IoT Jobs in the West Midlands

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 183 251
Rank change year-on-year +20 +68 -46
Permanent jobs citing IoT 33 64 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.88% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 2.59% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11 53 18
10th Percentile £55,000 £32,500 £30,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,450 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -17.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £85,750 - £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,338 2,470 3,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.97% 34.12% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,708 979
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +15.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the West Midlands

IoT
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for IoT in the West Midlands

IoT
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in the West Midlands

IoT
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham +30 10 £72,500 +52.79% 14
Solihull - 5 - - 2
Walsall - 5 - -
Wolverhampton - 5 - -
Coventry -15 3 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Shropshire +20 2 £57,500 -
Warwickshire -29 2 - - 2
Staffordshire +20 1 £42,500 +21.43% 9
IoT
England

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) 5G
1 2 (6.06%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) Bluetooth
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) LTE
2 1 (3.03%) Modbus
2 1 (3.03%) MQTT
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.06%) HDInsight
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 22 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (63.64%) Electronics
2 21 (63.64%) Manufacturing
2 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 20 (60.61%) Law
4 3 (9.09%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Lead
2 20 (60.61%) Technical Leader
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Hardware Design Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
1 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
1 2 (6.06%) React
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
1 2 (6.06%) Vue
1 2 (6.06%) Yocto
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (63.64%) SCADA
2 20 (60.61%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (60.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 3 (9.09%) NB-IoT
3 3 (9.09%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Home Automation
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (60.61%) Data Collection
2 20 (60.61%) Mechatronics
3 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) Analytics
5 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (6.06%) API Development
6 2 (6.06%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (6.06%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (6.06%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (6.06%) ETL
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.06%) Inmon Methodology
6 2 (6.06%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (6.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) C
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C#
3 2 (6.06%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) CISSP
1 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NCSC
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Puppet
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Rockwell
1 20 (60.61%) Siemens
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) VMware