IoT Contracts in Reading

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Reading. 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 53 86 85
Rank change year-on-year +33 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing IoT 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.24% 1.59% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £211 £340 -
25th Percentile £226 £443 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £513 £180
Median % change year-on-year -50.24% +184.72% -69.36%
75th Percentile £286 £538 -
90th Percentile £304 £539 -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +26.32% -27.62% +0.96%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in Reading

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in Reading

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) 2G
1 1 (14.29%) 4G
1 1 (14.29%) 5G
1 1 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) HBase
2 1 (14.29%) HDInsight
2 1 (14.29%) Impala
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Billing
1 3 (42.86%) Dutch Language
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Capacity Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) NB-IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) B2B
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Retention
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (42.86%) Telematics
1 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Edge Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Flume
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) StreamSets