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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 397 376
Rank change year-on-year +59 -21 -106
Permanent jobs citing IoT 560 428 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.74% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 1.97% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 354 332 678
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,625 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £64,434
% change year-on-year -4.17% -6.88% +22.73%

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 24,624 21,675 62,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 37.63% 45.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,867 15,847 31,587
10th Percentile £33,200 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,289 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT.

Salary trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 17 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 31 October 2024. 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 +15 459 £60,000 -7.69% 177
UK excluding London +71 419 £57,500 -4.17% 131
Work from Home +54 181 £60,000 -4.00% 114
South East +7 118 £60,000 +4.35% 40
London +8 98 £67,500 -3.57% 44
Midlands +6 70 £60,000 +11.63% 32
East of England -31 69 £60,000 +8.11% 10
North of England -17 60 £43,750 -26.62% 24
South West +7 42 £57,500 -11.54% 13
East Midlands -17 40 £60,000 -7.69% 12
North West -48 37 £40,000 -36.00% 13
Wales +59 31 £27,500 -50.00% 1
West Midlands -11 30 £61,500 +64.00% 20
Scotland 0 22 £40,000 -31.91% 8
Yorkshire +35 21 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Northern Ireland - 7 £70,000 - 4
North East - 2 £50,500 - 4

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.07%) ThingWorx
2 4 (0.71%) Confluence
2 4 (0.71%) Kinematics
3 3 (0.54%) Apache
4 2 (0.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.32%) Chatbot
1 13 (2.32%) OrCAD
2 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (2.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.61%) SAP ERP
2 9 (1.61%) SAP SD
3 5 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.89%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.89%) Epicor Tropos
4 3 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.36%) Maximo
5 2 (0.36%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 153 (27.32%) AWS
2 86 (15.36%) Azure
3 60 (10.71%) GCP
4 41 (7.32%) GitHub
5 39 (6.96%) Serverless
6 27 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
7 26 (4.64%) SaaS
8 17 (3.04%) BrowserStack
8 17 (3.04%) Firebase
8 17 (3.04%) Sentry
9 11 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.79%) IaaS
11 9 (1.61%) Nutanix
12 8 (1.43%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.07%) AWS IoT
13 6 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (13.75%) Wireless
2 53 (9.46%) Internet
3 35 (6.25%) MQTT
4 30 (5.36%) 5G
5 26 (4.64%) 4G
6 24 (4.29%) Firewall
6 24 (4.29%) TCP/IP
7 23 (4.11%) 3G
7 23 (4.11%) WAN
8 17 (3.04%) Modbus
9 14 (2.50%) 2G
9 14 (2.50%) LAN
9 14 (2.50%) VoIP
10 12 (2.14%) MPLS
11 11 (1.96%) HTTP
11 11 (1.96%) SSH
11 11 (1.96%) SSL
11 11 (1.96%) Wireshark
12 10 (1.79%) LTE
12 10 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.25%) MySQL
2 25 (4.46%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.21%) Redis
4 17 (3.04%) Big Data
5 10 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.43%) Power BI
7 6 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (0.89%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.18%) Metabase
10 1 (0.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (5.89%) Git
2 18 (3.21%) JIRA
3 17 (3.04%) Visual Studio Code
4 13 (2.32%) Burp Suite
4 13 (2.32%) Metasploit
5 11 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.96%) Selenium
6 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.71%) Bower
7 4 (0.71%) ESLint
7 4 (0.71%) git-flow
7 4 (0.71%) webpack
8 3 (0.54%) MSI
9 2 (0.36%) GitLab
9 2 (0.36%) Subversion
10 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 146 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 67 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (10.00%) Marketing
4 53 (9.46%) Manufacturing
5 49 (8.75%) Games
6 45 (8.04%) Finance
7 43 (7.68%) Electronics
8 40 (7.14%) Telecoms
9 35 (6.25%) Automotive
10 26 (4.64%) Public Sector
11 20 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (3.21%) Agriculture
13 16 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.86%) Tech for Good
14 15 (2.68%) Law
15 14 (2.50%) Social Housing
16 12 (2.14%) Banking
17 9 (1.61%) Legal
18 5 (0.89%) Billing
18 5 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 143 (25.54%) Developer
2 104 (18.57%) Senior
3 72 (12.86%) Software Engineer
4 62 (11.07%) Embedded Engineer
5 45 (8.04%) Architect
6 34 (6.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 34 (6.07%) Lead
7 30 (5.36%) Blockchain Developer
8 28 (5.00%) Consultant
9 27 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (4.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 22 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (3.93%) Software Developer
12 20 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.21%) Backend Developer
13 18 (3.21%) RF Engineer
13 18 (3.21%) Senior Developer
14 15 (2.68%) C++ Software Engineer
14 15 (2.68%) Tester
15 14 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.82%) Node.js
2 52 (9.29%) HTML
3 37 (6.61%) React
4 34 (6.07%) Web Services
5 32 (5.71%) CSS
6 30 (5.36%) AngularJS
6 30 (5.36%) web3js
7 27 (4.82%) JSON
8 24 (4.29%) REST
9 22 (3.93%) HTML5
10 21 (3.75%) GraphQL
11 20 (3.57%) RESTful
12 18 (3.21%) .NET
12 18 (3.21%) Vue
13 17 (3.04%) Express.js
13 17 (3.04%) JWT
14 11 (1.96%) Playwright
14 11 (1.96%) Sass
14 11 (1.96%) Yocto
15 10 (1.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.86%) Blockchain
2 30 (5.36%) Web3
3 25 (4.46%) Embedded Systems
4 23 (4.11%) Operational Technology
4 23 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.50%) Smart Home
7 13 (2.32%) Driving Licence
7 13 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.96%) CCTV
8 11 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.96%) NB-IoT
8 11 (1.96%) SCADA
9 10 (1.79%) Blog
9 10 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.61%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 72 (12.86%) Linux
2 26 (4.64%) Windows
3 25 (4.46%) Android
4 13 (2.32%) Kali Linux
5 10 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.18%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
2 147 (26.25%) Software Engineering
3 113 (20.18%) Agile
4 87 (15.54%) DevOps
5 79 (14.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 70 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 61 (10.89%) Microservices
8 59 (10.54%) Computer Science
8 59 (10.54%) Roadmaps
9 56 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 44 (7.86%) ERP
11 43 (7.68%) Analytics
12 41 (7.32%) Machine Learning
12 41 (7.32%) Strategic Thinking
13 39 (6.96%) Project Management
14 38 (6.79%) CRM
15 37 (6.61%) Full-Stack Development
16 36 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (5.89%) Containerisation
18 32 (5.71%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 91 (16.25%) Python
2 85 (15.18%) JavaScript
3 69 (12.32%) C++
4 51 (9.11%) Java
5 46 (8.21%) C
6 42 (7.50%) SQL
7 41 (7.32%) C#
8 40 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 36 (6.43%) PHP
10 12 (2.14%) Bash
11 11 (1.96%) Go
12 10 (1.79%) Embedded C
13 9 (1.61%) Assembly Language
14 8 (1.43%) Perl
15 7 (1.25%) Embedded C++
15 7 (1.25%) Rust
16 6 (1.07%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.89%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.71%) RPG
18 4 (0.71%) XAML
Qualifications
1 122 (21.79%) Degree
2 32 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 22 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.39%) Security Cleared
6 17 (3.04%) OSCP
7 14 (2.50%) CCNA
8 13 (2.32%) CREST Certified
9 12 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.96%) SC Cleared
11 8 (1.43%) CISSP
11 8 (1.43%) Cyber Scheme
11 8 (1.43%) GIAC
11 8 (1.43%) GPEN
11 8 (1.43%) OSWP
12 7 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.07%) CEH
13 6 (1.07%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.00%) QA
2 19 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.32%) MISRA
5 9 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.61%) GDPR
6 8 (1.43%) NIST
7 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.36%) JTAG
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 55 (9.82%) Docker
2 29 (5.18%) Firmware
3 20 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 19 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 18 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (2.68%) Embedded Firmware
7 9 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (3.75%) Ansible
2 19 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.50%) Terraform
4 13 (2.32%) FortiGate
4 13 (2.32%) Nessus
4 13 (2.32%) Nmap
5 7 (1.25%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.25%) Puppet
6 5 (0.89%) Grafana
6 5 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.54%) Autotask
8 1 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 49 (8.75%) Google
2 43 (7.68%) SAP
3 40 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.11%) Atmel
5 22 (3.93%) Cisco
6 19 (3.39%) EMC
6 19 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.21%) VMware
8 14 (2.50%) HP
9 12 (2.14%) IBM
10 10 (1.79%) NEC
10 10 (1.79%) Oracle
11 9 (1.61%) Darktrace
12 8 (1.43%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.25%) Intel
13 7 (1.25%) Veeam
14 6 (1.07%) Meraki
15 5 (0.89%) AVEVA
15 5 (0.89%) Infor
15 5 (0.89%) Qualys