IoT Jobs in the South East

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 213 273
Rank change year-on-year -43 +60 -27
Permanent jobs citing IoT 50 202 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 1.08% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 3.28% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 24 153 70
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £88,125 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,926 6,150 5,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 40.82% 32.82% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,934 3,880 2,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,974 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £50,000 £56,677
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -11.78% +3.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,475 £73,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £87,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the South East

IoT
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for IoT in the South East

IoT
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in the South East over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in the South East

IoT
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Thames Valley +31 28 £62,500 +8.70% 74
Buckinghamshire +41 12 £30,000 -35.83% 7
Oxfordshire +28 9 £61,250 +12.39% 3
Hampshire +18 7 £77,500 +29.17% 25
Berkshire +7 7 £90,000 +20.00% 65
Kent +26 6 £36,500 -33.64% 14
East Sussex - 5 £55,000 - 7
West Sussex +26 3 £80,000 +25.00% 6
Surrey +13 1 - - 8
IoT
England

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) AWS
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.00%) Serverless
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (4.00%) Azure
4 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Bluetooth
2 11 (22.00%) 5G
3 10 (20.00%) LTE
3 10 (20.00%) MQTT
4 9 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (16.00%) Modbus
6 7 (14.00%) Ethernet
7 4 (8.00%) WAN
7 4 (8.00%) Wireless
8 3 (6.00%) Internet
9 2 (4.00%) 4G
9 2 (4.00%) Firewall
9 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
10 1 (2.00%) 3G
10 1 (2.00%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 23 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Electronics
3 12 (24.00%) Manufacturing
4 9 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (14.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (14.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (10.00%) Finance
6 5 (10.00%) Marketing
7 4 (8.00%) Back Office
8 3 (6.00%) Retail
9 2 (4.00%) Advertising
9 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Lead
2 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) 1st Line Support
3 6 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Support Team Leader
3 6 (12.00%) Team Leader
4 5 (10.00%) Electronics Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Account Director
6 3 (6.00%) IoT Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Programme Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Research Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Research Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Design Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
1 3 (6.00%) CSS
2 2 (4.00%) gRPC
2 2 (4.00%) Laravel
3 1 (2.00%) GStreamer
3 1 (2.00%) React
3 1 (2.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) NB-IoT
1 10 (20.00%) SCADA
2 9 (18.00%) Operational Technology
3 8 (16.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (12.00%) Biopharmaceutical
4 6 (12.00%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (12.00%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (8.00%) Handset
5 4 (8.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 3 (6.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (4.00%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.00%) Robotics
7 2 (4.00%) Self-Driving Car
8 1 (2.00%) FMCG
8 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Linux
2 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 9 (18.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 15 (30.00%) Asset Management
3 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 9 (18.00%) Agile
6 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
6 9 (18.00%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.00%) Project Planning
6 9 (18.00%) Prototyping
6 9 (18.00%) Software Testing
7 8 (16.00%) Customer Service
7 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (14.00%) Risk Assessment
8 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (12.00%) Network Design
9 6 (12.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Bash
3 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.00%) C
4 4 (8.00%) C#
4 4 (8.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.00%) Embedded C
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.00%) PHP
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (46.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 9 (18.00%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (12.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) HNC
3 6 (12.00%) HND
4 4 (8.00%) PMI Certification
4 4 (8.00%) PMP
5 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) GMP
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.00%) vSphere
3 6 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.00%) Docker
5 2 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Ansible
2 9 (18.00%) Puppet
3 6 (12.00%) Functional Safety
4 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) VMware
3 7 (14.00%) Siemens
4 6 (12.00%) AVEVA
4 6 (12.00%) Rockwell
5 2 (4.00%) ConnectWise
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (2.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce