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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 481 271
Rank change year-on-year +51 -210 +100
Permanent jobs citing IoT 317 171 896
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.42% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 0.98% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 244 115 711
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,600 £34,001
25th Percentile £46,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21,732 17,372 30,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.60% 42.45% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 14,360 8,518 20,859
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,563 £38,750
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.95% +4.55% -14.35%

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 28 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 28 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 +11 74 £55,000 -12.00% 44
London +11 72 £75,000 -9.09% 51
North of England -11 65 £55,000 -5.17% 15
South West -46 46 £57,500 - 12
Midlands -24 34 £42,500 -29.17% 16
Yorkshire -11 28 £60,000 - 5
North West +4 26 £53,750 -7.33% 9
East of England -5 22 £66,250 +15.22% 16
West Midlands -10 17 £38,500 -45.00% 11
East Midlands -19 17 £42,500 -19.05% 5
North East - 11 £50,500 - 1
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 9 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.26%) CMS
3 4 (1.26%) Confluence
3 4 (1.26%) WordPress
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.26%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.63%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.63%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.63%) Simulink
4 2 (0.63%) Windchill
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Maximo
2 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.36%) AWS
1 36 (11.36%) Azure
2 18 (5.68%) SaaS
3 15 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.79%) Serverless
5 8 (2.52%) GCP
6 6 (1.89%) AWS IoT
7 5 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.58%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.58%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.26%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.26%) Canva
8 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.26%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon CloudSearch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.41%) Wireless
2 21 (6.62%) MQTT
3 17 (5.36%) Bluetooth
3 17 (5.36%) Firewall
3 17 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (4.42%) Internet
5 12 (3.79%) DNS
5 12 (3.79%) VPN
6 10 (3.15%) LoRaWAN
7 6 (1.89%) DHCP
7 6 (1.89%) Modbus
8 5 (1.58%) ZigBee
9 4 (1.26%) LTE
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.63%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.63%) VoIP
12 1 (0.32%) AMQP
12 1 (0.32%) MVNO
12 1 (0.32%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) MySQL
3 6 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.58%) Big Data
4 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.26%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.26%) Neo4j
6 3 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.63%) GIS
7 2 (0.63%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.63%) Power BI
7 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (3.47%) Git
2 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.58%) JIRA
3 4 (1.26%) GDB
3 4 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (1.26%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.63%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.32%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.32%) Poetry
5 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (12.93%) Electronics
2 38 (11.99%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.52%) Manufacturing
4 21 (6.62%) Finance
5 20 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.68%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.73%) Automotive
8 13 (4.10%) Tech for Good
9 10 (3.15%) Marketing
10 9 (2.84%) Wearables
11 8 (2.52%) Local Government
11 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.21%) Retail
12 7 (2.21%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.58%) Law
13 5 (1.58%) Legal
14 4 (1.26%) Advertising
14 4 (1.26%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.26%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (23.03%) Software Engineer
2 51 (16.09%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (13.25%) Senior
4 28 (8.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 25 (7.89%) Developer
6 24 (7.57%) Sales Manager
7 21 (6.62%) Technical Engineer
8 18 (5.68%) Architect
9 16 (5.05%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 16 (5.05%) Firmware Engineer
9 16 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (4.73%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (4.10%) Principal Software Engineer
12 12 (3.79%) Operations Engineer
13 11 (3.47%) Technical Support
13 11 (3.47%) Technical Support Engineer
14 10 (3.15%) Technical Operations Engineer
15 9 (2.84%) Systems Engineer
16 8 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.05%) Node.js
2 15 (4.73%) React
3 11 (3.47%) Yocto
4 9 (2.84%) .NET
5 5 (1.58%) REST
6 4 (1.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.26%) pytest
6 4 (1.26%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.95%) Kafka
7 3 (0.95%) React Native
8 2 (0.63%) Blazor
8 2 (0.63%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (0.63%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.63%) HTML
8 2 (0.63%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.63%) Vue
8 2 (0.63%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.32%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.32%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.73%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.42%) Device Driver
3 12 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.79%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.15%) PropTech
4 10 (3.15%) Smart Energy
5 9 (2.84%) Smart Home
6 8 (2.52%) ARM Cortex
6 8 (2.52%) Robotics
7 7 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.21%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.89%) NB-IoT
8 6 (1.89%) SCADA
9 5 (1.58%) Blog
9 5 (1.58%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.20%) Linux
2 20 (6.31%) Windows
3 11 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.15%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (2.52%) Android
6 4 (1.26%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.26%) VMS
7 3 (0.95%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.63%) Unix
9 1 (0.32%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (30.28%) Software Engineering
2 61 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (13.56%) AI
4 37 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (10.09%) Collaborative Culture
6 25 (7.89%) CI/CD
7 24 (7.57%) ERP
8 23 (7.26%) CRM
8 23 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (7.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (6.94%) DevOps
10 20 (6.31%) Mentoring
11 18 (5.68%) Analytics
12 17 (5.36%) Roadmaps
13 16 (5.05%) Asset Management
13 16 (5.05%) Machine Learning
13 16 (5.05%) Requirements Gathering
14 15 (4.73%) Business Development
14 15 (4.73%) Tech Ops
14 15 (4.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.51%) Python
2 26 (8.20%) C++
3 23 (7.26%) C
4 17 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 15 (4.73%) SQL
6 14 (4.42%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.79%) Java
7 12 (3.79%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.47%) C#
9 10 (3.15%) Embedded C
10 7 (2.21%) Bash
11 5 (1.58%) Go
11 5 (1.58%) PHP
12 3 (0.95%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.95%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.95%) Rust
13 1 (0.32%) Groovy
13 1 (0.32%) Haskell
13 1 (0.32%) OCaml
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (13.88%) Degree
2 9 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (2.84%) Master's Degree
2 9 (2.84%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.58%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.58%) HND
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.32%) CISA
6 1 (0.32%) CISM
6 1 (0.32%) CISSP
6 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) PhD
6 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.84%) QA
2 6 (1.89%) ISO 9001
3 5 (1.58%) JTAG
4 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.63%) ECSS
6 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (14.51%) Firmware
2 28 (8.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (4.10%) Docker
4 11 (3.47%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.84%) vSphere
6 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.58%) SCCM
4 4 (1.26%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.26%) Terraform
4 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.32%) MOM
Vendors
1 43 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.47%) VMware
3 8 (2.52%) SAP
4 7 (2.21%) Oracle
5 6 (1.89%) EMC
5 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.58%) Aruba
6 5 (1.58%) Cisco
6 5 (1.58%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.58%) Google
7 4 (1.26%) Adobe
8 3 (0.95%) dotdigital
8 3 (0.95%) IFS
9 2 (0.63%) ConnectWise
9 2 (0.63%) Draytek
9 2 (0.63%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.63%) Siemens
9 2 (0.63%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.32%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.32%) Zscaler