Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 864 930
Rank change year-on-year +164 +66 +220
Permanent jobs citing BYOD 9 48 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.046% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.044% 0.13% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 6 46 27
10th Percentile £41,750 £28,917 £30,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £36,709 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -8.62% +31.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,500 £37,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +133.33% -63.41% +70.83%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,604 35,638 42,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 34.51% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,493 23,121 22,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,084 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BYOD.

Salary trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BYOD over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BYOD within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 7 £70,000 +5.66% 85
UK excluding London +178 5 £87,500 +133.33% 85
Work from Home +108 3 £70,000 +3.70% 84
London +90 3 £70,000 -3.45% 11
North West - 2 - - 7
North of England - 2 - - 21
Midlands +83 1 £105,000 +121.05% 15
South East +77 1 £70,000 +83.01% 22
West Midlands +55 1 £105,000 +121.05% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

BYOD
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) 5G
1 1 (11.11%) 802.11
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
1 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Front Office
2 2 (22.22%) Games
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Programmer
1 3 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 3 (33.33%) C# Programmer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Energy Trading Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Programmer
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
1 3 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
3 1 (11.11%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Presales
3 1 (11.11%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Trayport
3 1 (11.11%) Ruckus Wireless