IoT Contract Job Trends 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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing IoT 4 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.70% 0.73% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 2.56% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £305 £440 £355
25th Percentile £463 £500 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -5.41% +30.59%
75th Percentile £781 £540 £679
90th Percentile £785 £606 £752
Berkshire median daily rate £750 £540 £500
% change year-on-year +38.89% +8.00% +12.68%

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 196 312 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 34.33% 28.44% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 156 234
10th Percentile £350 £345 £213
25th Percentile £450 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +5.45% +7.58%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £663 £706 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £29.23 £42.05 £40.13
25th Percentile £42.50 £56.25 £62.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.60 £66.44
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% -8.79% -
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.37 £72.44
90th Percentile - £71.76 £76.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £52.37 £63.50
% change year-on-year +10.75% -17.52% -25.29%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IoT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IoT

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in Reading over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Billing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Forensic Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (25.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (50.00%) Document Management
1 2 (50.00%) E-Discovery
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Retention
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Telematics
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GCFA
1 2 (50.00%) GCFE
1 2 (50.00%) GCIH
1 2 (50.00%) GREM
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) EnCase
1 2 (50.00%) FTK
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (50.00%) Darktrace
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (50.00%) SAP