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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 721 846 936
Rank change year-on-year +125 +90 +228
Permanent jobs citing BYOD 9 53 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.053% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.044% 0.15% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 6 51 29
10th Percentile £26,608 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,125 £37,169 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,068 £37,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +73.52% -45.45% +14.58%

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 20,461 35,235 43,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.65% 35.35% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,893 23,039 23,149
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,395
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
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 £108,750
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 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Top 9 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 17 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
UK excluding London +163 5 £65,068 +73.52% 7
England +91 5 £60,000 -7.69% 13
North of England - 3 £25,137 -
North West - 3 £25,137 -
Work from Home +114 2 £70,000 +7.69% 11
London +81 1 £60,000 -17.24% 8
Midlands +58 1 £105,000 +121.05%
West Midlands +53 1 £105,000 +121.05%
Northern Ireland - 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (22.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
1 2 (22.22%) Skype
2 1 (11.11%) 5G
2 1 (11.11%) 802.11
2 1 (11.11%) Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) WLAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) CCTV
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
2 2 (22.22%) Line Management
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
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%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (22.22%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Ruckus Wireless