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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 329 309
Rank change year-on-year +48 -20 -41
Permanent jobs citing IoT 559 435 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.90% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.76% 2.26% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 431 319 480
10th Percentile £34,001 £39,850 £37,475
25th Percentile £45,500 £47,500 £46,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £85,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%

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 20,220 19,230 34,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.98% 39.94% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 10,409 17,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +52 155 £55,000 -21.43% 18
North of England -7 102 £50,750 -7.73% 22
East of England +12 101 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Midlands +30 100 £60,000 +26.32% 24
North West -27 62 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East Midlands +3 55 £60,000 -5.88% 12
West Midlands +20 45 £60,000 +33.33% 12
South West -20 34 £57,500 -8.00% 13
Scotland -33 34 £46,000 -23.33% 1
Yorkshire +52 32 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Wales +35 18 £55,000 -8.33%
Northern Ireland - 15 £70,000 - 2
North East -7 8 £42,500 -22.73% 2
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 14 (2.50%) Confluence
2 10 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.43%) Kinematics
4 7 (1.25%) Apache
5 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.54%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (2.68%) OrCAD
2 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
1 6 (1.07%) SAP ERP
1 6 (1.07%) SAP SD
2 4 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 121 (21.65%) AWS
2 97 (17.35%) Azure
3 36 (6.44%) GitHub
4 32 (5.72%) GCP
5 27 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (3.76%) AWS IoT
7 20 (3.58%) Serverless
8 17 (3.04%) SaaS
9 16 (2.86%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.15%) IaaS
11 12 (2.15%) Nutanix
12 10 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.43%) Firebase
15 7 (1.25%) Amazon ELB
15 7 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 73 (13.06%) Internet
2 69 (12.34%) Wireless
3 41 (7.33%) MQTT
4 35 (6.26%) TCP/IP
5 28 (5.01%) Firewall
6 25 (4.47%) 4G
7 22 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (3.76%) Bluetooth
8 21 (3.76%) WAN
9 20 (3.58%) 5G
10 18 (3.22%) HTTP
11 14 (2.50%) MPLS
12 12 (2.15%) DNS
12 12 (2.15%) Modbus
13 11 (1.97%) 3G
13 11 (1.97%) GPRS
13 11 (1.97%) ZigBee
14 10 (1.79%) Ethernet
14 10 (1.79%) LAN
15 9 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.98%) MySQL
2 23 (4.11%) NoSQL
3 20 (3.58%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.50%) Power BI
5 13 (2.33%) Big Data
6 8 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.43%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.25%) Redis
8 4 (0.72%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.72%) Tableau
9 3 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.18%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 54 (9.66%) Git
2 36 (6.44%) JIRA
3 20 (3.58%) Subversion
4 19 (3.40%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.97%) Selenium
6 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.07%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.07%) MSTest
7 6 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.07%) Xcode
8 5 (0.89%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.54%) GitLab
9 3 (0.54%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.18%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.18%) NUnit
10 1 (0.18%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.18%) Sourcetree
General
1 133 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.92%) Electronics
3 60 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.84%) Finance
5 48 (8.59%) Automotive
6 44 (7.87%) Manufacturing
7 38 (6.80%) Marketing
8 35 (6.26%) Telecoms
9 34 (6.08%) Games
10 29 (5.19%) Public Sector
11 18 (3.22%) Tech for Good
12 16 (2.86%) Social Housing
13 12 (2.15%) Aerospace
13 12 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.79%) Law
16 9 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.43%) Mandarin Language
17 8 (1.43%) Retail
18 7 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 122 (21.82%) Senior
2 110 (19.68%) Developer
3 96 (17.17%) Software Engineer
4 80 (14.31%) Embedded Engineer
5 47 (8.41%) Architect
6 45 (8.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 40 (7.16%) Hardware Engineer
8 37 (6.62%) Lead
8 37 (6.62%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 30 (5.37%) Systems Engineer
10 28 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (4.83%) Senior Hardware Engineer
12 26 (4.65%) Software Developer
13 24 (4.29%) Electronics Engineer
14 21 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (3.58%) Blockchain Developer
15 20 (3.58%) Consultant
16 19 (3.40%) RF Engineer
17 17 (3.04%) Linux Engineer
17 17 (3.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.99%) Node.js
2 36 (6.44%) HTML
3 28 (5.01%) .NET
4 27 (4.83%) AngularJS
5 26 (4.65%) Web Services
6 25 (4.47%) RESTful
7 24 (4.29%) CSS
8 21 (3.76%) React
9 20 (3.58%) web3js
10 14 (2.50%) JSON
11 12 (2.15%) .NET Framework
11 12 (2.15%) Kafka
11 12 (2.15%) Qt
11 12 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.79%) GraphQL
12 10 (1.79%) Playwright
13 9 (1.61%) Apache Cordova
13 9 (1.61%) REST
14 8 (1.43%) HTML5
14 8 (1.43%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.01%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (4.83%) Blockchain
3 26 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 22 (3.94%) Robotics
5 20 (3.58%) Web3
6 19 (3.40%) Driving Licence
7 15 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.33%) ARM Cortex
8 13 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
8 13 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.33%) Virtual Reality
9 12 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.15%) Raspberry Pi
10 11 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.79%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.79%) NB-IoT
11 10 (1.79%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.61%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 104 (18.60%) Linux
2 40 (7.16%) Windows
3 22 (3.94%) Android
4 20 (3.58%) Apple iOS
5 18 (3.22%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (2.50%) Windows 10
7 13 (2.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.72%) VMS
9 3 (0.54%) Debian
9 3 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.54%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.36%) Unix
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (28.09%) Software Engineering
2 111 (19.86%) Agile
3 85 (15.21%) DevOps
3 85 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 65 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
6 51 (9.12%) Analytics
7 47 (8.41%) Computer Science
7 47 (8.41%) Mentoring
8 42 (7.51%) Microservices
9 39 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
10 38 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (6.80%) CI/CD
10 38 (6.80%) Project Management
11 37 (6.62%) Customer Requirements
12 36 (6.44%) Software Testing
13 34 (6.08%) Data Management
14 33 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 32 (5.72%) Data Analytics
16 31 (5.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 126 (22.54%) Python
2 77 (13.77%) C++
3 76 (13.60%) C
4 66 (11.81%) JavaScript
5 45 (8.05%) Java
6 44 (7.87%) SQL
7 40 (7.16%) C#
8 31 (5.55%) TypeScript
9 27 (4.83%) PHP
10 18 (3.22%) Bash
10 18 (3.22%) Embedded C
11 14 (2.50%) Perl
12 11 (1.97%) Embedded C++
13 9 (1.61%) Assembly Language
13 9 (1.61%) SystemVerilog
14 8 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.43%) Swift
15 7 (1.25%) PowerShell
15 7 (1.25%) XAML
16 5 (0.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 139 (24.87%) Degree
2 32 (5.72%) Master's Degree
3 29 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.11%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.15%) HND
5 12 (2.15%) PhD
6 9 (1.61%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.25%) CCNA
7 7 (1.25%) HNC
8 6 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.07%) CTC Cleared
9 5 (0.89%) CISSP
9 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.72%) CCNP
10 4 (0.72%) CCSE
10 4 (0.72%) OSCP
10 4 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.54%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.54%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.23%) QA
2 18 (3.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 18 (3.22%) GDPR
3 13 (2.33%) MISRA
4 12 (2.15%) SLA
5 11 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.43%) JTAG
7 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.07%) COSHH
7 6 (1.07%) ISO 13485
8 5 (0.89%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.72%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.72%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.72%) NIST
9 4 (0.72%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (6.44%) Firmware
2 21 (3.76%) Docker
2 21 (3.76%) Hyper-V
3 19 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.68%) Embedded Firmware
6 13 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.54%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (2.68%) Terraform
2 14 (2.50%) FortiGate
3 12 (2.15%) Ansible
4 10 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.89%) Grafana
6 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.54%) Nessus
7 3 (0.54%) Nmap
7 3 (0.54%) SCOM
7 3 (0.54%) WSUS
8 2 (0.36%) Autotask
8 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.90%) Google
3 28 (5.01%) SAP
4 21 (3.76%) Cisco
5 17 (3.04%) VMware
6 16 (2.86%) EMC
6 16 (2.86%) HP
7 15 (2.68%) NEC
8 14 (2.50%) Darktrace
9 12 (2.15%) Synopsys
10 9 (1.61%) Cadence
10 9 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.61%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.25%) Oracle
12 6 (1.07%) Apple
12 6 (1.07%) Mitel
12 6 (1.07%) Ribbon
13 4 (0.72%) AVEVA
13 4 (0.72%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.72%) HubSpot