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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 467 334
Rank change year-on-year +66 -133 -3
Permanent jobs citing IoT 426 173 532
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.40% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 0.96% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 321 115 368
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £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 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £94,000 £87,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,527 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% -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 26,634 18,087 22,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.00% 41.98% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,349 9,179 11,714
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,744
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 20 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 20 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 +16 104 £55,000 -10.20% 114
North of England -2 94 £55,000 -8.33% 72
London -5 94 £60,000 -36.84% 286
South West -36 53 £55,000 +22.22% 30
Midlands -22 51 £51,000 -7.27% 43
Yorkshire +2 42 £55,000 +10.00% 13
North West -8 36 £44,750 -25.42% 42
East of England -41 30 £82,500 +43.48% 75
East Midlands -26 26 £67,500 +28.57% 16
West Midlands -29 25 £44,250 -25.66% 27
North East -46 16 £50,000 +25.00% 17
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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.94%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.94%) Simulink
3 2 (0.47%) CATIA
3 2 (0.47%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.47%) Windchill
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.70%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.68%) AWS
2 38 (8.92%) Azure
3 23 (5.40%) SaaS
4 21 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.58%) Serverless
7 10 (2.35%) AWS IoT
8 8 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.41%) GCP
10 5 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.17%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (0.94%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.94%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.94%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.39%) Wireless
2 37 (8.69%) Internet
3 27 (6.34%) Wi-Fi
4 25 (5.87%) MQTT
5 18 (4.23%) DNS
6 17 (3.99%) Firewall
7 16 (3.76%) Bluetooth
8 15 (3.52%) VPN
9 12 (2.82%) DHCP
10 11 (2.58%) 5G
11 9 (2.11%) LoRaWAN
11 9 (2.11%) ZigBee
12 8 (1.88%) Ethernet
13 6 (1.41%) VLAN
14 5 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (1.17%) SSH
15 4 (0.94%) HTTP
15 4 (0.94%) Modbus
15 4 (0.94%) RS-232
15 4 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.05%) Big Data
2 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.41%) MySQL
6 5 (1.17%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.70%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.70%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.47%) GIS
9 2 (0.47%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (7.28%) Git
2 10 (2.35%) JIRA
3 7 (1.64%) GitLab
3 7 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.41%) GDB
5 4 (0.94%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.94%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.94%) Selenium
6 3 (0.70%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Poetry
General
1 65 (15.26%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.32%) Electronics
3 41 (9.62%) Telecoms
4 39 (9.15%) Manufacturing
5 35 (8.22%) Finance
6 33 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (4.23%) Automotive
9 17 (3.99%) Marketing
10 16 (3.76%) Aerospace
11 13 (3.05%) Legal
12 12 (2.82%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.58%) Retail
14 8 (1.88%) Banking
14 8 (1.88%) Law
14 8 (1.88%) Local Government
15 7 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.64%) Wearables
16 6 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (14.79%) Software Engineer
2 56 (13.15%) Senior
3 53 (12.44%) Embedded Engineer
4 40 (9.39%) Sales Manager
5 39 (9.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 36 (8.45%) Developer
7 31 (7.28%) Architect
8 29 (6.81%) Technical Engineer
9 18 (4.23%) Technical Support
10 17 (3.99%) Account Manager
10 17 (3.99%) Design Engineer
10 17 (3.99%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.05%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (2.82%) Electronics Engineer
13 12 (2.82%) Embedded Linux Engineer
13 12 (2.82%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (2.58%) Operations Engineer
15 10 (2.35%) Technical Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.63%) Yocto
2 19 (4.46%) .NET
2 19 (4.46%) Terraform
3 17 (3.99%) REST
4 13 (3.05%) React
5 10 (2.35%) Node.js
6 7 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.64%) Kafka
7 6 (1.41%) Blazor
8 5 (1.17%) Vue
9 4 (0.94%) HTML
9 4 (0.94%) pytest
9 4 (0.94%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (0.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.70%) CarPlay
10 3 (0.70%) CSS
10 3 (0.70%) Flash
10 3 (0.70%) PySpark
11 2 (0.47%) NestJS
11 2 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.74%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.40%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.69%) Device Driver
6 17 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.99%) Robotics
7 16 (3.76%) Driving Licence
8 12 (2.82%) ARM Cortex
8 12 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.82%) Smart Home
9 11 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.35%) FPGA
10 10 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.35%) Operational Technology
11 9 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.11%) PropTech
11 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.64%) GNSS
12 7 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.79%) Linux
2 23 (5.40%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (3.99%) Windows
4 10 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.11%) Android
6 7 (1.64%) VMS
7 6 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (23.24%) Software Engineering
3 90 (21.13%) AI
4 45 (10.56%) CI/CD
4 45 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (9.39%) Agile
6 38 (8.92%) Collaborative Culture
6 38 (8.92%) Machine Learning
7 33 (7.75%) DevOps
8 32 (7.51%) Validation
9 31 (7.28%) Analytics
10 30 (7.04%) Business Development
10 30 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (6.57%) Roadmaps
12 27 (6.34%) CRM
13 26 (6.10%) Computer Science
13 26 (6.10%) Decision-Making
14 24 (5.63%) Customer Engagement
15 23 (5.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (5.40%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 61 (14.32%) Python
2 45 (10.56%) C++
3 39 (9.15%) C
4 21 (4.93%) C#
5 20 (4.69%) Embedded C
5 20 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.69%) SQL
5 20 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.76%) Go
7 12 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.58%) Java
9 9 (2.11%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.41%) Bash
11 5 (1.17%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.17%) Rust
12 4 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) OCaml
14 1 (0.23%) R
14 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (25.12%) Degree
2 27 (6.34%) DBS Check
3 22 (5.16%) Master's Degree
4 20 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.76%) HNC
6 14 (3.29%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.88%) PhD
8 8 (1.88%) Postgraduate
9 7 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.94%) HND
11 3 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.47%) ACCA
12 2 (0.47%) CCNP
12 2 (0.47%) CIMA
12 2 (0.47%) CISSP
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.52%) QA
2 6 (1.41%) JTAG
3 5 (1.17%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.94%) ECSS
5 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) NCSC
6 2 (0.47%) GDPR
6 2 (0.47%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) PMO
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (7.98%) Firmware
2 22 (5.16%) Docker
3 11 (2.58%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (2.11%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.88%) vSphere
6 2 (0.47%) iptables
6 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.64%) Grafana
3 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.17%) SCCM
4 3 (0.70%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 48 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.11%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.88%) Cisco
3 8 (1.88%) SAP
3 8 (1.88%) VMware
4 7 (1.64%) Oracle
5 6 (1.41%) Aruba
6 5 (1.17%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.94%) Adobe
7 4 (0.94%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.94%) EMC
7 4 (0.94%) IFS
7 4 (0.94%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.70%) Apple
8 3 (0.70%) BT
8 3 (0.70%) Databricks
8 3 (0.70%) Google
9 2 (0.47%) MEDITECH
9 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.47%) Siemens