Smart City Contracts in London

Smart Cities
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart City over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 - 486
Rank change year-on-year - - +103
Contract jobs citing Smart City 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% - 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.044% - 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.15%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - £840
England median daily rate £428 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -18.48% -25.00% +13.82%

All Generic Skills
London

Smart City 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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Smart City as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Smart City in London

Smart City
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart City in London.

Daily rate trend for Smart City in London

Smart City
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware