NB-IoT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NB-IoT in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NB-IoT over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 334 439
Rank change year-on-year +23 +105 +177
Contract jobs citing NB-IoT 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.023% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.075% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £556 £775 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +30.77% -10.34%
75th Percentile £625 £925 £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -17.24%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

NB-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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,521 3,975 7,004
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.71% 30.04% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 2,682 4,968
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £662 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 123 144
10th Percentile £14.68 £18.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.82 £27.30 £24.54
Median hourly rate £33.89 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.53% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £77.28
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £41.25 £35.75
% change year-on-year -28.48% +15.38% +34.91%

NB-IoT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NB-IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NB-IoT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NB-IoT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NB-IoT.

NB-IoT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NB-IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DSP Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) RF Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter