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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 269 324
Rank change year-on-year -139 +55 -57
Permanent jobs citing IoT 186 735 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.03% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 3.04% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 132 565 356
10th Percentile £37,203 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,438 £46,250 £46,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.58% +1.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
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 13,515 24,195 24,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.92% 33.78% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,108 15,213 11,146
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,884 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -49 42 £56,250 -6.25% 147
South West +88 39 £60,000 +4.35% 64
Midlands -1 37 £60,000 +9.09% 83
Wales +67 28 £77,500 +58.97% 3
West Midlands +26 28 £62,500 +4.17% 45
North of England -88 25 £58,000 +10.48% 86
North West -82 20 £58,000 +16.00% 36
East of England -102 9 £55,000 - 67
East Midlands -3 8 £50,000 - 29
Scotland +96 5 £63,750 +6.25% 28
Yorkshire +20 4 £60,000 -2.04% 31
Northern Ireland +28 2 £50,000 -28.57% 13
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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.08%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Simulink
4 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.58%) Azure
2 41 (22.04%) AWS
3 18 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.14%) SaaS
5 9 (4.84%) Serverless
6 8 (4.30%) IaaS
6 8 (4.30%) PaaS
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.76%) AWS IoT
7 7 (3.76%) GitHub
8 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.15%) GCP
10 3 (1.61%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.61%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.08%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.08%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (1.08%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.37%) Wi-Fi
2 21 (11.29%) 5G
3 19 (10.22%) Network Security
4 18 (9.68%) Bluetooth
4 18 (9.68%) MQTT
5 16 (8.60%) LTE
5 16 (8.60%) Modbus
6 15 (8.06%) Internet
6 15 (8.06%) Wireless
7 10 (5.38%) DNS
7 10 (5.38%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.30%) 4G
8 8 (4.30%) WAN
9 7 (3.76%) LoRaWAN
10 6 (3.23%) 3G
10 6 (3.23%) Firewall
11 5 (2.69%) SD-WAN
12 4 (2.15%) 2G
12 4 (2.15%) VoIP
13 2 (1.08%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.90%) MySQL
2 18 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.60%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.45%) RDBMS
5 10 (5.38%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.69%) TimescaleDB
8 4 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.61%) Big Data
9 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.08%) HDInsight
10 2 (1.08%) Power BI
10 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.54%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (8.60%) Git
2 7 (3.76%) JIRA
3 4 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.61%) Subversion
5 2 (1.08%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.08%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) ESLint
6 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.54%) Sinon.JS
6 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 99 (53.23%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.57%) Manufacturing
3 54 (29.03%) Electronics
4 30 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (12.37%) Finance
6 18 (9.68%) Law
7 17 (9.14%) Marketing
8 15 (8.06%) Telecoms
9 11 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (5.91%) Tech for Good
10 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
11 8 (4.30%) Welsh Language
12 7 (3.76%) Automotive
12 7 (3.76%) Social Housing
13 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.61%) Agriculture
16 2 (1.08%) Advertising
16 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (1.08%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 54 (29.03%) Lead
2 32 (17.20%) Software Engineer
3 30 (16.13%) Developer
4 22 (11.83%) Senior
5 16 (8.60%) Technical Leader
6 15 (8.06%) Team Leader
7 12 (6.45%) Architect
8 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Embedded Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Lead Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Software Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Design Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Server Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Software Team Leader
12 7 (3.76%) Product Manager
13 6 (3.23%) Electronics Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.83%) .NET
2 19 (10.22%) Node.js
3 17 (9.14%) React
4 12 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.38%) RESTful
6 7 (3.76%) NestJS
7 5 (2.69%) Laravel
7 5 (2.69%) Vue
8 4 (2.15%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.15%) REST
8 4 (2.15%) Symfony
9 3 (1.61%) CSS
9 3 (1.61%) gRPC
9 3 (1.61%) Kafka
9 3 (1.61%) Spring
10 2 (1.08%) HTML
10 2 (1.08%) JSON
10 2 (1.08%) React Native
11 1 (0.54%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (10.75%) SCADA
3 16 (8.60%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 15 (8.06%) NB-IoT
5 12 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (5.38%) Device Driver
7 9 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (4.84%) Operational Technology
7 9 (4.84%) Smart Home
8 8 (4.30%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.76%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.15%) FMCG
11 4 (2.15%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 4 (2.15%) Raspberry Pi
12 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.58%) Linux
2 41 (22.04%) Windows
3 19 (10.22%) Unix
3 19 (10.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.08%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (41.40%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (24.19%) Agile
3 41 (22.04%) Software Engineering
4 33 (17.74%) Mentoring
5 24 (12.90%) Data Collection
6 23 (12.37%) CI/CD
6 23 (12.37%) Strategic Thinking
7 22 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 22 (11.83%) Machine Learning
8 19 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (10.22%) Product Strategy
9 18 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (9.68%) Technical Debt
9 18 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (8.60%) Analytics
10 16 (8.60%) Mechatronics
10 16 (8.60%) Microservices
11 15 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.53%) API Development
12 14 (7.53%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.13%) Python
2 25 (13.44%) C
2 25 (13.44%) SQL
3 22 (11.83%) C#
3 22 (11.83%) TypeScript
4 19 (10.22%) C++
5 15 (8.06%) Bash
5 15 (8.06%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.53%) PHP
7 7 (3.76%) Embedded C
8 4 (2.15%) Java
8 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.08%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.08%) Go
9 2 (1.08%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) R
10 1 (0.54%) Rust
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (18.82%) Degree
2 11 (5.91%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (5.91%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (4.84%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.30%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.30%) MCSA
4 8 (4.30%) MCSE
5 4 (2.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.61%) PMP
6 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) CISSP
7 2 (1.08%) PhD
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) MBA
8 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.30%) SLA
2 5 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.15%) GMP
3 4 (2.15%) QA
4 3 (1.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.08%) IEC 62304
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.08%) MISRA
5 2 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.54%) JTAG
6 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (10.75%) Docker
2 17 (9.14%) Firmware
3 12 (6.45%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.91%) vSphere
5 8 (4.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (7.53%) Terraform
2 11 (5.91%) Ansible
2 11 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.91%) Puppet
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.60%) Rockwell
2 16 (8.60%) Siemens
3 15 (8.06%) SAP
4 11 (5.91%) VMware
5 5 (2.69%) EMC
6 4 (2.15%) Databricks
6 4 (2.15%) NVIDIA
6 4 (2.15%) Oracle
7 3 (1.61%) Aruba
7 3 (1.61%) Cisco
7 3 (1.61%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.61%) Google
7 3 (1.61%) Okta
7 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.08%) Atmel
8 2 (1.08%) ConnectWise
8 2 (1.08%) Workday
9 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.54%) Ruckus Wireless