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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 490 521
Rank change year-on-year +57 +31 -107
Contract jobs citing IoT 141 215 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 1.13% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 152 251
10th Percentile £333 £376 £400
25th Percentile £432 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -6.25% +17.07%
75th Percentile £741 £714 £700
90th Percentile £780 £773 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £575
% change year-on-year -1.04% -16.52% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile - £25.30 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.33 £35.50 £22.13
Median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £77.50 £61.50
90th Percentile - £89.50 £70.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £57.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +6.14% +119.23% -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 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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 +46 126 £545 -5.22% 225
UK excluding London +38 69 £475 -1.04% 156
London +71 60 £675 -3.57% 56
Work from Home +88 41 £513 -6.82% 99
South East +12 20 £545 +21.11% 49
North of England +23 16 £450 -4.26% 17
Midlands +33 12 £775 +56.96% 31
South West +21 11 £469 -21.88% 26
North West +18 11 £450 -2.17% 6
West Midlands +25 10 £875 +92.31% 15
Scotland +50 7 £546 -15.96% 11
East of England 0 3 £400 -20.99% 22
North East - 3 £411 - 2
Yorkshire +20 2 £441 -26.50% 9

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 (1.42%) ThingWorx
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.15%) Azure
2 26 (18.44%) AWS
3 17 (12.06%) PaaS
3 17 (12.06%) SaaS
3 17 (12.06%) Serverless
4 15 (10.64%) IaaS
5 13 (9.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.96%) AWS IoT
7 7 (4.96%) GCP
8 6 (4.26%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.13%) GitHub
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.42%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.60%) Internet
2 8 (5.67%) MQTT
3 7 (4.96%) Wireless
4 6 (4.26%) 5G
4 6 (4.26%) Firewall
5 4 (2.84%) 4G
5 4 (2.84%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.13%) AMQP
6 3 (2.13%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (2.13%) Modbus
6 3 (2.13%) Network Security
6 3 (2.13%) VPN
7 2 (1.42%) Broadband
7 2 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.42%) LAN
7 2 (1.42%) MPLS
7 2 (1.42%) WAN
7 2 (1.42%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.42%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.42%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.42%) Tableau
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.71%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) gulp
1 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
1 1 (0.71%) Maven
General
1 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.44%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Finance
5 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.55%) Electronics
6 5 (3.55%) German Language
6 5 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Marketing
7 4 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.42%) Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Legal
9 2 (1.42%) Local Government
9 2 (1.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (26.95%) Architect
2 22 (15.60%) Senior
3 18 (12.77%) Security Architect
4 17 (12.06%) Analyst
4 17 (12.06%) Business Analyst
4 17 (12.06%) Consultant
4 17 (12.06%) Developer
5 14 (9.93%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.80%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.09%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Security Architect
9 9 (6.38%) Cloud Security Architect
10 8 (5.67%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (4.26%) Security Consultant
12 6 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Architect
13 4 (2.84%) Business IT Analyst
13 4 (2.84%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) .NET
2 7 (4.96%) REST
3 5 (3.55%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.84%) JSON
4 4 (2.84%) Kafka
4 4 (2.84%) Web Services
5 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.13%) Node.js
5 3 (2.13%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.13%) React
5 3 (2.13%) Swagger
6 2 (1.42%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.42%) Django
6 2 (1.42%) HTML
6 2 (1.42%) JMS
6 2 (1.42%) RESTful
6 2 (1.42%) Symfony
6 2 (1.42%) XML
7 1 (0.71%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Mobile App
2 13 (9.22%) Industry 4.0
3 11 (7.80%) Operational Technology
4 9 (6.38%) Blockchain
4 9 (6.38%) Robotics
5 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.55%) NB-IoT
7 5 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.84%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.84%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 4 (2.84%) PCIe
8 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.84%) Verilog
8 4 (2.84%) VHDL
9 3 (2.13%) CBDC
9 3 (2.13%) NHS
9 3 (2.13%) Web3
10 2 (1.42%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.42%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.80%) Linux
2 9 (6.38%) Windows
3 4 (2.84%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.84%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.84%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.42%) Android
4 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.42%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.42%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.44%) Agile
2 21 (14.89%) SDLC
3 19 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (12.77%) Cloud Security
4 18 (12.77%) DevOps
4 18 (12.77%) Security Architecture
4 18 (12.77%) Software Engineering
5 17 (12.06%) DevSecOps
6 16 (11.35%) Design Patterns
6 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (11.35%) Security Testing
7 14 (9.93%) Application Security
7 14 (9.93%) Architectural Patterns
7 14 (9.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (9.93%) Roadmaps
8 13 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (9.22%) Use Case
9 12 (8.51%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (7.80%) Computer Science
11 10 (7.09%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.35%) Python
2 13 (9.22%) Java
3 11 (7.80%) C
3 11 (7.80%) C#
4 7 (4.96%) SQL
5 6 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.55%) C++
6 5 (3.55%) PHP
6 5 (3.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.84%) Embedded C
7 4 (2.84%) Go
8 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (11.35%) Degree
2 6 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (4.26%) CISM
2 6 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.55%) CISA
3 5 (3.55%) CISSP
3 5 (3.55%) GIAC
4 4 (2.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (2.84%) CCSP
4 4 (2.84%) CHECK Team Leader
4 4 (2.84%) CREST Certified
4 4 (2.84%) OSCP
4 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) CCNA
5 2 (1.42%) CCSK
5 2 (1.42%) CEH
5 2 (1.42%) CISMP
5 2 (1.42%) CRISC
5 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.02%) NIST
2 7 (4.96%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) GRC
4 4 (2.84%) MISRA
4 4 (2.84%) MISRA C
5 3 (2.13%) GDPR
5 3 (2.13%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.42%) COBIT
6 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.71%) ISA99
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
7 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.55%) Docker
1 5 (3.55%) Firmware
2 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.22%) Terraform
2 4 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.13%) Grafana
4 2 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (12.77%) SAP
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.84%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.84%) Databricks
3 4 (2.84%) Intel
4 3 (2.13%) Cisco
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle
4 3 (2.13%) Splunk
5 2 (1.42%) Ariba
5 2 (1.42%) Atmel
5 2 (1.42%) CA
5 2 (1.42%) Google
5 2 (1.42%) Kepware
5 2 (1.42%) PTC
6 1 (0.71%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (0.71%) Apple
6 1 (0.71%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.71%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.71%) Juniper