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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 458 306
Rank change year-on-year +43 -152 +43
Permanent jobs citing IoT 409 230 768
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 1.13% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 307 169 595
10th Percentile £37,950 £42,200 £34,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,125 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% -2.95%

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 26,753 20,412 29,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.00% 41.31% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16,962 10,258 17,677
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £56,811 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +3.29% -13.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 31 July 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 16 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 July 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 +52 337 £55,000 -8.33% 197
UK excluding London +31 313 £55,000 -6.78% 133
Work from Home +14 125 £65,500 +12.93% 108
South East +7 84 £55,000 -10.20% 52
London +7 74 £75,000 -18.92% 82
North of England +3 64 £55,000 -6.78% 22
South West -39 48 £52,500 +5.00% 16
Scotland +46 42 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Midlands -30 40 £42,500 -29.17% 20
Yorkshire -6 31 £60,000 - 7
East of England -17 25 £62,500 +8.70% 18
East Midlands -20 23 £67,500 +28.57% 12
North West -5 20 £52,500 -9.48% 12
West Midlands -12 17 £38,500 -45.00% 8
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -57 10 £65,000 +30.00% 3

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 11 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.98%) CMS
3 4 (0.98%) Confluence
3 4 (0.98%) WordPress
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.73%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.73%) Simulink
5 2 (0.49%) Windchill
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.49%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Maximo
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.45%) AWS
2 46 (11.25%) Azure
3 27 (6.60%) SaaS
4 15 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (3.67%) Serverless
5 12 (2.93%) GCP
6 11 (2.69%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.22%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.22%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (0.98%) Azure Functions
9 4 (0.98%) Canva
9 4 (0.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.27%) Wireless
2 26 (6.36%) MQTT
3 25 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (4.89%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.40%) Firewall
6 17 (4.16%) Internet
7 14 (3.42%) VPN
8 12 (2.93%) LoRaWAN
9 11 (2.69%) DNS
10 10 (2.44%) ZigBee
11 6 (1.47%) 5G
11 6 (1.47%) DHCP
11 6 (1.47%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.22%) VoIP
13 4 (0.98%) LTE
13 4 (0.98%) Modbus
13 4 (0.98%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.73%) RS-232
14 3 (0.73%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.69%) Big Data
1 11 (2.69%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.96%) MySQL
4 7 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.47%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.49%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.49%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.49%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (6.85%) Git
2 8 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.71%) GitLab
4 6 (1.47%) GDB
5 5 (1.22%) JIRA
6 4 (0.98%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.98%) Selenium
7 3 (0.73%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Poetry
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (17.36%) Electronics
2 56 (13.69%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.80%) Manufacturing
4 31 (7.58%) Finance
5 28 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.87%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.91%) Automotive
8 15 (3.67%) Marketing
9 14 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.93%) Wearables
11 11 (2.69%) Retail
12 10 (2.44%) Legal
13 9 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.96%) Law
14 8 (1.96%) Local Government
15 7 (1.71%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.71%) Social Housing
16 6 (1.47%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.98%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 63 (15.40%) Software Engineer
2 51 (12.47%) Embedded Engineer
3 38 (9.29%) Senior
4 34 (8.31%) Developer
5 33 (8.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 32 (7.82%) Sales Manager
6 32 (7.82%) Technical Engineer
7 27 (6.60%) Architect
8 22 (5.38%) Hardware Engineer
9 21 (5.13%) Design Engineer
10 17 (4.16%) Electronics Engineer
10 17 (4.16%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.67%) Firmware Engineer
12 14 (3.42%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.18%) Technical Support Engineer
13 13 (3.18%) Test Engineer
14 12 (2.93%) Embedded Linux Engineer
14 12 (2.93%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (2.93%) Operations Engineer
15 11 (2.69%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.89%) Yocto
2 14 (3.42%) .NET
3 13 (3.18%) REST
4 11 (2.69%) React
5 9 (2.20%) Node.js
6 6 (1.47%) Blazor
7 5 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.22%) Kafka
8 4 (0.98%) pytest
8 4 (0.98%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (0.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.73%) Flash
9 3 (0.73%) Vue
10 2 (0.49%) Django
10 2 (0.49%) GStreamer
10 2 (0.49%) HTML
10 2 (0.49%) Laravel
10 2 (0.49%) pgvector
10 2 (0.49%) PySpark
10 2 (0.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.49%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (5.13%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.16%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.67%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.18%) Robotics
7 12 (2.93%) Smart Home
8 11 (2.69%) PropTech
9 10 (2.44%) ARM Cortex
9 10 (2.44%) Driving Licence
10 9 (2.20%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.96%) SCADA
12 7 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.71%) Blog
12 7 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.71%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.45%) Linux
2 18 (4.40%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (4.16%) Windows
4 11 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.47%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.22%) Android
7 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.98%) Unix
7 4 (0.98%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (23.23%) Software Engineering
2 80 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (19.07%) AI
4 45 (11.00%) Analytics
5 43 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (9.78%) CI/CD
6 40 (9.78%) Collaborative Culture
7 35 (8.56%) DevOps
8 31 (7.58%) Machine Learning
9 29 (7.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (6.85%) CRM
10 28 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (6.60%) Validation
12 26 (6.36%) Roadmaps
13 24 (5.87%) Agile
13 24 (5.87%) Computer Science
14 23 (5.62%) Business Development
15 21 (5.13%) ERP
16 20 (4.89%) Customer Engagement
17 19 (4.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 61 (14.91%) Python
2 41 (10.02%) C++
3 34 (8.31%) C
4 21 (5.13%) SQL
5 19 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.40%) C#
7 15 (3.67%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.44%) Java
10 7 (1.71%) Go
11 6 (1.47%) Bash
12 4 (0.98%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.98%) PHP
12 4 (0.98%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) Haskell
13 1 (0.24%) OCaml
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (17.85%) Degree
2 18 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.18%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.69%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.98%) HND
9 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.49%) CISM
10 2 (0.49%) CISSP
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CISA
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.24%) MBA
11 1 (0.24%) PhD
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.18%) QA
2 9 (2.20%) JTAG
3 8 (1.96%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.73%) ECSS
5 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (12.71%) Firmware
2 25 (6.11%) Docker
3 18 (4.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (2.69%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.20%) vSphere
7 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.18%) Terraform
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.22%) Grafana
4 5 (1.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.98%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 48 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.44%) SAP
2 10 (2.44%) VMware
3 9 (2.20%) Google
4 8 (1.96%) EMC
5 7 (1.71%) Cisco
5 7 (1.71%) Oracle
5 7 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.22%) Aruba
6 5 (1.22%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.98%) Adobe
7 4 (0.98%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.98%) IFS
8 3 (0.73%) BT
8 3 (0.73%) Databricks
8 3 (0.73%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.49%) Meraki
10 1 (0.24%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.24%) Palo Alto