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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 366 297
Rank change year-on-year +332 -69 +64
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,410 297 918
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.03% 0.71% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.56% 1.80% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 272 195 721
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

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 25,115 16,543 34,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.63% 39.55% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,888 9,178 22,822
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,800 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 17 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 21 April 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 +361 4,328 £60,000 - 1,009
UK excluding London +274 3,906 £55,000 -8.33% 739
North of England +217 1,664 £55,000 -4.76% 309
North West +161 1,502 £60,000 +6.67% 259
Midlands +156 1,060 £42,500 -29.17% 52
West Midlands +126 926 £46,250 -26.00% 10
South East +175 668 £55,000 -4.35% 200
London +234 454 £75,000 -7.69% 313
East of England +115 394 £60,000 +9.09% 128
Yorkshire +67 162 £50,000 -16.67% 45
East Midlands +45 146 £42,500 +9.68% 42
South West -30 70 £60,000 - 40
Work from Home -58 62 £75,000 +25.00% 60
Wales -24 34 - - 5
Scotland -11 14 £62,500 - 10
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Northern Ireland -36 6 £70,000 +40.00% 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 9 (0.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.16%) Confluence
3 4 (0.091%) CMS
3 4 (0.091%) WordPress
4 2 (0.045%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.023%) Apache
5 1 (0.023%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.023%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.023%) Mendix
Applications
1 7 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.091%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.045%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.023%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.045%) Maximo
2 2 (0.045%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.045%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.023%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4,056 (91.97%) Cloud Computing
2 44 (1.00%) AWS
3 43 (0.98%) Azure
4 16 (0.36%) SaaS
5 11 (0.25%) GCP
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.23%) Entra ID
7 8 (0.18%) Power Platform
8 7 (0.16%) Serverless
9 5 (0.11%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.11%) Google Workspace
10 4 (0.091%) Canva
10 4 (0.091%) GitHub
10 4 (0.091%) IaaS
10 4 (0.091%) PaaS
11 3 (0.068%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.068%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.068%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.068%) Zapier
12 2 (0.045%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (91.68%) Internet
2 31 (0.70%) Wireless
3 20 (0.45%) Firewall
4 17 (0.39%) Bluetooth
5 14 (0.32%) MQTT
6 12 (0.27%) VPN
7 11 (0.25%) Network Security
8 10 (0.23%) Modbus
9 7 (0.16%) DNS
9 7 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
11 4 (0.091%) 5G
12 3 (0.068%) DHCP
12 3 (0.068%) LTE
12 3 (0.068%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.068%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.068%) WAN
13 2 (0.045%) Broadband
13 2 (0.045%) VLAN
13 2 (0.045%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (0.54%) Big Data
2 11 (0.25%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.16%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.16%) Power BI
5 6 (0.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.11%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.091%) InfluxDB
7 4 (0.091%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.068%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.045%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.045%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.045%) GIS
9 2 (0.045%) Informix
9 2 (0.045%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.023%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.023%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.023%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.023%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (0.16%) Git
2 6 (0.14%) JIRA
3 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.023%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.023%) GitLab
3 1 (0.023%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.023%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.023%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.023%) Poetry
3 1 (0.023%) Postman
3 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.023%) Zephyr
General
1 4,117 (93.36%) Social Skills
2 4,063 (92.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,059 (92.04%) Banking
4 42 (0.95%) Electronics
5 40 (0.91%) Manufacturing
6 33 (0.75%) Finance
6 33 (0.75%) Marketing
7 20 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (0.41%) Public Sector
9 17 (0.39%) Telecoms
10 15 (0.34%) Automotive
10 15 (0.34%) Tech for Good
11 14 (0.32%) Wearables
12 12 (0.27%) Law
13 8 (0.18%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.18%) Social Housing
14 7 (0.16%) Retail
15 6 (0.14%) French Language
16 5 (0.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.091%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,149 (71.41%) Lecturer
2 62 (1.41%) Software Engineer
3 43 (0.98%) Embedded Engineer
4 38 (0.86%) Developer
4 38 (0.86%) Senior
5 33 (0.75%) Architect
6 27 (0.61%) Firmware Engineer
7 23 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 22 (0.50%) Principal Engineer
8 22 (0.50%) Principal Software Engineer
9 21 (0.48%) Sales Manager
10 16 (0.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 16 (0.36%) Mobile Developer
10 16 (0.36%) React Developer
11 14 (0.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (0.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 14 (0.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (0.27%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (0.27%) Analyst
13 11 (0.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.48%) React
2 18 (0.41%) Node.js
2 18 (0.41%) React Native
3 9 (0.20%) REST
4 6 (0.14%) .NET
5 5 (0.11%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.091%) Kafka
7 2 (0.045%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.045%) Django
7 2 (0.045%) Next.js
7 2 (0.045%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.045%) pgvector
7 2 (0.045%) Swagger
7 2 (0.045%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.023%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.023%) NumPy
8 1 (0.023%) OAuth
8 1 (0.023%) OpenID
8 1 (0.023%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (0.45%) Mobile App
1 20 (0.45%) Smart Energy
2 14 (0.32%) SCADA
3 13 (0.29%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (0.27%) PropTech
5 11 (0.25%) Smart Home
6 10 (0.23%) Operational Technology
7 9 (0.20%) Cloud Native
8 7 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (0.14%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.14%) Robotics
9 6 (0.14%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.11%) Device Driver
10 5 (0.11%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (0.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 5 (0.11%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.11%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.091%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.091%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (0.68%) Linux
2 15 (0.34%) Windows
3 9 (0.20%) Android
3 9 (0.20%) Unix
4 5 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.045%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.045%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.023%) Solaris
6 1 (0.023%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.023%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,084 (92.61%) Cybersecurity
2 4,071 (92.31%) AI
3 4,054 (91.93%) Web Development
4 4,052 (91.88%) Machine Learning
5 4,043 (91.68%) User Experience
6 77 (1.75%) Software Engineering
7 58 (1.32%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (0.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (0.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (0.75%) Business Analysis
11 30 (0.68%) Agile
11 30 (0.68%) Analytics
12 28 (0.63%) ERP
13 27 (0.61%) Digital Marketing
13 27 (0.61%) Energy Management
13 27 (0.61%) Roadmaps
14 24 (0.54%) DevOps
14 24 (0.54%) Mentoring
15 20 (0.45%) Storage Management
16 19 (0.43%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 32 (0.73%) Python
2 19 (0.43%) SQL
3 18 (0.41%) Java
4 14 (0.32%) TypeScript
5 11 (0.25%) C++
6 10 (0.23%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.20%) C#
8 8 (0.18%) C
8 8 (0.18%) PHP
9 6 (0.14%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.091%) Bash
11 2 (0.045%) Go
11 2 (0.045%) Perl
11 2 (0.045%) Rust
11 2 (0.045%) VBA
12 1 (0.023%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.023%) Groovy
12 1 (0.023%) Haskell
12 1 (0.023%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.023%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,091 (92.77%) Degree
2 4,060 (92.06%) Master's Degree
3 4,037 (91.54%) PhD
4 4,034 (91.47%) Postgraduate
5 26 (0.59%) HND
6 8 (0.18%) Security Cleared
7 6 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.045%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.045%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.045%) CISM
9 2 (0.045%) CISSP
9 2 (0.045%) MBA
9 2 (0.045%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.045%) PMP
9 2 (0.045%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.023%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.023%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.023%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (0.27%) QA
2 4 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.068%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.068%) GDPR
3 3 (0.068%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.068%) SLA
4 1 (0.023%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.023%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.023%) GMP
4 1 (0.023%) JTAG
4 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (1.16%) Firmware
2 30 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (0.29%) Docker
4 9 (0.20%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.091%) Terraform
4 3 (0.068%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (0.068%) Grafana
4 3 (0.068%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.023%) Nessus
5 1 (0.023%) Nmap
Vendors
1 38 (0.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.25%) Google
3 9 (0.20%) SAP
4 7 (0.16%) EMC
4 7 (0.16%) Oracle
5 6 (0.14%) VMware
6 5 (0.11%) Cognizant
7 4 (0.091%) Cisco
8 3 (0.068%) Adobe
8 3 (0.068%) ConnectWise
8 3 (0.068%) Draytek
8 3 (0.068%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.068%) IBM
8 3 (0.068%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (0.045%) Epicor
9 2 (0.045%) HP
9 2 (0.045%) Infor
9 2 (0.045%) Meraki
9 2 (0.045%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.045%) Siemens