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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 303 341
Rank change year-on-year -61 +38 +69
Contract jobs citing IoT 49 52 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 1.14% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 34
10th Percentile £310 £421 £247
25th Percentile £406 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -9.09% -25.17%
75th Percentile £670 £560 £738
90th Percentile £732 £700 £780
England median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £39.04 -
England median hourly rate - £39.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year - -12.31% -19.09%

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 6,039 4,550 5,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.92% 35.16% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,922 3,018 4,207
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £703
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 69 176
10th Percentile £17.75 £20.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.30 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £30.35 £35.50 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% +27.93% -20.71%
75th Percentile £57.86 £57.50 £47.02
90th Percentile £74.38 £80.75 £64.77
England median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +10.29% +20.35% +25.56%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -13 3 £475 - 14
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 (8.16%) Confluence
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (8.16%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (8.16%) Adobe Premiere
1 4 (8.16%) CINEMA 4D
1 4 (8.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Maximo
2 1 (2.04%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP GTS
2 1 (2.04%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.04%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.04%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (12.24%) PaaS
3 6 (12.24%) Power Platform
3 6 (12.24%) SaaS
4 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) PowerApps
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.16%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.12%) GCP
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) 5G
1 8 (16.33%) WAN
2 7 (14.29%) 4G
2 7 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (12.24%) 3GPP
3 6 (12.24%) Network Security
3 6 (12.24%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (8.16%) 2G
4 4 (8.16%) LAN
4 4 (8.16%) PSTN
4 4 (8.16%) Unified Communications
4 4 (8.16%) Wireless
5 3 (6.12%) MVNO
5 3 (6.12%) SD-WAN
5 3 (6.12%) SMPP
5 3 (6.12%) SMS
6 2 (4.08%) Firewall
6 2 (4.08%) LTE
6 2 (4.08%) VPN
7 1 (2.04%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
2 4 (8.16%) GIS
2 4 (8.16%) Metadata
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Telecoms
3 7 (14.29%) Marketing
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
4 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Electronics
5 4 (8.16%) Legal
5 4 (8.16%) Wearables
6 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Advertising
8 1 (2.04%) Aviation
8 1 (2.04%) Back Office
8 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Architect
2 7 (14.29%) Consultant
3 4 (8.16%) Data Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Designer
3 4 (8.16%) Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Motion Designer
3 4 (8.16%) Programme Manager
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
4 3 (6.12%) Network Consultant
4 3 (6.12%) Network Design Specialist
4 3 (6.12%) Network Specialist
4 3 (6.12%) Senior
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 2 (4.08%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) IT Support
5 2 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (6.12%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.04%) EDI
4 1 (2.04%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.04%) PySpark
4 1 (2.04%) RESTful
4 1 (2.04%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) NB-IoT
1 5 (10.20%) PropTech
2 4 (8.16%) Animation
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Java Card
3 3 (6.12%) NHS
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.08%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.08%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.08%) Robotics
4 2 (4.08%) Smart City
5 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.04%) SCADA
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Android
2 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.04%) VMS
2 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
3 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.33%) Agile
4 8 (16.33%) Analytics
4 8 (16.33%) Asset Management
4 8 (16.33%) Project Delivery
4 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (14.29%) ETL
6 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
6 6 (12.24%) DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Network Design
6 6 (12.24%) Risk Management
7 5 (10.20%) Data Architecture
7 5 (10.20%) Data Management
7 5 (10.20%) ERP
7 5 (10.20%) Migration
7 5 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.20%) TOGAF
7 5 (10.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) SQL
3 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) Java
5 3 (6.12%) C
5 3 (6.12%) C++
6 1 (2.04%) Bicep
6 1 (2.04%) C#
6 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Azure Certification
2 5 (10.20%) Degree
3 4 (8.16%) RIBA
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.04%) CCIE
6 1 (2.04%) CCNP
6 1 (2.04%) CCSK
6 1 (2.04%) CCSP
6 1 (2.04%) CGEIT
6 1 (2.04%) CISM
6 1 (2.04%) CISSP
6 1 (2.04%) CRISC
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) GDPR
1 5 (10.20%) GRC
1 5 (10.20%) SLA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.08%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Adobe
2 4 (8.16%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
3 3 (6.12%) Thales
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco
4 2 (4.08%) Ericsson
4 2 (4.08%) Huawei
4 2 (4.08%) Meraki
4 2 (4.08%) Nokia
4 2 (4.08%) Samsung
5 1 (2.04%) Aruba
5 1 (2.04%) Ekahau
5 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) IFS
5 1 (2.04%) NEC