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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 479 331
Rank change year-on-year +74 -148 +4
Permanent jobs citing IoT 377 169 551
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.39% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 0.94% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 287 118 419
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £95,000 £87,000
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 24,912 18,043 22,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 42.02% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,381 9,144 12,684
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,701
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.30% -6.08%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +6 90 £55,000 -8.33% 97
London +8 84 £70,000 -26.32% 235
North of England +2 82 £55,000 -8.33% 44
Midlands -15 48 £46,000 -16.36% 37
South West -48 47 £55,000 +15.79% 26
Yorkshire -1 42 £55,000 +4.76% 15
North West -12 25 £50,000 -16.67% 23
East Midlands -28 25 £67,500 +28.57% 12
East of England -33 25 £76,250 +32.61% 49
West Midlands -10 23 £42,500 -28.60% 25
North East - 15 £50,000 - 6
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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.80%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.80%) Simulink
4 2 (0.53%) Windchill
5 1 (0.27%) CATIA
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) 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 50 (13.26%) AWS
2 35 (9.28%) Azure
3 23 (6.10%) SaaS
4 17 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.18%) Serverless
7 10 (2.65%) AWS IoT
8 8 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.59%) GCP
10 5 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.33%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.06%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.06%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.06%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (0.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.81%) Wireless
2 28 (7.43%) Wi-Fi
3 27 (7.16%) Internet
4 23 (6.10%) MQTT
5 17 (4.51%) Bluetooth
5 17 (4.51%) Firewall
6 16 (4.24%) DNS
7 14 (3.71%) VPN
8 10 (2.65%) DHCP
8 10 (2.65%) LoRaWAN
8 10 (2.65%) ZigBee
9 7 (1.86%) 5G
10 6 (1.59%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.33%) VoIP
12 4 (1.06%) HTTP
12 4 (1.06%) LTE
12 4 (1.06%) SSH
12 4 (1.06%) VLAN
13 3 (0.80%) Gigabit Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.18%) Big Data
1 12 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.12%) MySQL
3 8 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
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
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (7.43%) Git
2 9 (2.39%) JIRA
3 7 (1.86%) GitLab
3 7 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.59%) GDB
5 4 (1.06%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.06%) 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 58 (15.38%) Electronics
2 55 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 31 (8.22%) Telecoms
4 30 (7.96%) Manufacturing
5 29 (7.69%) Finance
6 26 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.98%) Automotive
9 14 (3.71%) Marketing
10 11 (2.92%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.65%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.65%) Legal
12 8 (2.12%) Local Government
12 8 (2.12%) Retail
12 8 (2.12%) Wearables
13 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.86%) Law
14 6 (1.59%) Banking
14 6 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (16.98%) Software Engineer
2 52 (13.79%) Embedded Engineer
2 52 (13.79%) Senior
3 38 (10.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 33 (8.75%) Sales Manager
5 31 (8.22%) Developer
6 29 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
7 25 (6.63%) Architect
8 17 (4.51%) Support Engineer
8 17 (4.51%) Technical Support
9 15 (3.98%) Account Manager
9 15 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.45%) Technical Support Engineer
11 11 (2.92%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 11 (2.92%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (2.92%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (2.65%) Technical Operations Engineer
13 9 (2.39%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.57%) Yocto
2 19 (5.04%) Terraform
3 16 (4.24%) .NET
4 14 (3.71%) REST
5 13 (3.45%) React
6 10 (2.65%) Node.js
7 7 (1.86%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.59%) Blazor
8 6 (1.59%) Kafka
9 5 (1.33%) Vue
10 4 (1.06%) HTML
10 4 (1.06%) pytest
10 4 (1.06%) 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 47 (12.47%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (5.31%) Device Driver
3 18 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.71%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.71%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.71%) Robotics
6 13 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.92%) ARM Cortex
7 11 (2.92%) PropTech
8 9 (2.39%) Smart Home
9 8 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.86%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.86%) CCTV
10 7 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.86%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.12%) Linux
2 21 (5.57%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (4.24%) Windows
4 10 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.86%) VMS
6 6 (1.59%) Android
6 6 (1.59%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (25.99%) Software Engineering
2 85 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (19.63%) AI
4 41 (10.88%) CI/CD
4 41 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (10.08%) Collaborative Culture
6 35 (9.28%) Machine Learning
7 33 (8.75%) DevOps
8 29 (7.69%) Agile
8 29 (7.69%) Validation
9 27 (7.16%) Analytics
9 27 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (6.90%) CRM
11 25 (6.63%) Business Development
12 24 (6.37%) Computer Science
13 22 (5.84%) Decision-Making
13 22 (5.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (5.57%) Customer Engagement
15 20 (5.31%) Roadmaps
16 19 (5.04%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 58 (15.38%) Python
2 38 (10.08%) C++
3 34 (9.02%) C
4 20 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 19 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.77%) SQL
7 17 (4.51%) C#
7 17 (4.51%) Embedded C
8 16 (4.24%) Go
9 12 (3.18%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.39%) Java
11 6 (1.59%) Bash
12 5 (1.33%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.06%) Rust
14 3 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.27%) Haskell
15 1 (0.27%) OCaml
15 1 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (22.55%) Degree
2 19 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (5.04%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.71%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.39%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.86%) PhD
7 6 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.59%) HNC
7 6 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.59%) Postgraduate
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.39%) QA
2 7 (1.86%) JTAG
3 6 (1.59%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.80%) ECSS
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%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (9.28%) Firmware
2 21 (5.57%) Docker
3 13 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) iptables
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.59%) Grafana
3 5 (1.33%) SCCM
4 4 (1.06%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.06%) 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 45 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.39%) VMware
3 8 (2.12%) SAP
4 7 (1.86%) Cisco
4 7 (1.86%) Oracle
5 5 (1.33%) Aruba
5 5 (1.33%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.06%) Adobe
6 4 (1.06%) dotdigital
6 4 (1.06%) 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