IoT Job Trends in England

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

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 450 339
Rank change year-on-year +62 -111 -14
Permanent jobs citing IoT 436 189 483
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.44% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 1.05% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 327 128 304
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,125 £36,275
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,514 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.48% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,750 £83,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27,293 18,083 21,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.22% 41.86% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 17,629 9,183 10,641
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,038 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IoT job vacancy trend in England

IoT
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in England

IoT
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
South East +28 111 £55,000 -12.00% 107
London -8 94 £57,500 -39.47% 284
North of England -7 89 £55,000 -8.33% 82
Midlands -28 54 £59,522 +8.22% 65
South West -42 54 £55,000 +22.22% 40
Yorkshire +3 39 £55,000 - 23
North West -21 34 £42,000 -30.00% 43
East of England -34 34 £85,000 +47.83% 94
West Midlands -15 28 £51,000 -14.32% 45
East Midlands -21 26 £67,500 +28.57% 20
North East -50 16 £50,000 +25.00% 17
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.92%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.92%) Simulink
3 3 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.46%) CATIA
4 2 (0.46%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.46%) Windchill
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.69%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.46%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.30%) AWS
2 36 (8.26%) Azure
3 23 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
3 23 (5.28%) SaaS
4 20 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.29%) AWS IoT
6 9 (2.06%) Serverless
7 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.15%) GCP
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.15%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.92%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (0.92%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (0.92%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.63%) Internet
2 40 (9.17%) Wireless
3 26 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (5.28%) MQTT
5 18 (4.13%) DNS
6 15 (3.44%) Bluetooth
6 15 (3.44%) VPN
7 13 (2.98%) Firewall
8 12 (2.75%) DHCP
9 11 (2.52%) 5G
10 9 (2.06%) Ethernet
10 9 (2.06%) ZigBee
11 8 (1.83%) VLAN
12 7 (1.61%) LoRaWAN
13 5 (1.15%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (1.15%) Network Security
13 5 (1.15%) SSH
14 4 (0.92%) HTTP
14 4 (0.92%) Modbus
14 4 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.21%) Big Data
2 9 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.92%) MySQL
6 4 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.69%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.69%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.23%) GIS
8 1 (0.23%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (7.34%) Git
2 11 (2.52%) JIRA
3 7 (1.61%) GitLab
3 7 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.38%) GDB
5 4 (0.92%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.92%) Selenium
6 3 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Poetry
General
1 73 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.45%) Electronics
3 41 (9.40%) Manufacturing
4 39 (8.94%) Telecoms
5 37 (8.49%) Finance
5 37 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.36%) Aerospace
7 19 (4.36%) Automotive
8 17 (3.90%) Marketing
9 13 (2.98%) Legal
10 12 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.75%) Retail
11 10 (2.29%) Banking
12 8 (1.83%) Local Government
12 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.83%) Social Housing
13 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 59 (13.53%) Senior
2 58 (13.30%) Software Engineer
3 49 (11.24%) Embedded Engineer
4 41 (9.40%) Sales Manager
5 37 (8.49%) Developer
6 34 (7.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 31 (7.11%) Architect
8 27 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) Account Manager
10 18 (4.13%) Technical Support
11 17 (3.90%) Design Engineer
11 17 (3.90%) Support Engineer
12 15 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (3.21%) Electronics Engineer
14 13 (2.98%) Embedded Linux Engineer
14 13 (2.98%) Linux Engineer
14 13 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.75%) Business Development Manager
15 12 (2.75%) Development Manager
16 11 (2.52%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.96%) Yocto
2 22 (5.05%) REST
3 21 (4.82%) .NET
4 18 (4.13%) Terraform
5 13 (2.98%) Node.js
5 13 (2.98%) React
6 9 (2.06%) Kafka
7 7 (1.61%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.38%) Blazor
9 5 (1.15%) NestJS
9 5 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.15%) Symfony
9 5 (1.15%) Vue
10 4 (0.92%) Django
10 4 (0.92%) HTML
10 4 (0.92%) pytest
10 4 (0.92%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (0.92%) Web Services
11 3 (0.69%) CSS
11 3 (0.69%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.93%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.50%) Mobile App
4 22 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.82%) Device Driver
6 20 (4.59%) Robotics
7 19 (4.36%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.44%) Driving Licence
9 14 (3.21%) Smart Home
10 13 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.75%) ARM Cortex
11 12 (2.75%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.75%) Operational Technology
12 11 (2.52%) FPGA
12 11 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.29%) AI Agents
13 10 (2.29%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.83%) GNSS
14 8 (1.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.45%) Linux
2 24 (5.50%) Embedded Linux
3 20 (4.59%) Windows
4 10 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.06%) Android
6 7 (1.61%) VMS
7 6 (1.38%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (22.48%) Software Engineering
3 88 (20.18%) AI
4 48 (11.01%) CI/CD
4 48 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (9.86%) Agile
6 37 (8.49%) Collaborative Culture
7 36 (8.26%) Business Development
7 36 (8.26%) DevOps
8 35 (8.03%) Machine Learning
9 32 (7.34%) Roadmaps
9 32 (7.34%) Validation
10 31 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (6.88%) Analytics
12 27 (6.19%) CRM
13 26 (5.96%) Computer Science
14 25 (5.73%) Decision-Making
14 25 (5.73%) Tech Ops
15 24 (5.50%) Customer Engagement
15 24 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (14.22%) Python
2 47 (10.78%) C++
3 41 (9.40%) C
4 23 (5.28%) C#
4 23 (5.28%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.05%) Embedded C
6 20 (4.59%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.36%) SQL
8 17 (3.90%) Go
9 12 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.29%) Embedded C++
10 10 (2.29%) Java
11 6 (1.38%) Bash
11 6 (1.38%) PHP
12 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.15%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.15%) Rust
13 1 (0.23%) OCaml
13 1 (0.23%) R
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (25.92%) Degree
2 27 (6.19%) DBS Check
3 25 (5.73%) Master's Degree
4 20 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.13%) HNC
6 14 (3.21%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.29%) PhD
7 10 (2.29%) Postgraduate
7 10 (2.29%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.61%) HND
9 7 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.46%) ACCA
11 2 (0.46%) CCNP
11 2 (0.46%) CIMA
11 2 (0.46%) CISSP
11 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.36%) QA
2 6 (1.38%) JTAG
3 5 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.15%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.92%) ECSS
4 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (0.69%) NCSC
5 3 (0.69%) NIST
5 3 (0.69%) PMO
6 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (8.26%) Firmware
2 20 (4.59%) Docker
3 10 (2.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (1.83%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.46%) iptables
6 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.15%) Grafana
2 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
2 5 (1.15%) SCCM
3 3 (0.69%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.23%) Ansible
4 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.23%) Galera Cluster
4 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.23%) MOM
4 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.06%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.83%) Cisco
4 7 (1.61%) Oracle
4 7 (1.61%) SAP
5 6 (1.38%) Aruba
5 6 (1.38%) EMC
5 6 (1.38%) VMware
6 5 (1.15%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.92%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.92%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.92%) IFS
7 4 (0.92%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.69%) Adobe
8 3 (0.69%) Apple
8 3 (0.69%) BT
8 3 (0.69%) Databricks
8 3 (0.69%) Google
9 2 (0.46%) MEDITECH
9 2 (0.46%) Siemens