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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 420 350
Rank change year-on-year +47 -70 -6
Permanent jobs citing IoT 464 207 457
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.49% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 1.18% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 343 139 281
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £71,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%

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 28,046 17,469 20,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.75% 41.03% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 18,081 9,227 10,172
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +25 122 £55,000 -15.38% 70
North of England -6 91 £55,000 - 56
London -21 91 £55,500 -40.48% 218
Midlands -3 69 £65,000 +23.81% 60
South West -41 55 £55,000 +22.22% 30
West Midlands -13 40 £62,500 +19.05% 41
Yorkshire 0 38 £55,000 - 15
North West -19 37 £42,000 -30.00% 27
East of England -58 36 £85,000 +47.83% 69
East Midlands -25 29 £67,500 +28.57% 19
North East -56 16 £50,000 +25.00% 16
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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.08%) Simulink
3 4 (0.86%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.65%) CATIA
5 2 (0.43%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.43%) Windchill
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.65%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (14.01%) AWS
2 39 (8.41%) Azure
3 25 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
3 25 (5.39%) SaaS
4 22 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.37%) AWS IoT
5 11 (2.37%) Serverless
6 10 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (1.29%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.08%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.08%) GCP
8 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.08%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.08%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.86%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (0.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.13%) Internet
2 40 (8.62%) Wireless
3 26 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (4.74%) MQTT
5 17 (3.66%) DNS
5 17 (3.66%) VPN
6 16 (3.45%) Firewall
7 15 (3.23%) 5G
7 15 (3.23%) Bluetooth
8 14 (3.02%) Ethernet
9 11 (2.37%) DHCP
10 10 (2.16%) VLAN
11 9 (1.94%) ZigBee
12 7 (1.51%) LoRaWAN
12 7 (1.51%) Modbus
13 6 (1.29%) LAN
13 6 (1.29%) Network Security
13 6 (1.29%) TCP/IP
14 5 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (1.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.45%) Big Data
2 10 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.86%) MySQL
6 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.65%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.65%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.43%) Power BI
9 1 (0.22%) Metadata
9 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 35 (7.54%) Git
2 12 (2.59%) JIRA
3 7 (1.51%) GitLab
3 7 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.29%) GDB
5 4 (0.86%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.86%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.86%) Selenium
6 3 (0.65%) Postman
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 80 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.01%) Electronics
3 52 (11.21%) Manufacturing
4 43 (9.27%) Telecoms
5 41 (8.84%) Finance
5 41 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (4.31%) Aerospace
8 18 (3.88%) Marketing
9 17 (3.66%) Automotive
10 14 (3.02%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.80%) Legal
11 13 (2.80%) Retail
12 12 (2.59%) Banking
13 11 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.94%) Aviation
14 9 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.72%) Local Government
15 8 (1.72%) Social Housing
15 8 (1.72%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 64 (13.79%) Senior
2 57 (12.28%) Software Engineer
3 50 (10.78%) Embedded Engineer
4 45 (9.70%) Sales Manager
5 39 (8.41%) Developer
6 34 (7.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 30 (6.47%) Architect
8 25 (5.39%) Technical Engineer
9 22 (4.74%) Account Manager
10 20 (4.31%) Design Engineer
11 17 (3.66%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (3.45%) Development Manager
12 16 (3.45%) Technical Support
13 15 (3.23%) Business Development Manager
13 15 (3.23%) Electronics Engineer
14 14 (3.02%) Embedded Linux Engineer
14 14 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
15 13 (2.80%) Lead
15 13 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.82%) Yocto
2 26 (5.60%) REST
3 24 (5.17%) .NET
4 18 (3.88%) Terraform
5 16 (3.45%) React
6 15 (3.23%) Node.js
7 11 (2.37%) Kafka
8 10 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.51%) Blazor
9 7 (1.51%) Vue
10 6 (1.29%) NestJS
10 6 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.29%) Symfony
11 5 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.08%) HTML
12 4 (0.86%) CSS
12 4 (0.86%) Django
12 4 (0.86%) pytest
12 4 (0.86%) Unity DI Container
12 4 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.42%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.60%) Mobile App
4 22 (4.74%) Device Driver
5 21 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.53%) Robotics
6 19 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.88%) Operational Technology
8 16 (3.45%) Driving Licence
9 14 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (3.02%) Smart Home
10 13 (2.80%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.59%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.59%) ARM Cortex
12 11 (2.37%) FPGA
12 11 (2.37%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.37%) SCADA
13 10 (2.16%) Algorithms
13 10 (2.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.01%) Linux
2 25 (5.39%) Embedded Linux
3 22 (4.74%) Windows
4 10 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.94%) Android
6 7 (1.51%) VMS
7 6 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (21.77%) Software Engineering
3 92 (19.83%) AI
4 53 (11.42%) CI/CD
5 52 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (10.99%) Agile
7 42 (9.05%) Business Development
8 39 (8.41%) DevOps
9 38 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (7.97%) Machine Learning
11 35 (7.54%) Collaborative Culture
12 34 (7.33%) Analytics
12 34 (7.33%) Validation
13 33 (7.11%) Roadmaps
14 32 (6.90%) Decision-Making
15 27 (5.82%) Computer Science
15 27 (5.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (5.39%) CRM
16 25 (5.39%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.36%) Python
2 47 (10.13%) C++
3 42 (9.05%) C
4 28 (6.03%) C#
5 25 (5.39%) TypeScript
6 23 (4.96%) Embedded C
7 22 (4.74%) SQL
8 20 (4.31%) JavaScript
9 17 (3.66%) Go
10 12 (2.59%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.16%) Embedded C++
11 10 (2.16%) Java
12 7 (1.51%) PHP
13 6 (1.29%) Bash
13 6 (1.29%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.86%) Rust
16 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.22%) Perl
17 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 118 (25.43%) Degree
2 32 (6.90%) DBS Check
3 27 (5.82%) Master's Degree
4 22 (4.74%) HNC
5 20 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.09%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.80%) SC Cleared
8 12 (2.59%) PhD
8 12 (2.59%) Postgraduate
9 11 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (2.16%) HND
11 8 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.43%) ACCA
14 2 (0.43%) CCNP
14 2 (0.43%) CIMA
14 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.22%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.74%) QA
2 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.51%) NIST
3 6 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.29%) JTAG
4 5 (1.08%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.86%) ECSS
5 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.86%) NIST 800
5 4 (0.86%) PMO
6 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.43%) GDPR
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (7.33%) Firmware
2 22 (4.74%) Docker
3 8 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.29%) vSphere
5 2 (0.43%) iptables
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.08%) Grafana
2 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
2 5 (1.08%) SCCM
3 3 (0.65%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.22%) Ansible
4 1 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.22%) Galera Cluster
4 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.22%) MOM
4 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.72%) EMC
4 6 (1.29%) Aruba
4 6 (1.29%) Cisco
4 6 (1.29%) SAP
4 6 (1.29%) Siemens
4 6 (1.29%) VMware
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle
6 4 (0.86%) Databricks
6 4 (0.86%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.86%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.86%) IFS
6 4 (0.86%) Rockwell
6 4 (0.86%) Tenable
6 4 (0.86%) Xilinx
7 3 (0.65%) Apple
7 3 (0.65%) Google
7 3 (0.65%) Planon
7 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow