IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 455 305
Rank change year-on-year +44 -150 +36
Permanent jobs citing IoT 451 220 694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.44% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.07% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 343 158 530
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,050 £32,950
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,375 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 28,520 20,471 26,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 41.07% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17,904 10,379 14,733
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IoT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IoT job vacancy trend in the UK

IoT
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IoT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IoT

IoT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the UK over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
England +65 376 £55,000 -8.33% 468
UK excluding London +35 351 £55,000 -4.35% 276
Work from Home +7 126 £65,000 +12.55% 243
South East +11 89 £55,000 -8.33% 92
London 0 85 £67,500 -28.95% 241
North of England +8 83 £55,000 -8.33% 40
Scotland +48 51 £60,000 +14.29% 22
Midlands -23 47 £46,000 -19.67% 39
South West -46 47 £55,000 +15.79% 26
Yorkshire -6 42 £55,000 +4.76% 14
North West -9 26 £50,000 -16.67% 22
East Midlands -24 24 £67,500 +28.57% 13
East of England -31 24 £72,500 +26.09% 45
West Midlands -12 23 £42,500 -34.62% 26
North East - 15 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -76 10 £65,000 +30.00% 17

IoT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.67%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.67%) Simulink
4 2 (0.44%) Windchill
5 1 (0.22%) CATIA
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.22%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.67%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.44%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.20%) AWS
2 39 (8.65%) Azure
3 24 (5.32%) SaaS
4 17 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.66%) Serverless
7 11 (2.44%) AWS IoT
8 9 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.77%) GCP
10 5 (1.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.11%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.89%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (0.89%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (0.89%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.89%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (0.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.65%) Wireless
2 27 (5.99%) Internet
2 27 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (5.76%) MQTT
4 19 (4.21%) Firewall
5 17 (3.77%) Bluetooth
6 16 (3.55%) DNS
6 16 (3.55%) VPN
7 10 (2.22%) DHCP
7 10 (2.22%) LoRaWAN
7 10 (2.22%) ZigBee
8 7 (1.55%) 5G
9 6 (1.33%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.11%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.11%) VoIP
11 4 (0.89%) HTTP
11 4 (0.89%) LTE
11 4 (0.89%) SSH
11 4 (0.89%) VLAN
12 3 (0.67%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.66%) Big Data
1 12 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.77%) MySQL
4 6 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.33%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.67%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.44%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.44%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (6.65%) Git
2 10 (2.22%) JIRA
3 7 (1.55%) GitLab
3 7 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.33%) GDB
5 4 (0.89%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.89%) Selenium
6 3 (0.67%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) Poetry
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (16.85%) Electronics
2 65 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 35 (7.76%) Manufacturing
4 34 (7.54%) Finance
5 33 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.43%) Wearables
9 16 (3.55%) Automotive
10 14 (3.10%) Marketing
11 12 (2.66%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.66%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.22%) Legal
12 10 (2.22%) Retail
13 8 (1.77%) Law
13 8 (1.77%) Local Government
14 7 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.33%) Banking
16 5 (1.11%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (14.41%) Software Engineer
2 52 (11.53%) Embedded Engineer
3 51 (11.31%) Senior
4 41 (9.09%) Developer
5 39 (8.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 38 (8.43%) Design Engineer
7 32 (7.10%) Sales Manager
7 32 (7.10%) Technical Engineer
8 30 (6.65%) Architect
9 26 (5.76%) Hardware Engineer
10 21 (4.66%) Electronics Engineer
11 17 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.77%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.77%) Technical Support
12 16 (3.55%) Hardware Design Engineer
13 15 (3.33%) Account Manager
14 14 (3.10%) Test Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Technical Support Engineer
16 11 (2.44%) Firmware Engineer
16 11 (2.44%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.43%) Terraform
1 20 (4.43%) Yocto
2 16 (3.55%) .NET
3 15 (3.33%) REST
4 14 (3.10%) React
5 10 (2.22%) Node.js
6 7 (1.55%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.33%) Blazor
7 6 (1.33%) Kafka
8 5 (1.11%) Vue
9 4 (0.89%) HTML
9 4 (0.89%) pytest
9 4 (0.89%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (0.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.67%) CSS
10 3 (0.67%) Flash
10 3 (0.67%) PySpark
11 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (0.44%) Django
11 2 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.20%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.21%) Device Driver
3 18 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.55%) Robotics
6 14 (3.10%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.88%) Driving Licence
7 13 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.66%) PropTech
9 11 (2.44%) ARM Cortex
10 9 (2.00%) Smart Home
11 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.77%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.55%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.55%) CCTV
12 7 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.64%) Linux
2 19 (4.21%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.55%) Windows
4 10 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.55%) VMS
6 6 (1.33%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.11%) Android
8 4 (0.89%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.67%) Unix
10 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (21.73%) Software Engineering
2 89 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (17.96%) AI
4 42 (9.31%) Analytics
4 42 (9.31%) CI/CD
4 42 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (9.31%) Machine Learning
5 38 (8.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 37 (8.20%) DevOps
7 36 (7.98%) Validation
8 35 (7.76%) Agile
9 34 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (5.76%) Computer Science
10 26 (5.76%) CRM
10 26 (5.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (5.32%) Business Development
11 24 (5.32%) Roadmaps
12 22 (4.88%) Decision-Making
13 21 (4.66%) Customer Engagement
13 21 (4.66%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 64 (14.19%) Python
2 38 (8.43%) C++
3 33 (7.32%) C
4 22 (4.88%) SQL
5 21 (4.66%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 19 (4.21%) C#
8 16 (3.55%) Embedded C
8 16 (3.55%) Go
9 12 (2.66%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.22%) Java
11 6 (1.33%) Bash
12 4 (0.89%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.89%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.89%) Rust
13 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.44%) PHP
15 1 (0.22%) Haskell
15 1 (0.22%) OCaml
15 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (20.84%) Degree
2 21 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.21%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.10%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.66%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.55%) PhD
9 6 (1.33%) HNC
9 6 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.33%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.67%) HND
11 2 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.22%) CISA
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) QA
2 10 (2.22%) JTAG
3 7 (1.55%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.67%) ECSS
5 2 (0.44%) GDPR
5 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (10.86%) Firmware
2 24 (5.32%) Docker
3 14 (3.10%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.00%) vSphere
6 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.44%) iptables
8 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.33%) Grafana
3 5 (1.11%) SCCM
4 4 (0.89%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.89%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.44%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.22%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.22%) MOM
Vendors
1 47 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.00%) VMware
3 8 (1.77%) SAP
4 7 (1.55%) Cisco
4 7 (1.55%) Oracle
5 6 (1.33%) EMC
6 5 (1.11%) Aruba
6 5 (1.11%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.11%) Google
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe
7 4 (0.89%) Databricks
7 4 (0.89%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.89%) IFS
8 3 (0.67%) BT
8 3 (0.67%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.44%) MEDITECH
9 2 (0.44%) Meraki
9 2 (0.44%) Planon
9 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow