Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BYOD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 650 802
Rank change year-on-year +98 +152 -133
Contract jobs citing BYOD 27 44 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.077% 0.069%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 50
10th Percentile £155 £208 £193
25th Percentile £233 £275 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -41.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £481 £556 £630
90th Percentile £564 £650 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £265 £285 £514
% change year-on-year -7.02% -44.50% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.84 -
25th Percentile £13.87 £14.85 -
Median hourly rate £14.48 £16.94 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% - -
75th Percentile £16.40 £18.13 -
90th Percentile £18.79 £18.61 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 £15.05 -
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

BYOD 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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

BYOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BYOD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BYOD in the UK

BYOD
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 BYOD within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +96 22 £265 -33.75% 11
UK excluding London +56 16 £265 -7.02% 4
London +86 11 £265 -41.11% 7
Work from Home +105 6 £463 -13.15% 5
South West +10 4 £225 -
North of England +32 3 £550 +37.50% 1
East of England - 3 £265 - 1
Scotland +42 2 £475 -
Wales - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Midlands +17 1 £160 -
North West +16 1 £550 +37.50%
East Midlands - 1 £160 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

BYOD
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 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.70%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) PBX
3 1 (3.70%) PSTN
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 18 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Support Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Service Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Hardware Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) XMPP
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) iPad
1 2 (7.41%) iPhone
1 2 (7.41%) PDA
1 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (7.41%) Smartphone
1 2 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
2 16 (59.26%) Windows 10
3 15 (55.56%) Windows 7
4 5 (18.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (11.11%) Android
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (7.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Customer Service
2 8 (29.63%) Customer Experience
3 6 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 4 (14.81%) User Experience
5 2 (7.41%) Agile
5 2 (7.41%) ITSM
5 2 (7.41%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) Service Management
6 1 (3.70%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.70%) Decision-Making
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Inventory Management
6 1 (3.70%) Logistics
6 1 (3.70%) Migration
6 1 (3.70%) Project Management
6 1 (3.70%) Quantitative Analysis
6 1 (3.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.70%) Usability Testing
6 1 (3.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) C#
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
1 2 (7.41%) WSUS
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Intel
4 1 (3.70%) Apple
4 1 (3.70%) Computacenter
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Peregrine
4 1 (3.70%) Remedy