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 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 404 291
Rank change year-on-year +350 -113 +56
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,816 271 952
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.06% 0.62% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.56% 1.44% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 276 182 742
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,625 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -5.98%

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 24,357 18,766 34,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.46% 42.59% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,771 9,154 23,029
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 19 May 2026.

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 19 May 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 +374 2,750 £61,250 +2.08% 228
UK excluding London +304 2,577 £60,000 - 198
North of England +246 1,051 £60,000 +3.45% 27
Midlands +163 1,006 £42,500 -29.17% 28
North West +204 927 £60,000 +3.45% 13
West Midlands +128 924 £50,000 -23.08% 12
South East +148 275 £55,000 -2.22% 52
London +110 197 £75,000 -6.25% 67
East of England +107 154 £66,250 +20.45% 31
Yorkshire +60 120 £60,000 - 11
East Midlands +48 94 £42,500 -15.00% 16
Work from Home -2 72 £70,000 +16.67% 77
South West -42 51 £56,250 -6.25% 34
Scotland +15 22 £60,000 -5.88% 23
Wales -48 14 - - 4
Northern Ireland -34 6 £65,000 +30.00% 6
North East - 4 £51,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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 5 (0.18%) Confluence
2 4 (0.14%) CMS
2 4 (0.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.14%) WordPress
3 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.036%) Apache
4 1 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.036%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.036%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.071%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.071%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.036%) Maximo
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.036%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,458 (87.29%) Cloud Computing
2 45 (1.60%) Azure
3 43 (1.53%) AWS
4 16 (0.57%) SaaS
5 13 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (0.43%) GCP
7 8 (0.28%) Serverless
8 5 (0.18%) Amazon S3
8 5 (0.18%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.14%) Canva
9 4 (0.14%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.11%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.11%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.071%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.071%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2,458 (87.29%) Internet
2 33 (1.17%) Wireless
3 21 (0.75%) Firewall
4 19 (0.67%) Bluetooth
5 18 (0.64%) MQTT
6 15 (0.53%) VPN
7 14 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.43%) DNS
9 9 (0.32%) LoRaWAN
10 8 (0.28%) Modbus
11 5 (0.18%) DHCP
11 5 (0.18%) LTE
12 4 (0.14%) ZigBee
13 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.071%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.036%) AMQP
15 1 (0.036%) MVNO
15 1 (0.036%) Network Security
15 1 (0.036%) RFID
15 1 (0.036%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (0.53%) Big Data
2 10 (0.36%) MySQL
3 8 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
3 8 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.28%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.18%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.14%) Power BI
7 3 (0.11%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.071%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.071%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.071%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.071%) GIS
8 2 (0.071%) Informix
8 2 (0.071%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.036%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.036%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.036%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Git
2 5 (0.18%) JIRA
3 4 (0.14%) GitLab
3 4 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.11%) GDB
4 3 (0.11%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.036%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.036%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.036%) Poetry
5 1 (0.036%) Zephyr
General
1 2,507 (89.03%) Social Skills
2 2,465 (87.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,461 (87.39%) Banking
4 52 (1.85%) Electronics
5 32 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 29 (1.03%) Finance
7 23 (0.82%) Marketing
8 18 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (0.64%) Tech for Good
9 17 (0.60%) Automotive
10 16 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 14 (0.50%) Public Sector
12 11 (0.39%) Wearables
13 10 (0.36%) Social Housing
14 8 (0.28%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.25%) Law
16 6 (0.21%) French Language
17 5 (0.18%) Retail
18 4 (0.14%) Multimedia
18 4 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,859 (66.02%) Lecturer
2 71 (2.52%) Software Engineer
3 48 (1.70%) Senior
4 47 (1.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 35 (1.24%) Developer
6 28 (0.99%) Firmware Engineer
7 27 (0.96%) Architect
8 23 (0.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 20 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 18 (0.64%) Principal Engineer
10 18 (0.64%) Principal Software Engineer
10 18 (0.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (0.60%) Sales Manager
12 15 (0.53%) Support Engineer
13 14 (0.50%) Technical Engineer
14 12 (0.43%) Electronics Engineer
15 11 (0.39%) 2nd Line Support
15 11 (0.39%) Systems Engineer
16 10 (0.36%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.71%) React
2 17 (0.60%) Node.js
3 9 (0.32%) React Native
4 7 (0.25%) REST
5 6 (0.21%) .NET
6 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
6 5 (0.18%) Yocto
7 3 (0.11%) Kafka
7 3 (0.11%) pytest
7 3 (0.11%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (0.071%) pgvector
9 1 (0.036%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.036%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.036%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.036%) Next.js
9 1 (0.036%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.036%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.036%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.036%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (0.57%) Mobile App
3 15 (0.53%) Smart Energy
4 12 (0.43%) Cloud Native
4 12 (0.43%) SCADA
4 12 (0.43%) Smart Home
5 11 (0.39%) PropTech
6 10 (0.36%) Device Driver
7 9 (0.32%) Operational Technology
8 8 (0.28%) Robotics
9 7 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.21%) NB-IoT
10 6 (0.21%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.18%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.14%) ARM Cortex
12 4 (0.14%) Social Media
12 4 (0.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.46%) Linux
2 18 (0.64%) Windows
3 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.32%) Unix
5 7 (0.25%) Android
5 7 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.14%) VMS
7 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.036%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.036%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.036%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,486 (88.28%) AI
2 2,481 (88.10%) Cybersecurity
3 2,463 (87.46%) Machine Learning
4 2,457 (87.25%) Web Development
5 2,451 (87.04%) User Experience
6 89 (3.16%) Software Engineering
7 56 (1.99%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (1.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (1.21%) Analytics
10 29 (1.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (0.92%) Collaborative Culture
11 26 (0.92%) DevOps
11 26 (0.92%) Energy Management
12 25 (0.89%) Business Analysis
13 22 (0.78%) Mentoring
14 21 (0.75%) ERP
14 21 (0.75%) Roadmaps
15 20 (0.71%) Agile
16 19 (0.67%) Asset Management
17 18 (0.64%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 40 (1.42%) Python
2 20 (0.71%) C++
3 19 (0.67%) Java
4 17 (0.60%) SQL
4 17 (0.60%) TypeScript
5 14 (0.50%) C
5 14 (0.50%) JavaScript
6 11 (0.39%) C#
6 11 (0.39%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.21%) PHP
8 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 4 (0.14%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.11%) Go
11 2 (0.071%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.071%) Perl
12 1 (0.036%) Groovy
12 1 (0.036%) Haskell
12 1 (0.036%) OCaml
12 1 (0.036%) Scala
12 1 (0.036%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,505 (88.96%) Degree
2 2,466 (87.57%) Master's Degree
3 2,447 (86.90%) PhD
4 2,445 (86.83%) Postgraduate
5 18 (0.64%) HND
6 11 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.25%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.14%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.071%) CISM
11 2 (0.071%) CISSP
11 2 (0.071%) MBA
12 1 (0.036%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.036%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.036%) CISA
12 1 (0.036%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.036%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (0.36%) QA
2 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.14%) JTAG
3 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.11%) GDPR
3 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.071%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.036%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.036%) GMP
5 1 (0.036%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (1.92%) Firmware
2 31 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (0.53%) Docker
4 10 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.14%) Terraform
4 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.11%) SCCM
4 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.071%) Grafana
6 1 (0.036%) MOM
Vendors
1 34 (1.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.36%) Google
3 9 (0.32%) VMware
4 7 (0.25%) EMC
5 6 (0.21%) SAP
6 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.14%) Adobe
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle
8 3 (0.11%) Aruba
8 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
8 3 (0.11%) Draytek
8 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.071%) Cisco
9 2 (0.071%) HP
9 2 (0.071%) IBM
9 2 (0.071%) Meraki
9 2 (0.071%) Siemens
10 1 (0.036%) Apple
10 1 (0.036%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.036%) Salesforce