IoT Job Trends in Surrey

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 87 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing IoT 12 4 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.47% 0.35% 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 1.01% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 14
10th Percentile £68,000 £38,199 £37,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £53,821 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,125 £70,125 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% -

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 689 396 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 27.24% 35.11% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 521 228 250
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,774 £31,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,808 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.56% -20.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -0.09%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

IoT job vacancy trend in Surrey

IoT
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in Surrey

IoT
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Guildford - 6 £76,250 - 1
Leatherhead - 3 - -
Egham - 1 £105,000 -
Staines - 1 - -
IoT
South East

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Wireless
2 4 (33.33%) 5G
2 4 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 3 (25.00%) Bluetooth
3 3 (25.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 3 (25.00%) GSM
3 3 (25.00%) RS-232
3 3 (25.00%) RS-485
3 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (25.00%) ZigBee
4 1 (8.33%) 4G
4 1 (8.33%) Intelligent Network
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Electronics
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Wearables
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) IT Systems Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Director
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 3 (25.00%) Flash
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (25.00%) Handset
2 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (25.00%) PCIe
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Validation
2 3 (25.00%) API Integration
2 3 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (25.00%) Design for Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
2 3 (25.00%) SEO
2 3 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
2 3 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
4 1 (8.33%) Release Management
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) System Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C
2 3 (25.00%) C++
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Ericsson