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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 458 315
Rank change year-on-year +31 -143 +33
Permanent jobs citing IoT 417 232 719
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 1.13% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 310 172 563
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,151
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 £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%

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 27,422 20,557 27,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 41.44% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17,268 10,324 16,494
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,473 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -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 7 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 7 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 +46 344 £55,000 -8.33% 279
UK excluding London +27 316 £55,000 -5.17% 194
Work from Home +10 125 £66,750 +15.09% 141
South East +25 88 £55,000 -8.33% 75
London +18 78 £75,000 -18.92% 122
North of England -16 66 £55,000 -6.78% 31
South West -40 47 £53,750 +7.50% 23
Scotland +53 42 £60,000 +14.29% 12
Midlands -24 39 £42,500 -29.17% 24
Yorkshire +5 32 £60,000 - 9
East of England -28 24 £62,500 +8.70% 26
East Midlands -24 23 £67,500 +28.57% 12
North West -16 21 £52,500 -9.48% 17
West Midlands -24 16 £38,500 -45.00% 12
North East - 13 £50,000 - 6
Northern Ireland -65 10 £65,000 +30.00% 10

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 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.96%) CMS
3 4 (0.96%) WordPress
4 3 (0.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.96%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.72%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.72%) Simulink
5 2 (0.48%) Windchill
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.48%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.67%) AWS
2 45 (10.79%) Azure
3 28 (6.71%) SaaS
4 15 (3.60%) Serverless
5 14 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.64%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (2.64%) GCP
7 9 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.20%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.20%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.96%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (0.96%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.96%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (0.96%) Azure Functions
9 4 (0.96%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.83%) Wireless
2 26 (6.24%) MQTT
2 26 (6.24%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (4.56%) Bluetooth
4 18 (4.32%) Firewall
5 17 (4.08%) Internet
6 14 (3.36%) VPN
7 12 (2.88%) DNS
7 12 (2.88%) LoRaWAN
8 10 (2.40%) ZigBee
9 6 (1.44%) 5G
9 6 (1.44%) DHCP
9 6 (1.44%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.20%) VoIP
11 4 (0.96%) LTE
11 4 (0.96%) Modbus
11 4 (0.96%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.72%) RS-232
12 3 (0.72%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.88%) Big Data
1 12 (2.88%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.68%) MySQL
4 6 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.44%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.48%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.48%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (6.71%) Git
2 8 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.68%) GitLab
4 6 (1.44%) GDB
5 4 (0.96%) JIRA
5 4 (0.96%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.96%) Selenium
6 3 (0.72%) PetaLinux
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Poetry
8 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (17.03%) Electronics
2 57 (13.67%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.91%) Finance
3 33 (7.91%) Manufacturing
4 29 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.47%) Telecoms
6 16 (3.84%) Automotive
7 15 (3.60%) Marketing
8 14 (3.36%) Wearables
9 13 (3.12%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.64%) Legal
10 11 (2.64%) Retail
11 9 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.16%) Law
11 9 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.92%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.92%) Local Government
13 6 (1.44%) Social Housing
14 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.20%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 64 (15.35%) Software Engineer
2 52 (12.47%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (10.07%) Senior
4 35 (8.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 34 (8.15%) Developer
6 33 (7.91%) Sales Manager
7 32 (7.67%) Technical Engineer
8 29 (6.95%) Architect
9 24 (5.76%) Design Engineer
10 22 (5.28%) Hardware Engineer
11 17 (4.08%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.84%) Electronics Engineer
13 15 (3.60%) Technical Support
14 14 (3.36%) Firmware Engineer
14 14 (3.36%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.12%) Technical Support Engineer
16 12 (2.88%) Embedded Linux Engineer
16 12 (2.88%) Linux Engineer
17 11 (2.64%) Operations Engineer
17 11 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.80%) Yocto
2 14 (3.36%) .NET
2 14 (3.36%) REST
3 13 (3.12%) React
4 9 (2.16%) Node.js
5 6 (1.44%) Blazor
5 6 (1.44%) Kafka
6 5 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.96%) pytest
7 4 (0.96%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (0.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.72%) Flash
8 3 (0.72%) PySpark
8 3 (0.72%) Vue
9 2 (0.48%) Django
9 2 (0.48%) GStreamer
9 2 (0.48%) HTML
9 2 (0.48%) Laravel
9 2 (0.48%) pgvector
9 2 (0.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.51%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (5.04%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.56%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.60%) Robotics
6 13 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.12%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.88%) PropTech
8 11 (2.64%) Smart Home
9 10 (2.40%) ARM Cortex
10 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.92%) SCADA
10 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.68%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.68%) Blog
11 7 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.68%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.68%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.67%) Linux
2 19 (4.56%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (4.08%) Windows
4 11 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.44%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.20%) Android
7 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.96%) Unix
7 4 (0.96%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (23.50%) Software Engineering
2 84 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (18.94%) AI
4 46 (11.03%) Analytics
5 43 (10.31%) CI/CD
5 43 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (9.59%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (8.87%) DevOps
8 33 (7.91%) Machine Learning
9 29 (6.95%) CRM
10 28 (6.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (6.71%) Validation
11 27 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (6.24%) Agile
12 26 (6.24%) Roadmaps
13 25 (6.00%) Computer Science
14 24 (5.76%) Business Development
15 20 (4.80%) Customer Engagement
15 20 (4.80%) ERP
16 19 (4.56%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.59%) Python
2 40 (9.59%) C++
3 33 (7.91%) C
4 22 (5.28%) SQL
5 20 (4.80%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.32%) C#
8 15 (3.60%) Embedded C
9 13 (3.12%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.40%) Go
10 10 (2.40%) Java
11 6 (1.44%) Bash
12 4 (0.96%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.96%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.96%) PHP
12 4 (0.96%) Rust
13 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.24%) Haskell
14 1 (0.24%) OCaml
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (18.23%) Degree
2 19 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.88%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.96%) HND
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CISM
9 2 (0.48%) CISSP
9 2 (0.48%) HNC
10 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CISA
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PhD
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.12%) QA
2 9 (2.16%) JTAG
3 8 (1.92%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.72%) ECSS
4 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.71%) Firmware
2 26 (6.24%) Docker
3 17 (4.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (2.64%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.16%) vSphere
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.24%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.60%) Terraform
3 6 (1.44%) Grafana
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.20%) SCCM
5 4 (0.96%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 46 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.40%) SAP
2 10 (2.40%) VMware
3 8 (1.92%) Google
4 7 (1.68%) Cisco
4 7 (1.68%) EMC
4 7 (1.68%) Oracle
4 7 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.20%) Aruba
5 5 (1.20%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.96%) Adobe
6 4 (0.96%) Databricks
6 4 (0.96%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.96%) IFS
7 3 (0.72%) BT
7 3 (0.72%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.48%) Meraki
9 1 (0.24%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.24%) Palo Alto