Hybrid/Remote IoT Job Trends

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 331 295
Rank change year-on-year -11 -36 +14
Permanent jobs citing IoT 79 87 361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.58% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 1.28% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59 63 291
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,236 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,375 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -1.44%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,081 6,815 12,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.96% 45.06% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,357 3,428 9,346
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IoT and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IoT job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IoT over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

IoT salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Lightworks
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.72%) AWS
2 12 (15.19%) Azure
3 6 (7.59%) Serverless
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.53%) GCP
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.27%) Dagster
8 1 (1.27%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Internet
2 5 (6.33%) Modbus
3 4 (5.06%) MQTT
3 4 (5.06%) Wireless
4 2 (2.53%) DNS
4 2 (2.53%) Firewall
4 2 (2.53%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (2.53%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.27%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.27%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.27%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.27%) FTP
5 1 (1.27%) HTTP
5 1 (1.27%) MVNO
5 1 (1.27%) SCTP
5 1 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.27%) VoIP
5 1 (1.27%) VoLTE
5 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (6.33%) MySQL
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.80%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Git
1 1 (1.27%) PetaLinux
General
1 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.86%) Electronics
3 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.06%) Social Housing
4 4 (5.06%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.80%) Finance
5 3 (3.80%) Law
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing
5 3 (3.80%) Police
6 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.53%) Automotive
6 2 (2.53%) Retail
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Advertising
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Back Office
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Developer
2 11 (13.92%) Architect
2 11 (13.92%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Operations Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) Technical Operations Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Technical Architect
6 6 (7.59%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.06%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (5.06%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Principal Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Principal Technical Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Head of Engineering
9 3 (3.80%) Head of Software Engineering
9 3 (3.80%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) Node.js
2 4 (5.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.80%) Yocto
4 2 (2.53%) React
5 1 (1.27%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.27%) Blazor
5 1 (1.27%) FFmpeg
5 1 (1.27%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.27%) HTML
5 1 (1.27%) JSON
5 1 (1.27%) Kafka
5 1 (1.27%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.27%) Vue
5 1 (1.27%) WebAssembly
5 1 (1.27%) WebRTC
5 1 (1.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) PropTech
2 7 (8.86%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.33%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (6.33%) SCADA
4 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.06%) Smart Home
5 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (2.53%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.53%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.53%) Digital Signage
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.53%) NB-IoT
6 2 (2.53%) Robotics
6 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.53%) Smart City
6 2 (2.53%) Smart Meter
6 2 (2.53%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (1.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.25%) Software Engineering
3 15 (18.99%) Asset Management
4 13 (16.46%) Business Analysis
4 13 (16.46%) Requirements Gathering
4 13 (16.46%) Supplier Management
5 12 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (15.19%) DevOps
6 10 (12.66%) Agile
6 10 (12.66%) Analytics
6 10 (12.66%) ERP
7 9 (11.39%) AI
7 9 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
7 9 (11.39%) Tech Ops
8 8 (10.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
8 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.86%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (7.59%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
3 7 (8.86%) SQL
4 6 (7.59%) C#
5 5 (6.33%) C++
5 5 (6.33%) PHP
6 3 (3.80%) C
7 2 (2.53%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.53%) Embedded C++
7 2 (2.53%) Go
7 2 (2.53%) Java
7 2 (2.53%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.27%) Bash
8 1 (1.27%) Rust
8 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.80%) Degree
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.27%) CISM
3 1 (1.27%) CISSP
3 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) ISO 9001
1 4 (5.06%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) ECSS
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) Firmware
2 5 (6.33%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) ConnectWise
3 2 (2.53%) dotdigital
3 2 (2.53%) Draytek
3 2 (2.53%) Fortinet
3 2 (2.53%) IFS
3 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.53%) SAP
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco
4 1 (1.27%) Xilinx