IoT Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 158 149
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +79
Permanent jobs citing IoT 18 37 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.51% 0.86% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 2.70% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 31
10th Percentile £41,500 £31,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +30.77% -14.75%
75th Percentile - £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,259 1,369 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.77% 31.80% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 681 548 786
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,263 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,525 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% +2.68% +0.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

IoT job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

IoT
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in the Thames Valley

IoT
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Berkshire -10 11 £90,000 +5.88% 68
Oxfordshire +29 7 £78,750 +142.31% 14
IoT
South East

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP CO
1 1 (5.56%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP FI
1 1 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (5.56%) SAP IBP
1 1 (5.56%) SAP MM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) 5G
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (11.11%) 802.11
2 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) VoIP
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
2 2 (11.11%) WLAN
3 1 (5.56%) 4G
3 1 (5.56%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
2 4 (22.22%) Back Office
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 4 (22.22%) Marketing
2 4 (22.22%) Retail
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Account Director
4 3 (16.67%) IoT Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Research Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Research Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Handset
2 2 (11.11%) BYOD
2 2 (11.11%) CCTV
2 2 (11.11%) FMCG
2 2 (11.11%) Smart Energy
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) CAN bus
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) FPGA
3 1 (5.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (5.56%) PCIe
3 1 (5.56%) Robotics
3 1 (5.56%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Smart City
3 1 (5.56%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
1 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
1 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Contract Negotiation
2 4 (22.22%) GTM Strategy
2 4 (22.22%) Logistics
2 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 4 (22.22%) Pricing Strategy
2 4 (22.22%) Prototyping
3 3 (16.67%) CRM
3 3 (16.67%) Data Management
3 3 (16.67%) Data Science
3 3 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Physics
3 3 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) HNC
2 1 (5.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Ruckus Wireless
2 1 (5.56%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) EMC
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Siemens