IoT Contracts in England

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 458 508
Rank change year-on-year +20 +50 -82
Contract jobs citing IoT 112 178 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.38% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 1.13% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 121 237
10th Percentile £398 £400 £409
25th Percentile £463 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £738 £743 £719
90th Percentile £780 £875 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £20.80 - £31.70
25th Percentile £22.33 £18.50 £41.00
Median hourly rate £24.65 £55.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.18% -6.78% +24.21%
75th Percentile £49.38 £62.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £83.50 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +111.54% -43.78%

All Generic Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in England

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in England

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IoT in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IoT in England

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IoT in England

IoT
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IoT in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IoT in England

IoT
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +44 53 £725 +5.45% 65
South East +9 20 £550 +15.79% 51
North of England +19 14 £450 -8.86% 23
North West +16 11 £450 +2.86% 15
Midlands +12 10 £675 +35.00% 57
South West +4 9 £475 -20.83% 19
West Midlands +17 6 £675 +41.36% 33
Yorkshire +14 2 £432 -28.00% 6
East of England -8 2 £400 -20.00% 19
North East - 1 - - 2
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.89%) Confluence
1 1 (0.89%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.89%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) Azure
2 20 (17.86%) AWS
3 17 (15.18%) Serverless
4 16 (14.29%) PaaS
4 16 (14.29%) SaaS
5 14 (12.50%) IaaS
6 12 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (8.04%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (6.25%) GCP
9 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.68%) GitHub
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.79%) AWS IoT
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) Internet
2 6 (5.36%) 4G
2 6 (5.36%) 5G
2 6 (5.36%) MQTT
3 5 (4.46%) Network Security
3 5 (4.46%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (3.57%) Firewall
4 4 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.68%) VPN
6 2 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.79%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (1.79%) Wireless
6 2 (1.79%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.89%) AMQP
7 1 (0.89%) DNS
7 1 (0.89%) IPsec
7 1 (0.89%) Modbus
7 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.89%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.89%) Big Data
3 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.89%) MySQL
3 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (0.89%) gulp
1 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.89%) JIRA
1 1 (0.89%) Maven
General
1 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Finance
5 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Marketing
6 4 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.57%) Retail
6 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.68%) German Language
8 2 (1.79%) Automotive
8 2 (1.79%) Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Electronics
9 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (30.36%) Architect
2 18 (16.07%) Senior
3 15 (13.39%) Security Architect
4 14 (12.50%) Developer
5 13 (11.61%) Analyst
5 13 (11.61%) Business Analyst
5 13 (11.61%) Consultant
5 13 (11.61%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (8.93%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (8.93%) Senior Architect
7 9 (8.04%) Cloud Security Architect
7 9 (8.04%) Senior Security Architect
8 6 (5.36%) Security Consultant
8 6 (5.36%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 6 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Product Owner
10 4 (3.57%) Business IT Analyst
10 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.57%) IT Analyst
10 4 (3.57%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (4.46%) ASP.NET
2 5 (4.46%) Node.js
2 5 (4.46%) REST
3 3 (2.68%) React
3 3 (2.68%) Web Services
4 2 (1.79%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.79%) Django
4 2 (1.79%) HTML
4 2 (1.79%) JSON
4 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 2 (1.79%) OAuth
5 1 (0.89%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.89%) NestJS
5 1 (0.89%) Next.js
5 1 (0.89%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.89%) OpenID
5 1 (0.89%) PySpark
5 1 (0.89%) RESTful
5 1 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.82%) Industry 4.0
3 10 (8.93%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.04%) Blockchain
4 9 (8.04%) Robotics
5 8 (7.14%) Operational Technology
6 5 (4.46%) NB-IoT
7 3 (2.68%) CBDC
7 3 (2.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.68%) NHS
7 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.68%) Web3
8 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.89%) FMCG
9 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.46%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
2 2 (1.79%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.79%) Mac OS X
2 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.89%) Android
3 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (19.64%) SDLC
2 18 (16.07%) DevOps
3 17 (15.18%) Agile
4 16 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 16 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 16 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 15 (13.39%) Design Patterns
5 15 (13.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (13.39%) Security Testing
5 15 (13.39%) Use Case
6 14 (12.50%) Application Security
6 14 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 13 (11.61%) Architectural Patterns
7 13 (11.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (8.93%) Business Analysis
9 10 (8.93%) Business Case
9 10 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.61%) Python
2 10 (8.93%) C#
3 7 (6.25%) Java
4 5 (4.46%) C
4 5 (4.46%) SQL
4 5 (4.46%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.68%) C++
6 3 (2.68%) PHP
7 2 (1.79%) Go
8 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (3.57%) CISM
3 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.68%) CCSP
4 3 (2.68%) CISA
4 3 (2.68%) CISSP
4 3 (2.68%) GIAC
5 2 (1.79%) CCNA
5 2 (1.79%) CCSK
5 2 (1.79%) CEH
5 2 (1.79%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (1.79%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.79%) OSCP
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) NIST
2 8 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.68%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) GRC
3 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.68%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) COBIT
4 1 (0.89%) ISA99
4 1 (0.89%) NCSC
4 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (9.82%) Terraform
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.89%) Ansible
2 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.89%) Grafana
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) SAP
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.68%) Cisco
3 3 (2.68%) Google
3 3 (2.68%) Oracle
3 3 (2.68%) Splunk
4 2 (1.79%) Ariba
4 2 (1.79%) Atmel
4 2 (1.79%) CA
5 1 (0.89%) ADVA
5 1 (0.89%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (0.89%) Apple
5 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.89%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.89%) Databricks
5 1 (0.89%) ForeScout
5 1 (0.89%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.89%) Juniper
5 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.89%) PTC