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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 434 266
Rank change year-on-year +386 -168 +72
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,827 217 871
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.51% 0.55% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.04% 1.32% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 230 132 692
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,125 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%

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 21,685 16,452 29,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.94% 41.94% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,333 8,447 20,853
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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
North of England +224 1,066 £55,000 -5.17% 23
Midlands +160 1,007 £42,500 -32.00% 21
North West +186 943 £60,000 +4.35% 13
West Midlands +127 924 £43,750 -36.36% 10
South East +151 306 £55,000 - 52
London +125 209 £75,000 -7.69% 64
East of England +109 170 £62,500 +13.64% 27
Yorkshire +52 121 £55,000 -8.33% 8
East Midlands +51 95 £42,500 -15.00% 11
South West -35 52 £58,750 -2.08% 22
North East - 2 - - 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 5 (0.18%) Confluence
2 4 (0.14%) CMS
2 4 (0.14%) WordPress
3 3 (0.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.071%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.035%) Apache
5 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.035%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.035%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.071%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.071%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.035%) Maximo
2 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.035%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,524 (89.28%) Cloud Computing
2 40 (1.41%) Azure
3 33 (1.17%) AWS
4 15 (0.53%) SaaS
5 12 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (0.25%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.21%) GCP
8 5 (0.18%) Serverless
9 4 (0.14%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.14%) Canva
9 4 (0.14%) GitHub
9 4 (0.14%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.11%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.11%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.071%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.071%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.071%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2,520 (89.14%) Internet
2 31 (1.10%) Wireless
3 19 (0.67%) Bluetooth
4 18 (0.64%) Firewall
5 17 (0.60%) MQTT
6 13 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.42%) VPN
8 11 (0.39%) DNS
9 9 (0.32%) Modbus
10 8 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
11 5 (0.18%) LTE
12 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.11%) ZigBee
14 2 (0.071%) GSM
14 2 (0.071%) TCP/IP
14 2 (0.071%) WAN
15 1 (0.035%) 3GPP
15 1 (0.035%) LAN
15 1 (0.035%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (0.57%) Big Data
2 12 (0.42%) MySQL
3 8 (0.28%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.21%) Power BI
6 5 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.14%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.11%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.071%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.071%) GIS
9 2 (0.071%) Informix
10 1 (0.035%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.035%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.035%) Flink
10 1 (0.035%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.035%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.035%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (0.18%) Git
1 5 (0.18%) JIRA
2 3 (0.11%) GitLab
2 3 (0.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.071%) GDB
3 2 (0.071%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.035%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.035%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.035%) Poetry
4 1 (0.035%) Zephyr
General
1 2,563 (90.66%) Social Skills
2 2,527 (89.39%) Banking
3 2,526 (89.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (1.31%) Electronics
5 26 (0.92%) Manufacturing
6 24 (0.85%) Marketing
7 22 (0.78%) Finance
8 18 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (0.64%) Tech for Good
9 16 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 14 (0.50%) Automotive
11 11 (0.39%) Wearables
12 10 (0.35%) Social Housing
13 8 (0.28%) Public Sector
14 6 (0.21%) Law
15 4 (0.14%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.11%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.11%) French Language
16 3 (0.11%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,845 (65.26%) Lecturer
2 68 (2.41%) Software Engineer
3 46 (1.63%) Senior
4 44 (1.56%) Embedded Engineer
5 33 (1.17%) Developer
6 21 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 21 (0.74%) Firmware Engineer
7 20 (0.71%) Architect
7 20 (0.71%) Principal Engineer
7 20 (0.71%) Principal Software Engineer
8 19 (0.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 17 (0.60%) Sales Manager
9 17 (0.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (0.53%) Support Engineer
11 12 (0.42%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (0.39%) 2nd Line Support
12 11 (0.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (0.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 11 (0.39%) Senior Developer
13 10 (0.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.71%) React
2 18 (0.64%) Node.js
3 11 (0.39%) React Native
4 9 (0.32%) REST
5 6 (0.21%) .NET
5 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.14%) Kafka
7 4 (0.14%) Yocto
8 2 (0.071%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.071%) Django
8 2 (0.071%) Next.js
8 2 (0.071%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.071%) pytest
8 2 (0.071%) Swagger
8 2 (0.071%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (0.071%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.035%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.035%) PySpark
9 1 (0.035%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (0.60%) Smart Energy
2 16 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
3 13 (0.46%) Mobile App
4 12 (0.42%) Cloud Native
4 12 (0.42%) Smart Home
5 10 (0.35%) PropTech
5 10 (0.35%) SCADA
6 9 (0.32%) Device Driver
7 7 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.21%) Robotics
9 5 (0.18%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 5 (0.18%) NB-IoT
9 5 (0.18%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.14%) Blog
10 4 (0.14%) Podcast
10 4 (0.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.24%) Linux
2 17 (0.60%) Windows
3 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.25%) Android
4 7 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.14%) Unix
5 4 (0.14%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.035%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.035%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,540 (89.85%) AI
2 2,538 (89.78%) Cybersecurity
3 2,523 (89.25%) Machine Learning
3 2,523 (89.25%) Web Development
4 2,517 (89.03%) User Experience
5 85 (3.01%) Software Engineering
6 55 (1.95%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (1.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (0.88%) Business Analysis
9 24 (0.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (0.74%) Mentoring
11 20 (0.71%) Energy Management
11 20 (0.71%) ERP
12 18 (0.64%) Collaborative Culture
12 18 (0.64%) DevOps
12 18 (0.64%) Roadmaps
13 17 (0.60%) Agile
13 17 (0.60%) Analytics
13 17 (0.60%) Digital Marketing
13 17 (0.60%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (1.13%) Python
2 18 (0.64%) TypeScript
3 17 (0.60%) SQL
4 13 (0.46%) C++
4 13 (0.46%) Java
5 12 (0.42%) C
6 10 (0.35%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.25%) C#
8 7 (0.25%) PHP
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.071%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.071%) Go
11 2 (0.071%) Perl
12 1 (0.035%) Groovy
12 1 (0.035%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.035%) OCaml
12 1 (0.035%) Rust
12 1 (0.035%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,554 (90.34%) Degree
2 2,529 (89.46%) Master's Degree
3 2,514 (88.93%) PhD
4 2,511 (88.82%) Postgraduate
5 15 (0.53%) HND
6 6 (0.21%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.071%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.071%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.035%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.035%) CISA
10 1 (0.035%) CISM
10 1 (0.035%) CISSP
10 1 (0.035%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.035%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.28%) QA
2 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.14%) GDPR
3 3 (0.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.11%) JTAG
4 1 (0.035%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.035%) GMP
4 1 (0.035%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (1.59%) Firmware
2 30 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.32%) Docker
4 8 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.18%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.035%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (0.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.14%) Terraform
4 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.071%) Grafana
5 2 (0.071%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (1.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (0.28%) VMware
3 6 (0.21%) EMC
4 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
4 5 (0.18%) Google
4 5 (0.18%) SAP
5 4 (0.14%) Adobe
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle
6 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
6 3 (0.11%) Draytek
6 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.071%) Aruba
7 2 (0.071%) Cisco
7 2 (0.071%) HP
7 2 (0.071%) IBM
7 2 (0.071%) Siemens
8 1 (0.035%) Apple
8 1 (0.035%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.035%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.035%) Pega