IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 375 314
Rank change year-on-year +71 -61 +25
Permanent jobs citing IoT 925 926 1,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.88% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 2.06% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 726 512 900
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,375
% change year-on-year - +3.84% +2.55%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,798 44,935 72,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 42.88% 47.15%
Number of salaries quoted 22,967 24,136 34,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,178 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT.

Salary trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +92 861 £60,000 -4.00% 258
UK excluding London +46 727 £57,500 - 185
Work from Home +36 350 £60,000 -4.00% 113
South East +62 192 £60,000 -7.69% 61
East of England +51 173 £55,000 -10.20% 23
London +107 166 £65,000 -18.75% 74
North of England +23 166 £51,000 -2.86% 24
Midlands +54 100 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North West +9 92 £50,000 -23.08% 8
West Midlands +60 64 £57,500 +15.00% 15
South West -25 57 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Yorkshire +55 51 £55,000 +29.41% 13
East Midlands 0 36 £51,500 +8.42% 17
Scotland -50 30 £60,000 -7.69% 15
North East +18 23 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
Wales 0 1 £27,500 -54.17% 2

IoT
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 22 (2.38%) Confluence
2 18 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.62%) Apache
4 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.65%) IIS
6 5 (0.54%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) Drupal
8 3 (0.32%) Kinematics
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.54%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.32%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (16.97%) Azure
2 152 (16.43%) AWS
3 45 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
4 44 (4.76%) GitHub
5 39 (4.22%) AWS IoT
6 31 (3.35%) GCP
7 27 (2.92%) Serverless
8 22 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 21 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.16%) IaaS
11 18 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (1.73%) Nutanix
13 14 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.51%) SaaS
14 13 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (1.30%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.54%) Internet
2 78 (8.43%) Wireless
3 55 (5.95%) TCP/IP
4 49 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
5 43 (4.65%) MQTT
6 41 (4.43%) WAN
7 38 (4.11%) Bluetooth
8 37 (4.00%) Firewall
9 25 (2.70%) LAN
10 23 (2.49%) DNS
11 21 (2.27%) ZigBee
12 19 (2.05%) 4G
13 18 (1.95%) HTTP
14 17 (1.84%) 5G
15 13 (1.41%) MPLS
15 13 (1.41%) RS-232
15 13 (1.41%) VoIP
16 12 (1.30%) LoRaWAN
16 12 (1.30%) Modbus
16 12 (1.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.86%) MySQL
2 23 (2.49%) NoSQL
3 22 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.16%) Big Data
4 20 (2.16%) Power BI
5 17 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.84%) Oracle Database
6 14 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.41%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.97%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.65%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.43%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.43%) Tableau
12 3 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 88 (9.51%) Git
2 54 (5.84%) JIRA
3 28 (3.03%) Subversion
4 22 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
5 18 (1.95%) Visual Studio
6 17 (1.84%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.65%) Burp Suite
8 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.65%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.65%) MSTest
8 6 (0.65%) PHPUnit
9 5 (0.54%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.54%) GitLab
9 5 (0.54%) Xcode
10 4 (0.43%) Selenium
10 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.22%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.11%) Mocha
12 1 (0.11%) Moq
General
1 273 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.00%) Electronics
3 123 (13.30%) Automotive
4 118 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.41%) Manufacturing
6 85 (9.19%) Finance
7 70 (7.57%) Marketing
8 52 (5.62%) Telecoms
9 49 (5.30%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (3.57%) Aerospace
12 32 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (3.03%) Law
14 24 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (2.05%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.95%) Legal
16 18 (1.95%) Retail
17 14 (1.51%) Social Housing
18 13 (1.41%) Games
19 12 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (24.11%) Senior
2 199 (21.51%) Developer
3 176 (19.03%) Software Engineer
4 111 (12.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 83 (8.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 79 (8.54%) Architect
7 69 (7.46%) Consultant
7 69 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 54 (5.84%) Hardware Engineer
9 53 (5.73%) Software Developer
10 45 (4.86%) Lead
11 44 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 41 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (4.32%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 40 (4.32%) Senior Hardware Engineer
14 31 (3.35%) Analyst
15 28 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
16 27 (2.92%) Electronics Engineer
16 27 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (2.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.11%) Node.js
2 58 (6.27%) HTML
3 47 (5.08%) CSS
4 45 (4.86%) .NET
5 31 (3.35%) React
6 29 (3.14%) JSON
7 25 (2.70%) REST
8 24 (2.59%) jQuery
9 22 (2.38%) Yocto
10 21 (2.27%) AngularJS
11 19 (2.05%) RESTful
12 16 (1.73%) Flask
13 14 (1.51%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.41%) .NET Core
14 13 (1.41%) Laravel
15 12 (1.30%) .NET Framework
16 11 (1.19%) Qt
17 10 (1.08%) LLVM
18 9 (0.97%) Symfony
18 9 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.54%) Mobile App
2 37 (4.00%) Raspberry Pi
3 35 (3.78%) Client/Server
3 35 (3.78%) Embedded Systems
4 27 (2.92%) Robotics
5 25 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
7 21 (2.27%) Blog
7 21 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 21 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.95%) Smart Home
10 16 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.62%) ARM Cortex
11 15 (1.62%) Augmented Reality
11 15 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.62%) Virtual Reality
12 14 (1.51%) Arduino
12 14 (1.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 206 (22.27%) Linux
2 60 (6.49%) Windows
3 51 (5.51%) Embedded Linux
4 39 (4.22%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.68%) Android
6 17 (1.84%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.51%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.65%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.43%) VMS
10 3 (0.32%) Debian
10 3 (0.32%) Unix
10 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.11%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (28.86%) Software Engineering
2 182 (19.68%) Agile
3 164 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
5 121 (13.08%) Mentoring
6 119 (12.86%) DevOps
7 107 (11.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 84 (9.08%) Computer Science
9 76 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
10 72 (7.78%) Analytics
11 71 (7.68%) Project Management
12 68 (7.35%) CI/CD
13 64 (6.92%) Machine Learning
14 62 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
15 56 (6.05%) Decision-Making
15 56 (6.05%) Microservices
16 48 (5.19%) Software Testing
17 47 (5.08%) Business Development
18 41 (4.43%) Customer Requirements
19 39 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (24.86%) Python
2 160 (17.30%) C
3 101 (10.92%) SQL
4 99 (10.70%) C++
5 98 (10.59%) JavaScript
6 72 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 66 (7.14%) C#
8 55 (5.95%) Java
9 45 (4.86%) Embedded C
10 40 (4.32%) SystemVerilog
11 33 (3.57%) Bash
12 27 (2.92%) PHP
13 21 (2.27%) Perl
14 17 (1.84%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.62%) Rust
16 12 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 11 (1.19%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.19%) Swift
18 9 (0.97%) Embedded C++
19 7 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 209 (22.59%) Degree
2 52 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (3.46%) Master's Degree
5 18 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.73%) CISSP
6 16 (1.73%) HND
7 15 (1.62%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.19%) HNC
9 10 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.08%) PhD
10 9 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
10 9 (0.97%) GIAC
10 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.86%) CISA
12 7 (0.76%) CISM
12 7 (0.76%) OSCP
12 7 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.97%) QA
2 23 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (2.49%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.49%) GDPR
3 21 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.95%) SLA
5 17 (1.84%) ISO 13485
6 10 (1.08%) IEC 62304
6 10 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 10 (1.08%) NIST
7 9 (0.97%) COSHH
8 8 (0.86%) JTAG
9 6 (0.65%) ISO 14001
9 6 (0.65%) MISRA
10 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.43%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.43%) PMO
12 2 (0.22%) DO-178B
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 57 (6.16%) Firmware
2 36 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 31 (3.35%) Docker
4 27 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 18 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.65%) Forefront TMG
7 6 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.27%) Terraform
3 20 (2.16%) Ansible
4 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.30%) FortiGate
6 11 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.65%) Nessus
7 6 (0.65%) Nmap
7 6 (0.65%) Opsgenie
7 6 (0.65%) SCOM
7 6 (0.65%) WSUS
8 4 (0.43%) Grafana
8 4 (0.43%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
10 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 97 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 35 (3.78%) VMware
3 31 (3.35%) Synopsys
4 30 (3.24%) Oracle
4 30 (3.24%) SAP
5 28 (3.03%) Cadence
6 24 (2.59%) Google
7 22 (2.38%) Cisco
8 13 (1.41%) Aruba
8 13 (1.41%) HP
9 12 (1.30%) Darktrace
9 12 (1.30%) Databricks
9 12 (1.30%) EMC
9 12 (1.30%) NEC
10 11 (1.19%) BT
11 9 (0.97%) Mitel
11 9 (0.97%) Ribbon
12 8 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.86%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.76%) Qualys