Smart City Jobs in England

Smart Cities
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart City over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 845 818
Rank change year-on-year +170 -27 +320
Permanent jobs citing Smart City 10 7 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.007% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.053% 0.022% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 21
10th Percentile - £40,200 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £53,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% +29.58%
75th Percentile £62,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £94,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +9.52% -28.81% +21.38%

All Generic Skills
England

Smart City 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 18,816 31,475 36,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 38.06% 33.41% 44.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,695 21,111 20,107
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £36,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,328 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,460
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Smart City as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Smart City in England

Smart City
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Smart City in England.

Salary trend for Smart City in England

Smart City
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart City within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2025. 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
London +134 8 - - 22
North of England - 2 £60,000 - 8
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 -
Smart City
UK

Smart City
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
1 3 (30.00%) npm
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Babel
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) gulp
1 3 (30.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (30.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (30.00%) Publishing
2 2 (20.00%) Games
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) React
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) Sass
1 3 (30.00%) Svelte
1 3 (30.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) IoT
3 2 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Science
2 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) Data Sharing
2 6 (60.00%) Facilities Management
2 6 (60.00%) Information Governance
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) Data Management
3 5 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Web Development
4 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality