IoT Contracts in the UK excluding London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 368 351
Rank change year-on-year +43 -17 -32
Contract jobs citing IoT 69 81 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 1.09% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 57 119
10th Percentile £358 £263 £390
25th Percentile £425 £406 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -16.52% +21.05%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £640
90th Percentile £688 £665 £753
UK median daily rate £540 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 5
10th Percentile - £25.90 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £37.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +119.23% -45.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £78.00 £61.50
90th Percentile - £89.70 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +29.41% -10.53%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

IoT is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
South East +5 20 £545 +21.11% 47
North of England +28 16 £450 -4.26% 19
Midlands +28 12 £775 +56.96% 29
North West +18 11 £450 -2.17% 6
South West +13 11 £469 -21.88% 25
West Midlands +32 10 £875 +92.31% 14
Scotland +38 7 £546 -15.96% 8
East of England -2 3 £400 -20.99% 21
North East - 3 £411 - 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £441 -26.50% 11
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) Azure
2 9 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (5.80%) AWS
4 2 (2.90%) AWS IoT
4 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.90%) GitHub
4 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.45%) Apigee
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.45%) OCI
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.39%) Internet
2 7 (10.14%) MQTT
3 5 (7.25%) 5G
4 3 (4.35%) 4G
4 3 (4.35%) AMQP
4 3 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.35%) Wireless
5 2 (2.90%) Firewall
5 2 (2.90%) LAN
5 2 (2.90%) Modbus
5 2 (2.90%) MPLS
5 2 (2.90%) Network Security
5 2 (2.90%) WAN
6 1 (1.45%) ADSL
6 1 (1.45%) Broadband
6 1 (1.45%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.45%) PPP
6 1 (1.45%) RIP
6 1 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Tableau
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.45%) MySQL
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) gulp
1 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.45%) JIRA
1 1 (1.45%) Maven
General
1 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Manufacturing
3 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Electronics
4 5 (7.25%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) German Language
5 4 (5.80%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Analyst
1 11 (15.94%) Business Analyst
2 10 (14.49%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Consultant
6 4 (5.80%) Senior
7 3 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.35%) Security Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) .NET Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Programme Director
8 2 (2.90%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) .NET
2 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.35%) Web Services
4 2 (2.90%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.90%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.90%) Node.js
4 2 (2.90%) RESTful
4 2 (2.90%) XML
5 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (1.45%) HTML
5 1 (1.45%) JSON
5 1 (1.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.45%) OAuth
5 1 (1.45%) OpenID
5 1 (1.45%) React
5 1 (1.45%) SAML
5 1 (1.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Industry 4.0
2 7 (10.14%) Operational Technology
2 7 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.14%) Robotics
3 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.80%) Device Driver
4 4 (5.80%) NB-IoT
4 4 (5.80%) PCIe
4 4 (5.80%) Verilog
4 4 (5.80%) VHDL
5 2 (2.90%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.90%) PKI
5 2 (2.90%) Replication
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.90%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.45%) SCORM
6 1 (1.45%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (5.80%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (5.80%) VxWorks
3 3 (4.35%) Windows
4 2 (2.90%) Android
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Agile
2 13 (18.84%) Software Engineering
3 12 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
5 9 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (13.04%) Use Case
6 8 (11.59%) Change Management
6 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (11.59%) DevOps
7 7 (10.14%) Analytics
7 7 (10.14%) Process Management
8 6 (8.70%) Business Analysis
8 6 (8.70%) Business Case
8 6 (8.70%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.25%) Asset Management
9 5 (7.25%) CAFM
9 5 (7.25%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
9 5 (7.25%) Data Architecture
9 5 (7.25%) Informatics
9 5 (7.25%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) C
2 6 (8.70%) C#
3 5 (7.25%) C++
3 5 (7.25%) Java
4 4 (5.80%) Embedded C
4 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.80%) Python
5 2 (2.90%) SQL
6 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.45%) PHP
6 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.90%) CCSP
3 2 (2.90%) CISA
3 2 (2.90%) CISM
3 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.45%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) CCDP
4 1 (1.45%) CCIP
4 1 (1.45%) CCNA
4 1 (1.45%) CCNP
4 1 (1.45%) CEH
4 1 (1.45%) CISMP
4 1 (1.45%) CISSP
4 1 (1.45%) CRISC
4 1 (1.45%) HND
4 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) MISRA
1 4 (5.80%) MISRA C
2 3 (4.35%) GDPR
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) COBIT
4 1 (1.45%) GRC
4 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Firmware
2 3 (4.35%) Docker
3 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (2.90%) Grafana
2 1 (1.45%) Ansible
2 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) SAP
2 4 (5.80%) Atlassian
2 4 (5.80%) Intel
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) Ariba
3 2 (2.90%) Atmel
4 1 (1.45%) ADVA
4 1 (1.45%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco
4 1 (1.45%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.45%) Google
4 1 (1.45%) Juniper
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle
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