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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 476 298
Rank change year-on-year +64 -178 +65
Permanent jobs citing IoT 404 227 835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.12% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 303 167 654
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £34,825
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.95%

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 25,983 20,255 30,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 41.26% 33.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,516 10,115 19,083
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 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 24 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 +51 332 £55,000 -8.33% 180
UK excluding London +34 307 £55,000 -8.33% 155
Work from Home +8 118 £67,500 +16.38% 117
South East +23 81 £55,000 -12.00% 56
London +12 72 £75,000 -14.29% 88
North of England -6 60 £55,000 -5.17% 17
South West -36 49 £52,500 - 10
Scotland +50 41 £60,000 +2.13% 12
Midlands -22 40 £42,500 -29.17% 16
East of England -7 26 £62,500 +8.70% 18
Yorkshire -10 26 £60,000 - 7
East Midlands -24 22 £60,000 +14.29% 11
North West -8 21 £52,500 -9.48% 8
West Midlands -22 18 £38,500 -45.00% 5
North East - 13 £50,000 - 3
Northern Ireland -58 10 £65,000 +30.00% 27

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 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.99%) CMS
3 4 (0.99%) Confluence
3 4 (0.99%) 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 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.98%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.99%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.74%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.74%) Simulink
5 2 (0.50%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.50%) Windchill
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Maximo
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.87%) AWS
2 45 (11.14%) Azure
3 25 (6.19%) SaaS
4 15 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (3.71%) Serverless
5 12 (2.97%) GCP
6 11 (2.72%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.24%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.99%) Azure Functions
9 4 (0.99%) Canva
9 4 (0.99%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.15%) Wireless
2 26 (6.44%) MQTT
3 23 (5.69%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (4.70%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.46%) Firewall
6 17 (4.21%) Internet
7 14 (3.47%) VPN
8 12 (2.97%) LoRaWAN
9 11 (2.72%) DNS
10 9 (2.23%) ZigBee
11 6 (1.49%) 5G
11 6 (1.49%) DHCP
12 5 (1.24%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.24%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.24%) VoIP
13 4 (0.99%) LTE
13 4 (0.99%) Modbus
13 4 (0.99%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.50%) AMQP
14 2 (0.50%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.72%) Big Data
1 11 (2.72%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.98%) MySQL
4 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.49%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.49%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.74%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.50%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 25 (6.19%) Git
2 8 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.73%) GitLab
4 6 (1.49%) GDB
5 5 (1.24%) JIRA
6 4 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.74%) PetaLinux
8 2 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) Poetry
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (16.83%) Electronics
2 59 (14.60%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.17%) Manufacturing
4 29 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.18%) Finance
5 23 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 16 (3.96%) Automotive
6 16 (3.96%) Marketing
6 16 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.48%) Retail
7 10 (2.48%) Wearables
8 9 (2.23%) Legal
8 9 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.98%) Law
9 8 (1.98%) Local Government
10 7 (1.73%) Social Housing
11 6 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.49%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (15.84%) Software Engineer
2 50 (12.38%) Embedded Engineer
3 38 (9.41%) Senior
4 35 (8.66%) Developer
5 32 (7.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (7.92%) Technical Engineer
6 30 (7.43%) Sales Manager
7 29 (7.18%) Architect
8 18 (4.46%) Design Engineer
8 18 (4.46%) Hardware Engineer
9 17 (4.21%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.96%) Firmware Engineer
11 15 (3.71%) Electronics Engineer
12 14 (3.47%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.22%) Technical Support Engineer
14 12 (2.97%) Operations Engineer
14 12 (2.97%) Principal Architect
14 12 (2.97%) Test Engineer
15 11 (2.72%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (2.72%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.70%) Yocto
2 14 (3.47%) .NET
3 10 (2.48%) React
4 9 (2.23%) Node.js
4 9 (2.23%) REST
5 5 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.24%) Kafka
6 4 (0.99%) Blazor
6 4 (0.99%) pytest
6 4 (0.99%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.74%) Vue
8 2 (0.50%) Django
8 2 (0.50%) Flash
8 2 (0.50%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.50%) HTML
8 2 (0.50%) Laravel
8 2 (0.50%) pgvector
8 2 (0.50%) PySpark
8 2 (0.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.14%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (4.95%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.71%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.97%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.97%) Robotics
7 12 (2.97%) Smart Home
8 11 (2.72%) PropTech
9 10 (2.48%) ARM Cortex
10 8 (1.98%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.98%) SCADA
11 7 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.73%) Blog
11 7 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.49%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.87%) Linux
2 17 (4.21%) Embedded Linux
2 17 (4.21%) Windows
3 11 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.24%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
6 4 (0.99%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (23.27%) Software Engineering
2 80 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (18.07%) AI
4 45 (11.14%) Analytics
5 43 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (9.65%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (9.16%) CI/CD
8 35 (8.66%) DevOps
9 30 (7.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (7.43%) Machine Learning
10 29 (7.18%) CRM
10 29 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (6.68%) Roadmaps
12 26 (6.44%) Validation
13 24 (5.94%) Agile
13 24 (5.94%) Computer Science
14 23 (5.69%) ERP
15 22 (5.45%) Business Development
16 20 (4.95%) Decision-Making
17 19 (4.70%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.60%) Python
2 40 (9.90%) C++
3 33 (8.17%) C
4 20 (4.95%) SQL
5 19 (4.70%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.96%) C#
8 14 (3.47%) Embedded C
9 13 (3.22%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.48%) Java
11 6 (1.49%) Bash
11 6 (1.49%) Go
12 5 (1.24%) PHP
13 4 (0.99%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.99%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.99%) Rust
14 1 (0.25%) Haskell
14 1 (0.25%) OCaml
14 1 (0.25%) Scala
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (18.32%) Degree
2 18 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.47%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.48%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.98%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.24%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.24%) HND
7 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) CISM
8 2 (0.50%) CISSP
8 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) 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 (3.47%) QA
2 9 (2.23%) JTAG
3 8 (1.98%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.74%) ECSS
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (13.12%) Firmware
2 21 (5.20%) Docker
3 19 (4.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (2.72%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.48%) Terraform
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.24%) SCCM
5 4 (0.99%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.99%) Grafana
5 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 48 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.48%) SAP
2 10 (2.48%) VMware
3 9 (2.23%) Google
4 8 (1.98%) EMC
5 7 (1.73%) Cisco
5 7 (1.73%) Oracle
5 7 (1.73%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.24%) Aruba
6 5 (1.24%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.99%) Adobe
7 4 (0.99%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.99%) IFS
8 3 (0.74%) BT
8 3 (0.74%) Databricks
8 3 (0.74%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.50%) Meraki
9 2 (0.50%) Siemens
10 1 (0.25%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.25%) Palo Alto