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 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 437 281
Rank change year-on-year +25 -156 +79
Permanent jobs citing IoT 363 244 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.55% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.27% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 278 155 789
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,000 £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 23,637 19,143 36,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.34% 42.95% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15,032 9,051 23,518
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £28,116
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% - -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +14 302 £60,000 - 247
UK excluding London +20 268 £55,000 -8.33% 191
Work from Home -6 79 £70,000 +16.67% 108
South East +6 74 £55,000 -10.20% 57
London 0 68 £75,000 -7.69% 87
North of England +13 65 £52,500 -9.48% 28
South West -38 43 £52,500 -8.70% 33
Yorkshire -10 30 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Scotland +26 28 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Midlands -21 26 £42,500 -26.09% 22
North West +11 25 £53,750 -7.33% 15
East of England -8 22 £70,000 +21.74% 35
West Midlands -25 13 £50,000 -23.08% 14
East Midlands -26 13 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Northern Ireland -24 10 £65,000 +30.00% 8
North East - 10 £51,000 - 3

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 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.10%) CMS
3 4 (1.10%) Confluence
3 4 (1.10%) WordPress
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
Applications
1 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.10%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.55%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.28%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Simulink
5 1 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Maximo
2 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (11.57%) Azure
2 40 (11.02%) AWS
3 17 (4.68%) SaaS
4 13 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.58%) Serverless
5 11 (3.03%) GCP
6 5 (1.38%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.38%) AWS IoT
6 5 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.10%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.10%) Canva
7 4 (1.10%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.10%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.37%) Wireless
2 23 (6.34%) MQTT
3 20 (5.51%) Firewall
4 17 (4.68%) Bluetooth
5 15 (4.13%) VPN
5 15 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.31%) Internet
7 11 (3.03%) DNS
8 10 (2.75%) LoRaWAN
9 7 (1.93%) Modbus
10 5 (1.38%) DHCP
10 5 (1.38%) ZigBee
11 4 (1.10%) LTE
12 2 (0.55%) AMQP
12 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.55%) VoIP
13 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.28%) FTP
13 1 (0.28%) HTTP
13 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.48%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.20%) MySQL
3 8 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.65%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.83%) Power BI
7 2 (0.55%) Big Data
7 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.55%) GIS
7 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.55%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.28%) Flink
8 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.03%) Git
2 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.38%) JIRA
3 4 (1.10%) GDB
3 4 (1.10%) GitLab
3 4 (1.10%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.28%) PetaLinux
4 1 (0.28%) Poetry
4 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (14.88%) Electronics
2 48 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.26%) Manufacturing
4 26 (7.16%) Finance
5 18 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.41%) Automotive
6 16 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.58%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.58%) Tech for Good
8 11 (3.03%) Wearables
9 10 (2.75%) Marketing
10 8 (2.20%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.20%) Retail
11 7 (1.93%) Law
11 7 (1.93%) Local Government
11 7 (1.93%) Social Housing
12 6 (1.65%) French Language
13 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (20.11%) Software Engineer
2 46 (12.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 41 (11.29%) Senior
4 32 (8.82%) Developer
5 26 (7.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 26 (7.16%) Firmware Engineer
6 24 (6.61%) Architect
7 20 (5.51%) Sales Manager
7 20 (5.51%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) Electronics Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (4.13%) Principal Software Engineer
10 13 (3.58%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
12 10 (2.75%) Electronics Test Engineer
12 10 (2.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 10 (2.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.13%) Node.js
1 15 (4.13%) React
2 7 (1.93%) .NET
2 7 (1.93%) Yocto
3 4 (1.10%) pytest
3 4 (1.10%) REST
3 4 (1.10%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.83%) React Native
4 3 (0.83%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.55%) GStreamer
5 2 (0.55%) Kafka
5 2 (0.55%) pgvector
5 2 (0.55%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.28%) D3.js
6 1 (0.28%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.28%) HTML
6 1 (0.28%) Laravel
6 1 (0.28%) SAML
6 1 (0.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.71%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (4.13%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.31%) Mobile App
3 12 (3.31%) Smart Energy
4 11 (3.03%) Device Driver
4 11 (3.03%) PropTech
5 10 (2.75%) Operational Technology
5 10 (2.75%) SCADA
6 9 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.48%) Smart Home
7 8 (2.20%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (2.20%) Robotics
8 7 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.65%) NB-IoT
10 5 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.57%) Linux
2 17 (4.68%) Windows
3 10 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.65%) Android
5 6 (1.65%) Unix
6 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.10%) VMS
7 2 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.28%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (25.07%) Software Engineering
2 58 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (12.40%) AI
4 37 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
6 32 (8.82%) Analytics
7 30 (8.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (7.99%) DevOps
9 28 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (7.16%) ERP
11 24 (6.61%) CRM
12 23 (6.34%) Energy Management
12 23 (6.34%) Mentoring
13 22 (6.06%) Roadmaps
14 19 (5.23%) Agile
14 19 (5.23%) Asset Management
14 19 (5.23%) CI/CD
15 18 (4.96%) Machine Learning
16 17 (4.68%) Tech Ops
17 16 (4.41%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 46 (12.67%) Python
2 25 (6.89%) C++
3 19 (5.23%) SQL
4 18 (4.96%) C
5 16 (4.41%) Java
5 16 (4.41%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.86%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.58%) C#
8 12 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.93%) Bash
9 7 (1.93%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.38%) PHP
11 4 (1.10%) Go
12 2 (0.55%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.55%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.55%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) Haskell
13 1 (0.28%) OCaml
13 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (13.50%) Degree
2 11 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.75%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.93%) HND
4 7 (1.93%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.10%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) CISM
7 2 (0.55%) CISSP
7 2 (0.55%) MBA
8 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CISA
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.75%) QA
2 5 (1.38%) JTAG
3 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.10%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) ECSS
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (15.15%) Firmware
2 28 (7.71%) Embedded Firmware
3 17 (4.68%) Docker
4 10 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.10%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (1.10%) SCCM
3 4 (1.10%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 39 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.75%) VMware
3 8 (2.20%) Google
4 6 (1.65%) EMC
4 6 (1.65%) Oracle
4 6 (1.65%) SAP
5 5 (1.38%) Cognizant
5 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.10%) Adobe
6 4 (1.10%) Aruba
7 3 (0.83%) Cisco
8 2 (0.55%) ConnectWise
8 2 (0.55%) dotdigital
8 2 (0.55%) Draytek
8 2 (0.55%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.55%) IFS
8 2 (0.55%) Meraki
8 2 (0.55%) Siemens
9 1 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.28%) Zscaler