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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 219 270
Rank change year-on-year -38 +51 -42
Permanent jobs citing IoT 42 190 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 1.13% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 3.29% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 23 150 73
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,675 £28,900
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £85,000 £90,000
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 3,446 5,767 6,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 36.56% 34.40% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,787 3,733 3,186
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,000 £56,588
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -13.41% +2.89%
75th Percentile £68,000 £63,750 £73,963
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £88,750
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 May 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 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
Thames Valley +18 21 £60,000 +4.35% 48
Buckinghamshire +40 12 £30,000 -47.83% 4
Kent +20 8 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Oxfordshire +16 5 £60,000 +10.09% 11
East Sussex - 5 £55,000 - 4
Berkshire +11 4 £90,000 +20.00% 38
Hampshire +7 4 £88,750 +47.92% 33
West Sussex +34 2 £78,750 +23.05% 9
Surrey +23 2 - - 11
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 (4.76%) ThingWorx
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.90%) Serverless
3 4 (9.52%) Azure
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (4.76%) Smartsheet
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.38%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.95%) Bluetooth
2 11 (26.19%) 5G
2 11 (26.19%) LTE
3 9 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (11.90%) MQTT
4 5 (11.90%) Wireless
5 4 (9.52%) WAN
6 3 (7.14%) Internet
7 2 (4.76%) 3G
7 2 (4.76%) 4G
7 2 (4.76%) Firewall
7 2 (4.76%) GPRS
7 2 (4.76%) Modbus
7 2 (4.76%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) Redis
3 1 (2.38%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) ESLint
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.38%) Sinon.JS
3 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 26 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (38.10%) Electronics
3 9 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (21.43%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.52%) Finance
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
7 2 (4.76%) Advertising
7 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Back Office
8 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Lead
2 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (11.90%) Electronics Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Support Team Leader
3 5 (11.90%) Team Leader
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Electronics Design Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Programme Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Sales Representative
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) gRPC
1 2 (4.76%) Laravel
1 2 (4.76%) React
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (2.38%) GStreamer
2 1 (2.38%) Jest
2 1 (2.38%) pytest
2 1 (2.38%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) NB-IoT
2 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.76%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.76%) SCADA
3 2 (4.76%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Handset
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.38%) Robotics
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Linux
2 9 (21.43%) Windows
2 9 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
2 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.19%) Agile
5 10 (23.81%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (21.43%) Asset Management
6 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) Project Planning
6 9 (21.43%) Software Testing
7 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 7 (16.67%) Customer Service
9 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.90%) Customer-Centricity
10 5 (11.90%) PRINCE2
10 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
10 5 (11.90%) Project Management
11 4 (9.52%) Programme Management
11 4 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) Bash
3 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.52%) C
5 3 (7.14%) Embedded C
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Go
6 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.38%) C#
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Degree
2 9 (21.43%) CompTIA Security+
2 9 (21.43%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.14%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.38%) GMP
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (21.43%) vSphere
2 5 (11.90%) Docker
3 2 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Ansible
2 9 (21.43%) Puppet
3 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.43%) VMware
3 4 (9.52%) SAP
4 2 (4.76%) ConnectWise
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) NVIDIA