IoT Contract Job Trends in London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 337 379
Rank change year-on-year -10 +42 +103
Contract jobs citing IoT 41 39 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.73% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 20 26
10th Percentile £406 £448 £157
25th Percentile £445 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +10.26% -34.56%
75th Percentile £640 £709 £708
90th Percentile £750 £776 £919
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £40.30 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £42.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £46.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% - -
75th Percentile £38.50 £51.75 -
90th Percentile £49.90 £54.30 -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.28% -12.36% +32.84%

All Generic Skills
London

IoT 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 5,547 5,332 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 33.91% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,532 3,415 4,810
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £720
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 62 100
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.28 £18.76
25th Percentile £19.89 £23.98 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +13.01% +1.65%
75th Percentile £42.47 £56.00 £50.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £68.08
England median hourly rate £29.14 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.91% +2.62% +47.54%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IoT job vacancy trend in London

IoT
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IoT

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in London over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in London

IoT
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IoT

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT in London over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in London

IoT
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 IoT within the London region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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 6 £475 - 58
West London -13 1 £425 - 9
IoT
England

IoT
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 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.88%) SAP EWM
2 2 (4.88%) SAP GTS
2 2 (4.88%) SAP IBP
2 2 (4.88%) SAP MM
2 2 (4.88%) SAP PP
2 2 (4.88%) SAP SCM
2 2 (4.88%) SAP SRM
3 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 3 (7.32%) SaaS
6 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.44%) Figma
7 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Wireless
2 5 (12.20%) 5G
3 4 (9.76%) 2G
3 4 (9.76%) 4G
3 4 (9.76%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (7.32%) NFC
4 3 (7.32%) RFID
4 3 (7.32%) VPN
5 2 (4.88%) Internet
5 2 (4.88%) MQTT
5 2 (4.88%) Network Security
6 1 (2.44%) 3GPP
6 1 (2.44%) Bluetooth
6 1 (2.44%) DNS
6 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.44%) LTE
6 1 (2.44%) Modbus
6 1 (2.44%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) GIS
2 4 (9.76%) Power BI
3 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.88%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.88%) Metadata
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.44%) HDInsight
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) Spatial Data
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Gradle
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) Maven
2 1 (2.44%) Moq
2 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
4 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Marketing
6 3 (7.32%) Retail
7 2 (4.88%) Billing
8 1 (2.44%) Aviation
8 1 (2.44%) Back Office
8 1 (2.44%) Electronics
8 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.44%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Architect
2 7 (17.07%) Consultant
3 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Network Design Specialist
3 3 (7.32%) Network Specialist
3 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Implementation Consultant
4 2 (4.88%) Integration Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Network Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Procurement Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Procurement Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (4.88%) SAP Manager
4 2 (4.88%) SAP Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Security Consultant
4 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.88%) PySpark
3 1 (2.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.44%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Operational Technology
2 5 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (12.20%) NB-IoT
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) NHS
4 2 (4.88%) Data Fabric
4 2 (4.88%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (4.88%) Life Science
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.88%) Robotics
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) CCTV
5 1 (2.44%) FPGA
5 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) VMS
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Analytics
2 10 (24.39%) Agile
3 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (17.07%) ETL
4 7 (17.07%) Network Design
4 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
5 6 (14.63%) AI
5 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
5 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
6 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) ERP
6 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
7 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
7 4 (9.76%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) SQL
2 4 (9.76%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) Bicep
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) CCNP
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CCIE
4 1 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.44%) PMP
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) SAP
3 3 (7.32%) Databricks
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) IFS
5 1 (2.44%) Meraki
5 1 (2.44%) NEC
5 1 (2.44%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto