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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 427 277
Rank change year-on-year +379 -150 +60
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,751 212 869
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.37% 0.54% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.60% 1.25% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 241 129 688
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,250 £34,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,250 £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 21,841 16,963 29,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.73% 42.94% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,518 8,326 20,852
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +237 1,050 £60,000 +3.45% 28
Midlands +167 1,006 £42,500 -29.17% 31
North West +210 927 £60,000 +3.45% 14
West Midlands +125 924 £50,000 -23.08% 15
South East +146 277 £55,000 -2.22% 55
London +121 197 £75,000 -6.25% 68
East of England +102 154 £66,250 +20.45% 32
Yorkshire +64 119 £57,500 -4.17% 11
East Midlands +45 94 £42,500 -15.00% 16
South West -47 51 £56,250 -6.25% 34
North East - 4 £51,000 - 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 5 (0.18%) Confluence
2 4 (0.15%) CMS
2 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.15%) WordPress
3 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.036%) Apache
4 1 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.036%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.036%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.073%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.073%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.036%) Maximo
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.036%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,442 (88.77%) Cloud Computing
2 41 (1.49%) Azure
3 33 (1.20%) AWS
4 16 (0.58%) SaaS
5 13 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (0.25%) GCP
6 7 (0.25%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.22%) Serverless
8 4 (0.15%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.15%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.15%) Canva
8 4 (0.15%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.11%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.11%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.073%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.073%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.073%) GitHub
10 2 (0.073%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.073%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2,442 (88.77%) Internet
2 33 (1.20%) Wireless
3 19 (0.69%) Bluetooth
4 18 (0.65%) Firewall
4 18 (0.65%) MQTT
5 14 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.44%) DNS
6 12 (0.44%) VPN
7 10 (0.36%) Modbus
8 9 (0.33%) LoRaWAN
9 5 (0.18%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
10 4 (0.15%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.073%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.036%) 3GPP
13 1 (0.036%) GSM
13 1 (0.036%) LAN
13 1 (0.036%) VoIP
13 1 (0.036%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (0.55%) Big Data
2 10 (0.36%) MySQL
3 8 (0.29%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.22%) Power BI
5 5 (0.18%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.11%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.11%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.073%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.073%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.073%) GIS
7 2 (0.073%) Informix
8 1 (0.036%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.036%) Flink
8 1 (0.036%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.036%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.036%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (0.18%) Git
1 5 (0.18%) JIRA
2 4 (0.15%) GitLab
2 4 (0.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.11%) GDB
3 3 (0.11%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.036%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.036%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.036%) Poetry
4 1 (0.036%) Zephyr
General
1 2,480 (90.15%) Social Skills
2 2,445 (88.88%) Banking
3 2,444 (88.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (1.38%) Electronics
5 28 (1.02%) Manufacturing
6 23 (0.84%) Marketing
7 22 (0.80%) Finance
8 18 (0.65%) Tech for Good
9 16 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (0.58%) Telecoms
10 14 (0.51%) Automotive
11 11 (0.40%) Wearables
12 10 (0.36%) Social Housing
13 8 (0.29%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.18%) Law
15 4 (0.15%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.11%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.11%) French Language
16 3 (0.11%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,845 (67.07%) Lecturer
2 70 (2.54%) Software Engineer
3 46 (1.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 46 (1.67%) Senior
4 30 (1.09%) Developer
5 22 (0.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 20 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 20 (0.73%) Firmware Engineer
7 19 (0.69%) Architect
8 18 (0.65%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (0.65%) Principal Software Engineer
8 18 (0.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (0.62%) Sales Manager
10 15 (0.55%) Support Engineer
11 14 (0.51%) Technical Engineer
12 13 (0.47%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (0.40%) 2nd Line Support
14 10 (0.36%) Senior Developer
14 10 (0.36%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.73%) React
2 17 (0.62%) Node.js
3 9 (0.33%) React Native
4 8 (0.29%) REST
5 7 (0.25%) .NET
6 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
6 5 (0.18%) Yocto
7 3 (0.11%) Kafka
7 3 (0.11%) pytest
7 3 (0.11%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (0.073%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.073%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.073%) Swagger
9 1 (0.036%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.036%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.036%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.036%) Next.js
9 1 (0.036%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.036%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (0.55%) Mobile App
2 15 (0.55%) Smart Energy
3 12 (0.44%) Cloud Native
3 12 (0.44%) Smart Home
4 11 (0.40%) SCADA
5 10 (0.36%) Device Driver
5 10 (0.36%) PropTech
6 7 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 6 (0.22%) NB-IoT
7 6 (0.22%) Robotics
7 6 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.18%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.18%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.15%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (0.15%) Blog
9 4 (0.15%) Podcast
9 4 (0.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.31%) Linux
2 18 (0.65%) Windows
3 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.25%) Android
4 7 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.15%) Unix
5 4 (0.15%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.036%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.036%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.036%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,459 (89.39%) AI
2 2,458 (89.35%) Cybersecurity
3 2,442 (88.77%) Machine Learning
4 2,441 (88.73%) Web Development
5 2,435 (88.51%) User Experience
6 88 (3.20%) Software Engineering
7 51 (1.85%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (1.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (0.91%) Business Analysis
10 22 (0.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (0.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 21 (0.76%) ERP
11 21 (0.76%) Mentoring
12 19 (0.69%) DevOps
12 19 (0.69%) Energy Management
13 17 (0.62%) Analytics
13 17 (0.62%) CI/CD
13 17 (0.62%) Digital Marketing
13 17 (0.62%) Validation
14 16 (0.58%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 33 (1.20%) Python
2 17 (0.62%) TypeScript
3 16 (0.58%) SQL
4 15 (0.55%) C++
5 14 (0.51%) C
5 14 (0.51%) Java
6 11 (0.40%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.25%) C#
9 6 (0.22%) PHP
10 5 (0.18%) Bash
11 4 (0.15%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.11%) Go
13 2 (0.073%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.073%) Perl
14 1 (0.036%) Groovy
14 1 (0.036%) Haskell
14 1 (0.036%) OCaml
14 1 (0.036%) Scala
14 1 (0.036%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,476 (90.00%) Degree
2 2,448 (88.99%) Master's Degree
3 2,432 (88.40%) PhD
4 2,429 (88.30%) Postgraduate
5 15 (0.55%) HND
6 6 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.22%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.11%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.036%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.036%) CISA
9 1 (0.036%) CISM
9 1 (0.036%) CISSP
9 1 (0.036%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.036%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.33%) QA
2 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.15%) GDPR
2 4 (0.15%) JTAG
3 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.073%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.036%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.036%) GMP
5 1 (0.036%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (1.64%) Firmware
2 30 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.36%) Docker
4 9 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (0.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.15%) Terraform
4 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.11%) SCCM
4 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.073%) Grafana
6 1 (0.036%) MOM
Vendors
1 36 (1.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (0.33%) VMware
3 7 (0.25%) EMC
4 6 (0.22%) SAP
5 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
5 5 (0.18%) Google
6 4 (0.15%) Adobe
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle
7 3 (0.11%) Aruba
7 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.11%) Draytek
7 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.073%) Cisco
8 2 (0.073%) HP
8 2 (0.073%) IBM
8 2 (0.073%) Siemens
9 1 (0.036%) Apple
9 1 (0.036%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.036%) Pega
9 1 (0.036%) Salesforce