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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 473 331
Rank change year-on-year +58 -142 -2
Permanent jobs citing IoT 393 173 532
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.40% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 0.95% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 302 119 388
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £35,525
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,875 £95,000 £87,000
UK median annual salary £55,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.92% - -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 25,535 18,209 22,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.71% 41.95% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 16,799 9,227 12,035
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,747 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,881
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 September 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 September 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 +24 94 £55,000 -8.33% 92
London 0 89 £62,500 -34.21% 240
North of England +3 86 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South West -44 50 £55,000 +18.92% 22
Midlands -27 48 £46,000 -16.36% 32
Yorkshire -6 41 £55,000 +22.22% 13
North West -4 30 £50,000 -16.67% 23
East Midlands -27 25 £67,500 +28.57% 10
East of England -44 25 £80,000 +39.13% 55
West Midlands -17 23 £42,500 -28.60% 22
North East - 15 £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 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.76%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.76%) Simulink
4 2 (0.51%) Windchill
5 1 (0.25%) CATIA
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.25%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.76%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.51%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.23%) AWS
2 36 (9.16%) Azure
3 24 (6.11%) SaaS
4 18 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.05%) Serverless
7 10 (2.54%) AWS IoT
8 8 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.53%) GCP
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.27%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.02%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.02%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.76%) Datadog
12 3 (0.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.41%) Wireless
2 29 (7.38%) Internet
3 28 (7.12%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (5.85%) MQTT
5 18 (4.58%) Firewall
6 17 (4.33%) Bluetooth
6 17 (4.33%) DNS
7 15 (3.82%) VPN
8 11 (2.80%) DHCP
9 10 (2.54%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.54%) ZigBee
10 9 (2.29%) 5G
11 7 (1.78%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.27%) SSH
12 5 (1.27%) VLAN
12 5 (1.27%) VoIP
13 4 (1.02%) HTTP
13 4 (1.02%) LTE
13 4 (1.02%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.05%) Big Data
1 12 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.04%) MySQL
3 8 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.02%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.76%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.76%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.51%) GIS
8 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (7.38%) Git
2 10 (2.54%) JIRA
3 7 (1.78%) GitLab
3 7 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.53%) GDB
5 4 (1.02%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.02%) Selenium
6 3 (0.76%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.76%) Postman
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) Poetry
7 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (15.01%) Electronics
1 59 (15.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (8.91%) Telecoms
3 33 (8.40%) Manufacturing
4 32 (8.14%) Finance
5 28 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.82%) Automotive
7 15 (3.82%) Marketing
8 11 (2.80%) Legal
8 11 (2.80%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.54%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.04%) Local Government
10 8 (2.04%) Retail
10 8 (2.04%) Wearables
11 7 (1.78%) Banking
11 7 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.78%) Law
12 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (16.79%) Software Engineer
2 52 (13.23%) Embedded Engineer
2 52 (13.23%) Senior
3 39 (9.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 35 (8.91%) Sales Manager
5 34 (8.65%) Developer
6 29 (7.38%) Technical Engineer
7 26 (6.62%) Architect
8 17 (4.33%) Support Engineer
8 17 (4.33%) Technical Support
9 15 (3.82%) Account Manager
9 15 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.31%) Technical Support Engineer
11 11 (2.80%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (2.54%) Design Engineer
12 10 (2.54%) Electronics Engineer
12 10 (2.54%) Embedded Linux Engineer
12 10 (2.54%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (2.54%) Software Developer
12 10 (2.54%) Technical Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.34%) Yocto
2 20 (5.09%) Terraform
3 17 (4.33%) .NET
4 14 (3.56%) React
4 14 (3.56%) REST
5 10 (2.54%) Node.js
6 7 (1.78%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.53%) Blazor
7 6 (1.53%) Kafka
8 5 (1.27%) Vue
9 4 (1.02%) HTML
9 4 (1.02%) pytest
9 4 (1.02%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.76%) CSS
10 3 (0.76%) Flash
10 3 (0.76%) PySpark
11 2 (0.51%) CarPlay
11 2 (0.51%) HTML5
11 2 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.21%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.83%) Device Driver
2 19 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.33%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.82%) Driving Licence
7 13 (3.31%) Cloud Native
7 13 (3.31%) Robotics
8 12 (3.05%) ARM Cortex
9 11 (2.80%) PropTech
10 10 (2.54%) Smart Home
11 8 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.04%) FPGA
11 8 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.78%) CCTV
12 7 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.78%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.78%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.01%) Linux
2 21 (5.34%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (4.07%) Windows
4 10 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.78%) Android
5 7 (1.78%) VMS
6 6 (1.53%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.19%) Software Engineering
2 92 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (20.10%) AI
4 41 (10.43%) CI/CD
4 41 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (9.41%) Collaborative Culture
6 36 (9.16%) Machine Learning
7 33 (8.40%) DevOps
8 31 (7.89%) Agile
9 30 (7.63%) Validation
10 29 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (7.12%) Analytics
12 26 (6.62%) Business Development
12 26 (6.62%) CRM
13 25 (6.36%) Computer Science
14 24 (6.11%) Decision-Making
15 22 (5.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (5.34%) Customer Engagement
16 21 (5.34%) Roadmaps
17 20 (5.09%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.76%) Python
2 40 (10.18%) C++
3 36 (9.16%) C
4 20 (5.09%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.83%) Embedded C
5 19 (4.83%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.83%) SQL
6 18 (4.58%) C#
7 17 (4.33%) Go
8 12 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.54%) Java
10 7 (1.78%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.53%) Bash
12 4 (1.02%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.02%) Rust
13 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.51%) PHP
15 1 (0.25%) R
15 1 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (22.65%) Degree
2 20 (5.09%) Master's Degree
3 19 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.58%) DBS Check
5 12 (3.05%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.29%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.04%) HNC
7 8 (2.04%) PhD
8 7 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.78%) Postgraduate
9 6 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.76%) HND
11 2 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.51%) CISSP
11 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.25%) CCSP
12 1 (0.25%) CISA
12 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.25%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.29%) QA
2 7 (1.78%) JTAG
3 6 (1.53%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.76%) ECSS
5 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) COBIT
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (9.16%) Firmware
2 21 (5.34%) Docker
3 12 (3.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (2.29%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.29%) vSphere
5 2 (0.51%) iptables
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.53%) Grafana
3 5 (1.27%) SCCM
4 4 (1.02%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 47 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.29%) VMware
3 8 (2.04%) SAP
4 7 (1.78%) Cisco
4 7 (1.78%) Oracle
5 5 (1.27%) Aruba
5 5 (1.27%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.02%) Adobe
6 4 (1.02%) dotdigital
6 4 (1.02%) IFS
7 3 (0.76%) BT
7 3 (0.76%) Databricks
7 3 (0.76%) Google
7 3 (0.76%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.51%) Apple
8 2 (0.51%) EMC
8 2 (0.51%) MEDITECH
8 2 (0.51%) Planon
8 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow