NB-IoT Contract Job Trends in the South West

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NB-IoT in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NB-IoT over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NB-IoT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.051% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
England median daily rate £515 £525 -
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -

All Generic Skills
South West

NB-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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 653 700 892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 33.00% 27.61% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 375 644
10th Percentile £225 £208 £278
25th Percentile £364 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £674
90th Percentile £715 £719 £738
England median daily rate £525 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% -1.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 97 51
10th Percentile £6.00 £21.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £66.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% -10.26% +37.18%
75th Percentile £43.61 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £73.25 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.50 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.37% +16.93% +79.62%

NB-IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NB-IoT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

NB-IoT job vacancy trend in the South West

NB-IoT
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NB-IoT within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Bristol - 1 £475 - 7
NB-IoT
England

NB-IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 2G
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy