IoT Contracts in the Midlands

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing IoT 21 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 0.30% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 1.00% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £350 £513 £435
25th Percentile £475 £550 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +22.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £550
90th Percentile £650 - £563
England median daily rate £514 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -7.43% +5.71% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £27.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% -41.62% +77.88%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 852 803 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.29% 30.28% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 510 645
10th Percentile £250 £272 £275
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 27 32
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.07 £19.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.12 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -30.91% +44.74%
75th Percentile £38.82 £45.25 £56.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £90.88
England median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +13.10% +61.54%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
West Midlands +10 20 £500 -25.93% 25
East Midlands - 1 £75 - 7
IoT
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) SAP PM
2 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Power Platform
3 6 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (28.57%) Collibra
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
6 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) AWS
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) 5G
2 2 (9.52%) Internet
2 2 (9.52%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (9.52%) Modbus
2 2 (9.52%) MQTT
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (28.57%) Delta Lake
2 6 (28.57%) GIS
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
3 5 (23.81%) Power BI
4 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.76%) Big Data
5 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.76%) HDInsight
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.76%) NetBeans
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Applications Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Data Migration Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) SCADA
2 5 (23.81%) Blockchain
3 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
3 4 (19.05%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (14.29%) Operational Technology
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (9.52%) NB-IoT
6 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.76%) Data Fabric
6 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 7 (33.33%) Migration
5 6 (28.57%) ETL
5 6 (28.57%) Zero Trust
6 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (23.81%) Data Mapping
6 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
6 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
7 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (19.05%) High Availability
7 4 (19.05%) Interface Catalogue
7 4 (19.05%) Project Planning
7 4 (19.05%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (14.29%) Bicep
5 2 (9.52%) C#
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 6 (28.57%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) NCSC
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) IEC 61508
4 1 (4.76%) MISRA
4 1 (4.76%) MISRA C
4 1 (4.76%) QA
4 1 (4.76%) SLA
4 1 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Databricks
3 6 (28.57%) Informatica
3 6 (28.57%) SAP
4 5 (23.81%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) QNX