Industrial Internet of Things Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Industrial Internet of Things in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Industrial Internet of Things over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 351 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.020% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.083% 0.064% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £415 £432 -
25th Percentile £438 £443 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £472 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.47% - -
75th Percentile £763 £642 -
90th Percentile £808 £737 -
UK median daily rate £588 £472 £400
% change year-on-year +24.47% +18.00% +100.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Industrial Internet of Things 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,991 4,664 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.94% 31.24% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,703 2,626 3,908
10th Percentile £204 £203 £212
25th Percentile £358 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 252 375
10th Percentile £13.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.90 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +53.25%
75th Percentile £64.04 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.14 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

Industrial Internet of Things
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Industrial Internet of Things relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Industrial Internet of Things job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Industrial Internet of Things
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Industrial Internet of Things.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Industrial Internet of Things

Industrial Internet of Things
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Industrial Internet of Things in the UK excluding London

Industrial Internet of Things
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -18 2 £775 -3.13%
West Midlands -29 1 £450 -
Midlands -36 1 £450 - 2
North West - 1 £400 - 1
South West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £400 - 2
Industrial Internet of Things
UK

Industrial Internet of Things
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) 4G
1 2 (40.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Industrial Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SAPscript
1 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) MOM
1 1 (20.00%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (20.00%) Cognos
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Wonderware