LoRaWAN Contracts

LoRaWAN
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring LoRaWAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LoRaWAN 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 518 579 713
Rank change year-on-year +61 +134 +122
Contract jobs citing LoRaWAN 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.054% 0.053% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £553 - £365
25th Percentile £556 £313 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £325 £575
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -43.48% -11.54%
75th Percentile £706 £338 £606
90th Percentile £718 - £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -13.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

LoRaWAN 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%

LoRaWAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LoRaWAN in the UK

LoRaWAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LoRaWAN in the UK

LoRaWAN
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoRaWAN 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 +56 2 £625 +92.31% 8
UK excluding London - 2 £625 - 8
Midlands - 2 £625 -
West Midlands - 2 £625 -

LoRaWAN
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 2 (100.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Modbus
2 1 (50.00%) MQTT
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) NB-IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Edge Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC