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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 322 279
Rank change year-on-year +54 -43 +50
Permanent jobs citing IoT 726 597 894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 0.97% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% 2.37% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 559 359 418
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% +6.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

IoT is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,957 25,147 30,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.04% 41.01% 43.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,202 11,462 15,942
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +65 193 £60,000 -7.69% 61
East of England +41 173 £55,000 -12.00% 48
North of England +23 166 £51,000 -7.27% 27
Midlands +71 99 £55,000 +15.79% 33
North West +2 92 £50,000 -17.86% 10
West Midlands +58 63 £58,750 +23.68% 14
South West -34 54 £57,500 -8.00% 36
Yorkshire +47 51 £55,000 +29.41% 13
East Midlands +6 36 £50,750 +6.84% 19
Scotland -52 32 £60,000 -2.04% 13
North East +12 23 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
Wales +4 1 £27,500 -54.17% 1
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 15 (2.07%) Confluence
2 14 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.69%) Apache
4 5 (0.69%) Kinematics
5 4 (0.55%) nginx
6 3 (0.41%) IIS
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Drupal
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.83%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (0.41%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 124 (17.08%) AWS
2 123 (16.94%) Azure
3 38 (5.23%) Cloud Computing
3 38 (5.23%) GitHub
4 37 (5.10%) AWS IoT
5 21 (2.89%) GCP
6 18 (2.48%) IaaS
7 16 (2.20%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.07%) Nutanix
9 14 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.93%) Serverless
10 13 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.79%) SaaS
11 11 (1.52%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 77 (10.61%) Internet
2 68 (9.37%) Wireless
3 48 (6.61%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (5.92%) TCP/IP
5 41 (5.65%) MQTT
6 40 (5.51%) Bluetooth
7 37 (5.10%) Firewall
8 33 (4.55%) WAN
9 24 (3.31%) LAN
10 21 (2.89%) 4G
11 20 (2.75%) DNS
11 20 (2.75%) ZigBee
12 19 (2.62%) 5G
13 17 (2.34%) HTTP
14 14 (1.93%) MPLS
15 13 (1.79%) RS-232
16 12 (1.65%) LoRaWAN
16 12 (1.65%) Modbus
17 10 (1.38%) GPRS
17 10 (1.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.23%) MySQL
2 18 (2.48%) NoSQL
3 15 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 14 (1.93%) Big Data
4 14 (1.93%) Power BI
5 11 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.96%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.55%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.55%) Tableau
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.41%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.28%) GIS
12 2 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (11.29%) Git
2 48 (6.61%) JIRA
3 27 (3.72%) Subversion
4 18 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.48%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.83%) MSTest
6 6 (0.83%) PHPUnit
7 5 (0.69%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.69%) Selenium
7 5 (0.69%) Xcode
8 4 (0.55%) GitLab
8 4 (0.55%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.41%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.41%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.28%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.14%) Mocha
11 1 (0.14%) Moq
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 197 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 134 (18.46%) Electronics
3 109 (15.01%) Automotive
4 101 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (9.64%) Manufacturing
6 68 (9.37%) Finance
7 45 (6.20%) Marketing
8 40 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (5.51%) Telecoms
9 35 (4.82%) Public Sector
10 21 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.62%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.62%) Tech for Good
12 16 (2.20%) Law
13 15 (2.07%) Retail
14 14 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.93%) Social Housing
15 12 (1.65%) Games
16 11 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 170 (23.42%) Software Engineer
2 165 (22.73%) Senior
3 140 (19.28%) Developer
4 110 (15.15%) Embedded Engineer
5 83 (11.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 56 (7.71%) Architect
7 53 (7.30%) Hardware Engineer
8 43 (5.92%) Software Developer
9 41 (5.65%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 40 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (5.37%) Senior Hardware Engineer
12 38 (5.23%) Consultant
13 32 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (4.13%) Analyst
14 30 (4.13%) Lead
15 27 (3.72%) Electronics Engineer
16 25 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (3.44%) Linux Engineer
17 24 (3.31%) Senior Developer
17 24 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (9.09%) Node.js
2 38 (5.23%) .NET
3 31 (4.27%) HTML
4 28 (3.86%) CSS
5 23 (3.17%) Yocto
6 21 (2.89%) React
7 19 (2.62%) AngularJS
8 17 (2.34%) RESTful
9 15 (2.07%) Flask
10 13 (1.79%) .NET Core
11 12 (1.65%) .NET Framework
11 12 (1.65%) Laravel
12 11 (1.52%) Qt
13 10 (1.38%) LLVM
14 9 (1.24%) Symfony
14 9 (1.24%) Vue
15 8 (1.10%) Apache Cordova
16 7 (0.96%) Django
16 7 (0.96%) HTML5
16 7 (0.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.23%) Mobile App
2 37 (5.10%) Raspberry Pi
3 33 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 25 (3.44%) Embedded Systems
4 25 (3.44%) Robotics
5 22 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
6 20 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.62%) Blog
8 15 (2.07%) ARM Cortex
8 15 (2.07%) Augmented Reality
8 15 (2.07%) Smart Home
8 15 (2.07%) Virtual Reality
9 14 (1.93%) Arduino
9 14 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.38%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 192 (26.45%) Linux
2 54 (7.44%) Windows
3 49 (6.75%) Embedded Linux
4 37 (5.10%) Apple iOS
5 31 (4.27%) Android
6 17 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.93%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.41%) Debian
9 3 (0.41%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) Unix
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.14%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (33.61%) Software Engineering
2 153 (21.07%) Agile
3 137 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (13.22%) DevOps
5 86 (11.85%) Cybersecurity
6 79 (10.88%) Mentoring
7 75 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
8 71 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence
9 61 (8.40%) Analytics
10 58 (7.99%) CI/CD
10 58 (7.99%) Computer Science
11 51 (7.02%) Machine Learning
12 50 (6.89%) Project Management
13 49 (6.75%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (6.34%) Microservices
15 41 (5.65%) Software Testing
16 37 (5.10%) Embedded Software Development
16 37 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 37 (5.10%) Test Automation
17 36 (4.96%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 176 (24.24%) Python
2 147 (20.25%) C
3 92 (12.67%) C++
4 70 (9.64%) JavaScript
5 57 (7.85%) SQL
6 56 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 49 (6.75%) C#
8 44 (6.06%) Java
9 43 (5.92%) Embedded C
10 40 (5.51%) SystemVerilog
11 32 (4.41%) Bash
12 21 (2.89%) PHP
13 19 (2.62%) Perl
14 12 (1.65%) Rust
15 10 (1.38%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.24%) Embedded C++
16 9 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.24%) Swift
17 5 (0.69%) Assembly Language
18 4 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 156 (21.49%) Degree
2 35 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (4.13%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.62%) Master's Degree
5 16 (2.20%) HND
6 11 (1.52%) HNC
6 11 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.38%) CISSP
8 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.24%) CTC Cleared
9 7 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.96%) PhD
9 7 (0.96%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.83%) CISA
10 6 (0.83%) CISMP
10 6 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.83%) GIAC
10 6 (0.83%) SANS
11 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.51%) QA
2 24 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 20 (2.75%) GDPR
4 18 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.34%) SLA
6 15 (2.07%) ISO 13485
7 9 (1.24%) COSHH
7 9 (1.24%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.10%) IEC 62304
8 8 (1.10%) JTAG
9 6 (0.83%) ISO 14001
9 6 (0.83%) MISRA
9 6 (0.83%) NIST
10 5 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.55%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.55%) PMO
12 2 (0.28%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.14%) GRC
13 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
System Software
1 55 (7.58%) Firmware
2 27 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.58%) Docker
4 22 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (2.75%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (2.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.41%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.34%) Terraform
3 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.79%) Ansible
4 13 (1.79%) FortiGate
5 11 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.83%) Opsgenie
7 4 (0.55%) Grafana
7 4 (0.55%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.41%) Nessus
8 3 (0.41%) Nmap
8 3 (0.41%) SCOM
8 3 (0.41%) WSUS
9 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.27%) Synopsys
3 28 (3.86%) Cadence
3 28 (3.86%) SAP
4 22 (3.03%) Cisco
4 22 (3.03%) VMware
5 21 (2.89%) Google
6 14 (1.93%) HP
7 13 (1.79%) Darktrace
7 13 (1.79%) NEC
8 12 (1.65%) EMC
9 9 (1.24%) Mitel
9 9 (1.24%) Ribbon
10 8 (1.10%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.96%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.83%) Databricks
12 6 (0.83%) Oracle
13 5 (0.69%) Apple
13 5 (0.69%) Aruba
13 5 (0.69%) Juniper