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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 416 293
Rank change year-on-year +361 -123 +56
Permanent jobs citing IoT 2,818 247 954
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.04% 0.58% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.42% 1.35% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 278 161 742
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £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 £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -5.98%

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 24,670 18,333 34,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.60% 42.77% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14,049 8,627 23,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £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 £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +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 25 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 25 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 +390 2,751 £60,000 - 204
UK excluding London +308 2,578 £55,000 -8.33% 161
North of England +242 1,052 £55,000 -6.78% 21
Midlands +165 1,009 £42,500 -32.00% 20
North West +202 927 £57,500 -0.86% 15
West Midlands +126 926 £56,250 -18.18% 9
South East +150 269 £55,000 - 50
London +117 198 £75,000 -6.25% 79
East of England +100 154 £70,000 +27.27% 27
Yorkshire +59 120 £60,000 - 5
East Midlands +52 95 £42,500 -15.00% 11
Work from Home -2 71 £75,000 +25.00% 87
South West -39 53 £56,250 -6.25% 27
Scotland +18 23 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Wales -47 14 - - 2
Northern Ireland -34 6 £65,000 +30.00% 10
North East - 5 £51,000 - 1
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%) SharePoint
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
4 1 (0.035%) Mendix
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
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 2,458 (87.22%) Cloud Computing
2 44 (1.56%) Azure
3 42 (1.49%) AWS
4 17 (0.60%) SaaS
5 13 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (0.43%) GCP
7 10 (0.35%) Serverless
8 5 (0.18%) Amazon S3
8 5 (0.18%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.14%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.14%) Canva
9 4 (0.14%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.11%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.11%) AWS IoT
10 3 (0.11%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.071%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.071%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2,457 (87.19%) Internet
2 34 (1.21%) Wireless
3 21 (0.75%) Firewall
4 19 (0.67%) Bluetooth
4 19 (0.67%) MQTT
5 15 (0.53%) VPN
5 15 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.43%) DNS
7 9 (0.32%) LoRaWAN
8 8 (0.28%) Modbus
9 5 (0.18%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.14%) LTE
11 3 (0.11%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.071%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.035%) 3GPP
13 1 (0.035%) AMQP
13 1 (0.035%) LAN
13 1 (0.035%) VoIP
13 1 (0.035%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (0.53%) Big Data
2 9 (0.32%) MySQL
3 8 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
3 8 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.28%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.18%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.14%) Power BI
7 2 (0.071%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.071%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.071%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.071%) GIS
7 2 (0.071%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.071%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.035%) Flink
8 1 (0.035%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.035%) Informix
8 1 (0.035%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (0.35%) 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 2,506 (88.93%) Social Skills
2 2,464 (87.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,461 (87.33%) Banking
4 53 (1.88%) Electronics
5 32 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 30 (1.06%) Finance
7 23 (0.82%) Marketing
8 18 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (0.60%) Tech for Good
10 16 (0.57%) Automotive
10 16 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 14 (0.50%) Public Sector
12 11 (0.39%) Wearables
13 10 (0.35%) Social Housing
14 8 (0.28%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.21%) French Language
15 6 (0.21%) Law
16 5 (0.18%) Retail
17 4 (0.14%) Local Government
17 4 (0.14%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,859 (65.97%) Lecturer
2 73 (2.59%) Software Engineer
3 48 (1.70%) Embedded Engineer
4 46 (1.63%) Senior
5 31 (1.10%) Developer
6 28 (0.99%) Firmware Engineer
7 26 (0.92%) Architect
8 25 (0.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 18 (0.64%) Principal Engineer
10 18 (0.64%) Principal Software Engineer
10 18 (0.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (0.60%) Sales Manager
12 14 (0.50%) Support Engineer
12 14 (0.50%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (0.46%) Electronics Engineer
14 11 (0.39%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (0.39%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (0.35%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (0.64%) React
2 17 (0.60%) Node.js
3 6 (0.21%) .NET
3 6 (0.21%) React Native
3 6 (0.21%) Yocto
4 4 (0.14%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.14%) pytest
4 4 (0.14%) REST
4 4 (0.14%) Spring Boot
4 4 (0.14%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (0.11%) Kafka
6 2 (0.071%) pgvector
7 1 (0.035%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.035%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.035%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.035%) D3.js
7 1 (0.035%) Laravel
7 1 (0.035%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.035%) WebAssembly
7 1 (0.035%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (0.53%) Smart Energy
3 14 (0.50%) Mobile App
4 13 (0.46%) SCADA
5 12 (0.43%) Cloud Native
5 12 (0.43%) Smart Home
6 11 (0.39%) Device Driver
6 11 (0.39%) PropTech
7 10 (0.35%) Operational Technology
8 8 (0.28%) Robotics
9 7 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.21%) ARM Cortex
10 6 (0.21%) NB-IoT
11 5 (0.18%) e-Learning
11 5 (0.18%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.14%) Blog
12 4 (0.14%) Podcast
12 4 (0.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.45%) Linux
2 17 (0.60%) Windows
3 10 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.21%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) VMS
8 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.035%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,488 (88.29%) AI
2 2,483 (88.11%) Cybersecurity
3 2,464 (87.44%) Machine Learning
4 2,457 (87.19%) Web Development
5 2,451 (86.98%) User Experience
6 92 (3.26%) Software Engineering
7 58 (2.06%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (1.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (1.17%) Analytics
10 28 (0.99%) DevOps
10 28 (0.99%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (0.96%) Collaborative Culture
12 26 (0.92%) Energy Management
13 25 (0.89%) Business Analysis
14 23 (0.82%) ERP
15 22 (0.78%) Mentoring
15 22 (0.78%) Roadmaps
16 21 (0.75%) Agile
17 20 (0.71%) CRM
18 19 (0.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (1.42%) Python
2 21 (0.75%) C++
3 18 (0.64%) Java
3 18 (0.64%) SQL
4 16 (0.57%) TypeScript
5 15 (0.53%) C
6 14 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.39%) C#
7 11 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.21%) Bash
8 6 (0.21%) PHP
9 5 (0.18%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.11%) Go
11 2 (0.071%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.035%) Groovy
12 1 (0.035%) Haskell
12 1 (0.035%) OCaml
12 1 (0.035%) Perl
12 1 (0.035%) Scala
12 1 (0.035%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,506 (88.93%) Degree
2 2,467 (87.54%) Master's Degree
3 2,446 (86.80%) PhD
4 2,445 (86.76%) 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%) CISA
12 1 (0.035%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.035%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.035%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.32%) 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%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.071%) GDPR
6 1 (0.035%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.035%) GMP
6 1 (0.035%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (1.95%) Firmware
2 30 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 16 (0.57%) Docker
4 10 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) 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%) Terraform
4 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.11%) SCCM
4 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.071%) Grafana
6 1 (0.035%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.035%) MOM
Vendors
1 36 (1.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (0.32%) Google
2 9 (0.32%) VMware
3 7 (0.25%) EMC
3 7 (0.25%) SAP
4 5 (0.18%) Cognizant
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle
5 4 (0.14%) Adobe
6 3 (0.11%) Aruba
6 3 (0.11%) ConnectWise
6 3 (0.11%) Draytek
6 3 (0.11%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.071%) Cisco
7 2 (0.071%) Meraki
7 2 (0.071%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.071%) Siemens
8 1 (0.035%) HP
8 1 (0.035%) IBM
8 1 (0.035%) IFS
8 1 (0.035%) Palo Alto