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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 476 294
Rank change year-on-year +51 -182 +50
Permanent jobs citing IoT 332 172 722
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.40% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 0.95% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 248 121 576
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,876
25th Percentile £46,438 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £72,813 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,625 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 22,787 18,129 26,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.57% 41.90% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,055 9,125 17,121
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,346
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +23 81 £55,000 -12.00% 57
London +12 72 £75,000 -14.29% 88
North of England -6 60 £55,000 -5.17% 29
South West -36 49 £52,500 - 18
Midlands -22 40 £42,500 -29.17% 19
East of England -7 26 £62,500 +8.70% 21
Yorkshire -10 26 £60,000 - 12
East Midlands -24 22 £60,000 +14.29% 14
North West -8 21 £52,500 -9.48% 13
West Midlands -22 18 £38,500 -45.00% 5
North East - 13 £50,000 - 5
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 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.20%) CMS
3 4 (1.20%) Confluence
3 4 (1.20%) WordPress
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.41%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.90%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.90%) Simulink
5 2 (0.60%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.60%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Maximo
3 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.55%) AWS
2 39 (11.75%) Azure
3 24 (7.23%) SaaS
4 14 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.22%) Serverless
5 11 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.01%) AWS IoT
6 10 (3.01%) GCP
7 8 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.51%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.51%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.51%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.20%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.20%) Canva
9 4 (1.20%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.75%) Wireless
2 23 (6.93%) MQTT
2 23 (6.93%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (5.72%) Bluetooth
4 17 (5.12%) Internet
5 16 (4.82%) Firewall
6 12 (3.61%) LoRaWAN
6 12 (3.61%) VPN
7 11 (3.31%) DNS
8 9 (2.71%) ZigBee
9 6 (1.81%) 5G
9 6 (1.81%) DHCP
10 5 (1.51%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.51%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.51%) VoIP
11 4 (1.20%) LTE
11 4 (1.20%) Modbus
11 4 (1.20%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.60%) RS-232
12 2 (0.60%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.31%) Big Data
1 11 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.41%) MySQL
2 8 (2.41%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.81%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.20%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.90%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.60%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.60%) GIS
8 2 (0.60%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 22 (6.63%) Git
2 8 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.11%) GitLab
4 6 (1.81%) GDB
5 5 (1.51%) JIRA
6 4 (1.20%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.90%) PetaLinux
8 2 (0.60%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Poetry
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (14.76%) Electronics
2 44 (13.25%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.13%) Manufacturing
4 24 (7.23%) Finance
5 23 (6.93%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.82%) Marketing
7 14 (4.22%) Automotive
8 11 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.71%) Legal
10 8 (2.41%) Local Government
10 8 (2.41%) Retail
11 7 (2.11%) Social Housing
11 7 (2.11%) Wearables
12 6 (1.81%) Law
12 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.81%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.51%) Military
14 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.20%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 64 (19.28%) Software Engineer
2 50 (15.06%) Embedded Engineer
3 36 (10.84%) Senior
4 32 (9.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 30 (9.04%) Sales Manager
6 29 (8.73%) Technical Engineer
7 25 (7.53%) Developer
8 22 (6.63%) Architect
9 17 (5.12%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.22%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.92%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
13 11 (3.31%) Embedded Linux Engineer
13 11 (3.31%) Linux Engineer
14 10 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.01%) Technical Operations Engineer
15 9 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (2.71%) Principal Software Engineer
15 9 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.72%) Yocto
2 14 (4.22%) .NET
3 9 (2.71%) Node.js
3 9 (2.71%) React
4 8 (2.41%) REST
5 5 (1.51%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.51%) Kafka
6 4 (1.20%) Blazor
6 4 (1.20%) pytest
6 4 (1.20%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.90%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.90%) Vue
8 2 (0.60%) Flash
8 2 (0.60%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.60%) HTML
8 2 (0.60%) PySpark
8 2 (0.60%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.30%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.30%) Micronaut
9 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.55%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (6.02%) Device Driver
3 17 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.52%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.61%) Smart Home
7 11 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.01%) ARM Cortex
8 10 (3.01%) PropTech
8 10 (3.01%) Robotics
9 9 (2.71%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.41%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.11%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.11%) Blog
11 7 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.81%) NB-IoT
12 6 (1.81%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.06%) Linux
2 17 (5.12%) Embedded Linux
2 17 (5.12%) Windows
3 11 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.81%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.51%) Android
6 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.20%) VMS
7 2 (0.60%) Unix
8 1 (0.30%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.31%) Software Engineering
2 76 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (19.58%) AI
4 41 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (10.84%) Collaborative Culture
6 35 (10.54%) CI/CD
7 30 (9.04%) DevOps
8 28 (8.43%) Analytics
9 27 (8.13%) CRM
10 25 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (7.53%) Machine Learning
11 23 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (6.93%) Validation
12 22 (6.63%) Business Development
12 22 (6.63%) Computer Science
13 21 (6.33%) ERP
13 21 (6.33%) Roadmaps
14 19 (5.72%) Customer Engagement
15 18 (5.42%) Agile
15 18 (5.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.27%) Python
2 38 (11.45%) C++
3 33 (9.94%) C
4 18 (5.42%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.12%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.82%) SQL
7 14 (4.22%) C#
7 14 (4.22%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.41%) Java
10 6 (1.81%) Bash
10 6 (1.81%) Go
11 4 (1.20%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.20%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.20%) PHP
11 4 (1.20%) Rust
12 1 (0.30%) Haskell
12 1 (0.30%) OCaml
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (18.67%) Degree
2 16 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.61%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.71%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.51%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.90%) HND
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CISA
9 1 (0.30%) CISM
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.30%) PhD
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.01%) QA
2 8 (2.41%) ISO 9001
3 7 (2.11%) JTAG
4 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.90%) ECSS
5 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (12.05%) Firmware
2 19 (5.72%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (5.42%) Docker
4 10 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.71%) vSphere
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.71%) Terraform
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.51%) SCCM
4 4 (1.20%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.20%) Grafana
4 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.30%) MOM
Vendors
1 46 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.01%) SAP
2 10 (3.01%) VMware
3 7 (2.11%) Cisco
3 7 (2.11%) Google
3 7 (2.11%) Oracle
3 7 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.51%) Aruba
4 5 (1.51%) Cognizant
4 5 (1.51%) EMC
5 4 (1.20%) Adobe
5 4 (1.20%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.20%) IFS
6 3 (0.90%) BT
6 3 (0.90%) Xilinx
7 2 (0.60%) Databricks
7 2 (0.60%) Siemens
8 1 (0.30%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.30%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.30%) Zscaler