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 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 455 317
Rank change year-on-year +65 -138 +8
Permanent jobs citing IoT 517 221 630
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.45% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.09% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 388 149 422
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,170 £32,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,527 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,250 £79,875
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 31,158 20,315 24,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 40.94% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19,298 10,214 12,392
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -12.38% -4.55%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +77 432 £55,000 -8.33% 586
UK excluding London +42 402 £55,000 -4.35% 388
Work from Home +29 151 £62,500 +8.70% 270
South East +17 107 £55,000 -8.33% 89
London +7 95 £57,500 -39.47% 248
North of England +11 92 £55,000 -8.33% 76
Scotland +67 56 £60,000 +4.80% 40
South West -48 54 £55,000 +22.22% 27
Midlands -26 51 £55,875 +1.59% 38
Yorkshire +5 41 £55,000 - 15
North West -14 35 £42,000 -30.00% 43
East of England -36 33 £85,000 +47.83% 75
East Midlands -28 26 £67,500 +28.57% 15
West Midlands -23 25 £46,000 -22.72% 23
North East -48 16 £50,000 +25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -79 10 £65,000 - 35

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 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
Applications
1 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.77%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.77%) Simulink
3 2 (0.39%) CATIA
3 2 (0.39%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.39%) Windchill
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.58%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 60 (11.61%) AWS
2 44 (8.51%) Azure
3 24 (4.64%) SaaS
4 21 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.13%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.13%) Serverless
7 10 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.55%) GCP
9 5 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (0.97%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.77%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.77%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (0.77%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.77%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.70%) Wireless
2 42 (8.12%) Internet
3 28 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (5.03%) MQTT
5 18 (3.48%) DNS
5 18 (3.48%) Firewall
6 17 (3.29%) Bluetooth
7 16 (3.09%) VPN
8 15 (2.90%) 5G
9 12 (2.32%) DHCP
10 9 (1.74%) Ethernet
10 9 (1.74%) ZigBee
11 8 (1.55%) LoRaWAN
12 6 (1.16%) VLAN
13 5 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.97%) SSH
13 5 (0.97%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.77%) Modbus
14 4 (0.77%) RS-232
14 4 (0.77%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.51%) Big Data
2 10 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.97%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.97%) MySQL
8 4 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.58%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.58%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.58%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.39%) GIS
10 2 (0.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 35 (6.77%) Git
2 12 (2.32%) JIRA
3 7 (1.35%) GitLab
3 7 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.16%) GDB
5 4 (0.77%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.58%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Poetry
General
1 82 (15.86%) Electronics
2 80 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 45 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 44 (8.51%) Finance
4 44 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 37 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (4.45%) Wearables
8 19 (3.68%) Automotive
9 18 (3.48%) Aerospace
10 17 (3.29%) Marketing
11 13 (2.51%) Legal
11 13 (2.51%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.51%) Retail
12 8 (1.55%) Banking
12 8 (1.55%) Law
12 8 (1.55%) Local Government
12 8 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.35%) Billing
13 7 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (11.61%) Software Engineer
2 59 (11.41%) Senior
3 52 (10.06%) Design Engineer
3 52 (10.06%) Embedded Engineer
4 47 (9.09%) Developer
5 42 (8.12%) Sales Manager
6 36 (6.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 35 (6.77%) Architect
8 32 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
9 31 (6.00%) Hardware Engineer
10 27 (5.22%) Electronics Engineer
11 19 (3.68%) Hardware Design Engineer
11 19 (3.68%) Technical Support
12 18 (3.48%) Account Manager
13 17 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.29%) Support Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Embedded Linux Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Systems Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.03%) Yocto
2 22 (4.26%) Terraform
3 19 (3.68%) .NET
3 19 (3.68%) REST
4 14 (2.71%) React
5 11 (2.13%) Node.js
6 8 (1.55%) Kafka
7 7 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.16%) Blazor
9 5 (0.97%) Vue
10 4 (0.77%) HTML
10 4 (0.77%) pytest
10 4 (0.77%) Symfony
10 4 (0.77%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (0.58%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 3 (0.58%) CSS
11 3 (0.58%) Django
11 3 (0.58%) Flash
11 3 (0.58%) PySpark
11 3 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.25%) Embedded Systems
2 26 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.64%) Mobile App
4 22 (4.26%) Device Driver
4 22 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.68%) Robotics
6 17 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.09%) Driving Licence
8 13 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.51%) Smart Home
9 12 (2.32%) ARM Cortex
10 11 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.13%) FPGA
10 11 (2.13%) Operational Technology
10 11 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.93%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.74%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.74%) PropTech
13 8 (1.55%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.96%) Linux
2 25 (4.84%) Embedded Linux
3 18 (3.48%) Windows
4 10 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.74%) Android
6 7 (1.35%) VMS
7 6 (1.16%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (18.96%) Software Engineering
3 96 (18.57%) AI
4 51 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (9.28%) Agile
5 48 (9.28%) CI/CD
6 45 (8.70%) Analytics
7 43 (8.32%) Machine Learning
7 43 (8.32%) Validation
8 39 (7.54%) Collaborative Culture
8 39 (7.54%) DevOps
9 38 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (6.77%) Roadmaps
11 34 (6.58%) Business Development
12 29 (5.61%) Computer Science
12 29 (5.61%) Decision-Making
13 27 (5.22%) CRM
13 27 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (5.03%) Tech Ops
15 25 (4.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (13.15%) Python
2 50 (9.67%) C++
3 41 (7.93%) C
4 25 (4.84%) SQL
5 24 (4.64%) C#
6 23 (4.45%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.26%) Embedded C
8 21 (4.06%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.29%) Go
10 13 (2.51%) Java
10 13 (2.51%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.93%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.16%) Bash
12 6 (1.16%) Rust
13 5 (0.97%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.97%) PHP
14 4 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.39%) Bicep
16 1 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 121 (23.40%) Degree
2 31 (6.00%) DBS Check
3 23 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (4.45%) Master's Degree
4 18 (3.48%) HNC
5 16 (3.09%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.55%) PhD
8 8 (1.55%) Postgraduate
9 7 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.97%) HND
11 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.39%) ACCA
12 2 (0.39%) CCNP
12 2 (0.39%) CIMA
12 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.45%) QA
2 9 (1.74%) JTAG
3 8 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.16%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.77%) ECSS
6 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.39%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) NIST
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (9.67%) Firmware
2 24 (4.64%) Docker
3 12 (2.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.74%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.35%) vSphere
6 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.39%) iptables
8 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.35%) Grafana
3 5 (0.97%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.97%) SCCM
4 3 (0.58%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (0.39%) Galera Cluster
5 2 (0.39%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) MOM
Vendors
1 49 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.93%) EMC
3 9 (1.74%) Salesforce
4 8 (1.55%) Cisco
5 7 (1.35%) Oracle
5 7 (1.35%) SAP
5 7 (1.35%) VMware
6 6 (1.16%) Aruba
7 5 (0.97%) Cognizant
7 5 (0.97%) Databricks
7 5 (0.97%) Google
8 4 (0.77%) Adobe
8 4 (0.77%) dotdigital
8 4 (0.77%) IFS
8 4 (0.77%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.58%) Apple
9 3 (0.58%) BT
9 3 (0.58%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.39%) Planon
10 2 (0.39%) Thales