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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 269 318
Rank change year-on-year -125 +49 -43
Permanent jobs citing IoT 193 740 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.04% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 3.07% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 135 571 358
10th Percentile £38,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £46,122
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%

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 12,965 24,142 25,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 34.00% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 15,240 11,340
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
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 13 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 13 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 -35 43 £55,000 -8.33% 155
Midlands +14 41 £62,500 +13.64% 77
South West +98 37 £60,000 +4.35% 62
West Midlands +17 32 £68,750 +14.58% 39
Wales +66 29 £76,250 +56.41% 5
North of England -85 27 £58,000 +10.48% 97
North West -60 22 £57,500 +15.00% 53
East Midlands +7 8 £50,000 - 27
East of England -96 8 £55,000 - 72
Scotland +96 7 £62,500 +4.17% 28
Yorkshire +22 4 £60,000 +4.35% 28
Northern Ireland +36 2 £50,000 -28.57% 12
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 (2.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.04%) Simulink
4 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.83%) Azure
2 41 (21.24%) AWS
3 17 (8.81%) SaaS
4 16 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.70%) Serverless
6 8 (4.15%) IaaS
6 8 (4.15%) PaaS
7 7 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.63%) AWS IoT
7 7 (3.63%) GitHub
8 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.55%) GCP
10 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.44%) Wi-Fi
2 21 (10.88%) 5G
3 20 (10.36%) Network Security
4 19 (9.84%) Bluetooth
5 18 (9.33%) MQTT
6 16 (8.29%) LTE
6 16 (8.29%) Modbus
6 16 (8.29%) Wireless
7 15 (7.77%) Internet
8 10 (5.18%) DNS
8 10 (5.18%) TCP/IP
9 8 (4.15%) 4G
9 8 (4.15%) WAN
10 7 (3.63%) Firewall
10 7 (3.63%) LoRaWAN
11 6 (3.11%) 3G
12 5 (2.59%) SD-WAN
13 4 (2.07%) 2G
13 4 (2.07%) VoIP
14 3 (1.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.44%) MySQL
2 18 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.29%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.22%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.22%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.59%) TimescaleDB
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.07%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.55%) Big Data
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.04%) HDInsight
9 2 (1.04%) Power BI
9 2 (1.04%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Git
2 7 (3.63%) JIRA
3 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) Subversion
5 2 (1.04%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.04%) ESLint
5 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.04%) Sinon.JS
5 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.04%) webpack
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 102 (52.85%) Social Skills
2 60 (31.09%) Manufacturing
3 58 (30.05%) Electronics
4 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.92%) Finance
6 22 (11.40%) Law
7 15 (7.77%) Marketing
8 13 (6.74%) Telecoms
9 11 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (5.70%) Tech for Good
10 9 (4.66%) Automotive
11 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
11 8 (4.15%) Welsh Language
12 7 (3.63%) Social Housing
13 4 (2.07%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.55%) Agriculture
14 3 (1.55%) Wearables
15 2 (1.04%) Advertising
15 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (29.02%) Lead
2 34 (17.62%) Software Engineer
3 30 (15.54%) Developer
4 24 (12.44%) Senior
5 20 (10.36%) Technical Leader
6 14 (7.25%) Architect
7 13 (6.74%) Team Leader
8 11 (5.70%) Embedded Engineer
8 11 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.70%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.70%) Lead Software Engineer
8 11 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Software Developer
10 9 (4.66%) Design Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Server Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Software Team Leader
12 7 (3.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Product Manager
12 7 (3.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.44%) .NET
2 19 (9.84%) Node.js
3 17 (8.81%) React
4 12 (6.22%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.18%) RESTful
6 7 (3.63%) NestJS
7 5 (2.59%) Laravel
7 5 (2.59%) Vue
8 4 (2.07%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.07%) REST
8 4 (2.07%) Symfony
9 3 (1.55%) CSS
9 3 (1.55%) gRPC
9 3 (1.55%) Kafka
10 2 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.04%) HTML
10 2 (1.04%) Jest
10 2 (1.04%) JSON
10 2 (1.04%) React Native
10 2 (1.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.95%) SCADA
2 24 (12.44%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (10.36%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 15 (7.77%) NB-IoT
5 12 (6.22%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (5.18%) Device Driver
6 10 (5.18%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (5.18%) Operational Technology
7 9 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (4.66%) Smart Home
8 8 (4.15%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.63%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 4 (2.07%) Raspberry Pi
10 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.55%) Analogue Electronics
11 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.55%) FMCG
11 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.28%) Linux
2 41 (21.24%) Windows
3 19 (9.84%) Unix
3 19 (9.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.55%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (40.41%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (24.35%) Agile
3 43 (22.28%) Software Engineering
4 32 (16.58%) Mentoring
5 28 (14.51%) Data Collection
6 25 (12.95%) CI/CD
7 22 (11.40%) Artificial Intelligence
8 21 (10.88%) Machine Learning
8 21 (10.88%) Strategic Thinking
9 20 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (10.36%) Mechatronics
10 19 (9.84%) Product Strategy
11 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (9.33%) Technical Debt
11 18 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (8.81%) Microservices
13 15 (7.77%) Analytics
14 14 (7.25%) API Development
14 14 (7.25%) Computer Science
14 14 (7.25%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.54%) Python
2 26 (13.47%) C
3 25 (12.95%) SQL
4 24 (12.44%) C#
5 22 (11.40%) TypeScript
6 20 (10.36%) C++
7 17 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 14 (7.25%) Bash
8 14 (7.25%) PHP
9 8 (4.15%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.07%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.55%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.55%) Java
12 2 (1.04%) Go
12 2 (1.04%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.04%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) R
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (18.65%) Degree
2 11 (5.70%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (5.70%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.15%) DBS Check
3 8 (4.15%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.15%) MCSA
3 8 (4.15%) MCSE
4 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.07%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.55%) CISSP
6 3 (1.55%) PMP
6 3 (1.55%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) PhD
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) Accessibility
1 8 (4.15%) SLA
2 4 (2.07%) GMP
2 4 (2.07%) QA
3 3 (1.55%) IEC 62304
3 3 (1.55%) MISRA
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.52%) JTAG
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (10.36%) Docker
2 18 (9.33%) Firmware
3 12 (6.22%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.70%) vSphere
5 8 (4.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.25%) Terraform
2 12 (6.22%) Ansible
3 11 (5.70%) Puppet
4 10 (5.18%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.36%) Rockwell
2 20 (10.36%) Siemens
3 13 (6.74%) SAP
4 11 (5.70%) VMware
5 5 (2.59%) Databricks
5 5 (2.59%) EMC
6 4 (2.07%) NVIDIA
6 4 (2.07%) Oracle
7 3 (1.55%) Aruba
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco
7 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.55%) Okta
8 2 (1.04%) Atmel
8 2 (1.04%) ConnectWise
8 2 (1.04%) Google
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.52%) Ruckus Wireless