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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 464 300
Rank change year-on-year +50 -164 +50
Permanent jobs citing IoT 396 226 925
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.12% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 295 166 715
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £34,301
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £90,000 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -2.60%

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 25,615 20,176 33,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.89% 41.07% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16,347 10,012 21,055
10th Percentile £30,700 £29,250 £28,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,445 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +4.55% -15.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +53 325 £55,250 -7.92% 149
UK excluding London +33 296 £55,000 -8.33% 136
Work from Home +3 112 £66,750 +15.09% 98
South East +8 74 £55,000 -12.00% 52
London +20 73 £75,000 -9.09% 67
North of England +6 60 £52,500 -9.48% 16
South West -28 49 £52,500 +2.44% 10
Midlands -19 39 £42,500 -29.17% 14
Scotland +38 38 £60,000 +2.13% 12
East of England -5 26 £62,500 +8.70% 14
Yorkshire -15 24 £60,000 - 5
North West -4 23 £52,500 -9.48% 8
East Midlands -12 21 £52,500 - 7
West Midlands -8 18 £38,500 -45.00% 7
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -49 10 £65,000 +30.00% 18

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 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.01%) CMS
3 4 (1.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.01%) WordPress
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.01%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.76%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.76%) Simulink
5 2 (0.51%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.51%) Windchill
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
2 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.89%) AWS
2 43 (10.86%) Azure
3 21 (5.30%) SaaS
4 16 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.04%) Serverless
5 12 (3.03%) GCP
6 11 (2.78%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.26%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.26%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.26%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.01%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (1.01%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.01%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.01%) Canva
9 4 (1.01%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 40 (10.10%) Wireless
2 26 (6.57%) MQTT
3 22 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (4.80%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.55%) Firewall
6 17 (4.29%) Internet
7 14 (3.54%) VPN
8 12 (3.03%) LoRaWAN
9 11 (2.78%) DNS
10 9 (2.27%) ZigBee
11 6 (1.52%) 5G
11 6 (1.52%) DHCP
12 5 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.26%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.26%) Modbus
13 4 (1.01%) LTE
13 4 (1.01%) VoIP
14 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.51%) AMQP
15 2 (0.51%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.53%) Big Data
3 8 (2.02%) MySQL
3 8 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.52%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.76%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.51%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 22 (5.56%) Git
2 8 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.77%) GitLab
4 6 (1.52%) GDB
5 5 (1.26%) JIRA
6 4 (1.01%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.76%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) Poetry
8 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (17.68%) Electronics
2 59 (14.90%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.59%) Manufacturing
4 27 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.31%) Finance
6 22 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.04%) Automotive
7 16 (4.04%) Marketing
8 15 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.78%) Retail
10 10 (2.53%) Tech for Good
11 9 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.02%) Legal
12 8 (2.02%) Local Government
13 7 (1.77%) Law
13 7 (1.77%) Social Housing
13 7 (1.77%) Wearables
14 6 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.52%) Health Technology
15 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (17.17%) Software Engineer
2 48 (12.12%) Embedded Engineer
3 40 (10.10%) Senior
4 35 (8.84%) Developer
5 32 (8.08%) Technical Engineer
6 31 (7.83%) Architect
6 31 (7.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 27 (6.82%) Sales Manager
8 17 (4.29%) Support Engineer
9 16 (4.04%) Firmware Engineer
10 15 (3.79%) Electronics Engineer
10 15 (3.79%) Hardware Engineer
11 14 (3.54%) Design Engineer
12 13 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.28%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.28%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
13 12 (3.03%) Principal Architect
13 12 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.55%) Yocto
2 14 (3.54%) Node.js
3 13 (3.28%) React
4 11 (2.78%) .NET
5 6 (1.52%) REST
6 5 (1.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.01%) Kafka
7 4 (1.01%) pytest
7 4 (1.01%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.76%) Vue
9 2 (0.51%) Blazor
9 2 (0.51%) Django
9 2 (0.51%) Flash
9 2 (0.51%) GStreamer
9 2 (0.51%) HTML
9 2 (0.51%) Laravel
9 2 (0.51%) pgvector
9 2 (0.51%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.80%) Device Driver
2 19 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.54%) Operational Technology
5 13 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.03%) Smart Home
7 11 (2.78%) PropTech
7 11 (2.78%) Robotics
8 10 (2.53%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.02%) SCADA
10 7 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.77%) Blog
10 7 (1.77%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.77%) Smart Energy
11 6 (1.52%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.88%) Linux
2 17 (4.29%) Windows
3 16 (4.04%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.52%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.26%) Android
7 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.01%) Unix
7 4 (1.01%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (24.49%) Software Engineering
2 79 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (16.92%) AI
4 46 (11.62%) Analytics
5 41 (10.35%) Collaborative Culture
5 41 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (8.84%) CI/CD
7 33 (8.33%) DevOps
8 31 (7.83%) CRM
9 30 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (7.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (7.07%) Machine Learning
11 27 (6.82%) Roadmaps
12 26 (6.57%) Validation
13 24 (6.06%) ERP
14 23 (5.81%) Computer Science
15 22 (5.56%) Agile
16 21 (5.30%) Business Development
17 19 (4.80%) Asset Management
17 19 (4.80%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.39%) Python
2 38 (9.60%) C++
3 32 (8.08%) C
4 20 (5.05%) SQL
5 18 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.54%) C#
7 13 (3.28%) Embedded C
7 13 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.78%) Java
9 7 (1.77%) Bash
10 6 (1.52%) PHP
11 5 (1.26%) Go
12 4 (1.01%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.01%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.01%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) Haskell
13 1 (0.25%) OCaml
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (18.69%) Degree
2 17 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.27%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.77%) HND
5 7 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.51%) CISM
8 2 (0.51%) CISSP
8 2 (0.51%) MBA
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CISA
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.54%) QA
2 9 (2.27%) JTAG
3 8 (2.02%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) ECSS
5 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (13.64%) Firmware
2 19 (4.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (4.55%) Docker
4 11 (2.78%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.27%) vSphere
7 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.77%) Terraform
3 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.26%) SCCM
5 4 (1.01%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.76%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.53%) SAP
2 10 (2.53%) VMware
3 9 (2.27%) EMC
3 9 (2.27%) Google
4 7 (1.77%) Cisco
4 7 (1.77%) Oracle
4 7 (1.77%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.26%) Aruba
5 5 (1.26%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.01%) Adobe
7 3 (0.76%) dotdigital
7 3 (0.76%) IFS
7 3 (0.76%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.51%) BT
8 2 (0.51%) Databricks
8 2 (0.51%) Meraki
8 2 (0.51%) Siemens
9 1 (0.25%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.25%) HubSpot