IoT Job Trends

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 311 410
Rank change year-on-year +288 +99 -39
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,339 485 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.33% 0.87% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.79% 2.35% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 216 281 257
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £38,850
25th Percentile £40,938 £46,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 20,872 20,645 18,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 36.84% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,504 10,016 13,665
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,162 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 18 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 23 December 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 +310 4,279 £57,500 - 338
UK excluding London +251 3,878 £55,000 - 276
North of England +217 1,656 £55,000 +37.50% 52
North West +164 1,510 £60,000 +50.00% 22
Midlands +160 1,061 £50,000 -16.67% 50
West Midlands +155 927 £50,000 -16.67% 23
South East +172 627 £65,000 - 83
London +250 427 £65,000 -8.77% 88
East of England +121 419 £57,500 +4.55% 34
East Midlands +69 146 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Yorkshire +98 145 £55,000 -12.00% 25
South West +28 71 £52,600 -8.52% 39
Work from Home -41 64 £60,000 - 63
Wales +18 42 £50,500 +83.64% 11
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -2 2 £57,250 +24.46% 9
North East +9 1 £40,000 -20.79% 7

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 32 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.28%) Confluence
3 2 (0.046%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.046%) nginx
4 1 (0.023%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.023%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (0.092%) AutoCAD
1 4 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (0.092%) MS Visio
1 4 (0.092%) Revit
2 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.023%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.12%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.069%) SAP EWM
3 3 (0.069%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.046%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.046%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.046%) SAP APO
4 2 (0.046%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.046%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.046%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.023%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.023%) Maximo
5 1 (0.023%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.023%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.023%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.023%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.023%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.023%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 4,066 (93.71%) Cloud Computing
2 53 (1.22%) Azure
3 31 (0.71%) AWS
4 25 (0.58%) Entra ID
5 21 (0.48%) Power Platform
6 16 (0.37%) Power Automate
7 13 (0.30%) PowerApps
8 12 (0.28%) Serverless
9 11 (0.25%) SaaS
10 7 (0.16%) GCP
11 6 (0.14%) GitHub
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.092%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.092%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.092%) IaaS
12 4 (0.092%) PaaS
12 4 (0.092%) SurveyMonkey
12 4 (0.092%) Zapier
13 3 (0.069%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.046%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4,071 (93.82%) Internet
2 40 (0.92%) Network Security
3 32 (0.74%) Wireless
4 14 (0.32%) Modbus
5 12 (0.28%) Bluetooth
5 12 (0.28%) Firewall
5 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.25%) MQTT
7 9 (0.21%) WAN
8 8 (0.18%) 5G
8 8 (0.18%) VLAN
9 6 (0.14%) LAN
9 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.12%) Broadband
10 5 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.12%) VPN
10 5 (0.12%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.092%) DNS
11 4 (0.092%) LTE
11 4 (0.092%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (0.58%) Big Data
2 13 (0.30%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Power BI
4 6 (0.14%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.092%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.069%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.069%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.046%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.046%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.046%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.046%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.046%) Informix
7 2 (0.046%) Metadata
7 2 (0.046%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.023%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.023%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.023%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.023%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.023%) Redis
8 1 (0.023%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (0.35%) JIRA
2 4 (0.092%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.092%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.069%) Git
3 3 (0.069%) GitLab
4 2 (0.046%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.046%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.046%) MLflow
4 2 (0.046%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.023%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.023%) Postman
5 1 (0.023%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.023%) Selenium
5 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
General
1 4,140 (95.41%) Social Skills
2 4,071 (93.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,069 (93.78%) Banking
4 35 (0.81%) Manufacturing
5 33 (0.76%) Marketing
6 30 (0.69%) Finance
7 23 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (0.53%) Electronics
8 16 (0.37%) Automotive
9 15 (0.35%) Public Sector
10 13 (0.30%) Tech for Good
11 10 (0.23%) Law
11 10 (0.23%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.21%) Retail
13 8 (0.18%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.16%) Wearables
15 6 (0.14%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.12%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.092%) Back Office
18 3 (0.069%) Games
Job Titles
1 3,159 (72.80%) Lecturer
2 42 (0.97%) Developer
3 31 (0.71%) Senior
4 23 (0.53%) Software Engineer
5 22 (0.51%) Architect
6 15 (0.35%) React Developer
7 13 (0.30%) Embedded Engineer
7 13 (0.30%) Mobile Developer
8 12 (0.28%) Senior Developer
9 11 (0.25%) Firmware Engineer
10 10 (0.23%) IoT Developer
10 10 (0.23%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.23%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Analyst
11 9 (0.21%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Principal Software Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Sales Manager
12 8 (0.18%) Applications Developer
12 8 (0.18%) Backend Developer
12 8 (0.18%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (0.35%) React Native
2 12 (0.28%) Node.js
3 10 (0.23%) React
4 8 (0.18%) .NET
4 8 (0.18%) REST
5 5 (0.12%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.12%) Kafka
5 5 (0.12%) OpenAPI
5 5 (0.12%) Swagger
6 3 (0.069%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.069%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (0.069%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.069%) SAPUI5
6 3 (0.069%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.046%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.046%) Django
7 2 (0.046%) HTML
7 2 (0.046%) RESTful
7 2 (0.046%) WebRTC
7 2 (0.046%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (0.41%) Management Information System
2 16 (0.37%) Mobile App
3 13 (0.30%) SCADA
4 10 (0.23%) Smart Home
5 9 (0.21%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (0.21%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (0.21%) Smart Energy
6 8 (0.18%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (0.16%) Operational Technology
8 6 (0.14%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (0.14%) Driving Licence
8 6 (0.14%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.12%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.12%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.092%) Digital Signage
10 4 (0.092%) Home Automation
10 4 (0.092%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (0.092%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.32%) Linux
1 14 (0.32%) Windows
2 9 (0.21%) Android
2 9 (0.21%) Unix
3 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.092%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.046%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.046%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.046%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.023%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,116 (94.86%) Cybersecurity
2 4,075 (93.92%) AI
3 4,067 (93.73%) Machine Learning
4 4,064 (93.66%) Web Development
5 4,054 (93.43%) User Experience
6 50 (1.15%) Agile
7 45 (1.04%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (0.85%) Software Engineering
9 32 (0.74%) Customer Service
10 31 (0.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (0.71%) Roadmaps
11 30 (0.69%) DevOps
12 29 (0.67%) Project Management
13 24 (0.55%) Analytics
14 23 (0.53%) Digital Marketing
15 21 (0.48%) Business Analysis
15 21 (0.48%) Decision-Making
15 21 (0.48%) ERP
16 20 (0.46%) Business Development
16 20 (0.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 34 (0.78%) Python
2 19 (0.44%) C++
2 19 (0.44%) Java
2 19 (0.44%) SQL
3 15 (0.35%) TypeScript
4 12 (0.28%) PowerShell
5 10 (0.23%) C
5 10 (0.23%) C#
6 9 (0.21%) Ruby
7 8 (0.18%) Elixir
7 8 (0.18%) Go
8 7 (0.16%) PHP
9 6 (0.14%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.092%) R
10 4 (0.092%) Rust
11 3 (0.069%) Perl
12 2 (0.046%) Bash
12 2 (0.046%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.046%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.046%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4,095 (94.38%) Degree
2 4,068 (93.75%) Master's Degree
3 4,048 (93.29%) PhD
4 4,044 (93.20%) Postgraduate
5 21 (0.48%) HND
6 18 (0.41%) Security Cleared
7 11 (0.25%) SC Cleared
8 9 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.092%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.092%) PMP
11 3 (0.069%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.046%) CISA
12 2 (0.046%) CISM
12 2 (0.046%) CISSP
12 2 (0.046%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.023%) CCNA
13 1 (0.023%) CCNP
13 1 (0.023%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.023%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (0.41%) QA
2 5 (0.12%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.12%) GDPR
3 4 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.069%) SLA
5 2 (0.046%) NIST
6 1 (0.023%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.023%) GMP
6 1 (0.023%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.023%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (0.53%) Firmware
2 7 (0.16%) Docker
2 7 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.046%) NFS
4 2 (0.046%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.023%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.023%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.21%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.12%) Grafana
4 4 (0.092%) Nessus
4 4 (0.092%) Nmap
5 2 (0.046%) Ansible
5 2 (0.046%) Argo
5 2 (0.046%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.046%) Terraform
6 1 (0.023%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (1.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (0.28%) Cisco
2 12 (0.28%) SAP
3 11 (0.25%) Atlassian
4 9 (0.21%) Google
5 6 (0.14%) Oracle
5 6 (0.14%) Ruckus Wireless
6 5 (0.12%) EMC
6 5 (0.12%) Epicor
6 5 (0.12%) Infor
6 5 (0.12%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.092%) Autodesk
7 4 (0.092%) IBM
7 4 (0.092%) NEC
7 4 (0.092%) Panasonic
7 4 (0.092%) Polycom
7 4 (0.092%) Qualtrics
7 4 (0.092%) Samsung
7 4 (0.092%) Sony
7 4 (0.092%) Splunk