IoT Jobs in the Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 231 226 269
Rank change year-on-year -5 +43 -26
Permanent jobs citing IoT 31 97 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.46% 0.77% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 2.42% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 84 38
10th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £31,900
25th Percentile £48,438 £42,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +15.79% -32.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £62,813
90th Percentile £80,750 £70,875 £69,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,228 4,005 3,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.77% 31.77% 43.88%
Number of salaries quoted 978 2,658 1,468
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the Midlands

IoT
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for IoT in the Midlands

IoT
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for IoT in the Midlands

IoT
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +25 22 £68,750 +17.02% 26
East Midlands +11 8 £50,000 -1.48% 29
IoT
England

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) Azure App Service
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (16.13%) LTE
3 4 (12.90%) 5G
4 3 (9.68%) Modbus
4 3 (9.68%) Wireless
5 2 (6.45%) Bluetooth
5 2 (6.45%) Internet
6 1 (3.23%) 4G
6 1 (3.23%) DNS
6 1 (3.23%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (3.23%) MQTT
6 1 (3.23%) Network Security
6 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.45%) HDInsight
2 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Subversion
3 2 (6.45%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (58.06%) Electronics
3 15 (48.39%) Manufacturing
4 14 (45.16%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (38.71%) Law
6 3 (9.68%) Automotive
6 3 (9.68%) Finance
6 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
7 2 (6.45%) Marketing
7 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
8 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Lead
2 12 (38.71%) Technical Leader
3 5 (16.13%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Graduate Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Mobile Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.68%) React
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) Vue
3 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Web Services
3 1 (3.23%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) SCADA
2 12 (38.71%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (38.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (12.90%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (9.68%) NB-IoT
4 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
4 3 (9.68%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (3.23%) CCTV
6 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.23%) Life Science
6 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.23%) Social Media
6 1 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (38.71%) Data Collection
2 12 (38.71%) Mechatronics
3 5 (16.13%) Agile
3 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.90%) Analytics
4 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (12.90%) Asset Management
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.68%) Edge Computing
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.68%) Microservices
6 2 (6.45%) API Development
6 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.45%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (6.45%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.45%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) C
3 3 (9.68%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) Embedded C
4 2 (6.45%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NCSC
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Firmware
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) vSphere
3 1 (3.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Puppet
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Rockwell
1 12 (38.71%) Siemens
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Atmel
4 2 (6.45%) Databricks
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) HubSpot
5 1 (3.23%) NVIDIA