BYOD Contract Job Trends in London

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 341 380
Rank change year-on-year -36 +39 +85
Contract jobs citing BYOD 27 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.080% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 4
10th Percentile £343 £268 £154
25th Percentile £425 £345 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £443 £320
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% +38.28% -20.00%
75th Percentile £671 £497 £425
90th Percentile £888 £500 £493
England median daily rate £518 £410 £320
% change year-on-year +26.22% +28.13% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.48
Median hourly rate - - £16.25
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £16.62
England median hourly rate - - £14.18
% change year-on-year - - -19.99%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,318 4,521 5,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.64% 36.04% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,049 3,059 4,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £301
25th Percentile £441 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 74 160
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £50.31 £47.81
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.05 £66.78
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.60% +12.43% +34.04%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BYOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

BYOD job vacancy trend in London

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BYOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BYOD

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BYOD in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BYOD in London

BYOD
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BYOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BYOD

BYOD
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BYOD within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -12 5 £350 -14.63% 1
BYOD
England

BYOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.70%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DHCP
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) 802.11
2 1 (3.70%) BGP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (3.70%) EIGRP
2 1 (3.70%) HSRP
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) TACACS
2 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.70%) VLAN
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) VRRP
2 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) International Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Content Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Head of Information
5 1 (3.70%) Head of Information Security
5 1 (3.70%) Head of Security
5 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Support
5 1 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth
1 2 (7.41%) OpenID
1 2 (7.41%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Security Posture
2 4 (14.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 13 (48.15%) E-Discovery
3 11 (40.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (40.74%) High Availability
4 10 (37.04%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (33.33%) Migration
6 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (22.22%) Contingency Planning
7 6 (22.22%) Data Protection
7 6 (22.22%) PLM
7 6 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (18.52%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
8 5 (18.52%) Security Operations
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Information Security
9 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
10 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
10 3 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Degree
2 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (29.63%) MCSA
3 8 (29.63%) MCSE
4 3 (11.11%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (18.52%) NIST
1 5 (18.52%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco
2 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Citrix
3 1 (3.70%) Freshdesk
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Qualys
3 1 (3.70%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Zscaler