IoT Jobs in Kent

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 90 74
Rank change year-on-year +27 -16 +35
Permanent jobs citing IoT 8 20 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.00% 1.30% 2.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 3.66% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 6
10th Percentile - - £39,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £46,750 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £52,250
90th Percentile £52,000 £62,500 £54,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -17.86% +27.27%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 274 547 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 34.12% 35.64% 49.40%
Number of salaries quoted 203 359 245
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,000 £73,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in Kent

IoT
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT in Kent.

Salary trend for IoT in Kent

IoT
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in Kent over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in Kent

IoT
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Dartford - 2 £50,000 - 4
IoT
South East

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Bluetooth
1 1 (12.50%) MQTT
1 1 (12.50%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) 1st Line Support
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
1 6 (75.00%) Support Team Leader
1 6 (75.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IoT Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (75.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (75.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 6 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Product Management
5 1 (12.50%) Scalability Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Google