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 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 160 252 202
Rank change year-on-year +92 -50 -4
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4 36 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.53% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 1.12% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 18
10th Percentile £53,500 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £35,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% +27.87%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £77,200 £69,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 733 3,210 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.62% 47.12% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 369 841 764
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,618
25th Percentile £48,688 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £89,459
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 28 May 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 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
Glasgow +153 1 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Edinburgh +12 1 £52,500 +50.00% 10
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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) AWS IoT
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (25.00%) Modbus
1 1 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Agriculture
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Database Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) ERP Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Cortex
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Remote Sensing
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) PhD
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Workday