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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 468 306
Rank change year-on-year +51 -162 +35
Permanent jobs citing IoT 432 229 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.11% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 323 171 558
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,926
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 £71,875 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £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 27,933 20,678 27,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 41.21% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17,515 10,431 15,927
10th Percentile £31,083 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £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 £104,500 £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 17 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 17 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 +70 359 £55,000 -6.78% 326
UK excluding London +23 334 £55,000 -4.35% 214
Work from Home -11 123 £65,500 +12.93% 163
South East +11 90 £55,000 -8.33% 72
London +1 80 £75,000 -18.92% 156
North of England -11 75 £55,000 -5.17% 37
South West -48 49 £55,000 +12.82% 23
Scotland +43 46 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Midlands -14 40 £42,500 -29.17% 24
Yorkshire +3 36 £57,500 +9.52% 16
North West -19 26 £50,000 -13.79% 17
East of England -25 24 £67,500 +17.39% 42
East Midlands -17 23 £67,500 +28.57% 11
West Midlands -7 17 £38,500 -42.96% 13
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -66 10 £65,000 +30.00% 8

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 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.69%) CMS
3 3 (0.69%) WordPress
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.62%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.69%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.69%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.69%) Simulink
4 2 (0.46%) 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 (0.46%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.43%) AWS
2 42 (9.72%) Azure
3 28 (6.48%) SaaS
4 14 (3.24%) Serverless
5 13 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.55%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.31%) GCP
8 9 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.16%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.16%) 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 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.03%) Wireless
2 27 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (6.02%) MQTT
4 19 (4.40%) Firewall
5 18 (4.17%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.17%) Internet
6 16 (3.70%) VPN
7 14 (3.24%) DNS
8 11 (2.55%) LoRaWAN
9 10 (2.31%) ZigBee
10 8 (1.85%) DHCP
11 6 (1.39%) 5G
11 6 (1.39%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.16%) VoIP
13 4 (0.93%) HTTP
13 4 (0.93%) LTE
14 3 (0.69%) Gigabit Ethernet
14 3 (0.69%) RS-232
14 3 (0.69%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.78%) Big Data
1 12 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.55%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.85%) MySQL
4 6 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.39%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.16%) DynamoDB
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 (0.69%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.69%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.46%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.46%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 29 (6.71%) Git
2 7 (1.62%) GitLab
2 7 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.39%) GDB
4 5 (1.16%) JIRA
5 4 (0.93%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.93%) Selenium
6 3 (0.69%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Poetry
7 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (16.67%) Electronics
2 56 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.87%) Finance
4 33 (7.64%) Manufacturing
5 32 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.17%) Wearables
8 17 (3.94%) Automotive
9 15 (3.47%) Marketing
10 13 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.55%) Legal
11 11 (2.55%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.55%) Retail
12 8 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.85%) Law
12 8 (1.85%) Local Government
12 8 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.16%) Social Housing
14 5 (1.16%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 67 (15.51%) Software Engineer
2 54 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (9.72%) Senior
4 38 (8.80%) Developer
4 38 (8.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (7.41%) Design Engineer
5 32 (7.41%) Sales Manager
5 32 (7.41%) Technical Engineer
6 28 (6.48%) Architect
7 25 (5.79%) Hardware Engineer
8 17 (3.94%) Electronics Engineer
8 17 (3.94%) Support Engineer
8 17 (3.94%) Technical Support
9 14 (3.24%) Hardware Design Engineer
9 14 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (3.24%) Test Engineer
10 13 (3.01%) Firmware Engineer
10 13 (3.01%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (2.78%) Account Manager
11 12 (2.78%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.63%) Yocto
2 15 (3.47%) .NET
2 15 (3.47%) REST
3 13 (3.01%) React
4 10 (2.31%) Node.js
5 6 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.39%) Blazor
5 6 (1.39%) Kafka
6 4 (0.93%) pytest
6 4 (0.93%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (0.93%) Vue
7 3 (0.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.69%) Flash
7 3 (0.69%) HTML
7 3 (0.69%) PySpark
8 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.46%) CSS
8 2 (0.46%) Django
8 2 (0.46%) pgvector
8 2 (0.46%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.86%) Device Driver
3 18 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.70%) Robotics
5 15 (3.47%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.01%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.78%) PropTech
8 11 (2.55%) ARM Cortex
9 10 (2.31%) Smart Home
10 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.85%) Smart Energy
11 7 (1.62%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.62%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.43%) Linux
2 21 (4.86%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.70%) Windows
4 10 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.39%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (1.16%) Android
7 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.93%) VMS
8 3 (0.69%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (23.61%) Software Engineering
2 89 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (16.90%) AI
4 42 (9.72%) Analytics
4 42 (9.72%) CI/CD
5 41 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (9.03%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (8.56%) DevOps
8 32 (7.41%) Machine Learning
9 31 (7.18%) Validation
10 30 (6.94%) Agile
11 28 (6.48%) CRM
11 28 (6.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (5.79%) Business Development
13 25 (5.79%) Computer Science
13 25 (5.79%) Roadmaps
14 21 (4.86%) Tech Ops
15 20 (4.63%) Customer Engagement
16 19 (4.40%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.28%) Python
2 38 (8.80%) C++
3 33 (7.64%) C
4 22 (5.09%) SQL
5 20 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.63%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.17%) C#
7 16 (3.70%) Embedded C
8 14 (3.24%) Go
9 12 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.31%) Java
11 6 (1.39%) Bash
12 4 (0.93%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.93%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.93%) PHP
12 4 (0.93%) Rust
13 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.23%) Bicep
14 1 (0.23%) Haskell
14 1 (0.23%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 80 (18.52%) Degree
2 19 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.55%) DBS Check
4 11 (2.55%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.39%) HNC
7 3 (0.69%) HND
8 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.46%) CISM
8 2 (0.46%) CISSP
8 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CISA
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.24%) QA
2 9 (2.08%) JTAG
3 8 (1.85%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.69%) ECSS
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (12.27%) Firmware
2 26 (6.02%) Docker
3 16 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.31%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.08%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.46%) iptables
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.17%) Terraform
3 6 (1.39%) Grafana
4 5 (1.16%) SCCM
5 4 (0.93%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.69%) 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 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.08%) SAP
2 9 (2.08%) VMware
3 7 (1.62%) Cisco
3 7 (1.62%) Google
3 7 (1.62%) Oracle
3 7 (1.62%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.39%) EMC
5 5 (1.16%) Aruba
5 5 (1.16%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.93%) Adobe
6 4 (0.93%) Databricks
6 4 (0.93%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.93%) IFS
7 3 (0.69%) BT
7 3 (0.69%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.46%) Meraki
9 1 (0.23%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.23%) MEDITECH
9 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto