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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 484 297
Rank change year-on-year +65 -187 +55
Permanent jobs citing IoT 328 172 795
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.40% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 0.95% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 244 121 623
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 22,666 18,092 28,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.69% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,007 9,088 18,685
10th Percentile £31,200 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,446 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.65% +4.55% -14.66%

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 19 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 19 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 +7 78 £55,000 -12.00% 53
London -2 72 £75,000 -9.09% 75
North of England 0 59 £52,500 -9.48% 17
South West -40 49 £52,500 - 10
Midlands -17 40 £42,500 -29.17% 13
East of England -12 26 £62,500 +8.70% 16
Yorkshire -13 24 £60,000 - 6
North West -9 22 £52,500 -9.48% 8
East Midlands -13 22 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands -6 18 £38,500 -45.00% 6
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.22%) CMS
3 4 (1.22%) Confluence
3 4 (1.22%) WordPress
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.44%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.22%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.91%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.91%) Simulink
5 2 (0.61%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.61%) Windchill
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Maximo
2 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.72%) AWS
2 38 (11.59%) Azure
3 21 (6.40%) SaaS
4 15 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (4.27%) Serverless
6 11 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.05%) AWS IoT
7 10 (3.05%) GCP
8 8 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.52%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.22%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.22%) Canva
10 4 (1.22%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.89%) Wireless
2 23 (7.01%) MQTT
2 23 (7.01%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (5.79%) Bluetooth
4 17 (5.18%) Internet
5 16 (4.88%) Firewall
6 12 (3.66%) LoRaWAN
6 12 (3.66%) VPN
7 11 (3.35%) DNS
8 9 (2.74%) ZigBee
9 6 (1.83%) 5G
9 6 (1.83%) DHCP
10 5 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.52%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.52%) Modbus
11 4 (1.22%) LTE
11 4 (1.22%) VoIP
12 3 (0.91%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.61%) Gigabit Ethernet
13 2 (0.61%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.05%) Big Data
3 8 (2.44%) MySQL
3 8 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.83%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.22%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.91%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.61%) GIS
8 2 (0.61%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (6.40%) Git
2 8 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.13%) GitLab
4 6 (1.83%) GDB
5 5 (1.52%) JIRA
6 4 (1.22%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.91%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Poetry
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (15.24%) Electronics
2 42 (12.80%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.54%) Manufacturing
4 25 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.71%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.10%) Finance
7 16 (4.88%) Marketing
8 14 (4.27%) Automotive
9 9 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.74%) Retail
10 8 (2.44%) Legal
10 8 (2.44%) Local Government
10 8 (2.44%) Tech for Good
11 7 (2.13%) Social Housing
12 6 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.83%) Wearables
13 5 (1.52%) Law
13 5 (1.52%) Military
14 4 (1.22%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.22%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 66 (20.12%) Software Engineer
2 49 (14.94%) Embedded Engineer
3 37 (11.28%) Senior
4 31 (9.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 29 (8.84%) Sales Manager
5 29 (8.84%) Technical Engineer
6 27 (8.23%) Developer
7 22 (6.71%) Architect
8 17 (5.18%) Support Engineer
9 13 (3.96%) Technical Support
9 13 (3.96%) Technical Support Engineer
10 12 (3.66%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.05%) Principal Software Engineer
12 10 (3.05%) Technical Operations Engineer
13 9 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.79%) Yocto
2 13 (3.96%) .NET
3 12 (3.66%) Node.js
4 10 (3.05%) React
5 6 (1.83%) REST
6 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.22%) Kafka
7 4 (1.22%) pytest
7 4 (1.22%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (0.91%) Blazor
8 3 (0.91%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.91%) Vue
9 2 (0.61%) Flash
9 2 (0.61%) GStreamer
9 2 (0.61%) HTML
9 2 (0.61%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.30%) JSON
10 1 (0.30%) SAML
10 1 (0.30%) Spring
10 1 (0.30%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.72%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (6.10%) Device Driver
3 17 (5.18%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.66%) Smart Home
7 11 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.05%) ARM Cortex
8 10 (3.05%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.05%) PropTech
9 9 (2.74%) Robotics
10 8 (2.44%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.13%) Blog
11 7 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.13%) Smart Energy
12 6 (1.83%) NB-IoT
13 5 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.24%) Linux
2 17 (5.18%) Embedded Linux
2 17 (5.18%) Windows
3 11 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.83%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.52%) Android
6 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.22%) VMS
7 2 (0.61%) Unix
8 1 (0.30%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (29.27%) Software Engineering
2 75 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (17.99%) AI
4 39 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (11.28%) Collaborative Culture
6 34 (10.37%) CI/CD
7 29 (8.84%) Analytics
8 28 (8.54%) CRM
8 28 (8.54%) DevOps
9 25 (7.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (7.01%) Machine Learning
11 23 (7.01%) Validation
12 21 (6.40%) Business Development
12 21 (6.40%) Computer Science
12 21 (6.40%) ERP
13 20 (6.10%) Roadmaps
14 19 (5.79%) Customer Engagement
15 17 (5.18%) Project Management
15 17 (5.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.85%) Python
2 38 (11.59%) C++
3 33 (10.06%) C
4 18 (5.49%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.18%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.88%) SQL
7 14 (4.27%) C#
7 14 (4.27%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.96%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.44%) Java
10 7 (2.13%) Bash
11 5 (1.52%) Go
11 5 (1.52%) PHP
12 4 (1.22%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.22%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.22%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) Haskell
13 1 (0.30%) OCaml
13 1 (0.30%) R
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (18.60%) Degree
2 15 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.44%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.83%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.22%) HND
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CISA
9 1 (0.30%) CISM
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.30%) PhD
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.05%) QA
2 8 (2.44%) ISO 9001
3 7 (2.13%) JTAG
4 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.91%) ECSS
5 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (12.50%) Firmware
2 19 (5.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 16 (4.88%) Docker
4 10 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.74%) vSphere
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.13%) Terraform
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.52%) SCCM
4 4 (1.22%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.22%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.91%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.30%) MOM
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.05%) SAP
2 10 (3.05%) VMware
3 7 (2.13%) Cisco
3 7 (2.13%) Google
3 7 (2.13%) Oracle
3 7 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.83%) EMC
5 5 (1.52%) Aruba
5 5 (1.52%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.22%) Adobe
7 3 (0.91%) dotdigital
7 3 (0.91%) IFS
7 3 (0.91%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.61%) BT
8 2 (0.61%) Siemens
9 1 (0.30%) ConnectWise
9 1 (0.30%) Databricks
9 1 (0.30%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.30%) NVIDIA