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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 473 307
Rank change year-on-year +45 -166 +39
Permanent jobs citing IoT 333 177 659
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.41% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 0.97% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 248 126 519
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,950
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% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 23,114 18,218 25,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.62% 41.95% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,219 9,203 15,901
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,250 £79,880 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -13.39%

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 29 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 29 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 +7 82 £55,000 -10.20% 55
London +17 73 £75,000 -18.92% 90
North of England -5 63 £55,000 -6.78% 16
South West -34 49 £52,500 +5.00% 15
Midlands -24 40 £42,500 -29.17% 18
Yorkshire -3 30 £60,000 - 6
East of England -23 24 £62,500 +8.70% 17
East Midlands -24 23 £67,500 +28.57% 12
North West -22 20 £52,500 -9.48% 7
West Midlands -19 17 £38,500 -45.00% 6
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 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.40%) 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 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.90%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.90%) Simulink
5 2 (0.60%) Windchill
6 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) 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 47 (14.11%) AWS
2 39 (11.71%) Azure
3 25 (7.51%) SaaS
4 14 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.20%) Serverless
5 11 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.00%) AWS IoT
6 10 (3.00%) GCP
7 8 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.50%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.50%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.20%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.20%) Canva
9 4 (1.20%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 40 (12.01%) Wireless
2 25 (7.51%) Wi-Fi
3 23 (6.91%) MQTT
4 20 (6.01%) Bluetooth
5 17 (5.11%) Internet
6 16 (4.80%) Firewall
7 12 (3.60%) LoRaWAN
7 12 (3.60%) VPN
8 11 (3.30%) DNS
9 10 (3.00%) ZigBee
10 6 (1.80%) 5G
10 6 (1.80%) DHCP
10 6 (1.80%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.50%) VoIP
12 4 (1.20%) LTE
12 4 (1.20%) Modbus
12 4 (1.20%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.90%) RS-232
13 3 (0.90%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.30%) Big Data
1 11 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.40%) MySQL
2 8 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.80%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.50%) 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 25 (7.51%) Git
2 8 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.10%) GitLab
4 6 (1.80%) GDB
5 5 (1.50%) JIRA
6 4 (1.20%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.20%) Selenium
7 3 (0.90%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Poetry
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (15.62%) Electronics
2 42 (12.61%) Social Skills
3 29 (8.71%) Manufacturing
4 27 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.51%) Finance
6 23 (6.91%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.50%) Marketing
8 14 (4.20%) Automotive
9 10 (3.00%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.70%) Legal
11 8 (2.40%) Local Government
11 8 (2.40%) Retail
12 7 (2.10%) Social Housing
12 7 (2.10%) Wearables
13 6 (1.80%) Law
13 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.80%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.50%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 63 (18.92%) Software Engineer
2 52 (15.62%) Embedded Engineer
3 35 (10.51%) Senior
4 33 (9.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 31 (9.31%) Sales Manager
6 29 (8.71%) Technical Engineer
7 24 (7.21%) Developer
8 20 (6.01%) Architect
9 17 (5.11%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.20%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Embedded Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
13 10 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.00%) Technical Operations Engineer
14 9 (2.70%) Account Manager
14 9 (2.70%) Hardware Engineer
14 9 (2.70%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.01%) Yocto
2 14 (4.20%) .NET
3 10 (3.00%) REST
4 9 (2.70%) Node.js
4 9 (2.70%) React
5 6 (1.80%) Blazor
6 5 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.50%) Kafka
7 4 (1.20%) pytest
7 4 (1.20%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (0.90%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.90%) Flash
8 3 (0.90%) Vue
9 2 (0.60%) GStreamer
9 2 (0.60%) HTML
9 2 (0.60%) PySpark
9 2 (0.60%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.30%) Anaconda
10 1 (0.30%) Micronaut
10 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.81%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (6.31%) Device Driver
3 17 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.50%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.60%) Smart Home
7 10 (3.00%) ARM Cortex
7 10 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.00%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.00%) PropTech
7 10 (3.00%) Robotics
8 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.40%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.10%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.10%) Blog
9 7 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.80%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.32%) Linux
2 18 (5.41%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (5.11%) Windows
4 11 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.80%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.50%) Android
7 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.20%) VMS
8 2 (0.60%) Unix
9 1 (0.30%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (27.93%) Software Engineering
2 76 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (20.72%) AI
4 39 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 35 (10.51%) CI/CD
7 29 (8.71%) DevOps
8 28 (8.41%) Analytics
9 27 (8.11%) CRM
10 25 (7.51%) Machine Learning
11 24 (7.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (6.91%) Business Development
12 23 (6.91%) Validation
13 22 (6.61%) Computer Science
13 22 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (6.01%) Customer Engagement
14 20 (6.01%) ERP
14 20 (6.01%) Roadmaps
15 18 (5.41%) Agile
16 17 (5.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.92%) Python
2 39 (11.71%) C++
3 34 (10.21%) C
4 18 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.11%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.80%) C#
6 16 (4.80%) SQL
7 15 (4.50%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.40%) Java
10 6 (1.80%) Bash
10 6 (1.80%) Go
11 4 (1.20%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.20%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.20%) Rust
12 3 (0.90%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Haskell
13 1 (0.30%) OCaml
13 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (18.92%) Degree
2 16 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.60%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.50%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.90%) HND
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CISA
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.70%) QA
2 8 (2.40%) ISO 9001
3 7 (2.10%) 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 (12.01%) Firmware
2 20 (6.01%) Docker
3 19 (5.71%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.70%) vSphere
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.30%) Terraform
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.50%) 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 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.00%) SAP
2 10 (3.00%) VMware
3 7 (2.10%) Cisco
3 7 (2.10%) Google
3 7 (2.10%) Oracle
3 7 (2.10%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.50%) Aruba
4 5 (1.50%) Cognizant
4 5 (1.50%) 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
8 1 (0.30%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.30%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.30%) Zscaler