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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 468 307
Rank change year-on-year +51 -161 +34
Permanent jobs citing IoT 424 228 722
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 1.10% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 317 169 561
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

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 27,731 20,655 27,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 41.48% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,411 10,361 16,265
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,473 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -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 12 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 12 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 +62 350 £55,000 -5.17% 430
UK excluding London +14 324 £55,000 -4.35% 264
Work from Home +13 124 £66,750 +15.09% 206
South East +19 89 £55,000 -8.33% 85
London +2 79 £75,000 -18.92% 220
North of England -13 71 £55,000 -5.17% 47
South West -37 47 £55,000 +12.82% 29
Scotland +53 45 £60,000 +14.29% 26
Midlands -10 38 £42,500 -29.17% 29
Yorkshire +5 35 £60,000 +14.29% 18
East of England -34 24 £67,500 +17.39% 44
East Midlands -17 23 £67,500 +28.57% 12
North West -26 23 £50,000 -13.79% 25
West Midlands -13 15 £38,500 -42.96% 17
North East - 13 £50,000 - 5
Northern Ireland -61 10 £65,000 +30.00% 11

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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.94%) CMS
3 4 (0.94%) WordPress
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.94%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.71%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.71%) Simulink
5 2 (0.47%) Windchill
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.47%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.21%) AWS
2 42 (9.91%) Azure
3 28 (6.60%) SaaS
4 15 (3.54%) Serverless
5 13 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.59%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.36%) GCP
8 9 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.18%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.18%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.18%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.94%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.94%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (0.94%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.94%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.20%) Wireless
2 27 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (6.13%) MQTT
4 18 (4.25%) Bluetooth
4 18 (4.25%) Firewall
5 17 (4.01%) Internet
6 15 (3.54%) VPN
7 13 (3.07%) DNS
8 11 (2.59%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.36%) ZigBee
10 7 (1.65%) DHCP
11 6 (1.42%) 5G
11 6 (1.42%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.18%) VoIP
13 4 (0.94%) LTE
14 3 (0.71%) Gigabit Ethernet
14 3 (0.71%) Modbus
14 3 (0.71%) RS-232
14 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.83%) Big Data
1 12 (2.83%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.65%) MySQL
4 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.42%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.42%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.71%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.47%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.47%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (6.60%) Git
2 8 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.65%) GitLab
4 6 (1.42%) GDB
5 4 (0.94%) JIRA
5 4 (0.94%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.94%) Selenium
6 3 (0.71%) PetaLinux
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Poetry
8 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (16.75%) Electronics
2 56 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.02%) Manufacturing
4 33 (7.78%) Finance
5 30 (7.08%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.01%) Wearables
8 16 (3.77%) Automotive
8 16 (3.77%) Marketing
9 12 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.59%) Legal
10 11 (2.59%) Retail
11 9 (2.12%) Law
11 9 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.89%) Local Government
13 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.18%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (15.57%) Software Engineer
2 53 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (9.91%) Senior
4 37 (8.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 34 (8.02%) Developer
6 33 (7.78%) Sales Manager
7 32 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
8 29 (6.84%) Architect
8 29 (6.84%) Design Engineer
9 24 (5.66%) Hardware Engineer
10 17 (4.01%) Electronics Engineer
10 17 (4.01%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.54%) Technical Support
12 14 (3.30%) Test Engineer
13 13 (3.07%) Firmware Engineer
13 13 (3.07%) Hardware Design Engineer
13 13 (3.07%) Technical Support Engineer
14 12 (2.83%) Embedded Linux Engineer
14 12 (2.83%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.72%) Yocto
2 14 (3.30%) .NET
2 14 (3.30%) REST
3 13 (3.07%) React
4 9 (2.12%) Node.js
5 6 (1.42%) Blazor
5 6 (1.42%) Kafka
6 5 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.94%) pytest
7 4 (0.94%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (0.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.71%) Flash
8 3 (0.71%) PySpark
8 3 (0.71%) Vue
9 2 (0.47%) Django
9 2 (0.47%) GStreamer
9 2 (0.47%) HTML
9 2 (0.47%) Laravel
9 2 (0.47%) pgvector
9 2 (0.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.32%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.95%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.01%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.77%) Robotics
6 14 (3.30%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.07%) Driving Licence
7 13 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.83%) PropTech
9 11 (2.59%) ARM Cortex
10 10 (2.36%) Smart Home
11 8 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.89%) Smart Energy
12 7 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.65%) Blog
12 7 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.92%) Linux
2 21 (4.95%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.77%) Windows
4 10 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.42%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.18%) Android
7 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.94%) Unix
7 4 (0.94%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (23.58%) Software Engineering
2 86 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (18.16%) AI
4 44 (10.38%) Analytics
5 43 (10.14%) CI/CD
5 43 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (9.20%) Collaborative Culture
6 39 (9.20%) DevOps
7 32 (7.55%) Machine Learning
8 31 (7.31%) Validation
9 29 (6.84%) Agile
10 28 (6.60%) CRM
10 28 (6.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (6.37%) Roadmaps
12 26 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (5.90%) Business Development
13 25 (5.90%) Computer Science
14 20 (4.72%) Customer Engagement
15 19 (4.48%) Decision-Making
15 19 (4.48%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.57%) Python
2 39 (9.20%) C++
3 33 (7.78%) C
4 21 (4.95%) SQL
5 20 (4.72%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.48%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.25%) C#
8 16 (3.77%) Embedded C
9 12 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.59%) Go
11 10 (2.36%) Java
12 6 (1.42%) Bash
13 4 (0.94%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.94%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.94%) PHP
13 4 (0.94%) Rust
14 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.24%) Haskell
15 1 (0.24%) R
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (18.63%) Degree
2 19 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.83%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.59%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.36%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.12%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.94%) HNC
9 3 (0.71%) HND
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CISM
10 2 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CISA
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PhD
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.07%) QA
2 9 (2.12%) JTAG
3 8 (1.89%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.71%) ECSS
4 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (12.03%) Firmware
2 26 (6.13%) Docker
3 16 (3.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.36%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.12%) vSphere
6 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.47%) iptables
8 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.54%) Terraform
3 6 (1.42%) Grafana
4 5 (1.18%) SCCM
5 4 (0.94%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.94%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.24%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 45 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.12%) SAP
2 9 (2.12%) VMware
3 7 (1.65%) Cisco
3 7 (1.65%) Google
3 7 (1.65%) Oracle
3 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.42%) EMC
5 5 (1.18%) Aruba
5 5 (1.18%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.94%) Adobe
6 4 (0.94%) Databricks
6 4 (0.94%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.94%) IFS
7 3 (0.71%) BT
7 3 (0.71%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.47%) Meraki
9 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.24%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.24%) Palo Alto