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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 420 298
Rank change year-on-year +364 -122 +57
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,817 242 963
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.02% 0.56% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.23% 1.31% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 277 160 747
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -7.17%

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 25,081 18,415 34,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 42.95% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14,333 8,655 23,064
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £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 £50,001 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 29 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 29 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 +382 2,748 £60,000 - 106
UK excluding London +321 2,579 £55,000 -8.33% 91
North of England +242 1,052 £55,000 -6.78% 15
Midlands +176 1,013 £46,250 -26.00% 16
North West +204 929 £53,750 -7.33% 9
West Midlands +133 928 £62,500 -9.09% 8
South East +139 264 £55,000 -4.35% 25
London +115 196 £75,000 -6.25% 33
East of England +96 154 £70,000 +27.27% 16
Yorkshire +50 118 £55,000 -8.33% 4
East Midlands +50 97 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Work from Home +2 74 £70,000 +16.67% 57
South West -36 54 £57,500 -4.17% 14
Scotland +18 24 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Wales -48 14 - -
Northern Ireland -34 6 £65,000 +30.00% 4
North East - 5 £51,000 - 2
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
1 5 (0.18%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.14%) CMS
2 4 (0.14%) WordPress
3 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.035%) Apache
4 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.035%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.035%) GeoServer
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 (0.035%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.071%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.035%) Maximo
2 1 (0.035%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,457 (87.22%) Cloud Computing
2 45 (1.60%) Azure
3 43 (1.53%) AWS
4 15 (0.53%) SaaS
5 13 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (0.43%) GCP
6 12 (0.43%) Serverless
7 5 (0.18%) Amazon S3
7 5 (0.18%) AWS IoT
7 5 (0.18%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (0.18%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.14%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.14%) Canva
8 4 (0.14%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.11%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.11%) Azure Functions
9 3 (0.11%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.071%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.071%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2,456 (87.18%) Internet
2 34 (1.21%) Wireless
3 22 (0.78%) Firewall
4 21 (0.75%) MQTT
5 19 (0.67%) Bluetooth
6 16 (0.57%) VPN
7 15 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.43%) DNS
9 10 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
10 8 (0.28%) Modbus
11 5 (0.18%) DHCP
11 5 (0.18%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.14%) LTE
13 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.071%) AMQP
14 2 (0.071%) TCP/IP
14 2 (0.071%) VoIP
15 1 (0.035%) 3GPP
15 1 (0.035%) LAN
15 1 (0.035%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (0.53%) Big Data
2 10 (0.35%) MySQL
2 10 (0.35%) SQL Server
3 9 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.32%) NoSQL
4 8 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.21%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.14%) Power BI
7 3 (0.11%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.071%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.071%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.071%) GIS
8 2 (0.071%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.071%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.035%) Flink
9 1 (0.035%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.035%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.035%) Informix
Development Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Git
2 5 (0.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.18%) JIRA
3 4 (0.14%) GDB
3 4 (0.14%) GitLab
3 4 (0.14%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.035%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.035%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.035%) Poetry
4 1 (0.035%) Zephyr
General
1 2,504 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 2,464 (87.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,461 (87.36%) Banking
4 55 (1.95%) Electronics
5 31 (1.10%) Finance
6 30 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 22 (0.78%) Marketing
8 18 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (0.60%) Automotive
9 17 (0.60%) Telecoms
10 16 (0.57%) Tech for Good
11 14 (0.50%) Public Sector
12 12 (0.43%) Wearables
13 10 (0.35%) Social Housing
14 8 (0.28%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.28%) Law
15 6 (0.21%) French Language
16 5 (0.18%) Local Government
16 5 (0.18%) Retail
17 4 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,859 (65.99%) Lecturer
2 71 (2.52%) Software Engineer
3 46 (1.63%) Embedded Engineer
4 43 (1.53%) Senior
5 33 (1.17%) Developer
6 27 (0.96%) Firmware Engineer
7 24 (0.85%) Architect
7 24 (0.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 18 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 17 (0.60%) Sales Manager
9 17 (0.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (0.57%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (0.57%) Principal Software Engineer
10 16 (0.57%) Technical Engineer
11 14 (0.50%) Support Engineer
12 13 (0.46%) Electronics Engineer
13 11 (0.39%) 2nd Line Support
13 11 (0.39%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (0.32%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.32%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (0.64%) React
2 17 (0.60%) Node.js
3 7 (0.25%) .NET
4 6 (0.21%) React Native
4 6 (0.21%) Yocto
5 4 (0.14%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.14%) pytest
5 4 (0.14%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (0.11%) Kafka
6 3 (0.11%) REST
6 3 (0.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.071%) GStreamer
7 2 (0.071%) pgvector
8 1 (0.035%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.035%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.035%) Blazor
8 1 (0.035%) Next.js
8 1 (0.035%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.035%) Vue
8 1 (0.035%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 23 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (0.50%) Cloud Native
3 13 (0.46%) Mobile App
3 13 (0.46%) Smart Energy
4 12 (0.43%) Smart Home
5 11 (0.39%) Device Driver
5 11 (0.39%) PropTech
5 11 (0.39%) SCADA
6 10 (0.35%) Operational Technology
7 8 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (0.28%) Robotics
8 7 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.21%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (0.21%) NB-IoT
10 5 (0.18%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.18%) e-Learning
10 5 (0.18%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.18%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (0.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.49%) Linux
2 17 (0.60%) Windows
3 10 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.18%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.035%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,488 (88.32%) AI
2 2,485 (88.21%) Cybersecurity
3 2,462 (87.40%) Machine Learning
4 2,457 (87.22%) Web Development
5 2,451 (87.01%) User Experience
6 91 (3.23%) Software Engineering
7 59 (2.09%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (1.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (1.14%) Analytics
10 30 (1.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (1.03%) Collaborative Culture
12 28 (0.99%) DevOps
13 25 (0.89%) Business Analysis
14 24 (0.85%) Energy Management
14 24 (0.85%) Mentoring
15 23 (0.82%) ERP
16 21 (0.75%) Agile
16 21 (0.75%) CRM
16 21 (0.75%) Roadmaps
17 19 (0.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (1.56%) Python
2 24 (0.85%) C++
3 20 (0.71%) SQL
4 18 (0.64%) TypeScript
5 16 (0.57%) Java
6 15 (0.53%) C
6 15 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.43%) C#
8 11 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.25%) Bash
10 6 (0.21%) PHP
11 5 (0.18%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.14%) Go
13 2 (0.071%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.035%) Groovy
14 1 (0.035%) Haskell
14 1 (0.035%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.035%) OCaml
14 1 (0.035%) Scala
14 1 (0.035%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,505 (88.92%) Degree
2 2,467 (87.58%) Master's Degree
3 2,446 (86.83%) PhD
4 2,445 (86.79%) Postgraduate
5 18 (0.64%) HND
6 12 (0.43%) 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 (0.035%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.035%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.035%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.035%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.035%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (0.35%) QA
2 5 (0.18%) JTAG
3 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.071%) GDPR
6 1 (0.035%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.035%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.035%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (1.92%) Firmware
2 29 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (0.64%) Docker
4 11 (0.39%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.25%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.035%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.14%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (0.14%) Terraform
3 4 (0.14%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.11%) SCCM
5 2 (0.071%) Grafana
6 1 (0.035%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.035%) MOM
Vendors
1 38 (1.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.35%) VMware
3 9 (0.32%) Google
4 7 (0.25%) EMC
4 7 (0.25%) SAP
5 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle
6 4 (0.14%) Adobe
7 3 (0.11%) Aruba
7 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.11%) Draytek
7 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.11%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.071%) Cisco
8 2 (0.071%) dotdigital
8 2 (0.071%) IFS
8 2 (0.071%) Meraki
8 2 (0.071%) Siemens
9 1 (0.035%) HP
9 1 (0.035%) IBM