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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 340 346
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +57
Contract jobs citing IoT 74 29 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 0.58% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 14 36
10th Percentile £313 £413 £338
25th Percentile £358 £420 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £446 £750
Median % change year-on-year +21.01% -40.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £527 £780
90th Percentile £693 £630 £794
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £67.50 £24.65
% change year-on-year - +173.83% -46.70%

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 7,302 5,031 5,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.71% 37.10% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,577 3,316 4,060
10th Percentile £352 £338 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 109 122
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.55
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £21.23
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.50 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -1.86% -14.11%
75th Percentile £63.00 £45.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.11 £71.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +14.29%

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 18 July 2026.

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
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 18 July 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 -7 7 £650 +57.58% 6
East London - 2 £334 - 1
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 4 (5.41%) Confluence
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (5.41%) SAS
1 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (5.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (5.41%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (5.41%) CINEMA 4D
2 4 (5.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.35%) Blender
3 1 (1.35%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (51.35%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) Entra ID
3 14 (18.92%) Power Platform
4 11 (14.86%) SaaS
5 7 (9.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (9.46%) PaaS
5 7 (9.46%) PowerApps
6 6 (8.11%) AWS
7 5 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.41%) GCP
8 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.41%) OneDrive
9 3 (4.05%) Azure App Service
9 3 (4.05%) GitHub
9 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.70%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (10.81%) Firewall
2 8 (10.81%) WAN
3 7 (9.46%) LAN
4 4 (5.41%) 5G
4 4 (5.41%) Internet
4 4 (5.41%) MQTT
4 4 (5.41%) PSTN
4 4 (5.41%) Unified Communications
4 4 (5.41%) VXLAN
4 4 (5.41%) Wireless
5 3 (4.05%) 4G
5 3 (4.05%) Network Security
6 2 (2.70%) 3GPP
6 2 (2.70%) DHCP
6 2 (2.70%) DNS
6 2 (2.70%) HTTP
6 2 (2.70%) LTE
6 2 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Data Lake
2 7 (9.46%) Power BI
3 6 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.05%) Metadata
5 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) SQLite
6 1 (1.35%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Gradle
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) JUnit
2 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Retail
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Legal
5 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.76%) Marketing
6 5 (6.76%) Wearables
7 4 (5.41%) Electronics
8 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.70%) Advertising
9 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.35%) Banking
10 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Architect
2 9 (12.16%) Azure Architect
3 7 (9.46%) Project Manager
3 7 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.11%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.11%) Data Architect
4 6 (8.11%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Data Architect
5 5 (6.76%) Consultant
5 5 (6.76%) Designer
5 5 (6.76%) Lead
5 5 (6.76%) Lead Architect
5 5 (6.76%) Technical Architect
5 5 (6.76%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.41%) Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Motion Designer
6 4 (5.41%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.41%) Senior
6 4 (5.41%) Strategic Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Middleware
1 6 (8.11%) OpenID
1 6 (8.11%) SAML
2 5 (6.76%) REST
3 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (4.05%) .NET
5 2 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (2.70%) RESTful
5 2 (2.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.35%) Android SDK
6 1 (1.35%) EDI
6 1 (1.35%) Framer.js
6 1 (1.35%) Google Maps API
6 1 (1.35%) JSON
6 1 (1.35%) Material Design
6 1 (1.35%) PySpark
6 1 (1.35%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Operational Technology
2 11 (14.86%) Onboarding
3 10 (13.51%) FMCG
4 6 (8.11%) PropTech
5 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.41%) Animation
6 4 (5.41%) SCADA
7 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
7 3 (4.05%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.70%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (2.70%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (2.70%) NHS
8 2 (2.70%) Smart City
8 2 (2.70%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (1.35%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.51%) Windows
2 7 (9.46%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (21.62%) Agile
3 15 (20.27%) Project Delivery
4 13 (17.57%) Roadmaps
5 12 (16.22%) Analytics
5 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
6 11 (14.86%) Project Management
6 11 (14.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (14.86%) Zero Trust
7 10 (13.51%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (13.51%) Translating Business Requirements
7 10 (13.51%) User Experience
7 10 (13.51%) Validation
8 9 (12.16%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (12.16%) ERP
8 9 (12.16%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.57%) Python
2 6 (8.11%) Java
3 5 (6.76%) C#
3 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.76%) SQL
4 3 (4.05%) C
4 3 (4.05%) C++
5 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.35%) Perl
6 1 (1.35%) R
6 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) Degree
2 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) PMP
4 4 (5.41%) RIBA
4 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) JNCIP
6 2 (2.70%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CCSAM
7 1 (1.35%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.35%) GPEN
7 1 (1.35%) GXPN
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) OSCE
7 1 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
1 5 (6.76%) SLA
2 4 (5.41%) GRC
3 3 (4.05%) GDPR
4 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (14.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.05%) Firmware
4 2 (2.70%) Docker
5 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
1 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.86%) Zscaler
3 8 (10.81%) Cisco
4 5 (6.76%) Adobe
5 3 (4.05%) Databricks
5 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) Aruba
6 2 (2.70%) Ericsson
6 2 (2.70%) Google
6 2 (2.70%) Huawei
6 2 (2.70%) Juniper
6 2 (2.70%) Meraki
6 2 (2.70%) Nokia
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle
6 2 (2.70%) Samsung
7 1 (1.35%) Arista
7 1 (1.35%) Ekahau
7 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.35%) VMware