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 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 343 386
Rank change year-on-year -47 +43 +76
Contract jobs citing BYOD 24 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.048% 0.063%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 3
10th Percentile £338 £245 £140
25th Percentile £422 £296 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £425 £265
Median % change year-on-year +24.12% +60.38% -41.11%
75th Percentile £747 £500 £330
90th Percentile £888 - £365
England median daily rate £518 £350 £265
% change year-on-year +47.86% +32.08% -33.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.12 - £14.48
Median hourly rate £34.23 - £16.25
75th Percentile £36.35 - -
90th Percentile - - £16.62
England median hourly rate £34.23 - £14.18
% change year-on-year - - -16.30%

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 6,336 4,446 5,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.45% 35.87% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 3,016 4,138
10th Percentile £350 £336 £313
25th Percentile £445 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 80 149
10th Percentile £18.16 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.82 £23.42 £17.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.64 £69.25
England median hourly rate £46.00 £34.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +2.99% +48.99%

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 15 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 15 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 -4 5 £350 -
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 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DHCP
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) 802.11
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.17%) HSRP
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) TACACS
2 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) VRRP
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) International Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Content Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Head of Information
4 1 (4.17%) Head of Information Security
4 1 (4.17%) Head of Security
4 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OpenID
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 12 (50.00%) E-Discovery
3 11 (45.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (45.83%) High Availability
4 10 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (37.50%) Migration
6 6 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
6 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 6 (25.00%) PLM
6 6 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (16.67%) Information Security
8 3 (12.50%) Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
9 2 (8.33%) AI
9 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
9 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
9 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (33.33%) MCSA
2 8 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
2 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.67%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (37.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Freshdesk
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.17%) Qualys
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Zscaler