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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 121 128
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing IoT 11 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.75% 0.61% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.06% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £253 £355 £299
25th Percentile £329 £475 £428
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 £520
South East median daily rate £500 £545 £431
% change year-on-year -8.26% +26.38% -22.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £19.55 - -
25th Percentile £21.13 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -26.92%
75th Percentile £26.63 £19.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £28.05 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -67.80%

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 514 775 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.09% 29.54% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 470 604
10th Percentile £300 £205 £275
25th Percentile £413 £300 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £623
90th Percentile £650 £653 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 61 23
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -29.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £66.12 £60.39 £71.80
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £78.35
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.50 £47.79
% change year-on-year +0.64% -0.61% +122.85%

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 15 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 15 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 +26 11 £525 - 49
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 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) 5G
1 2 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (9.09%) 4G
2 1 (9.09%) ADSL
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
2 1 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) PPP
2 1 (9.09%) RIP
2 1 (9.09%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
2 1 (9.09%) VoIP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 1 (9.09%) HBase
1 1 (9.09%) HDInsight
1 1 (9.09%) Impala
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Billing
1 3 (27.27%) Dutch Language
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Service Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Infotainment
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) NB-IoT
2 2 (18.18%) PMI
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Telematics
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) B2B
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Retention
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Communications Security
4 1 (9.09%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Process Management
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Perl
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CCDP
2 1 (9.09%) CCIP
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Flume
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ADVA
2 1 (9.09%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) StreamSets