IoT Job Trends in London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 371 308
Rank change year-on-year +15 -63 +65
Permanent jobs citing IoT 80 28 162
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.33% 0.23% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 0.50% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 55 12 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £52,750 £64,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £93,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +44.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,050 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,259 5,573 8,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.45% 45.94% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,933 3,266 5,176
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +5.83%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £117,900 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IoT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

IoT job vacancy trend in London

IoT
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in London

IoT
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 London - 12 £45,000 - 3
Central London 0 3 £75,000 -5.66% 13
West London -18 2 £55,500 -14.62% 2
IoT
England

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (10.00%) Azure
4 5 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (6.25%) SaaS
4 5 (6.25%) Serverless
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudSearch
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (5.00%) AWS IoT
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon Neptune
6 3 (3.75%) GCP
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.50%) Prefect
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 17 (21.25%) Internet
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 3 (3.75%) 5G
3 3 (3.75%) DHCP
3 3 (3.75%) DNS
4 2 (2.50%) MQTT
4 2 (2.50%) SSH
4 2 (2.50%) VLAN
4 2 (2.50%) VPN
5 1 (1.25%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.25%) AMQP
5 1 (1.25%) Modbus
5 1 (1.25%) MVNO
5 1 (1.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (6.25%) Big Data
2 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (3.75%) DocumentDB
4 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.50%) GIS
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) Flink
6 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.25%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.25%) MySQL
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) MLflow
General
1 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Finance
2 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.75%) Legal
3 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.00%) Aviation
5 4 (5.00%) Electronics
5 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.00%) Wearables
6 3 (3.75%) Military
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Games
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 11 (13.75%) Architect
1 11 (13.75%) Operations Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Technical Operations Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Account Manager
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (5.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Head of Analytics
7 4 (5.00%) Head of Data Analytics
7 4 (5.00%) Regional Account Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Technology Director
8 3 (3.75%) Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) .NET
2 3 (3.75%) Node.js
2 3 (3.75%) React
3 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) D3.js
4 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.25%) OpenID
4 1 (1.25%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.25%) React Native
4 1 (1.25%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Onboarding
2 11 (13.75%) PropTech
3 7 (8.75%) AI Agents
3 7 (8.75%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (5.00%) Smart Home
6 3 (3.75%) Blog
6 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.75%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.50%) SCADA
7 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) AI
2 22 (27.50%) Analytics
2 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 15 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 14 (17.50%) Asset Management
6 13 (16.25%) Business Analysis
6 13 (16.25%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (16.25%) Supplier Management
6 13 (16.25%) Tech Ops
7 11 (13.75%) Business Development
7 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
8 9 (11.25%) Decision-Making
8 9 (11.25%) Value Proposition
9 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.00%) Data Engineering
9 8 (10.00%) DevOps
10 7 (8.75%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.00%) Python
2 4 (5.00%) C#
2 4 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (3.75%) C++
3 3 (3.75%) Go
3 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.75%) SQL
3 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.50%) C
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) CISA
4 1 (1.25%) CISM
4 1 (1.25%) CISSP
4 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) SAP
3 5 (6.25%) Cognizant
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.25%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.25%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) Zscaler