IoT Contracts in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 109 125 144
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing IoT 11 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 1.62% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 7
10th Percentile - £360 £348
25th Percentile £193 £425 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% -2.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £375 £494 £533
90th Percentile £560 £583 £590
England median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the North West

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in the North West

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the North West

IoT
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +21 10 £213 -52.78% 29
Merseyside - 1 £525 - 1
IoT
England

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) 2G
1 7 (63.64%) 3G
1 7 (63.64%) 4G
1 7 (63.64%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Flyway
1 1 (9.09%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (9.09%) Automotive
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Smartphone
2 3 (27.27%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Android
1 7 (63.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
1 4 (36.36%) Data Security
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile Device Management
1 4 (36.36%) Time Management
1 4 (36.36%) Validation
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Application Security
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
4 1 (9.09%) Database Migration
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Red Team
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
1 1 (9.09%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow