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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 410 292
Rank change year-on-year +357 -118 +54
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,803 269 952
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.12% 0.62% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.71% 1.47% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 263 179 745
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -2.08% +6.67% -2.17%

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 23,941 18,269 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.62% 42.07% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,445 9,116 22,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,870 £41,750 £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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 13 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 13 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 +387 2,742 £62,500 +4.17% 200
UK excluding London +297 2,565 £58,750 -2.08% 170
North of England +241 1,046 £55,000 -5.17% 20
Midlands +158 1,005 £42,500 -32.00% 19
North West +197 927 £60,000 +3.45% 12
West Midlands +127 924 £50,000 -27.27% 8
South East +143 274 £55,000 - 55
London +118 195 £75,000 -7.69% 66
East of England +107 154 £66,250 +20.45% 29
Yorkshire +46 116 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East Midlands +53 93 £42,500 -15.00% 11
Work from Home -15 68 £70,000 +16.67% 82
South West -34 51 £58,750 -2.08% 26
Scotland +16 18 £60,000 -4.00% 19
Wales -46 14 - - 4
Northern Ireland -34 5 £65,000 +30.00% 4
North East - 3 £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
2 4 (0.14%) CMS
2 4 (0.14%) WordPress
3 3 (0.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.036%) Apache
5 1 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.036%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.036%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (0.21%) 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%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.036%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,458 (87.69%) Cloud Computing
2 46 (1.64%) Azure
3 43 (1.53%) AWS
4 15 (0.54%) SaaS
5 12 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (0.39%) GCP
7 8 (0.29%) Serverless
8 6 (0.21%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.18%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.14%) Canva
10 4 (0.14%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.11%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.11%) GitHub
12 2 (0.071%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.071%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.071%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.071%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.071%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.071%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2,456 (87.62%) Internet
2 31 (1.11%) Wireless
3 21 (0.75%) Firewall
4 18 (0.64%) Bluetooth
4 18 (0.64%) MQTT
5 15 (0.54%) VPN
6 13 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.39%) DNS
8 9 (0.32%) Modbus
9 8 (0.29%) LoRaWAN
10 5 (0.18%) LTE
11 4 (0.14%) DHCP
12 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.11%) ZigBee
13 2 (0.071%) GSM
13 2 (0.071%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.036%) 3GPP
14 1 (0.036%) LAN
14 1 (0.036%) VoIP
14 1 (0.036%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (0.57%) Big Data
2 11 (0.39%) MySQL
3 8 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
3 8 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.29%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.18%) Neo4j
6 5 (0.18%) 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 9 (0.32%) Git
2 5 (0.18%) JIRA
3 3 (0.11%) GitLab
3 3 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.071%) GDB
4 2 (0.071%) 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 2,508 (89.48%) Social Skills
2 2,465 (87.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,461 (87.80%) Banking
4 47 (1.68%) Electronics
5 32 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 30 (1.07%) Finance
7 23 (0.82%) Marketing
8 19 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (0.64%) Tech for Good
10 16 (0.57%) Automotive
11 15 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 14 (0.50%) Public Sector
13 11 (0.39%) Wearables
14 10 (0.36%) Social Housing
15 8 (0.29%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.29%) Law
16 6 (0.21%) French Language
16 6 (0.21%) Retail
17 5 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.14%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,859 (66.32%) Lecturer
2 67 (2.39%) Software Engineer
3 48 (1.71%) Senior
4 45 (1.61%) Embedded Engineer
5 36 (1.28%) Developer
6 28 (1.00%) Architect
6 28 (1.00%) Firmware Engineer
7 21 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 20 (0.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 18 (0.64%) Principal Engineer
9 18 (0.64%) Principal Software Engineer
10 17 (0.61%) Sales Manager
10 17 (0.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (0.54%) Support Engineer
12 12 (0.43%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (0.43%) Technical Engineer
13 11 (0.39%) 2nd Line Support
13 11 (0.39%) Senior Developer
14 10 (0.36%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.71%) React
2 18 (0.64%) Node.js
3 9 (0.32%) React Native
4 8 (0.29%) REST
5 6 (0.21%) .NET
5 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.14%) Yocto
8 3 (0.11%) Kafka
9 2 (0.071%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.071%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.071%) pgvector
9 2 (0.071%) pytest
9 2 (0.071%) Swagger
9 2 (0.071%) Unity DI Container
10 1 (0.036%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.036%) Anaconda
10 1 (0.036%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.036%) Next.js
10 1 (0.036%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (0.54%) Smart Energy
3 13 (0.46%) SCADA
4 12 (0.43%) Cloud Native
4 12 (0.43%) Mobile App
4 12 (0.43%) Smart Home
5 11 (0.39%) PropTech
6 9 (0.32%) Device Driver
6 9 (0.32%) Operational Technology
7 8 (0.29%) Robotics
8 7 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.18%) e-Learning
10 5 (0.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 5 (0.18%) NB-IoT
10 5 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.14%) Blog
11 4 (0.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.39%) Linux
2 17 (0.61%) Windows
3 9 (0.32%) Unix
3 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.25%) Android
4 7 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.14%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.036%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.036%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.036%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,486 (88.69%) AI
2 2,479 (88.44%) Cybersecurity
3 2,462 (87.83%) Machine Learning
4 2,457 (87.66%) Web Development
5 2,451 (87.44%) User Experience
6 84 (3.00%) Software Engineering
7 58 (2.07%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (1.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (1.18%) Analytics
10 29 (1.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (0.89%) Business Analysis
11 25 (0.89%) Energy Management
12 24 (0.86%) DevOps
13 23 (0.82%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (0.82%) ERP
13 23 (0.82%) Mentoring
14 22 (0.78%) Agile
14 22 (0.78%) Roadmaps
15 19 (0.68%) Asset Management
16 18 (0.64%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 38 (1.36%) Python
2 18 (0.64%) C++
2 18 (0.64%) Java
2 18 (0.64%) SQL
2 18 (0.64%) TypeScript
3 13 (0.46%) C
3 13 (0.46%) JavaScript
4 12 (0.43%) C#
5 10 (0.36%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.25%) PHP
7 4 (0.14%) Bash
7 4 (0.14%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.11%) Go
9 2 (0.071%) Embedded C++
9 2 (0.071%) Perl
10 1 (0.036%) Groovy
10 1 (0.036%) Haskell
10 1 (0.036%) OCaml
10 1 (0.036%) Scala
10 1 (0.036%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,502 (89.26%) Degree
2 2,465 (87.94%) Master's Degree
3 2,448 (87.33%) PhD
4 2,445 (87.23%) Postgraduate
5 18 (0.64%) HND
6 10 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.25%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.11%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.071%) CISM
11 2 (0.071%) CISSP
11 2 (0.071%) DBS Check
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%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.29%) QA
2 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.14%) GDPR
3 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.11%) JTAG
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 52 (1.86%) Firmware
2 30 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
3 14 (0.50%) Docker
4 9 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.14%) Terraform
4 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.071%) Grafana
5 2 (0.071%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (1.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.36%) Google
3 8 (0.29%) VMware
4 6 (0.21%) EMC
5 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
5 5 (0.18%) SAP
6 4 (0.14%) Adobe
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle
7 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.11%) Draytek
7 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.071%) Aruba
8 2 (0.071%) Cisco
8 2 (0.071%) HP
8 2 (0.071%) IBM
8 2 (0.071%) Meraki
8 2 (0.071%) Siemens
9 1 (0.036%) Apple
9 1 (0.036%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.036%) Salesforce