Industrial Internet of Things Contracts

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Industrial Internet of Things in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Industrial Internet of Things over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 714 818
Rank change year-on-year +132 +104 -139
Contract jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things 4 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.013% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.030% 0.040% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - - £552
25th Percentile - - £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £658
Median % change year-on-year - -23.95% +285.63%
75th Percentile - £584 £744
90th Percentile - £631 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £850
% change year-on-year - -41.18% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Industrial Internet of Things is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,278 19,990 29,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.43% 33.30% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,514 13,733 20,382
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £653 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 658 728
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Industrial Internet of Things
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Industrial Internet of Things as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Industrial Internet of Things in the UK

Industrial Internet of Things
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things.

Daily rate trend for Industrial Internet of Things in the UK

Industrial Internet of Things
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +115 3 - - 9
UK excluding London +65 2 - - 6
North of England +32 2 - -
North West +17 2 - -
Work from Home +123 1 - - 6
London - 1 - - 2

Industrial Internet of Things
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 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) MQTT
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) IoT
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (50.00%) Robotics
3 1 (25.00%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Edge Computing
1 2 (50.00%) QMS
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CISA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISA99
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) ForeScout
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto