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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 202 232
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -27
Permanent jobs citing IoT 17 61 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.41% 0.72% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 2.21% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7 50 20
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,050 £31,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,463 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +23.68% -32.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £57,813
90th Percentile £80,050 £68,750 £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 1,277 2,758 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.11% 32.66% 46.12%
Number of salaries quoted 686 1,686 979
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,400
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £81,250
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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +32 6 £68,750 +41.10% 13
Shropshire +17 2 £57,500 - 4
Warwickshire +2 2 - - 1
Solihull - 2 - - 1
Walsall - 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 2 - -
Coventry -12 1 £81,500 +25.38% 2
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 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) 5G
2 1 (5.88%) Bluetooth
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (5.88%) LTE
2 1 (5.88%) Modbus
2 1 (5.88%) MQTT
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) HDInsight
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Electronics
2 9 (52.94%) Manufacturing
3 8 (47.06%) Law
4 3 (17.65%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Lead
2 8 (47.06%) Technical Leader
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) Vue
3 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) SCADA
2 8 (47.06%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (47.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) NB-IoT
3 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (5.88%) Life Science
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Data Collection
1 8 (47.06%) Mechatronics
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 2 (11.76%) API Development
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (11.76%) ETL
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Inmon Methodology
4 2 (11.76%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Rockwell
1 8 (47.06%) Siemens
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) VMware