BYOD Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 161 194
Rank change year-on-year -53 +33 +42
Contract jobs citing BYOD 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.020% 0.059% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.057% 0.18% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
England median daily rate £555 £463 £438
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.71% -12.50%

All Generic Skills
North of England

BYOD 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,740 1,116 1,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.60% 33.12% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 651 889
10th Percentile £213 £200 £233
25th Percentile £366 £334 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £582
90th Percentile £625 £675 £643
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 45 106
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.63 £12.66
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% +30.58% +17.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £46.18 £51.25
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BYOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

BYOD job vacancy trend in the North of England

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BYOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BYOD

BYOD
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BYOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BYOD

BYOD
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BYOD within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
North West -29 1 £436 - 2
BYOD
England

BYOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware