IoT Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +39
Contract jobs citing IoT 17 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.89% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 2.03% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 3
10th Percentile £261 £486 £470
25th Percentile £338 £543 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £584 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +6.09% -
75th Percentile £616 £636 £719
90th Percentile £625 £688 £820
England median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -45.71% -21.35% +1.14%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

IoT falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 748 543 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 39.18% 28.87% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 330 422
10th Percentile £250 £189 £275
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £726 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 17 42
10th Percentile - £17.30 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £20.21
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% -12.07% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £48.75 £64.06
90th Percentile - £56.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.53 £52.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -47.56% +16.12% +75.50%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IoT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

IoT job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IoT
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IoT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IoT

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the West Midlands

IoT
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IoT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IoT

IoT
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Coventry - 7 £450 - 1
Solihull - 3 £600 - 1
Warwickshire -3 2 £300 -47.23% 5
Birmingham -7 1 £550 -18.52% 3
Shropshire - 1 £350 - 2
IoT
England

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) SAP PM
2 3 (17.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Power Platform
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (35.29%) Collibra
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
6 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
7 2 (11.76%) AWS
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) NFC
1 3 (17.65%) RFID
1 3 (17.65%) Wireless
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (35.29%) Delta Lake
2 6 (35.29%) GIS
2 6 (35.29%) Power BI
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.88%) HDInsight
5 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Marketing
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Data Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics Technician
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) SCADA
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) AI
1 8 (47.06%) Data Governance
2 7 (41.18%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) ETL
2 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Data Mapping
4 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Zero Trust
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
6 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Data Management
6 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (17.65%) Bicep
4 3 (17.65%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (29.41%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Databricks
3 6 (35.29%) Informatica
3 6 (35.29%) SAP
4 5 (29.41%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) Dell