IoT Jobs with Work from Home Options

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 322 299
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 -45
Permanent jobs citing IoT 346 403 864
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.97% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.87% 2.52% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 286 265 538
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,813 £42,500 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £92,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

IoT is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,055 16,013 32,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.60% 38.51% 46.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,252 11,630 16,857
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

IoT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IoT trend for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IoT.

IoT salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IoT over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

IoT salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (1.73%) IIS
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.45%) nginx
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.58%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (22.83%) AWS
2 56 (16.18%) Azure
3 22 (6.36%) AWS IoT
4 20 (5.78%) GitHub
5 17 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (3.76%) IaaS
6 13 (3.76%) Serverless
7 12 (3.47%) Nutanix
8 10 (2.89%) GCP
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.02%) SaaS
10 6 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.45%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.40%) Wireless
2 31 (8.96%) Internet
3 20 (5.78%) MQTT
3 20 (5.78%) TCP/IP
4 19 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (5.20%) WAN
6 15 (4.34%) Bluetooth
7 13 (3.76%) DNS
8 12 (3.47%) VoIP
9 11 (3.18%) RS-232
9 11 (3.18%) Unified Communications
10 10 (2.89%) ZigBee
11 9 (2.60%) HTTP
11 9 (2.60%) LoRaWAN
12 8 (2.31%) 4G
12 8 (2.31%) 5G
12 8 (2.31%) Firewall
12 8 (2.31%) NGN
12 8 (2.31%) RS-485
12 8 (2.31%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.51%) MySQL
2 17 (4.91%) Oracle Database
3 13 (3.76%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.18%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.60%) DynamoDB
5 9 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.02%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.16%) Big Data
10 3 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.87%) Metadata
10 3 (0.87%) Parquet
11 2 (0.58%) Power BI
12 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Git
2 22 (6.36%) Oracle APEX
3 15 (4.34%) JIRA
4 14 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.31%) Subversion
6 4 (1.16%) GitLab
6 4 (1.16%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.87%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.87%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.58%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.29%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.29%) Mockito
9 1 (0.29%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.03%) Electronics
3 47 (13.58%) Finance
4 39 (11.27%) Automotive
5 29 (8.38%) Manufacturing
5 29 (8.38%) Telecoms
6 25 (7.23%) Marketing
7 24 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (6.65%) Public Sector
9 18 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (3.76%) Legal
10 13 (3.76%) Tech for Good
11 11 (3.18%) Games
12 9 (2.60%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.31%) Social Housing
14 7 (2.02%) Health Technology
14 7 (2.02%) Law
15 6 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.73%) Wearables
16 5 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (30.06%) Developer
2 90 (26.01%) Senior
3 64 (18.50%) Software Engineer
4 44 (12.72%) Senior Developer
5 39 (11.27%) Consultant
6 33 (9.54%) Embedded Engineer
7 29 (8.38%) Software Developer
8 27 (7.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (5.49%) Architect
9 19 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.91%) Electronics Engineer
11 16 (4.62%) Hardware Engineer
12 15 (4.34%) Linux Consultant
12 15 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.76%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.76%) Lead
14 12 (3.47%) Senior Electronics Engineer
14 12 (3.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.18%) Senior Hardware Engineer
15 11 (3.18%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.61%) Node.js
2 43 (12.43%) HTML
3 33 (9.54%) CSS
4 26 (7.51%) JSON
5 23 (6.65%) .NET
6 22 (6.36%) REST
7 17 (4.91%) jQuery
8 16 (4.62%) React
9 12 (3.47%) Flask
10 10 (2.89%) .NET Core
10 10 (2.89%) LLVM
11 8 (2.31%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.02%) Django
12 7 (2.02%) JSON Schema
12 7 (2.02%) Swagger
13 6 (1.73%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.73%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.73%) React Native
13 6 (1.73%) RESTful
13 6 (1.73%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.12%) Client/Server
2 25 (7.23%) Raspberry Pi
3 21 (6.07%) Mobile App
4 18 (5.20%) Blog
5 14 (4.05%) Smart Home
6 12 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.31%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (2.02%) Arduino
9 7 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.02%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.45%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.45%) RISC-V
11 5 (1.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.86%) Linux
2 35 (10.12%) Apple iOS
3 33 (9.54%) Android
4 29 (8.38%) Windows
5 12 (3.47%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.16%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.87%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (26.59%) Software Engineering
2 73 (21.10%) Agile
3 63 (18.21%) DevOps
4 57 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (15.03%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (14.16%) Mentoring
7 40 (11.56%) CI/CD
8 35 (10.12%) Artificial Intelligence
9 34 (9.83%) Business Development
9 34 (9.83%) Microservices
10 30 (8.67%) Computer Science
10 30 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (8.38%) Decision-Making
12 23 (6.65%) Project Management
13 22 (6.36%) Asset Management
14 20 (5.78%) Analytics
14 20 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (5.78%) Design Patterns
14 20 (5.78%) OWASP
14 20 (5.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (35.55%) Python
2 69 (19.94%) C
3 60 (17.34%) JavaScript
4 53 (15.32%) TypeScript
5 50 (14.45%) SQL
6 32 (9.25%) C#
7 26 (7.51%) Embedded C
8 23 (6.65%) Java
9 22 (6.36%) Bash
9 22 (6.36%) C++
10 17 (4.91%) PL/SQL
11 13 (3.76%) Perl
12 12 (3.47%) PHP
13 7 (2.02%) Rust
13 7 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.73%) Go
14 6 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.73%) Swift
15 5 (1.45%) JSX
15 5 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (19.94%) Degree
2 28 (8.09%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.89%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.16%) OSCP
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.87%) CREST Certified
8 3 (0.87%) OSCE
9 2 (0.58%) CCNA
9 2 (0.58%) CCNP
9 2 (0.58%) CWNA
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) MCP
10 1 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.89%) QA
5 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.45%) MISRA
5 5 (1.45%) NIST
6 2 (0.58%) GDPR
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 22 (6.36%) Firmware
2 21 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.78%) Active Directory
4 19 (5.49%) Docker
5 12 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (1.73%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (1.73%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (5.20%) Ansible
2 13 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.89%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.73%) Opsgenie
4 6 (1.73%) SCOM
4 6 (1.73%) WSUS
5 5 (1.45%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.45%) Terraform
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.87%) Nessus
7 3 (0.87%) Nmap
8 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (8.38%) VMware
2 28 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.94%) Oracle
4 14 (4.05%) SAP
5 11 (3.18%) BT
6 9 (2.60%) Aruba
7 8 (2.31%) Xamarin
8 7 (2.02%) Cisco
8 7 (2.02%) NVIDIA
9 6 (1.73%) Databricks
10 5 (1.45%) Darktrace
10 5 (1.45%) HP
10 5 (1.45%) NEC
11 4 (1.16%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.87%) Google
12 3 (0.87%) Qualys
12 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.58%) QNX
13 2 (0.58%) YouTube
14 1 (0.29%) Ekahau