IoT Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 470 517
Rank change year-on-year +30 +47 -97
Contract jobs citing IoT 135 219 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.39% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 1.17% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 154 258
10th Percentile £372 £375 £417
25th Percentile £450 £433 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £738 £730 £712
90th Percentile £780 £814 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £22.33 £18.50 £22.13
Median hourly rate £60.50 £37.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.51% -12.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £85.50 £70.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +218.42% -26.92% -45.26%

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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 14 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 1 June 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 +24 117 £550 -4.35% 275
UK excluding London +25 67 £500 - 196
London +55 54 £725 +6.42% 86
Work from Home +74 44 £506 +1.25% 102
South East +3 20 £550 +15.79% 55
North of England +26 15 £450 -8.86% 23
North West +22 11 £450 +2.86% 14
Midlands +21 11 £675 +35.00% 45
South West +9 11 £469 -21.88% 18
Scotland +42 8 £593 -1.25% 19
West Midlands +17 8 £675 +48.35% 21
North East - 3 £411 - 3
East of England -7 2 £400 -20.00% 34
Yorkshire +17 1 £432 -28.00% 6

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 (1.48%) ThingWorx
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.74%) Azure
2 26 (19.26%) AWS
3 17 (12.59%) PaaS
3 17 (12.59%) SaaS
3 17 (12.59%) Serverless
4 15 (11.11%) IaaS
5 14 (10.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (5.93%) GCP
8 6 (4.44%) AWS IoT
9 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.22%) GitHub
11 2 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.48%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.74%) Figma
12 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.85%) Internet
2 8 (5.93%) MQTT
3 7 (5.19%) 5G
4 6 (4.44%) 4G
4 6 (4.44%) Firewall
5 5 (3.70%) Network Security
5 5 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.96%) Wireless
7 3 (2.22%) AMQP
7 3 (2.22%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (2.22%) Modbus
7 3 (2.22%) VPN
8 2 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.48%) LAN
8 2 (1.48%) MPLS
8 2 (1.48%) WAN
8 2 (1.48%) ZigBee
9 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.74%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.48%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.48%) MySQL
3 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.48%) Tableau
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.74%) Big Data
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.74%) Redis
4 1 (0.74%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Git
1 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.74%) gulp
2 1 (0.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) Maven
2 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.74%) Manufacturing
3 11 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.67%) Finance
5 8 (5.93%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.70%) Electronics
6 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.96%) German Language
7 4 (2.96%) Marketing
7 4 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.22%) Retail
9 2 (1.48%) Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Automotive
10 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (27.41%) Architect
2 23 (17.04%) Senior
3 17 (12.59%) Security Architect
4 16 (11.85%) Developer
5 14 (10.37%) Consultant
5 14 (10.37%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Analyst
6 13 (9.63%) Business Analyst
6 13 (9.63%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (8.15%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (7.41%) Senior Security Architect
9 9 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
10 7 (5.19%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
12 5 (3.70%) Product Owner
12 5 (3.70%) Security Consultant
13 4 (2.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.93%) .NET
2 6 (4.44%) REST
3 5 (3.70%) ASP.NET
3 5 (3.70%) JSON
3 5 (3.70%) Node.js
4 4 (2.96%) Kafka
4 4 (2.96%) Web Services
5 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.22%) React
6 2 (1.48%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.48%) Django
6 2 (1.48%) HTML
6 2 (1.48%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.48%) Swagger
6 2 (1.48%) Symfony
6 2 (1.48%) XML
7 1 (0.74%) OAuth
7 1 (0.74%) RESTful
7 1 (0.74%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Mobile App
2 12 (8.89%) Industry 4.0
3 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.67%) Blockchain
4 9 (6.67%) Robotics
5 8 (5.93%) Operational Technology
6 6 (4.44%) NB-IoT
7 4 (2.96%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.96%) PCIe
7 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.96%) Verilog
7 4 (2.96%) VHDL
8 3 (2.22%) CBDC
8 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.22%) NHS
8 3 (2.22%) PKI
8 3 (2.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.67%) Linux
2 7 (5.19%) Windows
3 4 (2.96%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.96%) VxWorks
4 3 (2.22%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.48%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.48%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.04%) Agile
1 23 (17.04%) SDLC
2 21 (15.56%) DevOps
3 19 (14.07%) Software Engineering
4 17 (12.59%) DevSecOps
4 17 (12.59%) Security Architecture
5 16 (11.85%) Cloud Security
5 16 (11.85%) Design Patterns
5 16 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (11.85%) Roadmaps
5 16 (11.85%) Security Testing
5 16 (11.85%) Use Case
6 15 (11.11%) Application Security
7 14 (10.37%) Architectural Patterns
7 14 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (7.41%) Business Analysis
11 10 (7.41%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.11%) Python
2 11 (8.15%) C
2 11 (8.15%) Java
3 10 (7.41%) C#
4 7 (5.19%) SQL
5 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.70%) C++
6 5 (3.70%) Embedded C
6 5 (3.70%) PHP
6 5 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.48%) Go
7 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.74%) Ruby
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (7.41%) Degree
2 5 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.96%) CISM
3 4 (2.96%) CISSP
3 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.22%) CCSP
4 3 (2.22%) CISA
4 3 (2.22%) GIAC
5 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.48%) CCNA
5 2 (1.48%) CCSK
5 2 (1.48%) CEH
5 2 (1.48%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (1.48%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.48%) OSCP
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.56%) NIST
2 7 (5.19%) QA
3 4 (2.96%) MISRA
3 4 (2.96%) MISRA C
4 3 (2.22%) GDPR
4 3 (2.22%) GRC
4 3 (2.22%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) COBIT
6 1 (0.74%) ISA99
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (4.44%) Docker
1 6 (4.44%) Firmware
2 3 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.37%) Terraform
2 4 (2.96%) Grafana
2 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.48%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (12.59%) SAP
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.96%) Intel
4 3 (2.22%) Cisco
4 3 (2.22%) Databricks
4 3 (2.22%) Google
4 3 (2.22%) Oracle
4 3 (2.22%) Splunk
5 2 (1.48%) Ariba
5 2 (1.48%) Atmel
5 2 (1.48%) CA
5 2 (1.48%) Kepware
5 2 (1.48%) PTC
6 1 (0.74%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.74%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.74%) Juniper