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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 468 302
Rank change year-on-year +57 -166 +43
Permanent jobs citing IoT 429 228 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.11% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 321 170 557
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,901
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £72,500 £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 27,947 20,627 27,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 41.24% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,526 10,405 15,998
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
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 16 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 16 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 +51 357 £55,000 -5.17% 155
UK excluding London +21 332 £55,000 -4.35% 127
Work from Home +1 121 £66,000 +13.79% 78
South East +10 91 £55,000 -8.33% 54
London +2 80 £75,000 -18.92% 58
North of England -14 73 £55,000 -5.17% 17
South West -51 48 £55,000 +12.82% 13
Scotland +44 46 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Midlands -14 40 £42,500 -29.17% 22
Yorkshire +1 35 £60,000 +14.29% 7
North West -11 25 £50,000 -13.79% 6
East of England -35 24 £67,500 +17.39% 17
East Midlands -21 23 £67,500 +28.57% 11
West Midlands -18 17 £38,500 -42.96% 11
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -62 10 £65,000 +30.00% 5

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 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.70%) CMS
3 3 (0.70%) WordPress
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.70%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.70%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.70%) Simulink
4 2 (0.47%) Windchill
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.47%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.52%) AWS
2 42 (9.79%) Azure
3 28 (6.53%) SaaS
4 14 (3.26%) Serverless
5 13 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.56%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.33%) GCP
8 9 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.17%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (0.93%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.93%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.09%) Wireless
2 27 (6.29%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (6.06%) MQTT
4 19 (4.43%) Firewall
5 18 (4.20%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.20%) Internet
6 16 (3.73%) VPN
7 14 (3.26%) DNS
8 11 (2.56%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.33%) ZigBee
10 8 (1.86%) DHCP
11 6 (1.40%) 5G
11 6 (1.40%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.17%) VoIP
13 4 (0.93%) HTTP
13 4 (0.93%) LTE
14 3 (0.70%) Gigabit Ethernet
14 3 (0.70%) GSM
14 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.80%) Big Data
2 12 (2.80%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.86%) MySQL
4 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.40%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.40%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.70%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.47%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.47%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 29 (6.76%) Git
2 8 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.63%) GitLab
4 6 (1.40%) GDB
5 5 (1.17%) JIRA
6 4 (0.93%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.70%) PetaLinux
7 3 (0.70%) Postman
8 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Poetry
8 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (16.78%) Electronics
2 56 (13.05%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.93%) Finance
4 33 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 31 (7.23%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.20%) Wearables
8 17 (3.96%) Automotive
9 15 (3.50%) Marketing
10 12 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.56%) Legal
11 11 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.56%) Retail
12 8 (1.86%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.86%) Law
12 8 (1.86%) Local Government
12 8 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.17%) Social Housing
14 5 (1.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 53 (12.35%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (9.79%) Senior
4 37 (8.62%) Developer
4 37 (8.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 33 (7.69%) Sales Manager
6 32 (7.46%) Technical Engineer
7 31 (7.23%) Design Engineer
8 27 (6.29%) Architect
9 25 (5.83%) Hardware Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Electronics Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Technical Support
11 14 (3.26%) Hardware Design Engineer
11 14 (3.26%) Test Engineer
12 13 (3.03%) Firmware Engineer
12 13 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.03%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (2.80%) Embedded Linux Engineer
13 12 (2.80%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.66%) Yocto
2 15 (3.50%) .NET
2 15 (3.50%) REST
3 14 (3.26%) React
4 10 (2.33%) Node.js
5 6 (1.40%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.40%) Blazor
5 6 (1.40%) Kafka
6 4 (0.93%) pytest
6 4 (0.93%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (0.93%) Vue
7 3 (0.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.70%) Flash
7 3 (0.70%) HTML
7 3 (0.70%) PySpark
8 2 (0.47%) CSS
8 2 (0.47%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.47%) Laravel
8 2 (0.47%) pgvector
8 2 (0.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.19%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.90%) Device Driver
3 18 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.73%) Robotics
6 15 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.50%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.03%) Driving Licence
7 13 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.80%) PropTech
9 11 (2.56%) ARM Cortex
10 10 (2.33%) Smart Home
11 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.86%) Smart Energy
12 7 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.63%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.63%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.75%) Linux
2 21 (4.90%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.73%) Windows
4 10 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.17%) Android
7 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.93%) Unix
7 4 (0.93%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (23.54%) Software Engineering
2 89 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (17.25%) AI
4 43 (10.02%) Analytics
4 43 (10.02%) CI/CD
5 41 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (8.62%) DevOps
8 33 (7.69%) Machine Learning
9 31 (7.23%) Validation
10 29 (6.76%) Agile
11 28 (6.53%) CRM
11 28 (6.53%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (5.83%) Business Development
13 25 (5.83%) Computer Science
13 25 (5.83%) Roadmaps
14 21 (4.90%) Tech Ops
15 20 (4.66%) Customer Engagement
16 19 (4.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 67 (15.62%) Python
2 39 (9.09%) C++
3 33 (7.69%) C
4 22 (5.13%) SQL
5 20 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.66%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.20%) C#
7 16 (3.73%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.03%) Go
9 12 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.33%) Java
11 6 (1.40%) Bash
12 4 (0.93%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.93%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.93%) PHP
12 4 (0.93%) Rust
13 3 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.23%) Bicep
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (18.41%) Degree
2 19 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.80%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 10 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.17%) HNC
8 3 (0.70%) HND
9 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CISM
9 2 (0.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CISA
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.23%) PhD
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.26%) QA
2 9 (2.10%) JTAG
3 8 (1.86%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.70%) ECSS
4 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.35%) Firmware
2 27 (6.29%) Docker
3 16 (3.73%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.33%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.10%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.47%) iptables
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.96%) Terraform
3 6 (1.40%) Grafana
4 5 (1.17%) SCCM
5 4 (0.93%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
7 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 47 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.10%) SAP
2 9 (2.10%) VMware
3 7 (1.63%) Cisco
3 7 (1.63%) Google
3 7 (1.63%) Oracle
3 7 (1.63%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.40%) EMC
5 5 (1.17%) Aruba
5 5 (1.17%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.93%) Adobe
6 4 (0.93%) Databricks
6 4 (0.93%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.93%) IFS
7 3 (0.70%) BT
7 3 (0.70%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.47%) Meraki
9 1 (0.23%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.23%) MEDITECH
9 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto