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 cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 398 301
Rank change year-on-year +354 -97 +47
Permanent jobs citing IoT 3,613 278 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.99% 0.64% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.60% 1.54% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 260 186 739
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,751 18,088 34,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.30% 41.57% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,411 9,290 23,040
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IoT job vacancy trend in the UK

IoT
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 18 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 9 May 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 +390 3,543 £62,500 +4.17% 196
UK excluding London +304 3,238 £60,000 - 167
North of England +218 1,335 £55,000 -5.17% 24
North West +182 1,191 £60,000 +4.35% 13
Midlands +161 1,032 £42,500 -32.00% 25
West Midlands +126 924 £43,750 -36.36% 15
South East +184 489 £55,000 - 50
London +185 330 £75,000 -7.69% 63
East of England +133 277 £61,250 +11.36% 27
Yorkshire +63 142 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands +64 120 £42,500 -15.00% 10
Work from Home -26 65 £72,500 +20.83% 77
South West -24 63 £58,750 -2.08% 21
Wales -34 24 - - 4
Scotland -1 17 £60,000 -4.00% 18
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Northern Ireland -31 4 £65,000 +30.00% 5
North East - 2 - - 3

IoT
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 5 (0.14%) Confluence
2 4 (0.11%) CMS
2 4 (0.11%) WordPress
3 3 (0.083%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.055%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.055%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.028%) Apache
5 1 (0.028%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.028%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.028%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.055%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.028%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.055%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.028%) Maximo
2 1 (0.028%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.028%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,270 (90.51%) Cloud Computing
2 45 (1.25%) Azure
3 42 (1.16%) AWS
4 15 (0.42%) SaaS
5 12 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.28%) GCP
7 7 (0.19%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.19%) Serverless
8 5 (0.14%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.11%) Canva
9 4 (0.11%) GitHub
9 4 (0.11%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.083%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.083%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.083%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.055%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.055%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.055%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.055%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.055%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3,262 (90.29%) Internet
2 32 (0.89%) Wireless
3 20 (0.55%) Bluetooth
4 19 (0.53%) Firewall
5 18 (0.50%) MQTT
6 13 (0.36%) VPN
6 13 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (0.28%) DNS
8 9 (0.25%) Modbus
9 8 (0.22%) LoRaWAN
10 5 (0.14%) LTE
11 4 (0.11%) DHCP
12 3 (0.083%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.083%) ZigBee
13 2 (0.055%) 5G
13 2 (0.055%) GSM
13 2 (0.055%) WAN
14 1 (0.028%) 3GPP
14 1 (0.028%) LAN
14 1 (0.028%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (0.55%) Big Data
2 12 (0.33%) MySQL
3 8 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.19%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.19%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.17%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.17%) Power BI
6 5 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.11%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.055%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.055%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.055%) GIS
8 2 (0.055%) Informix
8 2 (0.055%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.028%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.028%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.028%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.028%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (0.25%) Git
2 5 (0.14%) JIRA
3 3 (0.083%) GitLab
3 3 (0.083%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.055%) GDB
4 2 (0.055%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.028%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.028%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.028%) Poetry
5 1 (0.028%) Zephyr
General
1 3,319 (91.86%) Social Skills
2 3,276 (90.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,273 (90.59%) Banking
4 45 (1.25%) Electronics
5 31 (0.86%) Manufacturing
6 28 (0.77%) Finance
6 28 (0.77%) Marketing
7 19 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (0.50%) Tech for Good
9 16 (0.44%) Automotive
9 16 (0.44%) Telecoms
10 14 (0.39%) Public Sector
11 11 (0.30%) Wearables
12 10 (0.28%) Social Housing
13 8 (0.22%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.22%) Law
14 6 (0.17%) French Language
15 5 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.14%) Retail
16 4 (0.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2,504 (69.31%) Lecturer
2 67 (1.85%) Software Engineer
3 47 (1.30%) Senior
4 44 (1.22%) Embedded Engineer
5 38 (1.05%) Developer
6 28 (0.77%) Architect
7 27 (0.75%) Firmware Engineer
8 21 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 20 (0.55%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (0.55%) Principal Software Engineer
10 19 (0.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 17 (0.47%) Sales Manager
11 17 (0.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (0.39%) Support Engineer
13 12 (0.33%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (0.30%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (0.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (0.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (0.30%) Mobile Developer
14 11 (0.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.55%) React
2 18 (0.50%) Node.js
3 13 (0.36%) React Native
4 9 (0.25%) REST
5 6 (0.17%) .NET
5 6 (0.17%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.14%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.11%) Kafka
8 3 (0.083%) Yocto
9 2 (0.055%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.055%) Django
9 2 (0.055%) Next.js
9 2 (0.055%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.055%) pgvector
9 2 (0.055%) pytest
9 2 (0.055%) Swagger
9 2 (0.055%) Unity DI Container
9 2 (0.055%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.028%) OAuth
10 1 (0.028%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (0.47%) Smart Energy
2 15 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (0.39%) Mobile App
4 12 (0.33%) Cloud Native
4 12 (0.33%) SCADA
4 12 (0.33%) Smart Home
5 11 (0.30%) PropTech
6 9 (0.25%) Operational Technology
7 8 (0.22%) Device Driver
8 7 (0.19%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (0.19%) Robotics
9 6 (0.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.17%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.17%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 5 (0.14%) NB-IoT
10 5 (0.14%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.11%) Blog
11 4 (0.11%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.00%) Linux
2 16 (0.44%) Windows
3 8 (0.22%) Unix
3 8 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.19%) Android
5 6 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.083%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.083%) VMS
7 1 (0.028%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.028%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.028%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,290 (91.06%) AI
2 3,289 (91.03%) Cybersecurity
3 3,269 (90.48%) Machine Learning
3 3,269 (90.48%) Web Development
4 3,259 (90.20%) User Experience
5 83 (2.30%) Software Engineering
6 56 (1.55%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (0.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (0.86%) Analytics
9 30 (0.83%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (0.80%) Business Analysis
11 26 (0.72%) Energy Management
12 23 (0.64%) Agile
12 23 (0.64%) DevOps
12 23 (0.64%) ERP
13 22 (0.61%) Collaborative Culture
13 22 (0.61%) Mentoring
13 22 (0.61%) Roadmaps
14 21 (0.58%) Digital Marketing
15 18 (0.50%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (0.97%) Python
2 18 (0.50%) SQL
3 17 (0.47%) Java
3 17 (0.47%) TypeScript
4 15 (0.42%) C++
5 12 (0.33%) JavaScript
6 11 (0.30%) C
7 10 (0.28%) C#
8 9 (0.25%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.19%) PHP
10 5 (0.14%) Bash
11 2 (0.055%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.055%) Go
11 2 (0.055%) Perl
12 1 (0.028%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.028%) Groovy
12 1 (0.028%) Haskell
12 1 (0.028%) OCaml
12 1 (0.028%) Scala
12 1 (0.028%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3,310 (91.61%) Degree
2 3,276 (90.67%) Master's Degree
3 3,256 (90.12%) PhD
4 3,253 (90.04%) Postgraduate
5 22 (0.61%) HND
6 8 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.17%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.083%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.055%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.055%) CISM
10 2 (0.055%) CISSP
10 2 (0.055%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.055%) MBA
11 1 (0.028%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.028%) CISA
11 1 (0.028%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.028%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.028%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.25%) QA
2 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.11%) GDPR
3 3 (0.083%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.083%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.083%) JTAG
4 2 (0.055%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.028%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.028%) GMP
5 1 (0.028%) SLA
5 1 (0.028%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (1.41%) Firmware
2 30 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (0.36%) Docker
4 9 (0.25%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.14%) vSphere
7 3 (0.083%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.11%) Terraform
4 3 (0.083%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.083%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.055%) Grafana
5 2 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (0.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (0.25%) Google
3 8 (0.22%) VMware
4 6 (0.17%) EMC
5 5 (0.14%) Cognizant
5 5 (0.14%) SAP
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle
7 3 (0.083%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.083%) Draytek
7 3 (0.083%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.055%) Aruba
8 2 (0.055%) Cisco
8 2 (0.055%) HP
8 2 (0.055%) IBM
8 2 (0.055%) Meraki
8 2 (0.055%) Siemens
9 1 (0.028%) Apple
9 1 (0.028%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (0.028%) Salesforce