IoT Jobs in the UK excluding London

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IoT over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 318 266
Rank change year-on-year +47 -52 +60
Permanent jobs citing IoT 734 577 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 0.98% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.05% 2.39% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 564 354 439
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £31,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +1.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

IoT 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,029 24,178 31,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.60% 40.97% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 15,203 11,097 15,808
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK excluding London

IoT
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +41 188 £60,000 -7.69% 64
East of England +41 174 £55,000 -12.00% 27
North of England +35 173 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Midlands +46 97 £55,000 +15.79% 33
North West -7 95 £50,000 -16.67% 5
West Midlands +55 62 £60,000 +33.33% 16
Yorkshire +49 55 £61,250 +44.12% 13
South West -21 54 £57,500 -8.00% 26
East Midlands +4 35 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Scotland -42 35 £60,000 +4.35% 7
North East +16 23 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 11 £70,000 - 2
Wales +3 2 £48,750 -18.75%
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.04%) Confluence
2 14 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.82%) Kinematics
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.82%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (0.41%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.03%) AWS
2 120 (16.35%) Azure
3 40 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
3 40 (5.45%) GitHub
4 36 (4.90%) AWS IoT
5 20 (2.72%) GCP
6 16 (2.18%) IaaS
6 16 (2.18%) Power Platform
7 14 (1.91%) SaaS
8 13 (1.77%) Nutanix
9 12 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.63%) Serverless
10 11 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.95%) Amazon ELB
14 7 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 80 (10.90%) Internet
2 69 (9.40%) Wireless
3 48 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
4 46 (6.27%) TCP/IP
5 43 (5.86%) MQTT
6 41 (5.59%) Bluetooth
7 39 (5.31%) Firewall
8 35 (4.77%) WAN
9 24 (3.27%) LAN
10 23 (3.13%) 4G
11 21 (2.86%) 5G
12 20 (2.72%) HTTP
12 20 (2.72%) ZigBee
13 18 (2.45%) DNS
14 16 (2.18%) MPLS
15 13 (1.77%) RS-232
16 12 (1.63%) LoRaWAN
16 12 (1.63%) Modbus
17 10 (1.36%) GPRS
17 10 (1.36%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.45%) MySQL
2 20 (2.72%) NoSQL
3 17 (2.32%) MongoDB
4 15 (2.04%) Big Data
5 14 (1.91%) Power BI
6 10 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.23%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.95%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.54%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.54%) Tableau
12 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.41%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.27%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.27%) GIS
13 2 (0.27%) Redis
13 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 78 (10.63%) Git
2 48 (6.54%) JIRA
3 26 (3.54%) Subversion
4 19 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.45%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.82%) Eclipse
7 6 (0.82%) MSTest
7 6 (0.82%) PHPUnit
7 6 (0.82%) Selenium
8 5 (0.68%) GitLab
8 5 (0.68%) Xcode
9 4 (0.54%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.41%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.41%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.27%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Mocha
12 1 (0.14%) Moq
12 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 200 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 134 (18.26%) Electronics
3 112 (15.26%) Automotive
4 98 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (9.67%) Manufacturing
6 65 (8.86%) Finance
7 44 (5.99%) Marketing
8 42 (5.72%) Telecoms
9 40 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (4.77%) Public Sector
11 22 (3.00%) Games
12 21 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.72%) Aerospace
14 19 (2.59%) Tech for Good
15 17 (2.32%) Law
16 15 (2.04%) Retail
17 14 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 14 (1.91%) Social Housing
18 10 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 170 (23.16%) Software Engineer
2 165 (22.48%) Senior
3 148 (20.16%) Developer
4 110 (14.99%) Embedded Engineer
5 84 (11.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 58 (7.90%) Architect
7 54 (7.36%) Hardware Engineer
8 42 (5.72%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 42 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (5.72%) Software Developer
9 40 (5.45%) Senior Hardware Engineer
10 39 (5.31%) Consultant
11 32 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
12 30 (4.09%) Analyst
13 29 (3.95%) Lead
14 26 (3.54%) Electronics Engineer
14 26 (3.54%) Linux Engineer
15 25 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
16 24 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.54%) Node.js
2 37 (5.04%) .NET
3 30 (4.09%) HTML
4 27 (3.68%) CSS
5 22 (3.00%) Yocto
6 21 (2.86%) React
7 20 (2.72%) AngularJS
8 19 (2.59%) RESTful
9 15 (2.04%) Flask
10 13 (1.77%) .NET Core
11 12 (1.63%) .NET Framework
12 11 (1.50%) Laravel
12 11 (1.50%) Qt
13 10 (1.36%) LLVM
13 10 (1.36%) web3js
14 9 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (1.23%) Symfony
14 9 (1.23%) Vue
14 9 (1.23%) Web Services
15 8 (1.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.18%) Mobile App
2 36 (4.90%) Raspberry Pi
3 33 (4.50%) Client/Server
4 25 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
4 25 (3.41%) Robotics
5 23 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
6 22 (3.00%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.59%) Blog
8 17 (2.32%) Blockchain
9 16 (2.18%) ARM Cortex
10 15 (2.04%) Augmented Reality
10 15 (2.04%) Smart Home
10 15 (2.04%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (1.91%) Arduino
12 13 (1.77%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.77%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (26.02%) Linux
2 52 (7.08%) Windows
3 47 (6.40%) Embedded Linux
4 37 (5.04%) Apple iOS
5 31 (4.22%) Android
6 17 (2.32%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.91%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.41%) Debian
9 3 (0.41%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Unix
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.14%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (33.38%) Software Engineering
2 148 (20.16%) Agile
3 135 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (12.40%) DevOps
5 90 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (10.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 79 (10.76%) Mentoring
8 73 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
9 63 (8.58%) Analytics
10 59 (8.04%) Computer Science
11 57 (7.77%) CI/CD
12 51 (6.95%) Project Management
13 50 (6.81%) Machine Learning
14 49 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (6.68%) Microservices
15 43 (5.86%) Software Testing
16 39 (5.31%) Data Management
17 38 (5.18%) Test Automation
18 37 (5.04%) Customer Requirements
19 36 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 172 (23.43%) Python
2 143 (19.48%) C
3 89 (12.13%) C++
4 70 (9.54%) JavaScript
5 54 (7.36%) SQL
6 53 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 49 (6.68%) C#
8 45 (6.13%) Java
9 44 (5.99%) Embedded C
10 40 (5.45%) SystemVerilog
11 30 (4.09%) Bash
12 22 (3.00%) PHP
13 17 (2.32%) Perl
14 12 (1.63%) Rust
15 10 (1.36%) Embedded C++
15 10 (1.36%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.23%) Swift
17 5 (0.68%) Assembly Language
17 5 (0.68%) XAML
Qualifications
1 160 (21.80%) Degree
2 35 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 16 (2.18%) HND
6 11 (1.50%) HNC
7 10 (1.36%) CISSP
7 10 (1.36%) SC Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) PhD
9 7 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.82%) CISA
10 6 (0.82%) CISMP
10 6 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.82%) GIAC
10 6 (0.82%) SANS
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.86%) QA
2 26 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (2.45%) GDPR
4 17 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.32%) SLA
5 15 (2.04%) ISO 13485
6 14 (1.91%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.23%) COSHH
7 9 (1.23%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.09%) IEC 62304
8 8 (1.09%) JTAG
9 6 (0.82%) ISO 14001
9 6 (0.82%) MISRA
9 6 (0.82%) NIST
10 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.54%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.54%) PMO
12 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 9000
12 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
System Software
1 53 (7.22%) Firmware
2 25 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.41%) Docker
3 22 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.41%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.32%) Terraform
3 15 (2.04%) Ansible
3 15 (2.04%) FortiGate
4 14 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.50%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.82%) Opsgenie
7 4 (0.54%) Grafana
7 4 (0.54%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.41%) Nessus
8 3 (0.41%) Nmap
8 3 (0.41%) SCOM
8 3 (0.41%) WSUS
9 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.22%) Synopsys
3 28 (3.81%) Cadence
3 28 (3.81%) SAP
4 24 (3.27%) Cisco
5 23 (3.13%) Google
6 20 (2.72%) VMware
7 16 (2.18%) HP
8 15 (2.04%) Darktrace
8 15 (2.04%) NEC
9 12 (1.63%) EMC
10 9 (1.23%) Mitel
10 9 (1.23%) Ribbon
11 8 (1.09%) Xamarin
12 7 (0.95%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.82%) Oracle
14 5 (0.68%) Apple
14 5 (0.68%) Aruba
14 5 (0.68%) Juniper
14 5 (0.68%) Red Hat