Smart Home Job Trends in the South West

Smart Home (Connected Home)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Home in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart Home over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 177 205
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 +84
Permanent jobs citing Smart Home 10 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 0.80% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 9
10th Percentile £47,500 - £53,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £45,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +17.65%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,750 £68,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% -20.69% +38.10%

All Generic Skills
South West

Smart Home 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,280 1,615 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.61% 37.80% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 827 786 1,197
10th Percentile £27,000 £10,258 £29,626
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,404 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,875 £83,104
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Smart Home
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Smart Home relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Smart Home job vacancy trend in the South West

Smart Home
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Smart Home.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Smart Home

Smart Home
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Home in the South West over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Smart Home in the South West

Smart Home
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Home within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Bristol +7 9 £62,500 +8.70%
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Smart Home
England

Smart Home
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Housing
2 4 (40.00%) Tech for Good
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Flutter Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) Flutter
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) IoT
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile
1 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile Development
1 2 (20.00%) Product Management
1 2 (20.00%) Scrum
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript