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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 468 316
Rank change year-on-year +57 -152 +22
Permanent jobs citing IoT 365 181 592
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.41% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 0.98% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 273 131 468
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £33,926
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,063
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 £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -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 24,560 18,403 23,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.59% 41.99% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,114 9,366 13,979
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,238
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 £78,750 £80,000
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% -8.71%

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 24 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 24 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 +17 88 £55,000 -8.33% 57
London +15 80 £75,000 -21.05% 60
North of England +8 77 £55,000 -6.78% 15
South West -43 48 £55,000 +12.82% 13
Midlands -21 46 £42,500 -29.17% 18
Yorkshire +10 38 £55,000 +4.76% 6
North West -17 26 £50,000 -13.79% 7
East of England -34 25 £71,250 +23.91% 17
West Midlands -2 23 £40,500 -40.00% 11
East Midlands -20 23 £67,500 +28.57% 7
North East - 13 £50,000 - 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 10 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.55%) CMS
3 2 (0.55%) WordPress
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.64%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.82%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.82%) Simulink
4 2 (0.55%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.55%) Windchill
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.82%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.97%) AWS
2 36 (9.86%) Azure
3 26 (7.12%) SaaS
4 14 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.84%) Serverless
5 11 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.74%) AWS IoT
7 8 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.92%) GCP
9 5 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.37%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.10%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.10%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.86%) Wireless
2 27 (7.40%) Wi-Fi
3 23 (6.30%) MQTT
4 21 (5.75%) Internet
5 17 (4.66%) Bluetooth
5 17 (4.66%) Firewall
6 15 (4.11%) DNS
7 14 (3.84%) VPN
8 10 (2.74%) LoRaWAN
8 10 (2.74%) ZigBee
9 9 (2.47%) DHCP
10 7 (1.92%) 5G
11 6 (1.64%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.37%) VoIP
13 4 (1.10%) HTTP
13 4 (1.10%) LTE
14 3 (0.82%) GSM
14 3 (0.82%) SSH
14 3 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.29%) Big Data
1 12 (3.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.19%) MySQL
3 8 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.82%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.82%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.55%) GIS
8 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 27 (7.40%) Git
2 7 (1.92%) GitLab
2 7 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.92%) JIRA
3 6 (1.64%) GDB
4 4 (1.10%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.10%) Selenium
5 3 (0.82%) PetaLinux
5 3 (0.82%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) Poetry
6 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (14.79%) Electronics
2 52 (14.25%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.77%) Telecoms
4 29 (7.95%) Finance
5 27 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.40%) Manufacturing
6 15 (4.11%) Automotive
7 14 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.84%) Marketing
8 11 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.74%) Legal
10 8 (2.19%) Local Government
10 8 (2.19%) Retail
10 8 (2.19%) Wearables
11 7 (1.92%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.92%) Law
12 6 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.37%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (17.81%) Software Engineer
2 53 (14.52%) Embedded Engineer
3 48 (13.15%) Senior
4 38 (10.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (8.77%) Sales Manager
6 29 (7.95%) Developer
6 29 (7.95%) Technical Engineer
7 24 (6.58%) Architect
8 17 (4.66%) Support Engineer
8 17 (4.66%) Technical Support
9 14 (3.84%) Account Manager
9 14 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.56%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (3.29%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 12 (3.29%) Linux Engineer
12 11 (3.01%) Operations Engineer
13 10 (2.74%) Technical Operations Engineer
14 9 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (2.47%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.48%) Yocto
2 17 (4.66%) Terraform
3 16 (4.38%) .NET
4 14 (3.84%) REST
5 13 (3.56%) React
6 10 (2.74%) Node.js
7 7 (1.92%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.64%) Blazor
8 6 (1.64%) Kafka
9 5 (1.37%) Vue
10 4 (1.10%) HTML
10 4 (1.10%) pytest
10 4 (1.10%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (0.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 3 (0.82%) CSS
11 3 (0.82%) Flash
11 3 (0.82%) PySpark
12 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (0.55%) CSS3
12 2 (0.55%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.88%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (5.75%) Device Driver
3 17 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.11%) Robotics
6 14 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.84%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.56%) Driving Licence
8 11 (3.01%) ARM Cortex
8 11 (3.01%) PropTech
9 9 (2.47%) Smart Home
10 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.92%) CCTV
11 7 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.92%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.34%) Linux
2 21 (5.75%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (4.38%) Windows
4 10 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.92%) VMS
6 6 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.37%) Android
8 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (27.67%) Software Engineering
2 84 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (18.36%) AI
4 41 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (10.96%) CI/CD
6 38 (10.41%) Collaborative Culture
7 35 (9.59%) DevOps
8 28 (7.67%) CRM
8 28 (7.67%) Machine Learning
9 27 (7.40%) Agile
9 27 (7.40%) Analytics
9 27 (7.40%) Validation
10 24 (6.58%) Business Development
10 24 (6.58%) Computer Science
11 23 (6.30%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (5.75%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (5.48%) Customer Engagement
13 20 (5.48%) Decision-Making
13 20 (5.48%) Roadmaps
14 19 (5.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.71%) Python
2 35 (9.59%) C++
3 32 (8.77%) C
4 20 (5.48%) TypeScript
5 19 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.93%) SQL
7 17 (4.66%) C#
8 16 (4.38%) Embedded C
9 14 (3.84%) Go
10 12 (3.29%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.19%) Java
12 6 (1.64%) Bash
13 4 (1.10%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.10%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.10%) Rust
14 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.82%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (20.82%) Degree
2 19 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.84%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.29%) Master's Degree
4 12 (3.29%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.64%) HNC
7 5 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.82%) HND
10 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.27%) CISA
11 1 (0.27%) CISM
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.27%) PhD
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.01%) QA
2 8 (2.19%) ISO 9001
3 7 (1.92%) JTAG
4 3 (0.82%) ECSS
4 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
5 2 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (10.68%) Firmware
2 23 (6.30%) Docker
3 15 (4.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.47%) vSphere
5 2 (0.55%) iptables
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.64%) Grafana
3 5 (1.37%) SCCM
4 4 (1.10%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) MOM
Vendors
1 46 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.47%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.47%) SAP
2 9 (2.47%) VMware
3 7 (1.92%) Cisco
3 7 (1.92%) Oracle
4 5 (1.37%) Aruba
4 5 (1.37%) Cognizant
5 4 (1.10%) Adobe
5 4 (1.10%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.10%) Google
5 4 (1.10%) IFS
6 3 (0.82%) BT
6 3 (0.82%) Databricks
6 3 (0.82%) Xilinx
7 2 (0.55%) EMC
7 2 (0.55%) MEDITECH
7 2 (0.55%) Planon
7 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.27%) Ericsson