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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 462 272
Rank change year-on-year +341 -190 +75
Permanent jobs citing IoT 1,300 183 901
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.58% 0.47% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.08% 1.09% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 238 111 707
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £34,450
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £76,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 21,366 16,843 30,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.97% 43.02% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,261 8,021 20,997
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +4.85% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 6 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 6 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
North of England +183 351 £55,000 -5.17% 29
Midlands +141 313 £42,500 -29.17% 25
North West +170 284 £53,750 -7.33% 18
West Midlands +115 274 £56,250 -13.46% 14
South East +130 253 £55,000 -8.33% 58
London +126 188 £75,000 -6.25% 94
East of England +89 137 £70,000 +21.74% 31
Yorkshire +18 60 £55,000 -8.33% 8
South West -30 53 £55,000 -8.33% 38
East Midlands +5 43 £42,500 -15.00% 11
North East - 7 £51,000 - 3
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 5 (0.38%) Confluence
1 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.31%) CMS
2 4 (0.31%) WordPress
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.077%) Apache
4 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.077%) GeoServer
Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.15%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.077%) Maximo
2 1 (0.077%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 997 (76.69%) Cloud Computing
2 36 (2.77%) Azure
3 30 (2.31%) AWS
4 14 (1.08%) SaaS
5 13 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.77%) Serverless
7 7 (0.54%) GCP
8 5 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.31%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.31%) AWS IoT
9 4 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.31%) Canva
9 4 (0.31%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.31%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.23%) Azure Functions
10 3 (0.23%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.15%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,003 (77.15%) Internet
2 34 (2.62%) Wireless
3 19 (1.46%) Bluetooth
3 19 (1.46%) Firewall
4 18 (1.38%) MQTT
5 15 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (1.00%) VPN
7 12 (0.92%) DNS
8 10 (0.77%) LoRaWAN
9 7 (0.54%) Modbus
10 5 (0.38%) DHCP
10 5 (0.38%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.31%) LTE
12 3 (0.23%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.15%) VoIP
14 1 (0.077%) 3GPP
14 1 (0.077%) FTP
14 1 (0.077%) LAN
14 1 (0.077%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.77%) MySQL
1 10 (0.77%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (0.46%) Big Data
2 6 (0.46%) MongoDB
2 6 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
5 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.23%) Power BI
6 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.15%) GIS
6 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.077%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.077%) Flink
7 1 (0.077%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.077%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.077%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.077%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Git
2 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.38%) JIRA
3 4 (0.31%) GDB
3 4 (0.31%) GitLab
3 4 (0.31%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.077%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.077%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.077%) Poetry
4 1 (0.077%) Zephyr
General
1 1,032 (79.38%) Social Skills
2 1,000 (76.92%) Banking
3 998 (76.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (3.08%) Electronics
5 24 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 23 (1.77%) Finance
7 17 (1.31%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (1.15%) Marketing
9 15 (1.15%) Tech for Good
10 14 (1.08%) Automotive
11 11 (0.85%) Wearables
12 10 (0.77%) Social Housing
13 8 (0.62%) Public Sector
14 6 (0.46%) Local Government
15 5 (0.38%) Law
16 4 (0.31%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.23%) Advertising
17 3 (0.23%) French Language
17 3 (0.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 829 (63.77%) Lecturer
2 70 (5.38%) Software Engineer
3 46 (3.54%) Embedded Engineer
4 38 (2.92%) Senior
5 25 (1.92%) Developer
6 24 (1.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 18 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 18 (1.38%) Firmware Engineer
7 18 (1.38%) Sales Manager
8 16 (1.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (1.15%) Architect
9 15 (1.15%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (1.15%) Principal Software Engineer
9 15 (1.15%) Technical Engineer
10 13 (1.00%) Support Engineer
11 11 (0.85%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (0.85%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (0.69%) Analyst
12 9 (0.69%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (0.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.15%) Node.js
2 14 (1.08%) React
3 7 (0.54%) .NET
4 6 (0.46%) Yocto
5 5 (0.38%) React Native
6 4 (0.31%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.31%) pytest
6 4 (0.31%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.23%) Kafka
7 3 (0.23%) REST
8 2 (0.15%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.077%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.077%) D3.js
9 1 (0.077%) NumPy
9 1 (0.077%) OpenID
9 1 (0.077%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.077%) Vue
9 1 (0.077%) WebRTC
9 1 (0.077%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (1.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (1.00%) Mobile App
3 12 (0.92%) Smart Energy
3 12 (0.92%) Smart Home
4 11 (0.85%) Device Driver
5 10 (0.77%) PropTech
6 7 (0.54%) ARM Cortex
6 7 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.54%) SCADA
6 7 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (0.46%) NB-IoT
7 6 (0.46%) Operational Technology
7 6 (0.46%) Robotics
8 5 (0.38%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (0.31%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.31%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.77%) Linux
2 17 (1.31%) Windows
3 10 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (0.38%) Android
6 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.31%) VMS
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 1 (0.077%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.077%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.077%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (78.85%) AI
2 1,018 (78.31%) Cybersecurity
3 1,004 (77.23%) Machine Learning
4 999 (76.85%) User Experience
5 997 (76.69%) Web Development
6 88 (6.77%) Software Engineering
7 53 (4.08%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (2.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (2.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (1.69%) Mentoring
11 21 (1.62%) ERP
11 21 (1.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (1.54%) CRM
12 20 (1.54%) DevOps
13 18 (1.38%) CI/CD
14 17 (1.31%) Business Analysis
15 16 (1.23%) Asset Management
15 16 (1.23%) Energy Management
15 16 (1.23%) Requirements Gathering
16 15 (1.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (2.85%) Python
2 19 (1.46%) C++
3 17 (1.31%) TypeScript
4 16 (1.23%) SQL
5 15 (1.15%) C
6 11 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 10 (0.77%) Java
7 10 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.62%) C#
9 7 (0.54%) Bash
10 6 (0.46%) Embedded C
10 6 (0.46%) PHP
11 4 (0.31%) Go
12 2 (0.15%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.077%) Groovy
13 1 (0.077%) Haskell
13 1 (0.077%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.077%) OCaml
13 1 (0.077%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.077%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,031 (79.31%) Degree
2 1,005 (77.31%) Master's Degree
3 994 (76.46%) PhD
4 993 (76.38%) Postgraduate
5 7 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (0.54%) HND
6 6 (0.46%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.23%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.077%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.077%) CISA
9 1 (0.077%) CISM
9 1 (0.077%) CISSP
9 1 (0.077%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.077%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.69%) QA
2 5 (0.38%) JTAG
3 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.15%) GDPR
6 1 (0.077%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.077%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.077%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (3.38%) Firmware
2 29 (2.23%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (1.00%) Docker
4 11 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.54%) vSphere
7 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.31%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (0.31%) Terraform
3 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.23%) SCCM
5 2 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.077%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.077%) MOM
Vendors
1 37 (2.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.77%) VMware
3 7 (0.54%) SAP
4 6 (0.46%) EMC
5 5 (0.38%) Cognizant
5 5 (0.38%) Oracle
6 4 (0.31%) Adobe
6 4 (0.31%) Google
6 4 (0.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.23%) Aruba
7 3 (0.23%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.23%) Draytek
7 3 (0.23%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.15%) Cisco
8 2 (0.15%) dotdigital
8 2 (0.15%) IFS
8 2 (0.15%) Siemens
9 1 (0.077%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.077%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.077%) Palo Alto