Edge Computing Contract Job Trends in London

Edge Computing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Edge Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 341 -
Rank change year-on-year -65 - -
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 8 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.065% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.070% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
England median daily rate £502 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +6.50% -41.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Edge Computing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,783 11,435 15,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.26% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,560 7,742 11,125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 176 311
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Edge Computing job vacancy trend in London

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Edge Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Edge Computing

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Edge Computing in London

Edge Computing
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 Edge Computing 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 - 3 £430 - 1
Edge Computing
England

Edge Computing
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 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Akamai
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) 5G
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
1 2 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (12.50%) 3GPP
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) AI
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Programme Governance
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
2 1 (12.50%) Huawei
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Nokia
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Samsung