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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 484 290
Rank change year-on-year +53 -194 +72
Permanent jobs citing IoT 325 170 809
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.39% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 0.94% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 242 119 637
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 22,517 18,039 28,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.67% 41.65% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,903 9,033 18,921
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,445 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.64% +4.55% -15.37%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 74 £55,000 -12.00% 64
London +20 73 £75,000 -9.09% 77
North of England +6 60 £52,500 -9.48% 25
South West -28 49 £52,500 +2.44% 14
Midlands -19 39 £42,500 -29.17% 16
East of England -5 26 £62,500 +8.70% 24
Yorkshire -15 24 £60,000 - 10
North West -4 23 £52,500 -9.48% 11
East Midlands -12 21 £52,500 - 8
West Midlands -8 18 £38,500 -45.00% 8
North East - 13 £50,000 - 5
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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.23%) CMS
3 4 (1.23%) Confluence
3 4 (1.23%) WordPress
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.23%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.92%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.92%) Simulink
5 2 (0.62%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.62%) Windchill
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
2 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.46%) AWS
2 37 (11.38%) Azure
3 20 (6.15%) SaaS
4 15 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (4.31%) Serverless
6 11 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.08%) AWS IoT
7 10 (3.08%) GCP
8 8 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.54%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.23%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.23%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.23%) Canva
10 4 (1.23%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.69%) Wireless
2 23 (7.08%) MQTT
3 22 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (5.85%) Bluetooth
5 17 (5.23%) Internet
6 16 (4.92%) Firewall
7 12 (3.69%) LoRaWAN
7 12 (3.69%) VPN
8 11 (3.38%) DNS
9 9 (2.77%) ZigBee
10 6 (1.85%) 5G
10 6 (1.85%) DHCP
11 5 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.54%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.54%) Modbus
12 4 (1.23%) LTE
12 4 (1.23%) VoIP
13 3 (0.92%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.62%) RS-232
14 2 (0.62%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.08%) Big Data
3 8 (2.46%) MySQL
3 8 (2.46%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.85%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.23%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.92%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.62%) GIS
8 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (5.85%) Git
2 8 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.15%) GitLab
4 6 (1.85%) GDB
5 5 (1.54%) JIRA
6 4 (1.23%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.92%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.31%) Poetry
8 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (15.38%) Electronics
2 42 (12.92%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.62%) Manufacturing
4 25 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.77%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.15%) Finance
7 16 (4.92%) Marketing
8 14 (4.31%) Automotive
9 10 (3.08%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.77%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.77%) Retail
11 8 (2.46%) Legal
11 8 (2.46%) Local Government
12 7 (2.15%) Social Housing
13 6 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.85%) Wearables
14 5 (1.54%) Law
14 5 (1.54%) Military
15 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.23%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 68 (20.92%) Software Engineer
2 48 (14.77%) Embedded Engineer
3 38 (11.69%) Senior
4 31 (9.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 29 (8.92%) Technical Engineer
6 27 (8.31%) Sales Manager
7 25 (7.69%) Developer
8 23 (7.08%) Architect
9 17 (5.23%) Support Engineer
10 13 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (4.00%) Technical Support
10 13 (4.00%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) Operations Engineer
12 11 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.08%) Embedded Linux Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) Technical Operations Engineer
14 8 (2.46%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.54%) Yocto
2 14 (4.31%) Node.js
3 12 (3.69%) React
4 11 (3.38%) .NET
5 5 (1.54%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.54%) REST
6 4 (1.23%) Kafka
6 4 (1.23%) pytest
6 4 (1.23%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.92%) Vue
8 2 (0.62%) Blazor
8 2 (0.62%) Flash
8 2 (0.62%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.62%) HTML
8 2 (0.62%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.31%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.31%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.31%) Micronaut
9 1 (0.31%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.54%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (5.85%) Device Driver
3 17 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (4.31%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.69%) Smart Home
7 11 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.08%) ARM Cortex
8 10 (3.08%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.08%) PropTech
9 9 (2.77%) Robotics
10 8 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.15%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.15%) Blog
11 7 (2.15%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.15%) Smart Energy
12 6 (1.85%) NB-IoT
13 5 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.08%) Linux
2 17 (5.23%) Windows
3 16 (4.92%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.54%) Android
7 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.23%) VMS
8 2 (0.62%) Unix
9 1 (0.31%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.85%) Software Engineering
2 75 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (17.85%) AI
4 38 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (11.08%) Collaborative Culture
6 33 (10.15%) CI/CD
7 29 (8.92%) Analytics
8 28 (8.62%) CRM
9 27 (8.31%) DevOps
10 24 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (7.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (7.08%) Machine Learning
11 23 (7.08%) Validation
12 21 (6.46%) Business Development
12 21 (6.46%) Computer Science
12 21 (6.46%) ERP
13 20 (6.15%) Roadmaps
14 19 (5.85%) Customer Engagement
15 17 (5.23%) Project Management
15 17 (5.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.00%) Python
2 36 (11.08%) C++
3 32 (9.85%) C
4 18 (5.54%) TypeScript
5 16 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.92%) SQL
6 13 (4.00%) Embedded C
6 13 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.69%) C#
8 9 (2.77%) Java
9 7 (2.15%) Bash
10 5 (1.54%) Go
10 5 (1.54%) PHP
11 4 (1.23%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.23%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.23%) Rust
12 1 (0.31%) Haskell
12 1 (0.31%) OCaml
12 1 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (18.77%) Degree
2 15 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.69%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.46%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.54%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.23%) HND
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CISA
9 1 (0.31%) CISM
9 1 (0.31%) CISSP
9 1 (0.31%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.31%) PhD
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.08%) QA
2 8 (2.46%) ISO 9001
3 7 (2.15%) JTAG
4 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.92%) ECSS
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (12.62%) Firmware
2 19 (5.85%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (4.62%) Docker
4 10 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.77%) vSphere
6 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.85%) Terraform
3 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.54%) SCCM
4 4 (1.23%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.23%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Ansible
6 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.31%) MOM
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.08%) SAP
2 10 (3.08%) VMware
3 7 (2.15%) Cisco
3 7 (2.15%) Google
3 7 (2.15%) Oracle
3 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.85%) EMC
5 5 (1.54%) Aruba
5 5 (1.54%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.23%) Adobe
7 3 (0.92%) dotdigital
7 3 (0.92%) IFS
7 3 (0.92%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.62%) BT
8 2 (0.62%) Siemens
9 1 (0.31%) Draytek
9 1 (0.31%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.31%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.31%) Palo Alto