IoT Jobs in Scotland

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 226 189
Rank change year-on-year +61 -37 +10
Permanent jobs citing IoT 5 40 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.15% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 1.39% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 20
10th Percentile £53,500 - -
25th Percentile £56,875 £35,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +30.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £76,900 £68,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 847 2,872 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.18% 43.75% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 379 849 731
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £33,730
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +7.27% -14.10% +2.45%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in Scotland

IoT
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Glasgow +113 1 £65,000 - 5
Edinburgh +21 1 £52,500 +50.00% 8
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) AWS IoT
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Bluetooth
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (40.00%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (40.00%) Modbus
1 2 (40.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Agriculture
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Electronics
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ERP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) gRPC
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Cortex
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Acquisition
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) PhD
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) JTAG
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Workday