Cyber-Physical System Contract Job Trends

Cyber-Physical System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber-Physical System in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber-Physical System over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber-Physical System 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the General category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £800 - -

All General Skills
UK

Cyber-Physical System falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 29,557 20,841 22,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.14% 63.36% 57.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,559 13,017 14,072
10th Percentile £313 £278 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,204 1,118 1,390
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £17.02
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.55% -41.92% +46.90%

Cyber-Physical System
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber-Physical System relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cyber-Physical System job vacancy trend in the UK

Cyber-Physical System
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyber-Physical System.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyber-Physical System

Cyber-Physical System
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber-Physical System within the UK over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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 - 3 £800 - 11
UK excluding London - 3 £800 - 6
Midlands - 2 £800 - 1
North of England - 1 - - 3
Work from Home - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

Cyber-Physical System
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (33.33%) Modbus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (66.67%) Robotics
3 1 (33.33%) CCTV
3 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Edge Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) Energy Management
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) SABSA
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) MOM