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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 490 312
Rank change year-on-year +66 -178 +27
Permanent jobs citing IoT 341 176 645
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.40% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 0.96% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 253 124 507
10th Percentile £37,400 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £49,250
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 £82,250 £89,250 £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 23,609 18,355 24,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.79% 42.15% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,541 9,301 15,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% +0.89% -12.50%

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 1 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 1 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 +11 85 £55,000 -8.33% 65
London +12 75 £75,000 -18.92% 92
North of England -8 65 £55,000 -6.78% 25
South West -45 49 £52,500 +5.00% 20
Midlands -20 40 £42,500 -29.17% 20
Yorkshire -3 31 £60,000 - 8
East of England -15 25 £62,500 +8.70% 22
East Midlands -25 23 £67,500 +28.57% 12
North West -9 21 £52,500 -9.48% 12
West Midlands -20 17 £38,500 -45.00% 8
North East - 13 £50,000 - 6
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 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.17%) CMS
3 4 (1.17%) Confluence
3 4 (1.17%) WordPress
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.35%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.88%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.88%) Simulink
5 2 (0.59%) Windchill
6 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.37%) AWS
2 40 (11.73%) Azure
3 26 (7.62%) SaaS
4 14 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.11%) Serverless
5 11 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.93%) AWS IoT
6 10 (2.93%) GCP
7 8 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.47%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.47%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.17%) Canva
9 4 (1.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.73%) Wireless
2 26 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
3 23 (6.74%) MQTT
4 20 (5.87%) Bluetooth
5 17 (4.99%) Firewall
5 17 (4.99%) Internet
6 13 (3.81%) VPN
7 12 (3.52%) DNS
7 12 (3.52%) LoRaWAN
8 10 (2.93%) ZigBee
9 6 (1.76%) 5G
9 6 (1.76%) DHCP
9 6 (1.76%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.47%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.47%) VoIP
11 4 (1.17%) LTE
11 4 (1.17%) Modbus
11 4 (1.17%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.88%) RS-232
12 3 (0.88%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.52%) Big Data
2 11 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.35%) MySQL
3 8 (2.35%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.76%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.17%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.17%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.88%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.88%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.59%) GIS
8 2 (0.59%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (7.33%) Git
2 8 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.05%) GitLab
4 6 (1.76%) GDB
5 5 (1.47%) JIRA
6 4 (1.17%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.17%) Selenium
7 3 (0.88%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) Poetry
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 53 (15.54%) Electronics
2 44 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.80%) Manufacturing
4 28 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.62%) Finance
6 25 (7.33%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.69%) Marketing
8 14 (4.11%) Automotive
9 10 (2.93%) Legal
9 10 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.64%) Retail
11 8 (2.35%) Local Government
12 7 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.05%) Social Housing
12 7 (2.05%) Wearables
13 6 (1.76%) Law
13 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.76%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.17%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 62 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 51 (14.96%) Embedded Engineer
3 37 (10.85%) Senior
4 33 (9.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (9.38%) Sales Manager
6 29 (8.50%) Technical Engineer
7 24 (7.04%) Developer
8 20 (5.87%) Architect
9 17 (4.99%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.11%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.81%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (3.52%) Embedded Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.52%) Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.52%) Operations Engineer
13 10 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.93%) Technical Operations Engineer
14 9 (2.64%) Account Manager
14 9 (2.64%) Hardware Engineer
14 9 (2.64%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.87%) Yocto
2 14 (4.11%) .NET
3 12 (3.52%) REST
4 10 (2.93%) React
5 9 (2.64%) Node.js
6 6 (1.76%) Blazor
6 6 (1.76%) Kafka
7 5 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.17%) pytest
8 4 (1.17%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (0.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.88%) Flash
9 3 (0.88%) PySpark
9 3 (0.88%) Vue
10 2 (0.59%) GStreamer
10 2 (0.59%) HTML
10 2 (0.59%) WebSockets
11 1 (0.29%) FFmpeg
11 1 (0.29%) NumPy
11 1 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.78%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (6.16%) Device Driver
3 17 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.40%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.81%) Smart Home
7 12 (3.52%) Robotics
8 11 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.23%) PropTech
9 10 (2.93%) ARM Cortex
9 10 (2.93%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.35%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.05%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.05%) Blog
11 7 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.76%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.84%) Linux
2 19 (5.57%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (4.99%) Windows
4 11 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.76%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.47%) Android
7 4 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.17%) VMS
8 2 (0.59%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (27.86%) Software Engineering
2 79 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (20.82%) AI
4 41 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (11.44%) CI/CD
6 38 (11.14%) Collaborative Culture
7 31 (9.09%) DevOps
8 28 (8.21%) Analytics
9 27 (7.92%) CRM
9 27 (7.92%) Machine Learning
10 24 (7.04%) Validation
11 23 (6.74%) Business Development
11 23 (6.74%) Computer Science
11 23 (6.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (5.87%) Agile
13 20 (5.87%) Customer Engagement
13 20 (5.87%) ERP
13 20 (5.87%) Roadmaps
14 18 (5.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.01%) Python
2 39 (11.44%) C++
3 34 (9.97%) C
4 19 (5.57%) TypeScript
5 18 (5.28%) SQL
6 17 (4.99%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.69%) C#
8 15 (4.40%) Embedded C
9 13 (3.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.35%) Go
10 8 (2.35%) Java
11 6 (1.76%) Bash
12 4 (1.17%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.17%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.17%) Rust
13 3 (0.88%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) OCaml
14 1 (0.29%) R
14 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (19.35%) Degree
2 17 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.52%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.93%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.88%) HND
9 2 (0.59%) HNC
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISA
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.29%) PhD
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.64%) QA
2 8 (2.35%) ISO 9001
3 7 (2.05%) JTAG
4 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.88%) ECSS
5 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.59%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (11.44%) Firmware
2 22 (6.45%) Docker
3 18 (5.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.93%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.64%) vSphere
6 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) iptables
Systems Management
1 22 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.52%) Terraform
3 5 (1.47%) Grafana
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.47%) SCCM
4 4 (1.17%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.17%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.29%) MOM
Vendors
1 46 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.93%) SAP
2 10 (2.93%) VMware
3 7 (2.05%) Cisco
3 7 (2.05%) Google
3 7 (2.05%) Oracle
3 7 (2.05%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.47%) Aruba
4 5 (1.47%) Cognizant
4 5 (1.47%) EMC
5 4 (1.17%) Adobe
5 4 (1.17%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.17%) IFS
6 3 (0.88%) BT
6 3 (0.88%) Databricks
6 3 (0.88%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.29%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.29%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.29%) Siemens