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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 225 264
Rank change year-on-year -3 +39 -20
Permanent jobs citing IoT 32 100 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.46% 0.78% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 2.47% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 86 38
10th Percentile £47,500 £34,501 £31,900
25th Percentile £48,125 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +12.82% -30.36%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £66,563
90th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £72,500
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 2,265 4,043 3,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.77% 31.43% 43.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,006 2,659 1,451
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 31 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 31 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 +16 21 £65,000 +10.64% 18
East Midlands +14 10 £50,000 -1.48% 19
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 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (15.63%) LTE
3 4 (12.50%) 5G
3 4 (12.50%) Modbus
4 3 (9.38%) Internet
4 3 (9.38%) Wireless
5 2 (6.25%) Bluetooth
5 2 (6.25%) MQTT
6 1 (3.13%) 4G
6 1 (3.13%) DNS
6 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.13%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (3.13%) Network Security
6 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) HDInsight
2 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Subversion
3 2 (6.25%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (56.25%) Electronics
3 16 (50.00%) Manufacturing
4 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (37.50%) Law
6 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (9.38%) Automotive
7 3 (9.38%) Finance
7 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
8 2 (6.25%) Marketing
8 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 1 (3.13%) Agriculture
9 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Lead
2 12 (37.50%) Technical Leader
3 6 (18.75%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
5 4 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Graduate Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.38%) React
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) RESTful
2 2 (6.25%) Vue
2 2 (6.25%) Yocto
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) SCADA
2 12 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (37.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 5 (15.63%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (9.38%) NB-IoT
4 3 (9.38%) Operational Technology
4 3 (9.38%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) CCTV
6 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.13%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (3.13%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (3.13%) Life Science
6 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.13%) Social Media
6 1 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (37.50%) Data Collection
2 12 (37.50%) Mechatronics
3 6 (18.75%) Agile
3 6 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) Analytics
5 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.38%) Edge Computing
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (9.38%) Microservices
6 3 (9.38%) Network Design
7 2 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (6.25%) Mathematics
7 2 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (6.25%) Project Planning
7 2 (6.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) C
5 3 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) C++
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded C
6 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) HNC
3 1 (3.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) NCSC
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Firmware
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) vSphere
3 1 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Puppet
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Rockwell
1 13 (40.63%) Siemens
2 4 (12.50%) Atmel
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) AVEVA
5 1 (3.13%) HubSpot
5 1 (3.13%) NVIDIA