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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 434 266
Rank change year-on-year +386 -168 +76
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,741 210 868
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.39% 0.54% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.62% 1.27% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 232 126 688
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £34,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 21,711 16,600 29,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.82% 42.61% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,394 8,259 20,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,625 £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 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 15 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 15 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 +239 1,046 £55,000 -5.17% 20
Midlands +158 1,005 £42,500 -32.00% 24
North West +199 927 £60,000 +3.45% 13
West Midlands +124 924 £50,000 -27.27% 14
South East +141 273 £55,000 - 49
London +107 196 £75,000 -6.25% 61
East of England +105 154 £66,250 +20.45% 26
Yorkshire +53 116 £55,000 -8.33% 6
East Midlands +54 93 £42,500 -15.00% 10
South West -40 50 £57,500 -4.17% 28
North East - 3 £51,000 - 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 5 (0.18%) Confluence
2 4 (0.15%) CMS
2 4 (0.15%) WordPress
3 3 (0.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.036%) Apache
5 1 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.036%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.036%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (0.22%) 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%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.036%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,442 (89.09%) Cloud Computing
2 39 (1.42%) Azure
3 33 (1.20%) AWS
4 15 (0.55%) SaaS
5 12 (0.44%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (0.26%) GCP
7 6 (0.22%) 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
10 2 (0.073%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.073%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.073%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.073%) GitHub
10 2 (0.073%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.073%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.073%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2,440 (89.02%) Internet
2 31 (1.13%) Wireless
3 18 (0.66%) Bluetooth
3 18 (0.66%) Firewall
4 16 (0.58%) MQTT
5 13 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.44%) VPN
7 11 (0.40%) DNS
8 9 (0.33%) Modbus
9 8 (0.29%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.15%) DHCP
10 4 (0.15%) LTE
11 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.11%) ZigBee
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 16 (0.58%) 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
5 5 (0.18%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.18%) Power BI
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%) JIRA
2 4 (0.15%) Git
3 3 (0.11%) GitLab
3 3 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.073%) GDB
4 2 (0.073%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.036%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.036%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.036%) Poetry
5 1 (0.036%) Zephyr
General
1 2,479 (90.44%) Social Skills
2 2,445 (89.20%) Banking
3 2,444 (89.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (1.35%) Electronics
5 27 (0.99%) Manufacturing
6 23 (0.84%) Marketing
7 22 (0.80%) Finance
8 18 (0.66%) Tech for Good
9 16 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (0.55%) Telecoms
11 13 (0.47%) Automotive
12 11 (0.40%) Wearables
13 10 (0.36%) Social Housing
14 8 (0.29%) Public Sector
15 6 (0.22%) Law
16 4 (0.15%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.11%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.11%) French Language
17 3 (0.11%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,845 (67.31%) Lecturer
2 67 (2.44%) Software Engineer
3 44 (1.61%) Embedded Engineer
3 44 (1.61%) Senior
4 30 (1.09%) Developer
5 20 (0.73%) Architect
5 20 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 20 (0.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 20 (0.73%) Firmware Engineer
6 18 (0.66%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (0.66%) Principal Software Engineer
7 17 (0.62%) Sales Manager
7 17 (0.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (0.55%) Support Engineer
9 12 (0.44%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (0.44%) Technical Engineer
10 11 (0.40%) 2nd Line Support
11 10 (0.36%) Senior Developer
11 10 (0.36%) Solutions Architect
11 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 (0.26%) .NET
6 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.15%) Yocto
8 3 (0.11%) Kafka
9 2 (0.073%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.073%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.073%) pytest
9 2 (0.073%) Swagger
9 2 (0.073%) Unity DI Container
10 1 (0.036%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.036%) Anaconda
10 1 (0.036%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.036%) Next.js
10 1 (0.036%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.036%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (0.55%) Smart Energy
3 13 (0.47%) Mobile App
4 12 (0.44%) Cloud Native
4 12 (0.44%) Smart Home
5 10 (0.36%) PropTech
5 10 (0.36%) SCADA
6 9 (0.33%) Device Driver
7 6 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (0.22%) Robotics
7 6 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.18%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (0.18%) NB-IoT
8 5 (0.18%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.15%) Blog
9 4 (0.15%) Podcast
9 4 (0.15%) Social Media
9 4 (0.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.24%) Linux
2 17 (0.62%) Windows
3 9 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.26%) Android
4 7 (0.26%) 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 2,460 (89.75%) AI
2 2,457 (89.64%) Cybersecurity
3 2,442 (89.09%) Machine Learning
4 2,441 (89.06%) Web Development
5 2,435 (88.84%) User Experience
6 85 (3.10%) Software Engineering
7 52 (1.90%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (1.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (0.91%) Business Analysis
10 22 (0.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (0.77%) ERP
11 21 (0.77%) Mentoring
12 20 (0.73%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (0.66%) DevOps
13 18 (0.66%) Energy Management
13 18 (0.66%) Roadmaps
14 17 (0.62%) Analytics
14 17 (0.62%) Digital Marketing
15 16 (0.58%) Asset Management
15 16 (0.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 32 (1.17%) Python
2 17 (0.62%) TypeScript
3 15 (0.55%) SQL
4 14 (0.51%) Java
5 13 (0.47%) C
5 13 (0.47%) C++
6 10 (0.36%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.29%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.26%) C#
9 6 (0.22%) PHP
10 4 (0.15%) Bash
10 4 (0.15%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Go
12 2 (0.073%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.073%) Perl
13 1 (0.036%) Groovy
13 1 (0.036%) Haskell
13 1 (0.036%) OCaml
13 1 (0.036%) Scala
13 1 (0.036%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,473 (90.22%) Degree
2 2,447 (89.27%) Master's Degree
3 2,432 (88.73%) PhD
4 2,429 (88.62%) Postgraduate
5 15 (0.55%) HND
6 6 (0.22%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.073%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.073%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.036%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.036%) CISA
10 1 (0.036%) CISM
10 1 (0.036%) CISSP
10 1 (0.036%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.036%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.26%) QA
2 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.15%) GDPR
3 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.11%) JTAG
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 44 (1.61%) Firmware
2 29 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (0.36%) Docker
4 9 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.15%) Terraform
4 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.073%) Grafana
5 2 (0.073%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (1.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (0.29%) VMware
3 7 (0.26%) EMC
4 6 (0.22%) SAP
5 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
5 5 (0.18%) Google
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle
6 4 (0.15%) Adobe
7 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.11%) Draytek
7 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.073%) Aruba
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%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.036%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.036%) Pega