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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 452 343
Rank change year-on-year +64 -109 -11
Permanent jobs citing IoT 438 182 502
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.42% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 1.01% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 328 123 323
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,150
25th Percentile £46,500 £51,250 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,527 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £92,000 £81,250
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 27,228 18,108 21,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.19% 41.87% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17,684 9,188 10,979
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
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% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% -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 2 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 2 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 +20 109 £55,000 -12.00% 135
London +5 96 £57,500 -39.47% 326
North of England -3 90 £55,000 -8.33% 79
South West -35 55 £55,000 +22.22% 35
Midlands -22 53 £59,386 +7.97% 54
Yorkshire +5 40 £55,000 - 18
East of England -43 35 £85,000 +47.83% 99
North West -22 34 £42,000 -30.00% 43
West Midlands -23 27 £48,500 -18.52% 37
East Midlands -30 26 £67,500 +28.57% 17
North East -47 16 £50,000 +25.00% 18
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 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.91%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.91%) Simulink
3 3 (0.68%) 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 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.68%) 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 57 (13.01%) AWS
2 38 (8.68%) Azure
3 23 (5.25%) SaaS
4 22 (5.02%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.28%) AWS IoT
6 10 (2.28%) Serverless
7 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.37%) GCP
9 5 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.14%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.14%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (0.91%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.36%) Wireless
2 40 (9.13%) Internet
3 27 (6.16%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (5.25%) MQTT
5 18 (4.11%) DNS
6 16 (3.65%) Bluetooth
7 15 (3.42%) VPN
8 14 (3.20%) Firewall
9 12 (2.74%) DHCP
10 11 (2.51%) 5G
11 9 (2.05%) Ethernet
11 9 (2.05%) ZigBee
12 8 (1.83%) VLAN
13 7 (1.60%) LoRaWAN
14 5 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (1.14%) Network Security
14 5 (1.14%) SSH
15 4 (0.91%) HTTP
15 4 (0.91%) Modbus
15 4 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.20%) Big Data
2 9 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.14%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.91%) MySQL
6 3 (0.68%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.68%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.23%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.23%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (7.31%) Git
2 11 (2.51%) JIRA
3 7 (1.60%) GitLab
3 7 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.37%) GDB
5 4 (0.91%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.91%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.91%) Selenium
6 3 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Poetry
General
1 71 (16.21%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.61%) Electronics
3 41 (9.36%) Manufacturing
4 39 (8.90%) Telecoms
5 36 (8.22%) Finance
5 36 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.34%) Automotive
8 18 (4.11%) Aerospace
9 17 (3.88%) Marketing
10 13 (2.97%) Legal
11 12 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.74%) Retail
12 9 (2.05%) Banking
13 8 (1.83%) Local Government
13 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.60%) Social Housing
14 7 (1.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 59 (13.47%) Senior
1 59 (13.47%) Software Engineer
2 51 (11.64%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (9.59%) Sales Manager
4 37 (8.45%) Developer
5 35 (7.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 31 (7.08%) Architect
7 28 (6.39%) Technical Engineer
8 19 (4.34%) Account Manager
9 18 (4.11%) Support Engineer
9 18 (4.11%) Technical Support
10 17 (3.88%) Design Engineer
11 15 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Electronics Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Embedded Linux Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.74%) Technical Support Engineer
14 11 (2.51%) Business Development Manager
14 11 (2.51%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.94%) Yocto
2 20 (4.57%) .NET
2 20 (4.57%) REST
3 19 (4.34%) Terraform
4 13 (2.97%) React
5 12 (2.74%) Node.js
6 9 (2.05%) Kafka
7 7 (1.60%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.37%) Blazor
9 5 (1.14%) Vue
10 4 (0.91%) HTML
10 4 (0.91%) NestJS
10 4 (0.91%) pytest
10 4 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.91%) Symfony
10 4 (0.91%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (0.68%) CSS
11 3 (0.68%) Django
11 3 (0.68%) Flash
11 3 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.10%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.48%) Mobile App
4 22 (5.02%) Device Driver
4 22 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.57%) Robotics
6 18 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.42%) Driving Licence
8 13 (2.97%) Smart Home
9 12 (2.74%) ARM Cortex
9 12 (2.74%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.74%) Operational Technology
10 11 (2.51%) FPGA
10 11 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.28%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.28%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.83%) GNSS
12 8 (1.83%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.61%) Linux
2 25 (5.71%) Embedded Linux
3 20 (4.57%) Windows
4 10 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.05%) Android
6 7 (1.60%) VMS
7 6 (1.37%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (22.60%) Software Engineering
3 89 (20.32%) AI
4 48 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (10.73%) CI/CD
6 43 (9.82%) Agile
7 38 (8.68%) Collaborative Culture
8 37 (8.45%) Machine Learning
9 35 (7.99%) Business Development
9 35 (7.99%) DevOps
10 33 (7.53%) Validation
11 31 (7.08%) Analytics
11 31 (7.08%) Roadmaps
12 30 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (6.16%) Computer Science
14 26 (5.94%) CRM
14 26 (5.94%) Decision-Making
15 25 (5.71%) Tech Ops
16 24 (5.48%) Customer Engagement
16 24 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.38%) Python
2 47 (10.73%) C++
3 41 (9.36%) C
4 22 (5.02%) C#
4 22 (5.02%) Embedded C
4 22 (5.02%) TypeScript
5 20 (4.57%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.57%) SQL
6 17 (3.88%) Go
7 12 (2.74%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.51%) Java
9 10 (2.28%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.37%) Bash
11 5 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.14%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.14%) PHP
11 5 (1.14%) Rust
12 1 (0.23%) R
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (25.80%) Degree
2 27 (6.16%) DBS Check
3 24 (5.48%) Master's Degree
4 21 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.11%) HNC
6 14 (3.20%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.28%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.05%) PhD
8 9 (2.05%) Postgraduate
9 7 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.37%) HND
11 3 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.46%) ACCA
12 2 (0.46%) CCNP
12 2 (0.46%) CIMA
12 2 (0.46%) CISSP
12 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.34%) QA
2 6 (1.37%) JTAG
3 5 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.14%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.91%) ECSS
4 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (0.68%) NCSC
5 3 (0.68%) NIST
5 3 (0.68%) 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 (8.22%) Firmware
2 21 (4.79%) Docker
3 11 (2.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (1.83%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.37%) vSphere
6 2 (0.46%) iptables
6 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.37%) Grafana
3 5 (1.14%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.14%) SCCM
4 3 (0.68%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.23%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) MOM
5 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.05%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.83%) Cisco
4 7 (1.60%) Oracle
4 7 (1.60%) SAP
5 6 (1.37%) Aruba
5 6 (1.37%) EMC
5 6 (1.37%) VMware
6 5 (1.14%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.91%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.91%) IFS
7 4 (0.91%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe
8 3 (0.68%) Apple
8 3 (0.68%) BT
8 3 (0.68%) Databricks
8 3 (0.68%) Google
8 3 (0.68%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.46%) Siemens