IoT Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -44 +11 -
Contract jobs citing IoT 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.40% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.80% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £250 £450
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -44.44% -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £274 £450
% change year-on-year +105.48% -39.17% +77.72%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 374 155 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 49.41% 45.59% 35.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 99 96
10th Percentile £319 £209 £386
25th Percentile £406 £275 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £507 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +6.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £651 £651
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £475
% change year-on-year +1.42% +3.79% -7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +53.90%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.43 £38.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year -52.45% +81.84% +12.16%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

IoT job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

IoT
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing IoT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing IoT

IoT
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Sheffield -47 3 £563 +125.00% 6
IoT
Yorkshire

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
1 3 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Video Analytics
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) MuleSoft