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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 446 270
Rank change year-on-year +30 -176 +92
Permanent jobs citing IoT 305 188 926
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.48% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 1.10% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 238 110 721
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,625 £90,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 20,969 17,152 31,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.20% 43.37% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13,780 8,236 21,248
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +8 74 £55,000 -12.00% 74
London -4 69 £75,000 -7.69% 76
North of England +10 66 £53,750 -7.33% 56
South West -36 43 £52,500 -8.70% 38
Yorkshire -14 31 £60,000 - 21
Midlands -28 27 £42,500 -26.09% 35
North West +4 25 £53,750 -7.33% 29
East of England -5 22 £70,000 +21.74% 52
East Midlands -32 14 £42,500 -15.00% 15
West Midlands -21 13 £50,000 -23.08% 20
North East - 10 £51,000 - 6
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 7 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.31%) CMS
3 4 (1.31%) Confluence
3 4 (1.31%) WordPress
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.62%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.31%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.66%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.33%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Simulink
5 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.80%) Azure
2 30 (9.84%) AWS
3 16 (5.25%) SaaS
4 13 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.61%) Serverless
6 7 (2.30%) GCP
7 5 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.31%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.31%) AWS IoT
8 4 (1.31%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.31%) Canva
8 4 (1.31%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.31%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.48%) Wireless
2 20 (6.56%) MQTT
3 17 (5.57%) Bluetooth
3 17 (5.57%) Firewall
4 16 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (4.26%) Internet
6 12 (3.93%) VPN
7 11 (3.61%) DNS
8 10 (3.28%) LoRaWAN
9 7 (2.30%) Modbus
10 5 (1.64%) DHCP
10 5 (1.64%) ZigBee
11 4 (1.31%) LTE
12 2 (0.66%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.66%) VoIP
13 1 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
13 1 (0.33%) MVNO
13 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
13 1 (0.33%) VoLTE
13 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.62%) MySQL
3 6 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.31%) Neo4j
6 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.98%) Power BI
7 2 (0.66%) Big Data
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) GIS
7 2 (0.66%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.33%) Flink
8 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.62%) Git
2 5 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.64%) JIRA
3 4 (1.31%) GDB
3 4 (1.31%) GitLab
3 4 (1.31%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.33%) PetaLinux
4 1 (0.33%) Poetry
4 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (12.46%) Electronics
2 35 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 24 (7.87%) Manufacturing
4 19 (6.23%) Finance
5 16 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.25%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.59%) Automotive
7 13 (4.26%) Tech for Good
8 11 (3.61%) Wearables
9 10 (3.28%) Marketing
10 7 (2.30%) Local Government
10 7 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.30%) Social Housing
11 5 (1.64%) Law
11 5 (1.64%) Retail
12 4 (1.31%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.98%) Advertising
13 3 (0.98%) French Language
13 3 (0.98%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 74 (24.26%) Software Engineer
2 48 (15.74%) Embedded Engineer
3 40 (13.11%) Senior
4 27 (8.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 22 (7.21%) Developer
6 20 (6.56%) Sales Manager
7 19 (6.23%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (5.25%) Architect
8 16 (5.25%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 16 (5.25%) Firmware Engineer
8 16 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (4.92%) Principal Software Engineer
10 13 (4.26%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.93%) Operations Engineer
12 11 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (3.28%) Technical Operations Engineer
14 9 (2.95%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (2.95%) Technical Support
14 9 (2.95%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.92%) Node.js
2 14 (4.59%) React
3 8 (2.62%) Yocto
4 7 (2.30%) .NET
5 4 (1.31%) pytest
5 4 (1.31%) REST
5 4 (1.31%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (0.98%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.98%) React Native
6 3 (0.98%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.66%) GStreamer
7 2 (0.66%) Kafka
7 2 (0.66%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.33%) HTML
8 1 (0.33%) JSON
8 1 (0.33%) NumPy
8 1 (0.33%) SAML
8 1 (0.33%) Spring
8 1 (0.33%) WPF
8 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.51%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.93%) Device Driver
3 12 (3.93%) Mobile App
3 12 (3.93%) Smart Energy
4 10 (3.28%) PropTech
5 9 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.95%) Smart Home
6 8 (2.62%) ARM Cortex
7 7 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.30%) SCADA
7 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.97%) NB-IoT
8 6 (1.97%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.97%) Robotics
9 5 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.31%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.79%) Linux
2 17 (5.57%) Windows
3 10 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.62%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.97%) Android
6 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.31%) VMS
7 2 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.66%) Unix
8 1 (0.33%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.49%) Software Engineering
2 54 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (11.15%) AI
5 29 (9.51%) Collaborative Culture
6 23 (7.54%) ERP
6 23 (7.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (7.21%) DevOps
7 22 (7.21%) Mentoring
8 21 (6.89%) CRM
8 21 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (6.56%) CI/CD
10 16 (5.25%) Asset Management
10 16 (5.25%) Energy Management
10 16 (5.25%) Requirements Gathering
10 16 (5.25%) Roadmaps
10 16 (5.25%) Tech Ops
11 14 (4.59%) Supplier Management
11 14 (4.59%) Validation
12 13 (4.26%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.11%) Python
2 22 (7.21%) C++
3 19 (6.23%) C
4 16 (5.25%) SQL
4 16 (5.25%) TypeScript
5 12 (3.93%) Java
5 12 (3.93%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.95%) C#
8 8 (2.62%) Embedded C
9 7 (2.30%) Bash
10 5 (1.64%) PHP
11 4 (1.31%) Go
12 2 (0.66%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.66%) Rust
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) Haskell
13 1 (0.33%) OCaml
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (11.80%) Degree
2 8 (2.62%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.31%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.31%) HND
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.98%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.33%) CISA
7 1 (0.33%) CISM
7 1 (0.33%) CISSP
7 1 (0.33%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.95%) QA
2 5 (1.64%) JTAG
3 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.31%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) ECSS
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (14.75%) Firmware
2 28 (9.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (4.26%) Docker
4 10 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.62%) vSphere
6 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.31%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (1.31%) SCCM
3 4 (1.31%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.33%) MOM
Vendors
1 39 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.28%) VMware
3 6 (1.97%) EMC
3 6 (1.97%) Oracle
3 6 (1.97%) SAP
4 5 (1.64%) Cognizant
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.31%) Adobe
5 4 (1.31%) Aruba
5 4 (1.31%) Google
6 3 (0.98%) Cisco
7 2 (0.66%) ConnectWise
7 2 (0.66%) dotdigital
7 2 (0.66%) Draytek
7 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.66%) IFS
7 2 (0.66%) Siemens
8 1 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.33%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.33%) Zscaler