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 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 339 365
Rank change year-on-year -71 +26 +33
Permanent jobs citing IoT 230 454 380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.74% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 2.26% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 161 275 291
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -7.41%

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 17,072 20,114 19,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 39.13% 32.99% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,449 9,757 14,273
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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
East of England +17 63 £57,500 -4.17% 27
London -3 37 £81,750 +16.79% 139
South East -52 34 £67,500 +12.50% 132
North of England -10 33 £55,000 +25.71% 44
South West +28 31 £45,000 -21.74% 34
North West 0 29 £55,000 +37.50% 28
Midlands -2 28 £52,500 -12.50% 30
East Midlands -8 16 £55,000 -8.33% 18
West Midlands +29 12 £51,250 -16.67% 11
Yorkshire -8 3 £55,000 -21.43% 15
North East +14 1 £40,000 -20.79% 1
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 37 (16.09%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.83%) Confluence
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.87%) nginx
4 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (2.61%) AutoCAD
1 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (2.61%) MS Visio
1 6 (2.61%) Revit
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.61%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.30%) SAP EWM
3 3 (1.30%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.87%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.87%) SAP APO
4 2 (0.87%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.87%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.87%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.43%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.43%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 43 (18.70%) Azure
2 31 (13.48%) AWS
3 24 (10.43%) Entra ID
4 21 (9.13%) Power Platform
5 19 (8.26%) Power Automate
6 18 (7.83%) PowerApps
6 18 (7.83%) Serverless
7 12 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (4.35%) GCP
9 8 (3.48%) SaaS
10 7 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.30%) Firebase
12 3 (1.30%) GitHub
13 2 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.87%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.87%) Dagster
13 2 (0.87%) Zapier
14 1 (0.43%) Azure AI
14 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.26%) Internet
2 31 (13.48%) Network Security
3 27 (11.74%) Wireless
4 18 (7.83%) Modbus
5 16 (6.96%) MQTT
6 13 (5.65%) Ethernet
7 8 (3.48%) WAN
8 6 (2.61%) Firewall
8 6 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.17%) 5G
9 5 (2.17%) LAN
10 4 (1.74%) Broadband
10 4 (1.74%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (1.74%) VLAN
10 4 (1.74%) VoIP
11 3 (1.30%) DNS
11 3 (1.30%) LTE
11 3 (1.30%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.30%) VPN
12 2 (0.87%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) MySQL
2 7 (3.04%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.17%) Big Data
5 4 (1.74%) ClickHouse
5 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.74%) Power BI
6 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.87%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.87%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) GIS
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (10.87%) JIRA
2 9 (3.91%) Git
3 4 (1.74%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.87%) MLflow
4 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.43%) Selenium
5 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 87 (37.83%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.65%) Manufacturing
3 28 (12.17%) Finance
4 21 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.70%) Automotive
6 17 (7.39%) Electronics
6 17 (7.39%) Marketing
6 17 (7.39%) Pharmaceutical
7 16 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.65%) Retail
8 13 (5.65%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.78%) Banking
10 6 (2.61%) Back Office
10 6 (2.61%) Tech for Good
11 5 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Billing
13 3 (1.30%) Games
13 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (13.04%) Senior
2 26 (11.30%) Developer
3 17 (7.39%) Lead
4 16 (6.96%) Architect
5 12 (5.22%) Software Engineer
5 12 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (4.78%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (4.35%) Lecturer
7 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (3.48%) Backend Developer
9 8 (3.48%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (3.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 7 (3.04%) Head of Development
11 6 (2.61%) Analyst
11 6 (2.61%) Consultant
11 6 (2.61%) IoT Architect
12 5 (2.17%) Senior Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.17%) Technical Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.65%) .NET
2 9 (3.91%) React
3 8 (3.48%) CSS
4 6 (2.61%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.61%) Node.js
5 4 (1.74%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.74%) REST
6 3 (1.30%) HTML
6 3 (1.30%) Kafka
6 3 (1.30%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.30%) SAPUI5
6 3 (1.30%) Swagger
6 3 (1.30%) Yocto
7 2 (0.87%) Django
7 2 (0.87%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.87%) RESTful
7 2 (0.87%) Spring
7 2 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.26%) Management Information System
1 19 (8.26%) Operational Technology
2 17 (7.39%) SCADA
3 15 (6.52%) Industry 4.0
3 15 (6.52%) Renewable Energy
4 13 (5.65%) Biopharmaceutical
5 12 (5.22%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.91%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (3.04%) Home Automation
9 6 (2.61%) Digital Signage
9 6 (2.61%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (2.17%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.17%) Robotics
10 5 (2.17%) Smart Home
10 5 (2.17%) Social Media
11 4 (1.74%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.04%) Windows
2 6 (2.61%) Linux
3 4 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (31.30%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (23.91%) Agile
3 44 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (14.78%) AI
5 33 (14.35%) Mentoring
6 32 (13.91%) DevOps
6 32 (13.91%) Project Management
7 30 (13.04%) Customer Service
8 29 (12.61%) Business Development
9 28 (12.17%) Machine Learning
10 26 (11.30%) Roadmaps
11 24 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (10.43%) Project Delivery
12 22 (9.57%) Analytics
13 21 (9.13%) Computer Science
13 21 (9.13%) Prototyping
14 20 (8.70%) Software Engineering
15 18 (7.83%) Asset Management
15 18 (7.83%) Network Design
15 18 (7.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.57%) Python
2 21 (9.13%) C#
3 20 (8.70%) SQL
4 18 (7.83%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.52%) C++
6 14 (6.09%) Java
6 14 (6.09%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.35%) C
7 10 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.91%) PHP
8 9 (3.91%) Ruby
9 8 (3.48%) Elixir
9 8 (3.48%) Go
10 3 (1.30%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.87%) Bash
11 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 59 (25.65%) Degree
2 15 (6.52%) HNC
2 15 (6.52%) HND
2 15 (6.52%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.65%) Chartered Engineer
4 12 (5.22%) PhD
4 12 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.78%) Postgraduate
6 9 (3.91%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.74%) PMP
9 3 (1.30%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.87%) CISA
10 2 (0.87%) CISM
10 2 (0.87%) CISSP
10 2 (0.87%) MCP
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.96%) QA
2 5 (2.17%) GDPR
3 4 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (4.78%) Firmware
1 11 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
1 11 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.91%) Docker
3 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) NFS
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.65%) Functional Safety
3 10 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.17%) Grafana
4 5 (2.17%) Terraform
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) Argo
5 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.39%) Atlassian
3 14 (6.09%) Siemens
4 13 (5.65%) AVEVA
4 13 (5.65%) Rockwell
5 12 (5.22%) SAP
6 11 (4.78%) VMware
7 10 (4.35%) Cisco
8 6 (2.61%) Autodesk
8 6 (2.61%) NEC
8 6 (2.61%) Panasonic
8 6 (2.61%) Polycom
8 6 (2.61%) Samsung
8 6 (2.61%) Sony
9 5 (2.17%) Epicor
9 5 (2.17%) Infor
10 4 (1.74%) Atmel
10 4 (1.74%) Google
11 3 (1.30%) EMC
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle