IoT Job Trends

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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 315 384
Rank change year-on-year +250 +69 +21
Permanent jobs citing IoT 1,884 545 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.48% 0.83% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.01% 2.42% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 206 335 295
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 18,821 22,516 19,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.79% 34.40% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,563 11,029 14,711
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,625 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +281 1,836 £57,500 -4.17% 158
UK excluding London +211 1,566 £55,000 - 142
North of England +226 663 £55,000 +37.50% 28
North West +174 606 £57,500 +53.33% 18
South East +161 436 £65,000 +4.00% 61
London +215 299 £67,500 - 42
East of England +111 291 £57,500 +4.55% 13
Midlands +54 83 £55,000 -8.33% 18
East Midlands +51 71 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Work from Home -15 65 £60,000 - 56
South West +45 57 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Yorkshire +51 56 £55,000 -21.43% 8
Wales +13 31 £51,500 +87.27% 5
West Midlands +23 12 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Channel Islands - 6 - -
Northern Ireland +2 4 £70,000 -
Scotland -7 3 £57,250 +24.46% 1
North East +9 1 £40,000 -20.79% 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 35 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.80%) Confluence
3 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.11%) nginx
4 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.053%) Mendix
4 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.053%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (0.27%) AutoCAD
1 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
1 5 (0.27%) Revit
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
3 3 (0.16%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.11%) SAP APO
4 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.11%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.053%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.053%) Maximo
5 1 (0.053%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.053%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.053%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.053%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.053%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.053%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.053%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,609 (85.40%) Cloud Computing
2 58 (3.08%) Azure
3 33 (1.75%) AWS
4 25 (1.33%) Entra ID
5 23 (1.22%) Power Platform
6 19 (1.01%) Power Automate
7 16 (0.85%) PowerApps
7 16 (0.85%) Serverless
8 13 (0.69%) SaaS
9 9 (0.48%) GCP
10 5 (0.27%) GitHub
10 5 (0.27%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.21%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.21%) IaaS
11 4 (0.21%) PaaS
11 4 (0.21%) SurveyMonkey
11 4 (0.21%) Zapier
12 3 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1,631 (86.57%) Internet
2 42 (2.23%) Network Security
3 32 (1.70%) Wireless
4 26 (1.38%) Modbus
5 22 (1.17%) MQTT
6 13 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.58%) Bluetooth
7 11 (0.58%) Ethernet
7 11 (0.58%) Firewall
8 10 (0.53%) WAN
9 9 (0.48%) 5G
10 8 (0.42%) VLAN
11 6 (0.32%) LAN
11 6 (0.32%) LoRaWAN
11 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.27%) Broadband
12 5 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.27%) ZigBee
13 4 (0.21%) LTE
13 4 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (0.74%) Big Data
2 10 (0.53%) MySQL
3 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.37%) Power BI
5 6 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.21%) ClickHouse
6 4 (0.21%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.11%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.11%) Metadata
8 2 (0.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.053%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.053%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.053%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.053%) GIS
9 1 (0.053%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (1.06%) JIRA
2 6 (0.32%) Git
3 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.21%) GitLab
3 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.11%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) MLflow
4 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.053%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.053%) Postman
5 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.053%) Selenium
5 1 (0.053%) SoapUI
General
1 1,689 (89.65%) Social Skills
2 1,614 (85.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,608 (85.35%) Banking
4 45 (2.39%) Manufacturing
5 30 (1.59%) Finance
6 24 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (1.27%) Marketing
7 21 (1.11%) Electronics
8 19 (1.01%) Automotive
9 16 (0.85%) Public Sector
10 14 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (0.69%) Retail
12 10 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.48%) Law
14 8 (0.42%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.32%) Wearables
16 5 (0.27%) Billing
16 5 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,300 (69.00%) Lecturer
2 38 (2.02%) Developer
3 37 (1.96%) Senior
4 25 (1.33%) Software Engineer
5 21 (1.11%) Architect
6 14 (0.74%) Embedded Engineer
7 13 (0.69%) Lead
7 13 (0.69%) React Developer
7 13 (0.69%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (0.64%) Senior Developer
9 11 (0.58%) Firmware Engineer
9 11 (0.58%) Mobile Developer
10 9 (0.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 9 (0.48%) Sales Manager
10 9 (0.48%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.42%) Applications Developer
11 8 (0.42%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (0.42%) Backend Developer
11 8 (0.42%) IoT Developer
11 8 (0.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.74%) .NET
2 12 (0.64%) React Native
3 10 (0.53%) React
4 9 (0.48%) Node.js
4 9 (0.48%) REST
5 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.27%) OpenAPI
6 5 (0.27%) Swagger
7 4 (0.21%) CSS
7 4 (0.21%) Django
7 4 (0.21%) FastAPI
7 4 (0.21%) Kafka
8 3 (0.16%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.16%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.16%) SAPUI5
8 3 (0.16%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.11%) Flask
9 2 (0.11%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (1.11%) SCADA
2 17 (0.90%) Management Information System
2 17 (0.90%) Operational Technology
3 15 (0.80%) Mobile App
4 13 (0.69%) Industry 4.0
5 12 (0.64%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (0.53%) Biopharmaceutical
7 10 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.37%) Cloud Native
9 7 (0.37%) Driving Licence
9 7 (0.37%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.37%) Smart Energy
10 6 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.32%) Device Driver
10 6 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.27%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.27%) Robotics
11 5 (0.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (0.90%) Linux
2 16 (0.85%) Windows
3 10 (0.53%) Unix
4 9 (0.48%) Android
5 5 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.053%) Solaris
8 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,668 (88.54%) Cybersecurity
2 1,630 (86.52%) AI
3 1,622 (86.09%) Machine Learning
4 1,609 (85.40%) User Experience
5 1,607 (85.30%) Web Development
6 59 (3.13%) Agile
7 44 (2.34%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (2.07%) Software Engineering
9 33 (1.75%) DevOps
10 31 (1.65%) Customer Service
10 31 (1.65%) Project Management
10 31 (1.65%) Roadmaps
11 30 (1.59%) Mentoring
12 29 (1.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (1.38%) Business Development
14 25 (1.33%) Analytics
15 22 (1.17%) Decision-Making
16 21 (1.11%) Computer Science
17 20 (1.06%) Project Delivery
18 19 (1.01%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 46 (2.44%) Python
2 23 (1.22%) C++
3 21 (1.11%) SQL
4 20 (1.06%) C#
4 20 (1.06%) Java
5 15 (0.80%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.74%) C
7 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.53%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.48%) Ruby
10 8 (0.42%) Elixir
10 8 (0.42%) Go
10 8 (0.42%) PHP
11 4 (0.21%) R
11 4 (0.21%) Rust
12 3 (0.16%) Bash
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.11%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.11%) Perl
13 2 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,652 (87.69%) Degree
2 1,611 (85.51%) Master's Degree
3 1,603 (85.08%) PhD
4 1,599 (84.87%) Postgraduate
5 20 (1.06%) Security Cleared
6 19 (1.01%) HND
7 13 (0.69%) SC Cleared
8 11 (0.58%) HNC
9 9 (0.48%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.21%) PMP
13 3 (0.16%) SAP Certification
14 2 (0.11%) CISA
14 2 (0.11%) CISM
14 2 (0.11%) CISSP
15 1 (0.053%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.053%) Network+ Certification
15 1 (0.053%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.01%) QA
2 6 (0.32%) GDPR
3 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.16%) SLA
6 2 (0.11%) NIST
7 1 (0.053%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.053%) GMP
7 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.053%) JTAG
7 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.053%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (1.17%) Firmware
2 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.42%) Docker
3 8 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.48%) Functional Safety
4 5 (0.27%) Grafana
5 4 (0.21%) Nessus
5 4 (0.21%) Nmap
5 4 (0.21%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) Ansible
6 2 (0.11%) Argo
6 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.053%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (2.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.80%) Atlassian
3 13 (0.69%) Cisco
4 12 (0.64%) SAP
5 10 (0.53%) Siemens
6 9 (0.48%) AVEVA
6 9 (0.48%) Google
6 9 (0.48%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.48%) VMware
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle
7 6 (0.32%) Ruckus Wireless
8 5 (0.27%) Autodesk
8 5 (0.27%) EMC
8 5 (0.27%) Epicor
8 5 (0.27%) Infor
8 5 (0.27%) NEC
8 5 (0.27%) Panasonic
8 5 (0.27%) Polycom
8 5 (0.27%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.27%) Sony