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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 383 290
Rank change year-on-year +349 -93 +65
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,405 284 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.89% 0.67% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.39% 1.67% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 269 188 728
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,700 £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% -6.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 25,337 17,054 34,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.14% 40.35% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13,151 9,242 23,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £112,500 £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 2 May 2026.

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 2 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 +362 4,322 £60,000 - 216
UK excluding London +280 3,904 £60,000 - 180
North of England +217 1,667 £55,000 -5.17% 40
North West +170 1,503 £60,000 +4.35% 24
Midlands +157 1,060 £42,500 -32.00% 21
West Midlands +131 924 £43,750 -32.69% 10
South East +181 667 £55,000 - 52
London +235 451 £75,000 -7.69% 68
East of England +133 385 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Yorkshire +65 164 £52,500 -12.50% 13
East Midlands +63 148 £42,500 - 11
South West -17 74 £58,750 -2.08% 18
Work from Home -46 64 £70,000 +16.67% 83
Wales -23 33 - - 6
Scotland -17 17 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Northern Ireland -36 5 £65,000 +30.00% 7

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 (0.11%) Confluence
2 4 (0.091%) CMS
2 4 (0.091%) WordPress
3 2 (0.045%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.023%) Apache
4 1 (0.023%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.023%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.023%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.091%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.045%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.045%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.023%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.045%) Maximo
2 2 (0.045%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4,055 (92.05%) Cloud Computing
2 44 (1.00%) Azure
3 42 (0.95%) AWS
4 15 (0.34%) SaaS
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.23%) GCP
7 7 (0.16%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.16%) Serverless
8 5 (0.11%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.091%) Canva
9 4 (0.091%) GitHub
9 4 (0.091%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.091%) IaaS
9 4 (0.091%) PaaS
10 3 (0.068%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.068%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.045%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.045%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.045%) Google Play
11 2 (0.045%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (91.78%) Internet
2 31 (0.70%) Wireless
3 20 (0.45%) Firewall
4 19 (0.43%) Bluetooth
5 16 (0.36%) MQTT
6 14 (0.32%) VPN
7 10 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.20%) DNS
8 9 (0.20%) Modbus
9 7 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.091%) LTE
11 3 (0.068%) DHCP
11 3 (0.068%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.068%) WAN
12 2 (0.045%) 5G
12 2 (0.045%) GSM
12 2 (0.045%) LAN
12 2 (0.045%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.023%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.023%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (0.54%) Big Data
2 12 (0.27%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.16%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.16%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.14%) Power BI
6 5 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.11%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.091%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.045%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.045%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.045%) GIS
8 2 (0.045%) Informix
8 2 (0.045%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.023%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.023%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.023%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.023%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (0.16%) Git
2 5 (0.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.023%) GitLab
3 1 (0.023%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.023%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.023%) Poetry
3 1 (0.023%) Zephyr
General
1 4,105 (93.19%) Social Skills
2 4,061 (92.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,058 (92.12%) Banking
4 46 (1.04%) Electronics
5 35 (0.79%) Manufacturing
6 32 (0.73%) Marketing
7 30 (0.68%) Finance
8 18 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (0.39%) Automotive
9 17 (0.39%) Tech for Good
10 16 (0.36%) Telecoms
11 15 (0.34%) Public Sector
12 12 (0.27%) Wearables
13 11 (0.25%) Law
14 9 (0.20%) Social Housing
15 8 (0.18%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.14%) French Language
16 6 (0.14%) Retail
17 5 (0.11%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.091%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3,149 (71.49%) Lecturer
2 67 (1.52%) Software Engineer
3 45 (1.02%) Embedded Engineer
4 44 (1.00%) Senior
5 40 (0.91%) Developer
6 31 (0.70%) Architect
7 28 (0.64%) Firmware Engineer
8 23 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 22 (0.50%) Principal Engineer
9 22 (0.50%) Principal Software Engineer
10 19 (0.43%) Sales Manager
11 18 (0.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 16 (0.36%) Mobile Developer
12 16 (0.36%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (0.34%) React Developer
14 14 (0.32%) Support Engineer
15 13 (0.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (0.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 12 (0.27%) 2nd Line Support
17 10 (0.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.45%) React
2 18 (0.41%) Node.js
2 18 (0.41%) React Native
3 9 (0.20%) REST
4 6 (0.14%) .NET
4 6 (0.14%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.091%) Kafka
7 2 (0.045%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.045%) Django
7 2 (0.045%) Next.js
7 2 (0.045%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.045%) pgvector
7 2 (0.045%) Swagger
7 2 (0.045%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.023%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.023%) NumPy
8 1 (0.023%) OAuth
8 1 (0.023%) OpenID
8 1 (0.023%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (0.43%) Mobile App
1 19 (0.43%) Smart Energy
2 13 (0.30%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (0.30%) SCADA
3 12 (0.27%) PropTech
4 11 (0.25%) Cloud Native
4 11 (0.25%) Smart Home
5 9 (0.20%) Operational Technology
6 7 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (0.14%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (0.14%) Robotics
7 6 (0.14%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.11%) Device Driver
8 5 (0.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (0.11%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.091%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.091%) NB-IoT
9 4 (0.091%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.091%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (0.73%) Linux
2 16 (0.36%) Windows
3 8 (0.18%) Android
3 8 (0.18%) Unix
4 6 (0.14%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.068%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.068%) VMS
7 2 (0.045%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.045%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.023%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,072 (92.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4,071 (92.42%) AI
3 4,054 (92.03%) Web Development
4 4,050 (91.94%) Machine Learning
5 4,041 (91.74%) User Experience
6 82 (1.86%) Software Engineering
7 56 (1.27%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (0.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (0.75%) Business Analysis
10 32 (0.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (0.70%) Analytics
12 27 (0.61%) Energy Management
12 27 (0.61%) ERP
13 26 (0.59%) Digital Marketing
14 25 (0.57%) Roadmaps
15 24 (0.54%) Agile
16 22 (0.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 22 (0.50%) Mentoring
17 21 (0.48%) DevOps
18 19 (0.43%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (0.73%) Python
2 19 (0.43%) SQL
3 17 (0.39%) Java
4 16 (0.36%) TypeScript
5 11 (0.25%) C++
5 11 (0.25%) JavaScript
6 9 (0.20%) C#
7 8 (0.18%) C
8 7 (0.16%) PHP
8 7 (0.16%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.068%) Bash
10 2 (0.045%) Go
10 2 (0.045%) Perl
11 1 (0.023%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.023%) Groovy
11 1 (0.023%) Haskell
11 1 (0.023%) OCaml
11 1 (0.023%) Scala
11 1 (0.023%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.023%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4,090 (92.85%) Degree
2 4,059 (92.15%) Master's Degree
3 4,037 (91.65%) PhD
4 4,034 (91.58%) Postgraduate
5 26 (0.59%) HND
6 8 (0.18%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.091%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.045%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.045%) CISM
9 2 (0.045%) CISSP
9 2 (0.045%) MBA
9 2 (0.045%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.023%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.023%) CISA
10 1 (0.023%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.023%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.023%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.023%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.20%) QA
2 4 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.068%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.068%) GDPR
3 3 (0.068%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.045%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.023%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.023%) GMP
5 1 (0.023%) JTAG
5 1 (0.023%) SLA
5 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (1.20%) Firmware
2 32 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (0.30%) Docker
4 8 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.091%) Terraform
4 3 (0.068%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.068%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.045%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (0.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.23%) Google
3 7 (0.16%) EMC
3 7 (0.16%) Oracle
4 6 (0.14%) SAP
4 6 (0.14%) VMware
5 5 (0.11%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.091%) Adobe
7 3 (0.068%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.068%) Draytek
7 3 (0.068%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.068%) IBM
8 2 (0.045%) Apple
8 2 (0.045%) Cisco
8 2 (0.045%) HP
8 2 (0.045%) Meraki
8 2 (0.045%) Siemens
9 1 (0.023%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.023%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.023%) Salesforce