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 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 465 317
Rank change year-on-year +43 -148 +30
Permanent jobs citing IoT 446 222 696
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.44% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.08% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 336 160 531
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,350 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £71,563 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,125 £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 28,467 20,534 26,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 41.07% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,879 10,414 14,734
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 1 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 1 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 +52 372 £55,000 -8.33% 462
UK excluding London +36 348 £55,000 -4.35% 280
Work from Home +16 128 £65,000 +12.07% 242
South East +7 88 £55,000 -8.33% 91
London +5 83 £72,500 -23.68% 232
North of England +11 81 £55,000 -8.33% 39
Scotland +43 50 £60,000 +14.29% 22
South West -47 49 £55,000 +15.79% 26
Midlands -26 46 £44,250 -22.73% 44
Yorkshire 0 40 £55,000 +4.76% 13
North West -13 26 £50,000 -16.67% 22
East Midlands -16 24 £67,500 +28.57% 15
East of England -30 24 £72,500 +26.09% 44
West Midlands -9 22 £42,500 -34.62% 29
North East - 15 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -71 10 £65,000 +30.00% 20

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 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.45%) 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 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.67%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.67%) Simulink
4 2 (0.45%) 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 (0.90%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.67%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.45%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.78%) AWS
2 39 (8.74%) Azure
3 26 (5.83%) SaaS
4 15 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.14%) Serverless
6 13 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.47%) AWS IoT
8 9 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.79%) GCP
10 5 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.74%) Wireless
2 27 (6.05%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (5.83%) MQTT
4 23 (5.16%) Internet
5 19 (4.26%) Firewall
6 17 (3.81%) Bluetooth
7 16 (3.59%) DNS
7 16 (3.59%) VPN
8 10 (2.24%) DHCP
8 10 (2.24%) LoRaWAN
8 10 (2.24%) ZigBee
9 7 (1.57%) 5G
10 6 (1.35%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.12%) VoIP
12 4 (0.90%) HTTP
12 4 (0.90%) LTE
12 4 (0.90%) SSH
12 4 (0.90%) VLAN
13 3 (0.67%) Gigabit Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.69%) Big Data
1 12 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.47%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.79%) MySQL
4 6 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.35%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.12%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.67%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.45%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.45%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (6.73%) Git
2 10 (2.24%) JIRA
3 7 (1.57%) GitLab
3 7 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.35%) GDB
5 4 (0.90%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.90%) 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 75 (16.82%) Electronics
2 63 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.62%) Finance
3 34 (7.62%) Manufacturing
4 33 (7.40%) Telecoms
5 28 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.48%) Wearables
7 18 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.59%) Automotive
9 14 (3.14%) Marketing
10 12 (2.69%) Aerospace
10 12 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.24%) Legal
11 10 (2.24%) Retail
12 8 (1.79%) Law
12 8 (1.79%) Local Government
13 7 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.12%) Social Housing
14 5 (1.12%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (14.57%) Software Engineer
2 52 (11.66%) Embedded Engineer
3 51 (11.43%) Senior
4 41 (9.19%) Developer
5 39 (8.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 37 (8.30%) Design Engineer
7 32 (7.17%) Technical Engineer
8 31 (6.95%) Sales Manager
9 30 (6.73%) Architect
10 26 (5.83%) Hardware Engineer
11 20 (4.48%) Electronics Engineer
12 17 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.81%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.81%) Technical Support
13 16 (3.59%) Hardware Design Engineer
14 15 (3.36%) Account Manager
15 14 (3.14%) Test Engineer
16 13 (2.91%) Technical Support Engineer
17 11 (2.47%) Firmware Engineer
17 11 (2.47%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.48%) Terraform
1 20 (4.48%) Yocto
2 16 (3.59%) .NET
3 15 (3.36%) REST
4 14 (3.14%) React
5 10 (2.24%) Node.js
6 7 (1.57%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.35%) Blazor
7 6 (1.35%) Kafka
8 5 (1.12%) Vue
9 4 (0.90%) HTML
9 4 (0.90%) pytest
9 4 (0.90%) 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 (0.45%) HTML5
11 2 (0.45%) pgvector
11 2 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.31%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.26%) Device Driver
3 18 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.59%) Robotics
6 13 (2.91%) Driving Licence
6 13 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.69%) PropTech
8 11 (2.47%) ARM Cortex
9 9 (2.02%) Smart Home
10 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.79%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.57%) CCTV
11 7 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.78%) Linux
2 19 (4.26%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.59%) Windows
4 10 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.57%) VMS
6 6 (1.35%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.12%) Android
8 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.67%) Unix
10 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (22.42%) Software Engineering
2 89 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (17.26%) AI
4 42 (9.42%) Analytics
4 42 (9.42%) CI/CD
4 42 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (8.74%) DevOps
6 38 (8.52%) Collaborative Culture
6 38 (8.52%) Machine Learning
7 36 (8.07%) Validation
8 35 (7.85%) Agile
9 30 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (5.83%) Computer Science
10 26 (5.83%) CRM
10 26 (5.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (5.38%) Business Development
11 24 (5.38%) Roadmaps
12 22 (4.93%) Decision-Making
13 21 (4.71%) Customer Engagement
13 21 (4.71%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 66 (14.80%) Python
2 38 (8.52%) C++
3 33 (7.40%) C
4 22 (4.93%) SQL
5 21 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 19 (4.26%) C#
8 16 (3.59%) Embedded C
8 16 (3.59%) Go
9 12 (2.69%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.24%) Java
11 6 (1.35%) Bash
12 4 (0.90%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.90%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.90%) PHP
12 4 (0.90%) Rust
13 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.22%) Bicep
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (20.18%) Degree
2 21 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.36%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.14%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.69%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.02%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.35%) HNC
8 6 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.67%) HND
9 3 (0.67%) PhD
10 2 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.45%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.22%) CISA
11 1 (0.22%) CISM
11 1 (0.22%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.59%) QA
2 10 (2.24%) JTAG
3 9 (2.02%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.67%) ECSS
4 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.45%) GDPR
5 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (11.43%) Firmware
2 26 (5.83%) Docker
3 14 (3.14%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.24%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.02%) vSphere
6 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.45%) iptables
8 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.35%) Grafana
3 5 (1.12%) SCCM
4 4 (0.90%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.90%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.45%) 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 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.02%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.02%) VMware
3 8 (1.79%) SAP
4 7 (1.57%) Cisco
4 7 (1.57%) Oracle
5 6 (1.35%) EMC
6 5 (1.12%) Aruba
6 5 (1.12%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.12%) Google
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe
7 4 (0.90%) Databricks
7 4 (0.90%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.90%) IFS
8 3 (0.67%) BT
8 3 (0.67%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.45%) MEDITECH
9 2 (0.45%) Meraki
9 2 (0.45%) Planon
9 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow