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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 301 319
Rank change year-on-year -66 +18 +78
Contract jobs citing IoT 54 47 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.04% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 37
10th Percentile £313 £421 £254
25th Percentile £345 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -25.17%
75th Percentile £600 £549 £775
90th Percentile £730 £700 £780
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £39.04 -
England median hourly rate - £39.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -37.60% +4.17%

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 6,232 4,522 5,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.04% 35.77% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,016 3,065 4,203
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 72 164
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.75 £18.90
Median hourly rate £32.56 £34.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +28.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.13 £80.55 £66.23
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year +29.89% +26.13% +23.33%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -15 4 £600 +23.08% 18
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 (7.41%) Confluence
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (7.41%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (7.41%) Adobe Premiere
1 4 (7.41%) CINEMA 4D
1 4 (7.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Maximo
2 1 (1.85%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP GTS
2 1 (1.85%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.85%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.85%) SAP SCM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) AWS
2 10 (18.52%) SaaS
3 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 6 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.26%) PaaS
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.41%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.56%) GCP
8 2 (3.70%) AWS IoT
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) Network Security
1 8 (14.81%) WAN
2 7 (12.96%) 5G
2 7 (12.96%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (11.11%) 3GPP
3 6 (11.11%) 4G
3 6 (11.11%) Firewall
4 5 (9.26%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (7.41%) Internet
5 4 (7.41%) LAN
5 4 (7.41%) PSTN
5 4 (7.41%) SMS
5 4 (7.41%) Unified Communications
6 3 (5.56%) 2G
6 3 (5.56%) DNS
6 3 (5.56%) MQTT
6 3 (5.56%) MVNO
6 3 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.56%) SMPP
6 3 (5.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
1 4 (7.41%) Metadata
2 3 (5.56%) GIS
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Big Data
4 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.85%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
4 7 (12.96%) Marketing
5 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (9.26%) Electronics
7 4 (7.41%) Legal
7 4 (7.41%) Wearables
8 2 (3.70%) Advertising
8 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Retail
9 1 (1.85%) Aviation
9 1 (1.85%) Back Office
9 1 (1.85%) Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Architect
2 6 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Consultant
3 5 (9.26%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Data Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Designer
4 4 (7.41%) Motion Designer
4 4 (7.41%) Programme Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Senior
6 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Innovation Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) IT Support
6 2 (3.70%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) Network Design Specialist
6 2 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) OpenID
1 5 (9.26%) SAML
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (5.56%) Kafka
4 2 (3.70%) .NET
4 2 (3.70%) EDI
4 2 (3.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.85%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.85%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.85%) PySpark
5 1 (1.85%) REST
5 1 (1.85%) RESTful
5 1 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) PropTech
2 4 (7.41%) Animation
2 4 (7.41%) NB-IoT
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Java Card
4 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.70%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.70%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.70%) Smart City
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Life Science
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) SCADA
5 1 (1.85%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.37%) Roadmaps
2 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
2 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 8 (14.81%) Agile
5 7 (12.96%) Analytics
5 7 (12.96%) DevOps
5 7 (12.96%) Migration
5 7 (12.96%) Project Delivery
5 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 6 (11.11%) ETL
6 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.11%) Validation
7 5 (9.26%) Data Architecture
7 5 (9.26%) ERP
7 5 (9.26%) Project Management
7 5 (9.26%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.26%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) Java
2 8 (14.81%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) C
3 6 (11.11%) C++
4 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) RIBA
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCIE
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) CCSAM
6 1 (1.85%) CCSP
6 1 (1.85%) CGEIT
6 1 (1.85%) CISM
6 1 (1.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.85%) CRISC
6 1 (1.85%) GPEN
6 1 (1.85%) GXPN
6 1 (1.85%) OSCE
6 1 (1.85%) OSCP
6 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) GRC
1 5 (9.26%) SLA
2 4 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Firmware
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
3 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Cisco
3 4 (7.41%) Adobe
3 4 (7.41%) Databricks
3 4 (7.41%) SAP
4 3 (5.56%) Thales
5 2 (3.70%) Ericsson
5 2 (3.70%) Huawei
5 2 (3.70%) Meraki
5 2 (3.70%) Nokia
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Samsung
6 1 (1.85%) Aruba
6 1 (1.85%) Ekahau
6 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft