Smart Cities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Smart City over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 913 1125
Rank change year-on-year +18 +212 -284
Permanent jobs citing Smart City 9 80 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.077% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9 31 25
10th Percentile - £45,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £53,165 £45,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £55,124
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +26.99% -8.13%
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £94,000 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,750 £55,000 £47,900
% change year-on-year -31.36% +14.82% -20.17%

All Generic Skills
UK

Smart City 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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,056
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%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart City in the UK

Smart City
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Smart City.

Salary trend for Smart City in the UK

Smart City
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart City over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Smart City in the UK

Smart City
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Work from Home +88 7 £55,000 -21.43% 2
England +27 7 £85,000 +19.30% 14
London +103 5 £92,500 +25.42% 6
UK excluding London -25 4 £37,750 -31.36% 8
Wales +8 2 £25,500 - 2
West Midlands +17 1 £50,000 -
Midlands +13 1 £50,000 - 1
South West -26 1 £55,000 -45.00% 1

Smart City
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) BGP
1 3 (33.33%) IGMP
1 3 (33.33%) IPv6
1 3 (33.33%) Multicast
1 3 (33.33%) OSPF
1 3 (33.33%) RIP
1 3 (33.33%) SNMP
1 3 (33.33%) VLAN
1 3 (33.33%) VoIP
1 3 (33.33%) VRRP
1 3 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Flink
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) CCTV
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Coaching
1 3 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
1 3 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 3 (33.33%) Decarbonisation
1 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Business Development
2 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
2 1 (11.11%) Logistics
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) MCT