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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 303 389
Rank change year-on-year -85 +86 -88
Permanent jobs citing IoT 312 859 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.93% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.59% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 202 676 523
10th Percentile £44,100 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,488 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% +2.73%

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 17,991 33,196 48,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.60% 35.83% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,424 22,433 25,064
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT.

Salary trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

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 April 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
England -137 261 £60,000 +4.35% 714
UK excluding London -75 220 £60,000 +4.35% 351
Work from Home +2 120 £60,000 - 333
London -7 65 £72,500 +7.41% 406
South East -15 52 £69,500 +15.83% 119
South West +89 46 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Midlands +16 45 £60,000 - 42
West Midlands 0 35 £60,000 +6.67% 24
North of England -32 28 £57,500 +9.52% 46
Wales +65 23 £77,500 +181.82% 11
North West -26 21 £55,000 +10.00% 36
East of England -63 20 £55,000 - 60
East Midlands +34 10 £42,500 -29.17% 18
Yorkshire +31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Scotland +102 5 £62,500 +4.17% 24
Northern Ireland +36 1 £50,000 - 8

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (1.92%) Confluence
2 2 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.32%) IIS
3 1 (0.32%) Mendix
3 1 (0.32%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.56%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.60%) Maya
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.64%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.64%) Simulink
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.64%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (25.32%) AWS
2 68 (21.79%) Azure
3 21 (6.73%) Serverless
4 20 (6.41%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (5.45%) GitHub
6 12 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.85%) SaaS
7 11 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.21%) GCP
9 9 (2.88%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.24%) AWS IoT
11 5 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.60%) PaaS
12 4 (1.28%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.58%) Network Security
2 32 (10.26%) Wireless
3 31 (9.94%) Internet
4 28 (8.97%) 5G
5 25 (8.01%) Modbus
5 25 (8.01%) MQTT
6 21 (6.73%) Bluetooth
6 21 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (5.45%) Firewall
7 17 (5.45%) LTE
7 17 (5.45%) TCP/IP
8 14 (4.49%) WAN
9 13 (4.17%) 3G
10 12 (3.85%) Wireshark
11 11 (3.53%) 4G
11 11 (3.53%) VoIP
11 11 (3.53%) VPN
12 10 (3.21%) LoRaWAN
13 9 (2.88%) BGP
14 8 (2.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.26%) MySQL
2 31 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.49%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.56%) Power BI
9 6 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.60%) Metadata
10 5 (1.60%) TimescaleDB
11 4 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.28%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.96%) Big Data
12 3 (0.96%) Redis
13 2 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.64%) HDInsight
13 2 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 20 (6.41%) Git
2 11 (3.53%) JIRA
3 8 (2.56%) Burp Suite
3 8 (2.56%) Metasploit
4 6 (1.92%) MSI
5 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.64%) ESLint
6 2 (0.64%) GitLab
6 2 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.64%) Sinon.JS
6 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.64%) webpack
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Subversion
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 151 (48.40%) Social Skills
2 80 (25.64%) Manufacturing
3 69 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (18.27%) Electronics
5 39 (12.50%) Finance
6 31 (9.94%) Law
7 26 (8.33%) Games
8 25 (8.01%) Marketing
9 23 (7.37%) Telecoms
10 18 (5.77%) Public Sector
11 17 (5.45%) Legal
12 15 (4.81%) Automotive
12 15 (4.81%) Tech for Good
13 14 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (2.56%) Social Housing
17 5 (1.60%) Banking
18 4 (1.28%) Billing
18 4 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (19.87%) Lead
2 56 (17.95%) Senior
3 46 (14.74%) Software Engineer
4 44 (14.10%) Developer
5 31 (9.94%) Architect
6 20 (6.41%) Technical Leader
7 19 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (5.45%) Consultant
9 15 (4.81%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (4.49%) Product Manager
11 13 (4.17%) Lead Developer
12 12 (3.85%) Design Engineer
12 12 (3.85%) Team Leader
13 11 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.53%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.53%) Software Team Leader
14 10 (3.21%) Penetration Tester
14 10 (3.21%) Tester
15 9 (2.88%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.62%) .NET
2 25 (8.01%) Node.js
3 19 (6.09%) React
4 17 (5.45%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.53%) RESTful
6 9 (2.88%) HTML
6 9 (2.88%) Vue
7 8 (2.56%) CSS
7 8 (2.56%) JSON
8 7 (2.24%) Django
9 6 (1.92%) NestJS
9 6 (1.92%) REST
9 6 (1.92%) WebSockets
9 6 (1.92%) Yocto
10 5 (1.60%) Laravel
11 4 (1.28%) Kafka
11 4 (1.28%) Symfony
12 3 (0.96%) .NET Core
12 3 (0.96%) gRPC
12 3 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.01%) SCADA
2 24 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (7.05%) NB-IoT
4 20 (6.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 16 (5.13%) Operational Technology
6 14 (4.49%) Algorithms
6 14 (4.49%) Mobile App
7 13 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
7 13 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.85%) Device Driver
9 11 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.53%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (3.21%) Blog
10 10 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
10 10 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (3.21%) Smart Home
11 9 (2.88%) Cloud Native
11 9 (2.88%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.88%) Smart City
12 8 (2.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.44%) Linux
2 36 (11.54%) Windows
3 22 (7.05%) Unix
4 11 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.56%) Kali Linux
6 7 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.60%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (1.28%) Android
9 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.64%) VMS
11 1 (0.32%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (36.86%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (24.68%) Software Engineering
3 73 (23.40%) Agile
4 55 (17.63%) Mentoring
5 43 (13.78%) Strategic Thinking
6 42 (13.46%) Analytics
7 35 (11.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 35 (11.22%) Computer Science
8 34 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (10.90%) Machine Learning
9 32 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 32 (10.26%) Microservices
9 32 (10.26%) Project Management
10 30 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (9.29%) Roadmaps
11 29 (9.29%) Technical Debt
12 28 (8.97%) CRM
12 28 (8.97%) Product Strategy
13 27 (8.65%) DevOps
13 27 (8.65%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.35%) Python
2 43 (13.78%) SQL
3 32 (10.26%) C
3 32 (10.26%) C++
4 31 (9.94%) TypeScript
5 28 (8.97%) C#
6 24 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 19 (6.09%) Bash
8 17 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.45%) PHP
9 10 (3.21%) Java
10 6 (1.92%) Ladder Logic
11 5 (1.60%) Go
12 4 (1.28%) Ruby
13 3 (0.96%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.96%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.96%) R
13 3 (0.96%) Rust
13 3 (0.96%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 80 (25.64%) Degree
2 14 (4.49%) Master's Degree
3 12 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (3.53%) Network+ Certification
5 10 (3.21%) OSCP
6 9 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.56%) CREST Certified
7 8 (2.56%) Cyber Scheme
7 8 (2.56%) GIAC
7 8 (2.56%) GPEN
7 8 (2.56%) OSWP
8 6 (1.92%) CISSP
9 5 (1.60%) CCNP
9 5 (1.60%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.28%) ACCA
10 4 (1.28%) CCIE
10 4 (1.28%) CCNA
10 4 (1.28%) CIMA
10 4 (1.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.49%) QA
2 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.88%) SLA
4 8 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.92%) GDPR
5 6 (1.92%) NIST
6 4 (1.28%) GMP
6 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.96%) IEC 62304
7 3 (0.96%) MISRA
8 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.64%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) COBIT
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 22 (7.05%) Docker
2 17 (5.45%) Firmware
3 11 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.53%) vSphere
4 5 (1.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.77%) Ansible
1 18 (5.77%) Terraform
2 16 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.81%) Puppet
4 8 (2.56%) Nessus
4 8 (2.56%) Nmap
5 5 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.28%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.96%) SCCM
8 1 (0.32%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 35 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.33%) Siemens
3 25 (8.01%) SAP
4 20 (6.41%) Rockwell
5 11 (3.53%) VMware
6 9 (2.88%) EMC
7 8 (2.56%) Databricks
7 8 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.24%) Cisco
8 7 (2.24%) Oracle
9 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.28%) Meraki
9 4 (1.28%) Okta
9 4 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.96%) Aruba
10 3 (0.96%) Google
10 3 (0.96%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.64%) Infor
11 2 (0.64%) Kronos
12 1 (0.32%) YouTube