Bluetooth Contract Job Trends

Bluetooth
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Bluetooth skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 548 623
Rank change year-on-year -6 +75 +199
Contract jobs citing Bluetooth 8 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.023% 0.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £189
25th Percentile £513 £263 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £390
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -10.26% -4.88%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £538
90th Percentile - £480 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate - £275 £463
% change year-on-year - -40.54% +12.80%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

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 3,936 4,614 6,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 11.97% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 2,747 4,234
10th Percentile £238 £227 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -6.00% +9.78% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 294 271
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.29
25th Percentile £25.04 £20.50 £22.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.00 £55.32
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -9.62% +40.05%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.64% -2.75% +31.14%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bluetooth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bluetooth

Bluetooth
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bluetooth.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bluetooth

Bluetooth
Top 5 Contract Job 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 30 August 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 +20 7 £525 +50.00% 32
Work from Home +29 5 - - 12
London +22 3 £525 +40.00% 5
UK excluding London -5 1 - - 34
East of England - 1 - - 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Google Play
2 2 (25.00%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (12.50%) MQTT
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) UWB
3 1 (12.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) KGDB
General
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) PCB Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) CSS3
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) HTML5
1 3 (37.50%) Jest
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) React Native
1 3 (37.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Kernel Development
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Push Notifications
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Atmel
37 Bluetooth jobs Nationwide