Edge Computing Job Trends

Edge Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Edge Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 697 675
Rank change year-on-year +62 -22 +327
Permanent jobs citing Edge Computing 14 14 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.026% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.029% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 29
10th Percentile £40,500 £58,125 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,469 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,125 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% -32.88% +17.65%
75th Percentile £84,063 £72,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £93,550 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,125 £52,250
% change year-on-year -14.34% +28.47% -41.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Edge Computing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Edge Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Edge Computing job vacancy trend in the UK

Edge Computing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Edge Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Edge Computing

Edge Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Edge Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
England +62 14 £72,500 +3.57% 55
London - 10 £77,500 - 6
Work from Home +69 4 £81,250 +38.30% 4
UK excluding London +25 3 £57,500 -14.34% 53
North of England - 2 £72,500 - 7
North West - 2 £72,500 - 2
Midlands +21 1 £42,500 - 10
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 - 4

Edge Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (7.14%) Fidessa
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (14.29%) OCI
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) n8n
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (7.14%) Modbus
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Agriculture
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Support
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Sales Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Sales Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
1 2 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) JDBC
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Blockchain
2 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 4 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (14.29%) IoT
4 2 (14.29%) SCADA
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (7.14%) Eurex
5 1 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
5 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Solaris
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) AI
1 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 4 (28.57%) Ergonomics
3 4 (28.57%) Human Factors
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) PhD
2 4 (28.57%) Postgraduate
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.14%) CQG
2 1 (7.14%) ION Trading
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Patsystems
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Reuters
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Trayport