IoT Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 108 160 170
Rank change year-on-year +52 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing IoT 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £528 £566 £493
25th Percentile £569 £572 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £819 £656 £875
90th Percentile £883 £713 -
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £22.00
75th Percentile £60.75 - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +111.54% -43.78%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 6 £850 - 6
Glasgow +16 1 £500 -16.67% 4
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Flash
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Device Driver
1 4 (57.14%) PCIe
1 4 (57.14%) Verilog
1 4 (57.14%) VHDL
2 1 (14.29%) BYOD
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) NB-IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) VxWorks
2 1 (14.29%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Code Optimisation
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Defect Tracking
1 4 (57.14%) Device Driver Development
1 4 (57.14%) Memory Management
1 4 (57.14%) Requirements Management
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C
1 5 (71.43%) Embedded C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) MISRA
1 4 (57.14%) MISRA C
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Atlassian
1 4 (57.14%) Intel
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Renesas