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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 475 321
Rank change year-on-year +68 -154 +25
Permanent jobs citing IoT 482 212 657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 1.04% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 368 146 479
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £33,951
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £59,764 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -0.39% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £82,500
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 29,619 20,428 25,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 41.12% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18,609 10,249 13,475
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,925 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 11 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 11 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 +62 404 £55,000 -8.33% 364
UK excluding London +37 374 £55,000 -4.35% 228
Work from Home +21 140 £64,585 +11.83% 634
South East +15 98 £55,000 -8.33% 94
London +10 92 £62,500 -34.21% 187
North of England +25 88 £55,000 -8.33% 29
Scotland +58 53 £60,000 +4.80% 17
South West -49 50 £55,000 +18.92% 15
Midlands -23 49 £46,000 -16.36% 30
Yorkshire -5 42 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North West -12 30 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East of England -38 26 £80,000 +39.13% 35
East Midlands -26 25 £67,500 +28.57% 12
West Midlands -13 24 £42,500 -28.60% 18
North East - 16 £50,000 - 7
Northern Ireland -67 10 £65,000 - 11

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 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.62%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.62%) Simulink
4 2 (0.41%) CATIA
4 2 (0.41%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.41%) Windchill
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.62%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Maximo
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 59 (12.24%) AWS
2 40 (8.30%) Azure
3 25 (5.19%) SaaS
4 19 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.49%) Serverless
7 11 (2.28%) AWS IoT
8 9 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.66%) GCP
10 5 (1.04%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.04%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.83%) Amazon CloudSearch
11 4 (0.83%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (0.83%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.83%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (0.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.30%) Wireless
2 34 (7.05%) Internet
3 28 (5.81%) Wi-Fi
4 27 (5.60%) MQTT
5 20 (4.15%) Firewall
6 17 (3.53%) Bluetooth
6 17 (3.53%) DNS
6 17 (3.53%) VPN
7 12 (2.49%) 5G
8 11 (2.28%) DHCP
8 11 (2.28%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.07%) ZigBee
10 7 (1.45%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.04%) SSH
11 5 (1.04%) VLAN
11 5 (1.04%) VoIP
12 4 (0.83%) HTTP
12 4 (0.83%) LTE
12 4 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.70%) Big Data
1 13 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.49%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.28%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.66%) MySQL
5 6 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.24%) Neo4j
5 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.04%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.62%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.62%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.41%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (6.64%) Git
2 12 (2.49%) JIRA
3 7 (1.45%) GitLab
3 7 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.24%) GDB
5 4 (0.83%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.83%) Selenium
6 3 (0.62%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.62%) Postman
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Poetry
7 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (15.98%) Electronics
2 72 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 41 (8.51%) Finance
4 39 (8.09%) Manufacturing
4 39 (8.09%) Telecoms
5 32 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.56%) Wearables
8 18 (3.73%) Automotive
9 15 (3.11%) Marketing
10 14 (2.90%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.49%) Legal
13 11 (2.28%) Retail
14 9 (1.87%) Law
15 8 (1.66%) Local Government
16 7 (1.45%) Banking
16 7 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (13.49%) Software Engineer
2 55 (11.41%) Senior
3 52 (10.79%) Embedded Engineer
4 44 (9.13%) Developer
5 43 (8.92%) Design Engineer
6 40 (8.30%) Sales Manager
7 39 (8.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 33 (6.85%) Architect
9 32 (6.64%) Technical Engineer
10 27 (5.60%) Hardware Engineer
11 23 (4.77%) Electronics Engineer
12 17 (3.53%) Account Manager
12 17 (3.53%) Hardware Design Engineer
12 17 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.53%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.53%) Technical Support
13 14 (2.90%) Test Engineer
14 13 (2.70%) Product Design Engineer
14 13 (2.70%) Product Engineer
14 13 (2.70%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.36%) Terraform
1 21 (4.36%) Yocto
2 17 (3.53%) .NET
3 16 (3.32%) REST
4 15 (3.11%) React
5 11 (2.28%) Node.js
6 7 (1.45%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.45%) Kafka
7 6 (1.24%) Blazor
8 5 (1.04%) Vue
9 4 (0.83%) HTML
9 4 (0.83%) pytest
9 4 (0.83%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (0.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.62%) CarPlay
10 3 (0.62%) CSS
10 3 (0.62%) Flash
10 3 (0.62%) PySpark
11 2 (0.41%) HTML5
11 2 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.96%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.94%) Device Driver
4 19 (3.94%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.32%) Driving Licence
5 16 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.11%) Robotics
7 14 (2.90%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.49%) ARM Cortex
9 11 (2.28%) PropTech
10 10 (2.07%) Smart Home
11 9 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.66%) FPGA
12 8 (1.66%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.45%) CCTV
13 7 (1.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (12.86%) Linux
2 22 (4.56%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.32%) Windows
4 10 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.66%) Android
6 7 (1.45%) VMS
7 6 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.62%) Unix
10 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (20.33%) Software Engineering
3 92 (19.09%) AI
4 46 (9.54%) Analytics
5 45 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (9.13%) Machine Learning
7 43 (8.92%) CI/CD
8 38 (7.88%) Agile
8 38 (7.88%) Collaborative Culture
8 38 (7.88%) Validation
9 37 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (7.68%) DevOps
10 28 (5.81%) Business Development
10 28 (5.81%) Computer Science
10 28 (5.81%) Decision-Making
10 28 (5.81%) Roadmaps
11 26 (5.39%) CRM
11 26 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (4.98%) Asset Management
13 22 (4.56%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 63 (13.07%) Python
2 43 (8.92%) C++
3 36 (7.47%) C
4 23 (4.77%) SQL
5 21 (4.36%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.36%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.15%) C#
7 19 (3.94%) Embedded C
8 17 (3.53%) Go
9 13 (2.70%) Java
10 12 (2.49%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.66%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.24%) Bash
13 4 (0.83%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.83%) PHP
13 4 (0.83%) Rust
14 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.21%) Bicep
15 1 (0.21%) Haskell
15 1 (0.21%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 101 (20.95%) Degree
2 22 (4.56%) DBS Check
3 21 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.36%) Master's Degree
4 14 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.07%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.87%) HNC
7 8 (1.66%) PhD
8 7 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.45%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.83%) HND
10 3 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.21%) CCNP
12 1 (0.21%) CCSP
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.11%) QA
2 10 (2.07%) JTAG
3 7 (1.45%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.62%) ECSS
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.62%) NCSC
6 2 (0.41%) GDPR
6 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) COBIT
7 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (10.37%) Firmware
2 24 (4.98%) Docker
3 13 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.07%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.87%) vSphere
6 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.41%) iptables
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.24%) Grafana
3 5 (1.04%) SCCM
4 4 (0.83%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.83%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.62%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) MOM
Vendors
1 49 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.87%) Salesforce
2 9 (1.87%) VMware
3 8 (1.66%) SAP
4 7 (1.45%) Cisco
4 7 (1.45%) Oracle
5 6 (1.24%) EMC
6 5 (1.04%) Aruba
6 5 (1.04%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.04%) Google
7 4 (0.83%) Adobe
7 4 (0.83%) Databricks
7 4 (0.83%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.83%) IFS
8 3 (0.62%) Apple
8 3 (0.62%) BT
8 3 (0.62%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.41%) MEDITECH
9 2 (0.41%) Planon
9 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow