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 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 350 386
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 +130
Contract jobs citing BYOD 18 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.10% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.29% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £325 £310 £231
25th Percentile £425 £405 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year +16.84% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £500
90th Percentile £615 £525 £523
England median daily rate £555 £463 £438
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.71% +15.13%

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 5,571 4,748 6,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.04% 34.08% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,621 2,993 4,323
10th Percentile £350 £325 £305
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £706
90th Percentile £800 £838 £809
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 59 150
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.97 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.57 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.07 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +31.84% +1.32%
75th Percentile £51.25 £67.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.20 £65.18
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.60% +7.96% +55.66%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 3 £480 +1.05%
West London - 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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (27.78%) Azure
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.56%) FTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.56%) NX-OS
1 1 (5.56%) RTP
1 1 (5.56%) SSH
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) tcpdump
1 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (5.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) OAuth
1 4 (22.22%) OpenID
1 4 (22.22%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) Regular Expression
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 6 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Android
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) E-Discovery
2 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (38.89%) High Availability
3 7 (38.89%) Migration
3 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
4 6 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 5 (27.78%) Contingency Planning
5 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (27.78%) Data Security
5 5 (27.78%) Identity Management
5 5 (27.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (27.78%) PLM
5 5 (27.78%) Privileged Identity Management
5 5 (27.78%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Go
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 12 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (38.89%) MCSA
3 7 (38.89%) MCSE
4 5 (27.78%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (38.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.56%) Reuters
3 1 (5.56%) VMware