Smart City Jobs in the UK excluding London

Smart Cities
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart City over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 751 703
Rank change year-on-year +180 -48 +101
Permanent jobs citing Smart City 4 4 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.006% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.030% 0.017% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - £41,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,750 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% -18.38% -3.44%
75th Percentile £62,500 £51,875 £52,188
90th Percentile - £55,250 £53,875
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -24.14% +31.52%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Smart City 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 13,377 24,141 25,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.70% 33.81% 42.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,110 15,209 11,122
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 £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%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart City in the UK excluding London

Smart City
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Smart City in the UK excluding London

Smart City
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart City in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Smart City in the UK excluding London

Smart City
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 Smart City within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 - 1
Scotland - 2 £45,000 - 1
North of England - 2 £60,000 - 5
Smart City
UK

Smart City
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Health
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
1 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (50.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Development
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java