IoT Jobs in the UK excluding London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 267 315
Rank change year-on-year -96 +48 -31
Permanent jobs citing IoT 200 727 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.03% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 3.02% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 139 561 352
10th Percentile £37,170 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -7.14%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,276 24,079 26,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.62% 34.25% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 15,233 11,409
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,733 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £86,250
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East -22 47 £55,000 -8.33% 130
Midlands +23 41 £62,500 +13.64% 73
South West +89 38 £60,000 +4.35% 48
West Midlands +19 33 £65,000 +13.04% 42
Wales +74 29 £76,250 +177.27% 5
North of England -48 26 £58,000 +13.73% 79
North West -38 21 £57,500 +15.00% 41
East of England -76 12 £55,000 - 57
East Midlands +21 7 £42,500 -16.26% 24
Scotland +108 6 £62,500 +4.17% 25
Yorkshire +29 4 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Northern Ireland +29 2 £50,000 - 4
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Simulink
4 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.00%) Azure
2 43 (21.50%) AWS
3 17 (8.50%) SaaS
4 15 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.50%) Serverless
6 8 (4.00%) GitHub
6 8 (4.00%) IaaS
6 8 (4.00%) PaaS
7 7 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.00%) AWS IoT
9 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.50%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
2 21 (10.50%) 5G
2 21 (10.50%) Network Security
3 18 (9.00%) Bluetooth
4 17 (8.50%) MQTT
5 16 (8.00%) Internet
5 16 (8.00%) LTE
5 16 (8.00%) Wireless
6 15 (7.50%) Modbus
7 11 (5.50%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.00%) DNS
9 9 (4.50%) WAN
10 8 (4.00%) 4G
10 8 (4.00%) Firewall
11 7 (3.50%) 3G
12 6 (3.00%) LoRaWAN
13 5 (2.50%) SD-WAN
14 4 (2.00%) 2G
14 4 (2.00%) VoIP
14 4 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.50%) MySQL
2 18 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.00%) RDBMS
5 8 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.50%) TimescaleDB
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.50%) Big Data
9 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.00%) HDInsight
10 2 (1.00%) Power BI
10 2 (1.00%) Redis
11 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (6.50%) Git
2 8 (4.00%) JIRA
3 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.00%) ESLint
4 2 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.00%) Sinon.JS
4 2 (1.00%) Subversion
4 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.00%) webpack
5 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
General
1 105 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 60 (30.00%) Manufacturing
3 58 (29.00%) Electronics
4 34 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (13.00%) Finance
6 22 (11.00%) Law
7 14 (7.00%) Marketing
7 14 (7.00%) Telecoms
8 11 (5.50%) Automotive
8 11 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.50%) Tech for Good
9 8 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.00%) Welsh Language
10 7 (3.50%) Social Housing
11 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.50%) Legal
12 3 (1.50%) Wearables
13 2 (1.00%) Advertising
13 2 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (27.50%) Lead
2 34 (17.00%) Software Engineer
3 31 (15.50%) Developer
4 27 (13.50%) Senior
5 20 (10.00%) Technical Leader
6 16 (8.00%) Architect
7 13 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (6.00%) Team Leader
9 11 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.00%) Design Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.00%) Product Manager
12 8 (4.00%) Server Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Software Team Leader
13 7 (3.50%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.00%) .NET
2 20 (10.00%) Node.js
3 16 (8.00%) React
4 12 (6.00%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.50%) RESTful
6 6 (3.00%) NestJS
7 5 (2.50%) Laravel
7 5 (2.50%) Vue
8 4 (2.00%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.00%) REST
8 4 (2.00%) Symfony
9 3 (1.50%) gRPC
9 3 (1.50%) Kafka
10 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.00%) CSS
10 2 (1.00%) HTML
10 2 (1.00%) Jest
10 2 (1.00%) JSON
10 2 (1.00%) React Native
10 2 (1.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.50%) SCADA
2 24 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (10.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 16 (8.00%) NB-IoT
5 11 (5.50%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (5.00%) Device Driver
6 10 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (5.00%) Operational Technology
7 9 (4.50%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (4.50%) Smart Home
8 8 (4.00%) Algorithms
8 8 (4.00%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.00%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 3 (1.50%) Analogue Electronics
11 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.50%) GNSS
11 3 (1.50%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (22.00%) Linux
2 41 (20.50%) Windows
3 19 (9.50%) Unix
3 19 (9.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.50%) Android
4 3 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.50%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.00%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (24.00%) Agile
3 44 (22.00%) Software Engineering
4 36 (18.00%) Mentoring
5 28 (14.00%) Data Collection
6 27 (13.50%) CI/CD
7 24 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 22 (11.00%) Machine Learning
8 22 (11.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 20 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (10.00%) Mechatronics
10 19 (9.50%) Analytics
10 19 (9.50%) Product Strategy
11 18 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (9.00%) Microservices
11 18 (9.00%) Technical Debt
11 18 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (8.00%) Computer Science
13 14 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (7.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.50%) Python
2 25 (12.50%) C
2 25 (12.50%) SQL
3 24 (12.00%) C#
4 22 (11.00%) TypeScript
5 20 (10.00%) C++
6 18 (9.00%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.50%) PHP
8 14 (7.00%) Bash
9 7 (3.50%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.00%) Go
10 4 (2.00%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.50%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.50%) Java
11 3 (1.50%) Ruby
12 2 (1.00%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.00%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (19.00%) Degree
2 11 (5.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (5.50%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 8 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.00%) MCSA
3 8 (4.00%) MCSE
4 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.50%) CISSP
6 3 (1.50%) PMP
6 3 (1.50%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) PhD
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.00%) SLA
3 6 (3.00%) QA
4 4 (2.00%) GMP
5 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.50%) IEC 62304
5 3 (1.50%) MISRA
6 2 (1.00%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.00%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (9.50%) Docker
2 16 (8.00%) Firmware
3 12 (6.00%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.50%) vSphere
5 8 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.00%) Terraform
2 13 (6.50%) Ansible
3 12 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.00%) Puppet
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.50%) SCCM
5 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.00%) Rockwell
2 20 (10.00%) Siemens
3 14 (7.00%) SAP
4 11 (5.50%) VMware
5 5 (2.50%) Databricks
5 5 (2.50%) EMC
5 5 (2.50%) Oracle
6 3 (1.50%) Aruba
6 3 (1.50%) Cisco
6 3 (1.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.50%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.50%) Okta
6 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.00%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.00%) Workday
8 1 (0.50%) Atmel
8 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.50%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (0.50%) SolarWinds