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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 340 352
Rank change year-on-year -36 +12 +53
Contract jobs citing IoT 74 28 38
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 0.55% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 18 26
10th Percentile £326 £411 £475
25th Percentile £420 £426 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £763
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -33.61% +15.53%
75th Percentile £626 £584 £780
90th Percentile £688 £675 £794
England median daily rate £525 £514 £584
% change year-on-year +2.19% -11.95% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +84.21% -29.63% -44.90%

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 7,611 5,104 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.73% 38.35% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,785 3,328 3,655
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £860
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 120 75
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.21 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.36 £27.81 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -10.28% -11.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.78% -40.45% +19.96%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -17 8 £575 +19.48% 14
East London - 2 £334 - 4
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%) SAS
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.35%) Blender
2 1 (1.35%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (1.35%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.95%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) Entra ID
3 10 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.81%) SaaS
5 6 (8.11%) GCP
6 5 (6.76%) AWS
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.05%) Azure App Service
8 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.05%) PaaS
9 2 (2.70%) AWS IoT
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.70%) IaaS
9 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) WAN
2 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (6.76%) LAN
4 4 (5.41%) Internet
4 4 (5.41%) MQTT
4 4 (5.41%) VXLAN
4 4 (5.41%) Wireless
5 3 (4.05%) 5G
5 3 (4.05%) Modbus
5 3 (4.05%) Network Security
5 3 (4.05%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.70%) Bluetooth
6 2 (2.70%) DHCP
6 2 (2.70%) DNS
6 2 (2.70%) HTTP
6 2 (2.70%) NGFW
6 2 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.35%) SMS
7 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Power BI
2 6 (8.11%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.35%) Big Data
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.35%) SQLite
5 1 (1.35%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Android Studio
1 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.35%) Git
1 1 (1.35%) Gradle
1 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
1 1 (1.35%) JUnit
1 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Retail
4 6 (8.11%) Finance
5 5 (6.76%) Electronics
6 4 (5.41%) Advertising
7 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Legal
7 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.70%) Cyber-Physical System
8 2 (2.70%) Wearables
9 1 (1.35%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Architect
2 10 (13.51%) Network Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Azure Architect
3 8 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.46%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) Lead
5 6 (8.11%) Lead Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.11%) Senior
5 6 (8.11%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.41%) Consultant
6 4 (5.41%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Strategic Project Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Network Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) Middleware
2 6 (8.11%) OpenID
2 6 (8.11%) REST
2 6 (8.11%) SAML
3 3 (4.05%) Kafka
3 3 (4.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (2.70%) .NET
4 2 (2.70%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) RFC 2544
5 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.35%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.35%) EDI
5 1 (1.35%) Framer.js
5 1 (1.35%) Google Maps API
5 1 (1.35%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.35%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.35%) Material Design
5 1 (1.35%) PySpark
5 1 (1.35%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Operational Technology
2 14 (18.92%) Onboarding
3 11 (14.86%) FMCG
4 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.41%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.41%) SCADA
5 4 (5.41%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.05%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (4.05%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.70%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.70%) NHS
8 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.35%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.35%) Life Science
8 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.51%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (24.32%) Agile
3 16 (21.62%) Validation
4 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (17.57%) User Experience
6 12 (16.22%) Analytics
6 12 (16.22%) Network Segmentation
6 12 (16.22%) Zero Trust
7 11 (14.86%) Decision-Making
7 11 (14.86%) Roadmaps
7 11 (14.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (13.51%) AI
8 10 (13.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (12.16%) CI/CD
9 9 (12.16%) Data Modelling
9 9 (12.16%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
10 8 (10.81%) ERP
10 8 (10.81%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.57%) Python
2 8 (10.81%) Java
3 5 (6.76%) SQL
4 4 (5.41%) C
4 4 (5.41%) C#
4 4 (5.41%) C++
4 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.35%) Perl
6 1 (1.35%) R
6 1 (1.35%) Rust
6 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Degree
4 5 (6.76%) PMP
5 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.70%) JNCIP
5 2 (2.70%) JNCIS
5 2 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) CCSAM
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
6 1 (1.35%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.35%) GXPN
6 1 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.11%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) NCSC
3 1 (1.35%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.41%) Firmware
4 1 (1.35%) Docker
4 1 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Cisco
1 12 (16.22%) Zscaler
2 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.05%) SAP
4 2 (2.70%) Adobe
4 2 (2.70%) Arista
4 2 (2.70%) Aruba
4 2 (2.70%) Google
4 2 (2.70%) Juniper
4 2 (2.70%) Meraki
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Siemens
5 1 (1.35%) Databricks
5 1 (1.35%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.35%) Huawei
5 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.35%) Nokia
5 1 (1.35%) Samsung
5 1 (1.35%) VMware