IoT Job Trends 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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 243 209
Rank change year-on-year +5 -34 +41
Permanent jobs citing IoT 79 41 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.50% 0.48% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.13% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 63 26 115
10th Percentile £41,750 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile - £52,500 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 3,877 3,634 5,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.33% 42.14% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,688 1,722 3,235
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,988 £35,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -15.38%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IoT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

IoT job vacancy trend in the South East

IoT
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in the South East over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

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 21 July 2026. 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 +44 48 £55,000 -15.38% 16
Berkshire +45 32 £55,000 -38.89% 13
Hampshire -25 14 £68,750 -11.29% 3
Surrey -10 13 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Oxfordshire -11 12 £100,000 +63.27% 3
Buckinghamshire -11 4 £73,500 +145.00% 1
Kent -22 4 £55,000 +50.68% 7
IoT
England

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) CMS
1 4 (5.06%) WordPress
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (5.06%) Photoshop
2 3 (3.80%) Lightworks
2 3 (3.80%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) SaaS
2 6 (7.59%) Azure
3 4 (5.06%) Canva
3 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.80%) AWS
4 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Wireless
2 5 (6.33%) Ethernet
3 4 (5.06%) MQTT
4 3 (3.80%) 5G
5 2 (2.53%) Bluetooth
5 2 (2.53%) Gigabit Ethernet
5 2 (2.53%) GSM
5 2 (2.53%) RS-232
5 2 (2.53%) RS-485
5 2 (2.53%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.53%) VoIP
5 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.53%) ZigBee
6 1 (1.27%) Modbus
6 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.27%) Power BI
1 1 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Git
2 3 (3.80%) PetaLinux
3 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 8 (10.13%) Marketing
2 6 (7.59%) Manufacturing
2 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.33%) Electronics
3 5 (6.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Multimedia
5 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.53%) Wearables
7 1 (1.27%) Advertising
7 1 (1.27%) Finance
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (36.71%) Sales Manager
2 17 (21.52%) Software Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Principal Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Principal Software Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Hardware Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Junior
7 4 (5.06%) Junior QA Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Marketing Communications Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Marketing Manager
7 4 (5.06%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.06%) .NET
1 4 (5.06%) Yocto
2 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (2.53%) Blazor
3 2 (2.53%) Flash
3 2 (2.53%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) GStreamer
4 1 (1.27%) Laravel
4 1 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (8.86%) Smart Energy
3 5 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.06%) Blog
4 4 (5.06%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.06%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.06%) Podcast
4 4 (5.06%) Social Media
5 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.80%) FPGA
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.80%) Verilog
5 3 (3.80%) VHDL
6 2 (2.53%) Handset
6 2 (2.53%) PCIe
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.78%) Software Engineering
2 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (12.66%) AI
4 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.86%) Energy Management
5 7 (8.86%) SEO
5 7 (8.86%) Storage Management
6 6 (7.59%) CI/CD
7 4 (5.06%) B2B
7 4 (5.06%) B2B Marketing
7 4 (5.06%) Content Marketing
7 4 (5.06%) Copywriting
7 4 (5.06%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps
7 4 (5.06%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (5.06%) Embedded Software Development
7 4 (5.06%) Microservices
7 4 (5.06%) Project Management
7 4 (5.06%) Test Automation
7 4 (5.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.92%) C++
1 11 (13.92%) Python
2 10 (12.66%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.59%) C
3 6 (7.59%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.80%) MATLAB
4 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.80%) Rust
5 2 (2.53%) C#
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Degree
2 3 (3.80%) HND
2 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) ECSS
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Firmware
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.80%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Ansible
3 1 (1.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.27%) MOM
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Xilinx
3 2 (2.53%) BT
4 1 (1.27%) EMC
4 1 (1.27%) NVIDIA