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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 467 305
Rank change year-on-year +54 -162 +51
Permanent jobs citing IoT 438 227 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 1.10% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 327 169 558
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,926
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 28,074 20,604 27,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.13% 41.24% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17,587 10,376 15,907
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,381
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +63 364 £55,000 -8.33% 166
UK excluding London +30 339 £55,000 -4.35% 135
Work from Home +14 124 £66,000 +13.79% 85
South East +27 90 £55,000 -8.33% 54
London +15 80 £75,000 -20.00% 63
North of England +5 75 £55,000 -5.17% 21
South West -39 50 £55,000 +12.82% 14
Scotland +40 46 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Midlands -18 43 £42,500 -29.17% 21
Yorkshire +4 37 £55,000 +4.76% 11
North West -4 25 £50,000 -13.79% 6
East of England -34 25 £68,750 +19.57% 18
East Midlands -20 23 £67,500 +28.57% 11
West Midlands -11 20 £38,500 -42.96% 10
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -71 10 £65,000 +30.00% 6

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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.68%) CMS
3 3 (0.68%) WordPress
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.60%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.68%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.68%) Simulink
4 2 (0.46%) Windchill
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.46%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.46%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Maximo
3 1 (0.23%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.24%) AWS
2 42 (9.59%) Azure
3 28 (6.39%) SaaS
4 15 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.20%) Serverless
6 11 (2.51%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.28%) GCP
8 9 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.14%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (0.91%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.68%) Wireless
2 27 (6.16%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (5.94%) MQTT
4 20 (4.57%) Internet
5 19 (4.34%) Firewall
6 18 (4.11%) Bluetooth
7 16 (3.65%) VPN
8 14 (3.20%) DNS
9 10 (2.28%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.28%) ZigBee
10 8 (1.83%) DHCP
11 6 (1.37%) 5G
11 6 (1.37%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.14%) VoIP
13 4 (0.91%) HTTP
13 4 (0.91%) LTE
14 3 (0.68%) GSM
14 3 (0.68%) RS-232
14 3 (0.68%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.74%) Big Data
1 12 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.51%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.83%) MySQL
4 6 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.37%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.68%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.68%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.46%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.46%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 29 (6.62%) Git
2 7 (1.60%) GitLab
2 7 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.60%) JIRA
3 6 (1.37%) GDB
4 4 (0.91%) Robot Framework
4 4 (0.91%) Selenium
5 3 (0.68%) PetaLinux
5 3 (0.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) Poetry
6 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (16.67%) Electronics
2 59 (13.47%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.76%) Finance
3 34 (7.76%) Manufacturing
4 33 (7.53%) Telecoms
5 28 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.11%) Wearables
7 17 (3.88%) Automotive
8 15 (3.42%) Marketing
9 14 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.97%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.51%) Legal
11 11 (2.51%) Retail
12 9 (2.05%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.83%) Law
13 8 (1.83%) Local Government
13 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.14%) Social Housing
15 5 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 67 (15.30%) Software Engineer
2 54 (12.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 46 (10.50%) Senior
4 38 (8.68%) Developer
4 38 (8.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 33 (7.53%) Design Engineer
6 32 (7.31%) Sales Manager
6 32 (7.31%) Technical Engineer
7 30 (6.85%) Architect
8 25 (5.71%) Hardware Engineer
9 18 (4.11%) Electronics Engineer
10 17 (3.88%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.88%) Technical Support
11 16 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.20%) Hardware Design Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Test Engineer
13 13 (2.97%) Firmware Engineer
13 13 (2.97%) Technical Support Engineer
14 12 (2.74%) Embedded Linux Engineer
14 12 (2.74%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.57%) Yocto
2 15 (3.42%) .NET
2 15 (3.42%) REST
3 13 (2.97%) React
4 10 (2.28%) Node.js
5 6 (1.37%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.37%) Blazor
5 6 (1.37%) Kafka
6 4 (0.91%) pytest
6 4 (0.91%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (0.91%) Vue
7 3 (0.68%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.68%) Flash
7 3 (0.68%) HTML
7 3 (0.68%) PySpark
8 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.46%) CSS
8 2 (0.46%) Django
8 2 (0.46%) pgvector
8 2 (0.46%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.96%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.79%) Device Driver
3 18 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.88%) Robotics
5 16 (3.65%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.42%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.97%) Driving Licence
9 12 (2.74%) PropTech
10 11 (2.51%) ARM Cortex
11 10 (2.28%) Smart Home
12 8 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.83%) Smart Energy
13 7 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.24%) Linux
2 21 (4.79%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.65%) Windows
4 10 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.37%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.14%) Android
6 5 (1.14%) VMS
7 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (23.29%) Software Engineering
2 88 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (17.12%) AI
4 43 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (9.59%) Analytics
5 42 (9.59%) CI/CD
6 39 (8.90%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (8.45%) DevOps
8 32 (7.31%) Agile
8 32 (7.31%) Machine Learning
9 31 (7.08%) Validation
10 30 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (6.39%) CRM
11 28 (6.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (6.16%) Computer Science
13 25 (5.71%) Business Development
13 25 (5.71%) Roadmaps
14 21 (4.79%) Decision-Making
14 21 (4.79%) Tech Ops
15 20 (4.57%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.07%) Python
2 38 (8.68%) C++
3 33 (7.53%) C
4 22 (5.02%) SQL
5 20 (4.57%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.57%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.11%) C#
7 16 (3.65%) Embedded C
8 14 (3.20%) Go
9 12 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.28%) Java
11 6 (1.37%) Bash
12 4 (0.91%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.91%) PHP
12 4 (0.91%) Rust
13 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.23%) Bicep
14 1 (0.23%) Haskell
14 1 (0.23%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 83 (18.95%) Degree
2 21 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.74%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.28%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.37%) HNC
7 4 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.68%) HND
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) CISM
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
9 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.20%) QA
2 9 (2.05%) JTAG
3 8 (1.83%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.68%) ECSS
4 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.10%) Firmware
2 26 (5.94%) Docker
3 16 (3.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.28%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.05%) vSphere
6 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.46%) iptables
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.11%) Terraform
3 6 (1.37%) Grafana
4 5 (1.14%) SCCM
5 4 (0.91%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.91%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
7 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 49 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.05%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.05%) SAP
2 9 (2.05%) VMware
3 7 (1.60%) Cisco
3 7 (1.60%) Google
3 7 (1.60%) Oracle
4 6 (1.37%) EMC
5 5 (1.14%) Aruba
5 5 (1.14%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.91%) Adobe
6 4 (0.91%) Databricks
6 4 (0.91%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.91%) IFS
7 3 (0.68%) BT
7 3 (0.68%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.46%) Meraki
8 2 (0.46%) Planon
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) Zscaler