IoT Job Trends in the East Midlands

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 102 147
Rank change year-on-year +55 +45 +6
Permanent jobs citing IoT 145 8 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.44% 0.54% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.53% 1.58% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 35
10th Percentile - £33,375 £39,850
25th Percentile - £34,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £38,750 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.76% +8.42%
75th Percentile - £42,188 £65,000
90th Percentile - £43,125 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 998 506 1,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 23.65% 34.35% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 527 352 929
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,936 £24,833
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +14.12% -18.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IoT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

IoT job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

IoT
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IoT

IoT
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +25 135 - - 2
Lincolnshire - 7 - -
Northamptonshire -12 3 - - 1
IoT
England

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 142 (97.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 142 (97.93%) Internet
2 3 (2.07%) Firewall
2 3 (2.07%) LoRaWAN
2 3 (2.07%) MQTT
2 3 (2.07%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.07%) MySQL
1 3 (2.07%) Neo4j
1 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
General
1 142 (97.93%) Banking
1 142 (97.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 142 (97.93%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.07%) Finance
2 3 (2.07%) Law
2 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (78.62%) Lecturer
2 3 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.07%) Driving Licence
1 3 (2.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.07%) Linux
1 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 142 (97.93%) AI
2 142 (97.93%) Machine Learning
2 142 (97.93%) User Experience
2 142 (97.93%) Web Development
3 3 (2.07%) High Availability
3 3 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (2.07%) Mentoring
3 3 (2.07%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (2.07%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (2.07%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 142 (97.93%) Degree
1 142 (97.93%) Master's Degree
1 142 (97.93%) PhD
1 142 (97.93%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (2.07%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.07%) Galera Cluster
1 3 (2.07%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.07%) VMware