Bluetooth Contracts

Bluetooth
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Bluetooth skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bluetooth 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 516 575 695
Rank change year-on-year +59 +120 +129
Contract jobs citing Bluetooth 4 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.016% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.12% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 20
10th Percentile £455 £340 £304
25th Percentile £456 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £499
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -19.80% +23.15%
75th Percentile £479 £444 £613
90th Percentile £484 £478 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £450
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +11.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £87.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Bluetooth 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

Bluetooth
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bluetooth as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bluetooth in the UK

Bluetooth
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bluetooth.

Daily rate trend for Bluetooth in the UK

Bluetooth
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bluetooth.

Hourly rate trend for Bluetooth in the UK

Bluetooth
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bluetooth within the UK 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
England +54 4 £465 +16.13% 256
Work from Home +41 3 £475 +11.76% 176
London +38 2 £465 +23.87% 24

Bluetooth
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) 802.11
2 2 (50.00%) Broadband
2 2 (50.00%) DOCSIS
2 2 (50.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) KGDB
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Kernel Development
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft