IoT Job Trends

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 342 302
Rank change year-on-year +312 -40 +81
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,411 348 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.93% 0.79% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.22% 2.04% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 270 205 614
10th Percentile £32,400 £41,250 £33,313
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £69,832
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -0.87%

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 22,950 17,094 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.85% 38.98% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11,692 8,922 21,676
10th Percentile £28,760 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 18 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 15 March 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 +333 4,341 £55,000 -8.33% 150
UK excluding London +262 3,916 £55,000 -8.33% 121
North of England +202 1,668 £52,500 -8.70% 23
North West +155 1,511 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Midlands +159 1,061 £42,500 -29.17% 18
West Midlands +137 930 £42,500 -29.17% 8
South East +170 656 £60,000 -13.67% 33
London +239 446 £75,000 +3.45% 37
East of England +130 409 £34,000 -38.18% 29
Yorkshire +73 156 £50,000 -18.37% 13
East Midlands +57 143 - - 10
South West +16 81 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Work from Home -20 62 £64,169 +5.63% 62
Wales 0 35 £65,000 -14.75% 3
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -16 6 £72,500 +18.37% 6
Northern Ireland -27 4 £70,000 +40.00% 2
North East - 1 £40,000 - 1

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 23 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.16%) Confluence
3 4 (0.091%) CMS
3 4 (0.091%) WordPress
4 2 (0.045%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.023%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.023%) Mendix
5 1 (0.023%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.091%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.045%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.045%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.045%) Revit
3 2 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.023%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.023%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.023%) Maximo
3 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4,066 (92.18%) Cloud Computing
2 46 (1.04%) Azure
3 44 (1.00%) AWS
4 25 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 16 (0.36%) SaaS
6 13 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (0.25%) Power Platform
8 10 (0.23%) GCP
9 7 (0.16%) GitHub
10 5 (0.11%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.11%) Google Workspace
10 5 (0.11%) Serverless
11 4 (0.091%) Canva
11 4 (0.091%) IaaS
11 4 (0.091%) PaaS
11 4 (0.091%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.068%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.068%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.068%) Zapier
13 2 (0.045%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4,056 (91.95%) Internet
2 29 (0.66%) Wireless
3 28 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.34%) Firewall
5 13 (0.29%) Bluetooth
6 10 (0.23%) VPN
7 9 (0.20%) Modbus
8 8 (0.18%) MQTT
9 6 (0.14%) DNS
10 5 (0.11%) WAN
11 4 (0.091%) 5G
11 4 (0.091%) LoRaWAN
11 4 (0.091%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.091%) VLAN
11 4 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.068%) DHCP
12 3 (0.068%) LAN
12 3 (0.068%) LTE
12 3 (0.068%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.045%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (0.52%) Big Data
2 12 (0.27%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Power BI
4 6 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.14%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.068%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.045%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.045%) Informix
8 1 (0.023%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.023%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.023%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.023%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.023%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.023%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.023%) GIS
8 1 (0.023%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.023%) Redis
8 1 (0.023%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.14%) Git
1 6 (0.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.045%) GitLab
2 2 (0.045%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.023%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.023%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.023%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.023%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.023%) MLflow
3 1 (0.023%) Postman
3 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.023%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.023%) Zephyr
General
1 4,151 (94.11%) Social Skills
2 4,073 (92.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,069 (92.25%) Banking
4 39 (0.88%) Manufacturing
5 34 (0.77%) Electronics
5 34 (0.77%) Marketing
6 33 (0.75%) Finance
7 21 (0.48%) Public Sector
8 20 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (0.39%) Tech for Good
10 15 (0.34%) Telecoms
11 14 (0.32%) Wearables
12 10 (0.23%) Automotive
12 10 (0.23%) Retail
13 9 (0.20%) Law
14 8 (0.18%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.14%) French Language
15 6 (0.14%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.11%) Back Office
16 5 (0.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3,159 (71.62%) Lecturer
2 54 (1.22%) Software Engineer
3 41 (0.93%) Developer
4 38 (0.86%) Senior
5 36 (0.82%) Embedded Engineer
6 29 (0.66%) Architect
7 23 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 23 (0.52%) Firmware Engineer
8 18 (0.41%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (0.41%) Principal Software Engineer
9 17 (0.39%) React Developer
10 16 (0.36%) Mobile Developer
11 15 (0.34%) Sales Manager
12 14 (0.32%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (0.29%) IoT Developer
14 12 (0.27%) 2nd Line Support
14 12 (0.27%) Analyst
14 12 (0.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (0.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 11 (0.25%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (0.50%) Node.js
1 22 (0.50%) React
2 18 (0.41%) React Native
3 9 (0.20%) .NET
3 9 (0.20%) REST
4 5 (0.11%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.11%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.091%) Kafka
5 4 (0.091%) OpenAPI
5 4 (0.091%) Swagger
6 2 (0.045%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.045%) Django
6 2 (0.045%) Next.js
6 2 (0.045%) RESTful
6 2 (0.045%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.023%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.023%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.023%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.023%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.023%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (0.50%) Mobile App
2 18 (0.41%) Smart Energy
3 17 (0.39%) Management Information System
4 14 (0.32%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (0.29%) SCADA
6 11 (0.25%) Cloud Native
6 11 (0.25%) Operational Technology
6 11 (0.25%) Smart Home
7 7 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.14%) Driving Licence
8 6 (0.14%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.11%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.11%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (0.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 5 (0.11%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.11%) Robotics
10 4 (0.091%) Blog
10 4 (0.091%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.091%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 23 (0.52%) Linux
2 14 (0.32%) Windows
3 11 (0.25%) Android
4 9 (0.20%) Unix
5 4 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.091%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.068%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.045%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.045%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.023%) Solaris
8 1 (0.023%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,116 (93.31%) Cybersecurity
2 4,079 (92.47%) AI
3 4,064 (92.13%) Web Development
4 4,063 (92.11%) Machine Learning
5 4,054 (91.91%) User Experience
6 67 (1.52%) Software Engineering
7 47 (1.07%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (0.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (0.86%) Agile
10 32 (0.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (0.70%) DevOps
12 30 (0.68%) Customer Service
12 30 (0.68%) Project Management
13 29 (0.66%) ERP
14 28 (0.63%) Analytics
15 27 (0.61%) Digital Marketing
16 26 (0.59%) Roadmaps
17 24 (0.54%) Energy Management
18 23 (0.52%) Mentoring
19 20 (0.45%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (0.66%) Python
2 20 (0.45%) Java
3 18 (0.41%) SQL
4 15 (0.34%) TypeScript
5 13 (0.29%) C++
6 12 (0.27%) C#
7 10 (0.23%) PHP
8 9 (0.20%) C
9 7 (0.16%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.14%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.091%) Bash
12 3 (0.068%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.045%) Go
13 2 (0.045%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.045%) Perl
13 2 (0.045%) VBA
14 1 (0.023%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.023%) R
14 1 (0.023%) Rust
14 1 (0.023%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,101 (92.97%) Degree
2 4,069 (92.25%) Master's Degree
3 4,047 (91.75%) PhD
4 4,044 (91.68%) Postgraduate
5 26 (0.59%) HND
6 10 (0.23%) Security Cleared
7 6 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.091%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.091%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.068%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.045%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.045%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.045%) CISM
11 2 (0.045%) CISSP
11 2 (0.045%) MBA
11 2 (0.045%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.045%) PMP
12 1 (0.023%) CCNA
12 1 (0.023%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (0.29%) QA
2 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.091%) GDPR
5 3 (0.068%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.068%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.068%) SLA
6 2 (0.045%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.045%) NIST
7 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.023%) GMP
7 1 (0.023%) JTAG
System Software
1 44 (1.00%) Firmware
2 26 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (0.25%) Docker
4 8 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.023%) NFS
7 1 (0.023%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.091%) Grafana
4 3 (0.068%) Terraform
5 1 (0.023%) Ansible
5 1 (0.023%) Argo
5 1 (0.023%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (0.023%) Nessus
5 1 (0.023%) Nmap
5 1 (0.023%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.023%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (1.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.23%) Google
2 10 (0.23%) SAP
3 8 (0.18%) EMC
4 6 (0.14%) Cisco
5 5 (0.11%) Epicor
5 5 (0.11%) Infor
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle
6 4 (0.091%) Fortinet
6 4 (0.091%) VMware
7 3 (0.068%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.068%) Draytek
7 3 (0.068%) IBM
7 3 (0.068%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (0.045%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.045%) HP
8 2 (0.045%) NEC
8 2 (0.045%) Panasonic
8 2 (0.045%) Samsung
8 2 (0.045%) Sony