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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 468 308
Rank change year-on-year +67 -160 +39
Permanent jobs citing IoT 440 227 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.11% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 330 168 559
10th Percentile £37,875 £42,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £46,063 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,438 £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 28,082 20,539 27,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.02% 41.21% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,626 10,337 15,729
10th Percentile £31,188 £28,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £103,750
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 22 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 22 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 +49 366 £55,000 -8.33% 330
UK excluding London +34 342 £55,000 -4.35% 213
Work from Home +7 128 £65,000 +12.07% 161
South East +22 89 £55,000 -8.33% 75
London +5 81 £75,000 -21.05% 158
North of England -7 77 £55,000 -6.78% 35
Scotland +53 48 £60,000 +14.29% 14
South West -47 48 £55,000 +12.82% 22
Midlands -22 45 £42,500 -29.17% 21
Yorkshire 0 38 £55,000 +4.76% 16
North West -12 26 £50,000 -13.79% 16
East of England -31 25 £71,250 +23.91% 42
East Midlands -20 23 £67,500 +28.57% 7
West Midlands -11 22 £38,500 -42.96% 14
North East - 13 £50,000 - 3
Northern Ireland -77 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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.45%) CMS
3 2 (0.45%) Confluence
3 2 (0.45%) WordPress
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.68%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.68%) Simulink
4 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.45%) 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 (0.45%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.45%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.45%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.95%) AWS
2 41 (9.32%) Azure
3 27 (6.14%) SaaS
4 15 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.18%) Serverless
6 11 (2.50%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.05%) GCP
8 5 (1.14%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.14%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.91%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.91%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (0.91%) Azure Functions
9 4 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.86%) Wireless
2 27 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (5.91%) MQTT
4 21 (4.77%) Internet
5 19 (4.32%) Firewall
6 17 (3.86%) Bluetooth
7 16 (3.64%) VPN
8 15 (3.41%) DNS
9 10 (2.27%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.27%) ZigBee
10 9 (2.05%) DHCP
11 7 (1.59%) 5G
12 6 (1.36%) Ethernet
13 5 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (1.14%) VoIP
14 4 (0.91%) HTTP
14 4 (0.91%) LTE
15 3 (0.68%) Gigabit Ethernet
15 3 (0.68%) GSM
15 3 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.73%) Big Data
1 12 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (2.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.82%) MySQL
4 6 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.36%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.68%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.68%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.45%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.45%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (6.82%) Git
2 8 (1.82%) JIRA
3 7 (1.59%) GitLab
3 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.36%) GDB
5 4 (0.91%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.91%) Selenium
6 3 (0.68%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Poetry
7 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (16.36%) Electronics
2 62 (14.09%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.73%) Finance
3 34 (7.73%) Telecoms
4 32 (7.27%) Manufacturing
5 28 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.32%) Wearables
7 17 (3.86%) Automotive
8 15 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.18%) Marketing
10 13 (2.95%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.50%) Legal
12 10 (2.27%) Retail
13 9 (2.05%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.82%) Law
14 8 (1.82%) Local Government
15 7 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.14%) Social Housing
16 5 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (14.77%) Software Engineer
2 53 (12.05%) Embedded Engineer
3 47 (10.68%) Senior
4 39 (8.86%) Developer
5 38 (8.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 34 (7.73%) Design Engineer
7 33 (7.50%) Sales Manager
8 32 (7.27%) Technical Engineer
9 30 (6.82%) Architect
10 25 (5.68%) Hardware Engineer
11 18 (4.09%) Electronics Engineer
12 17 (3.86%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.86%) Technical Support
13 16 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (3.41%) Hardware Design Engineer
15 14 (3.18%) Account Manager
15 14 (3.18%) Test Engineer
16 13 (2.95%) Technical Support Engineer
17 12 (2.73%) Firmware Engineer
17 12 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.55%) Yocto
2 18 (4.09%) Terraform
3 16 (3.64%) .NET
4 15 (3.41%) REST
5 14 (3.18%) React
6 10 (2.27%) Node.js
7 7 (1.59%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.36%) Blazor
8 6 (1.36%) Kafka
9 5 (1.14%) Vue
10 4 (0.91%) HTML
10 4 (0.91%) pytest
10 4 (0.91%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (0.68%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 3 (0.68%) CSS
11 3 (0.68%) Flash
11 3 (0.68%) PySpark
12 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (0.45%) pgvector
12 2 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.68%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.77%) Device Driver
3 17 (3.86%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.86%) Robotics
4 16 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.18%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.95%) Driving Licence
8 12 (2.73%) PropTech
9 11 (2.50%) ARM Cortex
10 9 (2.05%) Smart Home
11 8 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.59%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.36%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.18%) Linux
2 21 (4.77%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.64%) Windows
4 10 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.36%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (1.36%) VMS
6 5 (1.14%) Android
7 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (22.95%) Software Engineering
2 89 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (16.82%) AI
4 43 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (9.55%) CI/CD
6 41 (9.32%) Analytics
7 39 (8.86%) Collaborative Culture
7 39 (8.86%) DevOps
8 34 (7.73%) Machine Learning
9 33 (7.50%) Agile
9 33 (7.50%) Validation
10 29 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (6.36%) CRM
12 27 (6.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (5.91%) Computer Science
14 25 (5.68%) Business Development
14 25 (5.68%) Roadmaps
15 21 (4.77%) Tech Ops
16 20 (4.55%) Customer Engagement
16 20 (4.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.00%) Python
2 37 (8.41%) C++
3 32 (7.27%) C
4 22 (5.00%) SQL
5 21 (4.77%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 19 (4.32%) C#
8 16 (3.64%) Embedded C
9 14 (3.18%) Go
10 12 (2.73%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.27%) Java
12 6 (1.36%) Bash
13 4 (0.91%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.91%) PHP
13 4 (0.91%) Rust
14 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.23%) Bicep
15 1 (0.23%) Haskell
15 1 (0.23%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 84 (19.09%) Degree
2 21 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.95%) DBS Check
3 13 (2.95%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.36%) HNC
7 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.68%) HND
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.45%) CISM
9 2 (0.45%) CISSP
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CISA
10 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.64%) QA
2 10 (2.27%) JTAG
3 9 (2.05%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.68%) ECSS
4 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.45%) GDPR
5 2 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.05%) Firmware
2 26 (5.91%) Docker
3 16 (3.64%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.27%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.05%) vSphere
6 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.45%) iptables
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.36%) Grafana
3 5 (1.14%) SCCM
4 4 (0.91%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.91%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 48 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.05%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.05%) SAP
2 9 (2.05%) VMware
3 7 (1.59%) Cisco
3 7 (1.59%) Oracle
4 6 (1.36%) EMC
4 6 (1.36%) Google
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 (0.45%) MEDITECH
8 2 (0.45%) Meraki
8 2 (0.45%) Planon
8 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow