IoT Contracts in Manchester

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT 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 69 90 108
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +23
Contract jobs citing IoT 10 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.76% 1.43% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile - £328 £340
25th Percentile £193 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -52.78% +2.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £259 £513 £490
90th Percentile £458 £618 £564
North West median daily rate £220 £450 £460
% change year-on-year -51.11% -2.17% -20.00%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in Manchester

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for IoT in Manchester

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in Manchester

IoT
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bury - 7 £205 -
IoT
North West

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) 2G
1 7 (70.00%) 3G
1 7 (70.00%) 4G
1 7 (70.00%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Flyway
1 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (10.00%) Automotive
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Smartphone
2 3 (30.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Android
1 7 (70.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (40.00%) Data Security
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 4 (40.00%) Time Management
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Application Security
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (10.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) OWASP
3 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (10.00%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow