IoT Contracts in the Thames Valley

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 90 129 137
Rank change year-on-year +39 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing IoT 12 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.60% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 2.00% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £253 £355 £286
25th Percentile £329 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +14.74% -1.76%
75th Percentile £650 £551 £500
90th Percentile - £555 £528
South East median daily rate £488 £545 £413
% change year-on-year -10.55% +32.12% -25.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.55 - £19.93
25th Percentile £21.13 £18.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -27.62% +0.96%
75th Percentile £26.63 £19.50 £30.56
90th Percentile £28.05 - £32.78
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +26.32% -27.62% -55.51%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the Thames Valley

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the Thames Valley

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the Thames Valley

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the Thames Valley

IoT
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +30 12 £525 - 35
IoT
South East

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) 5G
1 2 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (8.33%) 4G
2 1 (8.33%) ADSL
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) PPP
2 1 (8.33%) RIP
2 1 (8.33%) SNMP
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) HBase
2 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
2 1 (8.33%) Impala
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Billing
1 3 (25.00%) Dutch Language
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Infotainment
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) NB-IoT
2 2 (16.67%) PMI
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Telematics
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) B2B
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Retention
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Time Management
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) CCDP
2 1 (8.33%) CCIP
2 1 (8.33%) CCNA
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Flume
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) ADVA
2 1 (8.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets