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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 340 395
Rank change year-on-year -34 +55 +108
Contract jobs citing BYOD 21 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.096% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.28% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 4
10th Percentile £365 £302 £289
25th Percentile £425 £405 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +16.84% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £615 £500 £509
90th Percentile £850 £525 £526
England median daily rate £513 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +10.81% -7.50% -

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 5,790 4,670 6,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.97% 34.57% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,764 2,990 4,252
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £431 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £813
England median daily rate £510 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 64 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.72 £24.66 £19.60
Median hourly rate £28.55 £38.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -24.87% +31.60% -17.50%
75th Percentile £54.25 £59.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £33.00 £36.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% +44.44%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -10 4 £350 -26.32%
West London - 1 - - 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 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.76%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (47.62%) Entra ID
3 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.76%) FTP
1 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.76%) NX-OS
1 1 (4.76%) RTP
1 1 (4.76%) SSH
1 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Legal
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 8 (38.10%) Security Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Head of Information
4 1 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) OAuth
1 5 (23.81%) OpenID
1 5 (23.81%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Security Posture
2 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) E-Discovery
2 9 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 8 (38.10%) Incident Response
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) Security Operations
4 7 (33.33%) AI
4 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (33.33%) High Availability
4 7 (33.33%) Migration
5 6 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (28.57%) Data Security
5 6 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 6 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
5 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) Privileged Access Management
6 5 (23.81%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Degree
2 13 (61.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (33.33%) MCSA
3 7 (33.33%) MCSE
4 6 (28.57%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Zscaler