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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 483 319
Rank change year-on-year +67 -164 +29
Permanent jobs citing IoT 351 176 595
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.40% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 0.95% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 259 127 472
10th Percentile £39,350 £42,500 £34,775
25th Percentile £46,500 £51,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,125 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 24,311 18,431 23,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.81% 42.13% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15,873 9,310 14,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,294 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +21 89 £55,000 -8.33% 71
London +2 80 £75,000 -18.92% 124
North of England -4 71 £55,000 -5.17% 26
South West -36 48 £55,000 +12.82% 20
Midlands -16 38 £42,500 -29.17% 26
Yorkshire -3 35 £60,000 +14.29% 8
East of England -22 24 £67,500 +17.39% 21
North West -11 23 £50,000 -13.79% 14
East Midlands -23 23 £67,500 +28.57% 11
West Midlands -17 15 £38,500 -42.96% 15
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
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 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.85%) CMS
3 3 (0.85%) WordPress
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.99%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.85%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.85%) Simulink
4 2 (0.57%) Windchill
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.57%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.96%) AWS
2 35 (9.97%) Azure
3 26 (7.41%) SaaS
4 14 (3.99%) Serverless
5 12 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.85%) AWS IoT
8 8 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.28%) GCP
9 5 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.42%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.14%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.14%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.14%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.14%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.54%) Wireless
2 27 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 23 (6.55%) MQTT
4 18 (5.13%) Bluetooth
5 17 (4.84%) Firewall
5 17 (4.84%) Internet
6 14 (3.99%) DNS
6 14 (3.99%) VPN
7 11 (3.13%) LoRaWAN
8 10 (2.85%) ZigBee
9 8 (2.28%) DHCP
10 6 (1.71%) 5G
10 6 (1.71%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.42%) VoIP
12 4 (1.14%) LTE
13 3 (0.85%) Modbus
13 3 (0.85%) RS-232
13 3 (0.85%) RS-485
13 3 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.42%) Big Data
2 11 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.99%) MySQL
6 6 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.71%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.14%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.85%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.85%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.57%) GIS
10 2 (0.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (7.12%) Git
2 8 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.99%) GitLab
4 6 (1.71%) GDB
5 5 (1.42%) JIRA
6 4 (1.14%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.14%) Selenium
7 3 (0.85%) PetaLinux
8 2 (0.57%) Postman
9 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Poetry
9 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (15.38%) Electronics
2 44 (12.54%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.98%) Finance
3 28 (7.98%) Manufacturing
4 27 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.27%) Marketing
6 14 (3.99%) Automotive
7 11 (3.13%) Legal
8 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.56%) Retail
9 8 (2.28%) Local Government
9 8 (2.28%) Wearables
10 7 (1.99%) Law
11 6 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (18.80%) Software Engineer
2 53 (15.10%) Embedded Engineer
3 41 (11.68%) Senior
4 37 (10.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 34 (9.69%) Sales Manager
6 29 (8.26%) Technical Engineer
7 24 (6.84%) Developer
8 23 (6.55%) Architect
9 17 (4.84%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.27%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.70%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (3.42%) Embedded Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.42%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Account Manager
13 11 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
14 10 (2.85%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (2.85%) Technical Operations Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Principal Software Engineer
16 8 (2.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.70%) Yocto
2 14 (3.99%) .NET
3 13 (3.70%) REST
4 12 (3.42%) React
5 9 (2.56%) Node.js
6 6 (1.71%) Blazor
6 6 (1.71%) Kafka
7 5 (1.42%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.14%) pytest
8 4 (1.14%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (0.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.85%) Flash
9 3 (0.85%) PySpark
9 3 (0.85%) Vue
10 2 (0.57%) GStreamer
10 2 (0.57%) HTML
10 2 (0.57%) WebSockets
11 1 (0.28%) FFmpeg
11 1 (0.28%) NumPy
11 1 (0.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.68%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (5.98%) Device Driver
3 17 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.56%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.99%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.99%) Robotics
6 13 (3.70%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.13%) ARM Cortex
7 11 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.13%) PropTech
8 10 (2.85%) Smart Home
9 8 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.99%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.99%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.71%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.71%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 57 (16.24%) Linux
2 21 (5.98%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (4.56%) Windows
4 10 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.71%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.42%) Android
7 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.14%) VMS
8 2 (0.57%) Unix
9 1 (0.28%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.49%) Software Engineering
2 82 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (19.09%) AI
4 41 (11.68%) CI/CD
5 40 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (10.54%) Collaborative Culture
7 33 (9.40%) DevOps
8 28 (7.98%) Analytics
8 28 (7.98%) CRM
9 27 (7.69%) Machine Learning
10 26 (7.41%) Validation
11 25 (7.12%) Business Development
12 23 (6.55%) Computer Science
12 23 (6.55%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (6.27%) Agile
14 20 (5.70%) Customer Engagement
14 20 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (5.70%) Roadmaps
15 19 (5.41%) Decision-Making
15 19 (5.41%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.38%) Python
2 37 (10.54%) C++
3 33 (9.40%) C
4 20 (5.70%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.84%) SQL
6 16 (4.56%) C#
6 16 (4.56%) Embedded C
7 12 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.13%) Go
9 8 (2.28%) Java
10 6 (1.71%) Bash
11 4 (1.14%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.14%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.14%) Rust
12 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.28%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (19.94%) Degree
2 17 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.42%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.85%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.14%) HNC
7 3 (0.85%) HND
8 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISA
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.28%) PhD
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.56%) QA
2 8 (2.28%) ISO 9001
3 7 (1.99%) JTAG
4 3 (0.85%) ECSS
4 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (10.83%) Firmware
2 23 (6.55%) Docker
3 16 (4.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.56%) vSphere
5 2 (0.57%) iptables
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.99%) Terraform
3 6 (1.71%) Grafana
4 5 (1.42%) SCCM
5 4 (1.14%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.14%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 44 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.56%) SAP
2 9 (2.56%) VMware
3 7 (1.99%) Cisco
3 7 (1.99%) Oracle
3 7 (1.99%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.42%) Aruba
4 5 (1.42%) Cognizant
4 5 (1.42%) Google
5 4 (1.14%) Adobe
5 4 (1.14%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.14%) IFS
6 3 (0.85%) BT
6 3 (0.85%) Databricks
6 3 (0.85%) EMC
6 3 (0.85%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.28%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.28%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto