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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 460 319
Rank change year-on-year +51 -141 +23
Permanent jobs citing IoT 374 184 592
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.42% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 1.00% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 279 131 466
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £33,438
25th Percentile £46,500 £51,250 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% - -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 24,716 18,396 23,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.54% 42.05% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16,261 9,352 13,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,742 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,497
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +8 92 £55,000 -10.20% 92
North of England +2 81 £55,000 -6.78% 37
London +11 80 £75,000 -21.05% 230
South West -47 48 £55,000 +15.79% 25
Midlands -13 46 £44,250 -22.73% 39
Yorkshire -2 41 £55,000 +4.76% 13
North West -24 26 £50,000 -13.79% 21
East of England -31 26 £72,500 +26.09% 45
East Midlands -24 24 £67,500 +28.57% 13
West Midlands -15 22 £42,500 -34.62% 26
North East - 14 £50,000 - 3
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 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.53%) CMS
3 2 (0.53%) WordPress
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.60%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.80%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.80%) Simulink
4 2 (0.53%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.53%) Windchill
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.80%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.53%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.90%) AWS
2 35 (9.36%) Azure
3 26 (6.95%) SaaS
4 14 (3.74%) Serverless
5 13 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.67%) AWS IoT
8 8 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.60%) GCP
10 5 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.34%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.07%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.07%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.63%) Wireless
2 27 (7.22%) Wi-Fi
3 23 (6.15%) MQTT
4 21 (5.61%) Internet
5 17 (4.55%) Bluetooth
6 16 (4.28%) Firewall
7 15 (4.01%) DNS
8 13 (3.48%) VPN
9 10 (2.67%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.67%) ZigBee
10 9 (2.41%) DHCP
11 7 (1.87%) 5G
12 6 (1.60%) Ethernet
13 5 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (1.34%) VoIP
14 4 (1.07%) HTTP
14 4 (1.07%) LTE
15 3 (0.80%) GSM
15 3 (0.80%) SSH
15 3 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.21%) Big Data
1 12 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.14%) MySQL
3 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.34%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.07%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.80%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.80%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.53%) GIS
8 2 (0.53%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 27 (7.22%) Git
2 8 (2.14%) JIRA
3 7 (1.87%) GitLab
3 7 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.60%) GDB
5 4 (1.07%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.07%) Selenium
6 3 (0.80%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.80%) Postman
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) MLflow
7 1 (0.27%) Poetry
7 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (15.24%) Electronics
2 51 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 30 (8.02%) Finance
5 27 (7.22%) Manufacturing
6 26 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.28%) Marketing
8 15 (4.01%) Automotive
9 14 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.67%) Legal
12 8 (2.14%) Local Government
12 8 (2.14%) Retail
12 8 (2.14%) Wearables
13 7 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.87%) Law
14 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.34%) Social Housing
15 5 (1.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (17.65%) Software Engineer
2 54 (14.44%) Embedded Engineer
3 51 (13.64%) Senior
4 39 (10.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (8.56%) Sales Manager
6 31 (8.29%) Developer
7 29 (7.75%) Technical Engineer
8 25 (6.68%) Architect
9 17 (4.55%) Support Engineer
9 17 (4.55%) Technical Support
10 15 (4.01%) Account Manager
10 15 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.48%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (3.21%) Embedded Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.21%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
14 10 (2.67%) Technical Operations Engineer
15 9 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (2.41%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.41%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.35%) Yocto
2 19 (5.08%) Terraform
3 16 (4.28%) .NET
4 14 (3.74%) REST
5 13 (3.48%) React
6 10 (2.67%) Node.js
7 7 (1.87%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.60%) Blazor
8 6 (1.60%) Kafka
9 5 (1.34%) Vue
10 4 (1.07%) HTML
10 4 (1.07%) pytest
10 4 (1.07%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (0.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 3 (0.80%) CSS
11 3 (0.80%) Flash
11 3 (0.80%) PySpark
12 2 (0.53%) CSS3
12 2 (0.53%) RESTful
12 2 (0.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.83%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (5.61%) Device Driver
3 17 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (4.28%) Robotics
5 15 (4.01%) Cloud Native
6 13 (3.48%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.48%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.94%) ARM Cortex
7 11 (2.94%) PropTech
8 9 (2.41%) Smart Home
9 8 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.87%) CCTV
10 7 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.87%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.24%) Linux
2 21 (5.61%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (4.28%) Windows
4 10 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.87%) VMS
6 6 (1.60%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.34%) Android
8 4 (1.07%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (27.54%) Software Engineering
2 83 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (18.18%) AI
4 40 (10.70%) CI/CD
4 40 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (10.16%) Collaborative Culture
6 35 (9.36%) DevOps
7 30 (8.02%) Machine Learning
7 30 (8.02%) Validation
8 29 (7.75%) Agile
9 27 (7.22%) Analytics
9 27 (7.22%) CRM
10 25 (6.68%) Business Development
11 24 (6.42%) Computer Science
12 23 (6.15%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (5.61%) Customer Engagement
13 21 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
13 21 (5.61%) Decision-Making
14 20 (5.35%) Mentoring
14 20 (5.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.31%) Python
2 36 (9.63%) C++
3 33 (8.82%) C
4 20 (5.35%) TypeScript
5 19 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.81%) SQL
7 17 (4.55%) C#
8 16 (4.28%) Embedded C
8 16 (4.28%) Go
9 12 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.14%) Java
11 6 (1.60%) Bash
12 4 (1.07%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.07%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.07%) Rust
13 3 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.80%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (21.39%) Degree
2 19 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.74%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.21%) Master's Degree
4 12 (3.21%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.60%) HNC
7 5 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.80%) HND
9 2 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.27%) CISA
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.27%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.94%) QA
2 8 (2.14%) ISO 9001
3 7 (1.87%) JTAG
4 3 (0.80%) ECSS
4 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (10.16%) Firmware
2 23 (6.15%) Docker
3 14 (3.74%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (2.41%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) iptables
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) Grafana
3 5 (1.34%) SCCM
4 4 (1.07%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.07%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.53%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.27%) MOM
Vendors
1 44 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.41%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.41%) VMware
3 8 (2.14%) SAP
4 7 (1.87%) Cisco
4 7 (1.87%) Oracle
5 5 (1.34%) Aruba
5 5 (1.34%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.07%) Adobe
6 4 (1.07%) dotdigital
6 4 (1.07%) IFS
7 3 (0.80%) BT
7 3 (0.80%) Databricks
7 3 (0.80%) Google
7 3 (0.80%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.53%) EMC
8 2 (0.53%) MEDITECH
8 2 (0.53%) Planon
8 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) Zscaler