ZigBee Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ZigBee
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ZigBee skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 358 397
Rank change year-on-year -45 +39 +85
Contract jobs citing ZigBee 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.007% 0.015%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.045% 0.042% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 -
UK median daily rate - £454 £700
% change year-on-year - -35.14% +194.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £37.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

ZigBee falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,222 2,381 3,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.36% 15.88% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 1,334 2,092
10th Percentile £200 £200 £205
25th Percentile £300 £325 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £600
90th Percentile £639 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 123 281
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.71 £17.22
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £24.00
Median hourly rate £43.75 £41.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -27.42% +25.53%
75th Percentile £67.88 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £83.38 £73.75 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -31.82% +31.50%

ZigBee
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ZigBee job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ZigBee
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ZigBee.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ZigBee

ZigBee
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ZigBee.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ZigBee

ZigBee
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 ZigBee within the UK excluding London 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
East of England - 1 - - 2
ZigBee
UK

ZigBee
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) UWB
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) PCB Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Power Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Schematic Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware