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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 481 278
Rank change year-on-year +64 -203 +83
Permanent jobs citing IoT 321 175 878
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.41% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 0.97% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 241 121 693
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 22,399 17,951 30,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 41.68% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 14,797 8,935 20,285
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.40%

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 9 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 9 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 -6 74 £55,000 -12.00% 63
London +17 71 £75,000 -9.09% 74
North of England +1 64 £55,000 -5.17% 15
South West -39 46 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Midlands -19 38 £42,500 -26.09% 21
Yorkshire -12 26 £60,000 - 6
North West 0 25 £52,500 -9.48% 8
East of England -10 24 £62,500 +8.70% 22
West Midlands -11 19 £38,500 -45.00% 11
East Midlands -29 19 £47,500 -5.00% 10
North East - 13 £50,000 - 2
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 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.25%) CMS
3 4 (1.25%) Confluence
3 4 (1.25%) WordPress
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.49%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.25%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.93%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.93%) Simulink
5 2 (0.62%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.62%) Windchill
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
2 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (13.08%) AWS
2 37 (11.53%) Azure
3 19 (5.92%) SaaS
4 16 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.05%) Serverless
6 9 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.80%) GCP
7 8 (2.49%) AWS IoT
8 7 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.87%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.56%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.25%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.25%) Canva
11 4 (1.25%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.59%) Wireless
2 23 (7.17%) MQTT
3 19 (5.92%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (5.30%) Bluetooth
4 17 (5.30%) Firewall
5 15 (4.67%) Internet
6 12 (3.74%) DNS
6 12 (3.74%) VPN
7 11 (3.43%) LoRaWAN
8 6 (1.87%) DHCP
8 6 (1.87%) Modbus
8 6 (1.87%) ZigBee
9 5 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (1.25%) 5G
10 4 (1.25%) LTE
11 3 (0.93%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.93%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.93%) VoIP
12 1 (0.31%) FTP
12 1 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.49%) Big Data
2 8 (2.49%) MySQL
3 7 (2.18%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.25%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.62%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.62%) GIS
7 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.62%) Power BI
7 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.67%) Git
2 7 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.87%) GitLab
4 5 (1.56%) GDB
4 5 (1.56%) JIRA
5 4 (1.25%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.93%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.31%) Poetry
7 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (14.64%) Electronics
2 41 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.72%) Manufacturing
4 24 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.23%) Finance
5 20 (6.23%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.67%) Automotive
7 14 (4.36%) Marketing
8 12 (3.74%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.80%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.80%) Retail
10 8 (2.49%) Local Government
11 7 (2.18%) Legal
11 7 (2.18%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.56%) Law
12 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.56%) Wearables
13 4 (1.25%) Advertising
13 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (22.43%) Software Engineer
2 51 (15.89%) Embedded Engineer
3 39 (12.15%) Senior
4 31 (9.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 27 (8.41%) Technical Engineer
6 25 (7.79%) Sales Manager
7 23 (7.17%) Developer
8 20 (6.23%) Architect
9 17 (5.30%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.05%) Technical Support
11 13 (4.05%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (3.74%) Operations Engineer
12 12 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (3.43%) Principal Software Engineer
14 10 (3.12%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 10 (3.12%) Firmware Engineer
14 10 (3.12%) Technical Operations Engineer
15 9 (2.80%) Embedded Linux Engineer
15 9 (2.80%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.98%) Yocto
2 15 (4.67%) Node.js
3 13 (4.05%) React
4 10 (3.12%) .NET
5 4 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.25%) pytest
5 4 (1.25%) REST
5 4 (1.25%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (0.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (0.93%) Kafka
7 2 (0.62%) Blazor
7 2 (0.62%) GStreamer
7 2 (0.62%) HTML
7 2 (0.62%) Vue
7 2 (0.62%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.31%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.31%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.31%) Micronaut
8 1 (0.31%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.31%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.08%) Embedded Systems
2 17 (5.30%) Device Driver
3 15 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.05%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.12%) PropTech
6 10 (3.12%) Smart Home
7 9 (2.80%) ARM Cortex
7 9 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.80%) Robotics
8 8 (2.49%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.49%) Smart Energy
9 7 (2.18%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.18%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.87%) Blog
10 6 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.87%) NB-IoT
10 6 (1.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.95%) Linux
2 19 (5.92%) Windows
3 14 (4.36%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (3.74%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.87%) Android
5 6 (1.87%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.62%) Unix
8 1 (0.31%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (30.53%) Software Engineering
2 72 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (15.89%) AI
4 39 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (11.21%) Collaborative Culture
6 30 (9.35%) CI/CD
7 26 (8.10%) CRM
8 25 (7.79%) Analytics
8 25 (7.79%) DevOps
9 24 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (7.17%) ERP
11 22 (6.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (6.54%) Validation
13 20 (6.23%) Machine Learning
14 19 (5.92%) Business Development
14 19 (5.92%) Roadmaps
15 18 (5.61%) Mentoring
16 17 (5.30%) Computer Science
17 16 (4.98%) Asset Management
17 16 (4.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (15.58%) Python
2 33 (10.28%) C++
3 30 (9.35%) C
4 17 (5.30%) TypeScript
5 15 (4.67%) SQL
6 14 (4.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.74%) Embedded C
8 11 (3.43%) C#
9 9 (2.80%) Java
10 7 (2.18%) Bash
11 5 (1.56%) Go
11 5 (1.56%) PHP
12 4 (1.25%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.25%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.25%) Rust
13 1 (0.31%) Haskell
13 1 (0.31%) OCaml
13 1 (0.31%) R
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (17.13%) Degree
2 12 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.43%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.49%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.56%) HND
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CISA
8 1 (0.31%) CISM
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.31%) PhD
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.12%) QA
2 8 (2.49%) ISO 9001
3 6 (1.87%) JTAG
4 4 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.93%) ECSS
5 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (14.02%) Firmware
2 24 (7.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (4.67%) Docker
4 11 (3.43%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.80%) vSphere
6 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.87%) Terraform
3 5 (1.56%) SCCM
4 4 (1.25%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.25%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Ansible
6 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.31%) MOM
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.43%) VMware
3 10 (3.12%) SAP
4 7 (2.18%) Cisco
4 7 (2.18%) Oracle
5 6 (1.87%) EMC
5 6 (1.87%) Google
5 6 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.56%) Aruba
6 5 (1.56%) Cognizant
7 4 (1.25%) Adobe
8 3 (0.93%) dotdigital
8 3 (0.93%) IFS
8 3 (0.93%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.62%) ConnectWise
9 2 (0.62%) Draytek
9 2 (0.62%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.62%) Siemens
10 1 (0.31%) BT
10 1 (0.31%) Mapbox