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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 338 379
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 +106
Contract jobs citing IoT 38 35 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 0.66% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 29
10th Percentile £406 £459 £235
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -25.17%
75th Percentile £643 £775 £710
90th Percentile £764 £803 £955
England median daily rate £550 £553 £525
% change year-on-year -0.45% +5.24% -17.32%
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 5,385 5,266 6,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.08% 33.72% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,440 3,362 4,942
10th Percentile £335 £325 £340
25th Percentile £441 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 63 99
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.30 £18.46
25th Percentile £21.24 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.77% +15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £45.06 £57.38 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +2 5 £475 - 114
West London -11 1 £425 - 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 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) Maximo
2 1 (2.63%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP GTS
2 1 (2.63%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.63%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.63%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) Figma
7 1 (2.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Wireless
2 5 (13.16%) 5G
3 4 (10.53%) 2G
3 4 (10.53%) 4G
3 4 (10.53%) Firewall
3 4 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (7.89%) NFC
4 3 (7.89%) RFID
5 2 (5.26%) MQTT
5 2 (5.26%) VPN
6 1 (2.63%) 3GPP
6 1 (2.63%) Bluetooth
6 1 (2.63%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.63%) Internet
6 1 (2.63%) LTE
6 1 (2.63%) Modbus
6 1 (2.63%) Network Security
6 1 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (2.63%) VoIP
6 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) GIS
2 4 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (5.26%) Metadata
3 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.63%) HDInsight
4 1 (2.63%) Redis
4 1 (2.63%) Spatial Data
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Gradle
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Maven
2 1 (2.63%) Moq
2 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Retail
6 2 (5.26%) Billing
7 1 (2.63%) Aviation
7 1 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Network Design Specialist
3 3 (7.89%) Network Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Implementation Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Security Consultant
5 1 (2.63%) Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Integration Architect
5 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Network Consultant
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.26%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) Matplotlib
3 1 (2.63%) NumPy
3 1 (2.63%) Pandas
3 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
3 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Operational Technology
2 5 (13.16%) NB-IoT
3 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Data Fabric
4 2 (5.26%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Life Science
4 2 (5.26%) NHS
4 2 (5.26%) Robotics
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) FMCG
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.63%) SCADA
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Analytics
2 9 (23.68%) Agile
3 7 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (18.42%) ETL
3 7 (18.42%) Network Design
4 6 (15.79%) AI
4 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
4 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
5 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
6 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.53%) Data Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 4 (10.53%) ERP
6 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven
6 4 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) AVEVA
4 1 (2.63%) IFS
4 1 (2.63%) NEC
4 1 (2.63%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto