IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 487 514
Rank change year-on-year +54 +27 -84
Contract jobs citing IoT 149 234 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.39% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 1.18% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 157 253
10th Percentile £269 £348 £400
25th Percentile £425 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £700
90th Percentile £780 £800 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £575
% change year-on-year -1.04% -16.52% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile - £22.78 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.33 £29.19 £23.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £44.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% -25.00% +27.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £70.13
90th Percentile - £85.50 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £33.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +80.60% +28.85% -43.78%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,237 19,870 29,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,495 13,665 20,453
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 640 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.84% +10.00% -16.67%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IoT.

Daily rate trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IoT.

Hourly rate trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +51 134 £513 -10.87% 311
UK excluding London +44 74 £475 -1.04% 215
London +70 62 £575 -21.77% 99
Work from Home +97 41 £513 -10.87% 139
South East +4 20 £545 +32.12% 61
North of England +39 19 £450 -4.26% 24
South West +16 14 £469 -21.88% 31
Midlands +37 13 £675 +38.46% 34
North West +19 12 £450 -2.17% 7
West Midlands +34 10 £875 +92.31% 15
Scotland +31 6 £593 -12.22% 14
North East - 5 £415 - 4
Yorkshire +27 2 £441 -26.50% 13
East of England -4 2 - - 46
East Midlands +15 1 £500 +2.56% 19

IoT
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 2 (1.34%) ThingWorx
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.67%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.81%) Azure
2 29 (19.46%) AWS
3 19 (12.75%) Serverless
4 17 (11.41%) PaaS
4 17 (11.41%) SaaS
5 15 (10.07%) IaaS
6 13 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.38%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (5.37%) GCP
8 8 (5.37%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.03%) AWS IoT
10 4 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.01%) GitHub
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.34%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (1.34%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.34%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.77%) Internet
2 11 (7.38%) MQTT
3 7 (4.70%) Firewall
3 7 (4.70%) Wireless
4 6 (4.03%) 5G
4 6 (4.03%) AMQP
5 5 (3.36%) Modbus
6 4 (2.68%) 4G
6 4 (2.68%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.01%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (2.01%) Network Security
7 3 (2.01%) VPN
8 2 (1.34%) Broadband
8 2 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.34%) DMZ
8 2 (1.34%) LAN
8 2 (1.34%) MPLS
8 2 (1.34%) WAN
8 2 (1.34%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.68%) Tableau
3 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.34%) MySQL
4 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.67%) Big Data
5 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.67%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) gulp
1 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.67%) JIRA
1 1 (0.67%) Maven
General
1 43 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.46%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.38%) Finance
5 8 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.36%) Electronics
7 5 (3.36%) German Language
7 5 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.36%) Marketing
8 4 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.01%) Retail
10 2 (1.34%) Banking
10 2 (1.34%) Legal
10 2 (1.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (24.16%) Architect
2 23 (15.44%) Senior
3 18 (12.08%) Developer
3 18 (12.08%) Security Architect
4 17 (11.41%) Consultant
5 16 (10.74%) Analyst
5 16 (10.74%) Business Analyst
6 14 (9.40%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Senior Architect
8 10 (6.71%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (6.71%) Senior Security Architect
8 10 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.04%) Cloud Security Architect
10 8 (5.37%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Security Consultant
12 6 (4.03%) Senior Cloud Architect
13 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Security Architect
13 4 (2.68%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.37%) .NET
2 7 (4.70%) REST
3 5 (3.36%) ASP.NET
3 5 (3.36%) JSON
3 5 (3.36%) Kafka
3 5 (3.36%) Web Services
4 4 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (2.68%) RESTful
5 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.01%) HTML
5 3 (2.01%) Node.js
5 3 (2.01%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.01%) React
5 3 (2.01%) Swagger
5 3 (2.01%) XML
6 2 (1.34%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.34%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.34%) LangChain
6 2 (1.34%) Laravel
6 2 (1.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Mobile App
2 13 (8.72%) Industry 4.0
3 11 (7.38%) Operational Technology
4 9 (6.04%) Robotics
5 7 (4.70%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.36%) NB-IoT
7 5 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.68%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 4 (2.68%) PCIe
8 4 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.68%) Verilog
8 4 (2.68%) VHDL
9 3 (2.01%) CBDC
9 3 (2.01%) NHS
9 3 (2.01%) PKI
9 3 (2.01%) Replication
9 3 (2.01%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.72%) Linux
2 12 (8.05%) Windows
3 4 (2.68%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.68%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.68%) VxWorks
4 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.34%) Android
5 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.34%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (18.79%) Agile
2 21 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (13.42%) DevOps
3 20 (13.42%) SDLC
4 18 (12.08%) Cloud Security
4 18 (12.08%) Security Architecture
4 18 (12.08%) Software Engineering
5 17 (11.41%) DevSecOps
5 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (10.74%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (10.74%) Design Patterns
6 16 (10.74%) Security Testing
7 15 (10.07%) Roadmaps
8 14 (9.40%) Application Security
8 14 (9.40%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (9.40%) Use Case
9 13 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.05%) Analytics
10 12 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (7.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.77%) Python
2 13 (8.72%) Java
2 13 (8.72%) SQL
3 12 (8.05%) C#
4 11 (7.38%) C
5 9 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.70%) PHP
7 6 (4.03%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.36%) C++
8 5 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.68%) Embedded C
9 4 (2.68%) Go
10 2 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Degree
2 7 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.03%) CISM
3 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.36%) CISA
4 5 (3.36%) CISSP
4 5 (3.36%) GIAC
4 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (2.68%) CCSP
5 4 (2.68%) CHECK Team Leader
5 4 (2.68%) CREST Certified
5 4 (2.68%) OSCP
6 3 (2.01%) CCNA
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.34%) CCSK
7 2 (1.34%) CEH
7 2 (1.34%) CRISC
7 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.11%) NIST
2 7 (4.70%) QA
3 5 (3.36%) GRC
4 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.68%) MISRA
4 4 (2.68%) MISRA C
5 3 (2.01%) GDPR
5 3 (2.01%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.34%) COBIT
6 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.67%) ISA99
7 1 (0.67%) NCSC
7 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Docker
2 5 (3.36%) Firmware
3 3 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.05%) Terraform
2 5 (3.36%) Grafana
3 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.67%) Ansible
5 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) SAP
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.68%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.68%) Cisco
3 4 (2.68%) Databricks
3 4 (2.68%) Intel
4 3 (2.01%) Splunk
5 2 (1.34%) Ariba
5 2 (1.34%) Atmel
5 2 (1.34%) CA
5 2 (1.34%) Google
5 2 (1.34%) Kepware
5 2 (1.34%) PTC
6 1 (0.67%) Apple
6 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.67%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.67%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) Remedy