 £75 - 104
IoT
UK

IoT
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 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) ThingWorx
3 2 (1.83%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Autodesk Smoke
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.83%) SAP PP
2 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.83%) SAP SCM
2 2 (1.83%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.92%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.92%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.92%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.92%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.92%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.92%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.92%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.18%) Azure
2 16 (14.68%) AWS
3 15 (13.76%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.50%) Collibra
6 6 (5.50%) GCP
6 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.59%) Figma
7 5 (4.59%) SaaS
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.67%) GitHub
8 4 (3.67%) Serverless
9 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.76%) 5G
2 10 (9.17%) 4G
3 9 (8.26%) Internet
4 8 (7.34%) 2G
4 8 (7.34%) MQTT
5 7 (6.42%) 3G
5 7 (6.42%) Firewall
6 6 (5.50%) Modbus
7 3 (2.75%) ADSL
7 3 (2.75%) WAN
8 2 (1.83%) DNS
8 2 (1.83%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.83%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (1.83%) LTE
8 2 (1.83%) Network Security
8 2 (1.83%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.83%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.83%) VoIP
8 2 (1.83%) VPN
8 2 (1.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) Power BI
2 9 (8.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (6.42%) GIS
3 7 (6.42%) Tableau
4 6 (5.50%) Delta Lake
5 5 (4.59%) Big Data
5 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.59%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.83%) HDInsight
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.92%) HBase
8 1 (0.92%) Impala
8 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.92%) Metadata
8 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) MSI
2 3 (2.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.92%) Flyway
3 1 (0.92%) Git
3 1 (0.92%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.92%) NetBeans
General
1 31 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.26%) Automotive
4 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.59%) Wearables
6 4 (3.67%) Local Government
7 3 (2.75%) Aviation
7 3 (2.75%) Billing
7 3 (2.75%) Dutch Language
7 3 (2.75%) Finance
7 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.75%) Marketing
8 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.92%) Back Office
9 1 (0.92%) Electronics
9 1 (0.92%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Architect
2 12 (11.01%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (10.09%) Project Manager
4 8 (7.34%) Designer
5 7 (6.42%) Analyst
5 7 (6.42%) Applications Architect
5 7 (6.42%) Senior
6 5 (4.59%) Data Architect
6 5 (4.59%) Visual Designer
7 4 (3.67%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.67%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Senior Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.75%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.75%) Consultant
8 3 (2.75%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (2.75%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (2.75%) Service Manager
8 3 (2.75%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Kafka
2 5 (4.59%) JSON
3 1 (0.92%) D3.js
3 1 (0.92%) EDI
3 1 (0.92%) JWT
3 1 (0.92%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.92%) NumPy
3 1 (0.92%) OAuth
3 1 (0.92%) Pandas
3 1 (0.92%) POSIX
3 1 (0.92%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.92%) React
3 1 (0.92%) React Native
3 1 (0.92%) RESTful
3 1 (0.92%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.92%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.92%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) SCADA
2 12 (11.01%) Operational Technology
3 9 (8.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.34%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.42%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.42%) Blockchain
5 7 (6.42%) Data Structures
5 7 (6.42%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (6.42%) Smartphone
6 6 (5.50%) Mobile App
7 5 (4.59%) Device Driver
7 5 (4.59%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (4.59%) PMI
8 4 (3.67%) Driving Licence
8 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.67%) NB-IoT
9 3 (2.75%) Infotainment
9 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Android
1 8 (7.34%) Apple iOS
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.92%) VMS
3 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.86%) Agile
2 22 (20.18%) Machine Learning
2 22 (20.18%) Project Management
3 20 (18.35%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (15.60%) Analytics
5 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
6 14 (12.84%) DevOps
6 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (11.93%) Migration
7 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (11.01%) Validation
9 11 (10.09%) Architectural Design
9 11 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.09%) Data Architecture
10 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making
11 9 (8.26%) Data Analysis
11 9 (8.26%) Data Governance
11 9 (8.26%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (8.26%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.68%) SQL
2 13 (11.93%) Python
3 6 (5.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (4.59%) C
4 5 (4.59%) Embedded C
5 3 (2.75%) Bicep
6 1 (0.92%) C#
6 1 (0.92%) C++
6 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.92%) Perl
6 1 (0.92%) R
6 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) Degree
2 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.50%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.92%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) CCDP
7 1 (0.92%) CCIP
7 1 (0.92%) CCNA
7 1 (0.92%) CCNP
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.92%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.92%) CSPO
7 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.92%) OSCE
7 1 (0.92%) PMP
7 1 (0.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.50%) GDPR
2 6 (5.50%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) NCSC
4 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.75%) PMO
5 1 (0.92%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.92%) MISRA
5 1 (0.92%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Firmware
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) SAP
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.34%) Databricks
4 6 (5.50%) Informatica
5 5 (4.59%) Oracle
6 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.83%) Google
9 1 (0.92%) ADVA
9 1 (0.92%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 1 (0.92%) Cisco
9 1 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.92%) Juniper
9 1 (0.92%) NCR
9 1 (0.92%) QNX
9 1 (0.92%) Siemens
9 1 (0.92%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.92%) Zscaler