Industrial Internet of Things Jobs

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Industrial Internet of Things in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Industrial Internet of Things over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 871 939
Rank change year-on-year +169 +68 +239
Permanent jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things 7 41 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.040% 0.024%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% 0.12% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 18
10th Percentile £71,875 - £47,500
25th Percentile £74,375 - £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £52,084 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -18.30% +6.25%
75th Percentile £84,938 - £87,500
90th Percentile £86,625 £57,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,750 £52,084 £62,500
% change year-on-year +55.04% -16.67% +57.23%

All Generic Skills
UK

Industrial Internet of Things 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,604 35,638 42,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 34.51% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,493 23,121 22,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,084 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Industrial Internet of Things
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Industrial Internet of Things as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Industrial Internet of Things in the UK

Industrial Internet of Things
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things.

Salary trend for Industrial Internet of Things in the UK

Industrial Internet of Things
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Industrial Internet of Things within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +126 7 £78,750 +51.20% 18
UK excluding London +158 5 £80,750 +55.04% 16
Work from Home - 4 £80,000 - 2
South East - 3 £80,000 - 5
London - 2 £76,250 - 4
Midlands +81 1 £81,500 +48.18%
West Midlands +53 1 £81,500 +48.18%
East of England - 1 - - 3

Industrial Internet of Things
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (28.57%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) 5G
2 1 (14.29%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (14.29%) Modbus
2 1 (14.29%) MQTT
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Operational Technology
2 5 (71.43%) IoT
2 5 (71.43%) SCADA
3 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
5 1 (14.29%) NB-IoT
5 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) People Management
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
2 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) PMI Certification
2 3 (42.86%) PMP
3 1 (14.29%) CISA
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) CRISC
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) DataCore