IoT Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 153 166 205
Rank change year-on-year +13 +39 +3
Contract jobs citing IoT 13 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.40% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 1.46% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile - £374 £351
25th Percentile £193 £421 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £375 £475 £584
90th Percentile £560 £509 £624
England median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the North of England

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the North of England

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the North of England

IoT
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 IoT within the North of England 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
North West +16 11 £220 -51.11% 41
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 25
IoT
England

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) 2G
1 7 (53.85%) 3G
1 7 (53.85%) 4G
1 7 (53.85%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Flyway
1 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (7.69%) Automotive
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Smartphone
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (23.08%) Driving Licence
3 2 (15.38%) Blockchain
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Android
1 7 (53.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Data Security
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile Device Management
2 4 (30.77%) Time Management
2 4 (30.77%) Validation
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Application Security
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Interface Catalogue
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) SOA
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CREST Certified
1 1 (7.69%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow