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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 455 284
Rank change year-on-year +48 -171 +77
Permanent jobs citing IoT 383 234 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.50% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.20% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 287 168 779
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,050 £34,950
25th Percentile £46,375 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £91,500 £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 24,875 19,567 35,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.74% 41.71% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,938 9,522 23,020
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,511 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.24% - -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +52 320 £60,000 - 275
UK excluding London +34 285 £55,000 -8.33% 200
Work from Home -10 93 £68,750 +14.58% 124
South East +9 76 £55,000 -12.00% 64
London +5 70 £75,000 -9.09% 117
North of England -7 65 £55,000 -5.17% 22
South West -39 48 £57,500 - 31
Midlands -22 34 £42,500 -29.17% 31
Scotland +38 29 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Yorkshire -14 28 £60,000 - 8
North West +5 26 £53,750 -7.33% 11
East of England -11 23 £66,250 +15.22% 27
West Midlands -17 17 £38,500 -45.00% 17
East Midlands -22 17 £42,500 -15.00% 14
North East - 11 £50,500 - 3
Northern Ireland -36 10 £65,000 +30.00% 10

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 10 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.04%) CMS
3 4 (1.04%) Confluence
3 4 (1.04%) WordPress
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.04%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.78%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.78%) Simulink
5 2 (0.52%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.52%) Windchill
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Maximo
2 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.01%) AWS
2 44 (11.49%) Azure
3 19 (4.96%) SaaS
4 16 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.66%) Serverless
6 12 (3.13%) GCP
7 7 (1.83%) AWS IoT
8 6 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.31%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.31%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.31%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.04%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.04%) Canva
10 4 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.04%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.62%) Wireless
2 25 (6.53%) MQTT
3 20 (5.22%) Firewall
4 17 (4.44%) Bluetooth
4 17 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (3.92%) VPN
6 14 (3.66%) Internet
7 12 (3.13%) DNS
8 10 (2.61%) LoRaWAN
9 6 (1.57%) DHCP
9 6 (1.57%) Modbus
10 5 (1.31%) ZigBee
11 4 (1.04%) LTE
12 3 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.78%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.52%) AMQP
13 2 (0.52%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.52%) VoIP
14 1 (0.26%) Network Security
14 1 (0.26%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.61%) NoSQL
1 10 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.09%) MySQL
2 8 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.57%) Neo4j
4 5 (1.31%) Big Data
4 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.52%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.52%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.52%) Power BI
7 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (4.44%) Git
2 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.31%) GitLab
3 5 (1.31%) JIRA
4 4 (1.04%) GDB
4 4 (1.04%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.78%) PetaLinux
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.26%) Poetry
6 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (15.40%) Electronics
2 52 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.88%) Manufacturing
4 27 (7.05%) Finance
5 22 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.44%) Automotive
8 14 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.39%) Tech for Good
10 11 (2.87%) Marketing
11 10 (2.61%) Retail
12 8 (2.09%) Health Technology
12 8 (2.09%) Local Government
13 7 (1.83%) Law
13 7 (1.83%) Social Housing
13 7 (1.83%) Wearables
14 6 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.57%) French Language
14 6 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (19.32%) Software Engineer
2 53 (13.84%) Embedded Engineer
3 43 (11.23%) Senior
4 34 (8.88%) Developer
5 29 (7.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 27 (7.05%) Architect
7 26 (6.79%) Firmware Engineer
8 25 (6.53%) Technical Engineer
9 24 (6.27%) Sales Manager
10 16 (4.18%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 16 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (3.92%) Electronics Engineer
11 15 (3.92%) Support Engineer
12 14 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) Principal Software Engineer
14 12 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
15 11 (2.87%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.87%) Technical Support Engineer
15 11 (2.87%) Test Engineer
16 10 (2.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.18%) Node.js
1 16 (4.18%) React
2 13 (3.39%) Yocto
3 9 (2.35%) .NET
4 5 (1.31%) REST
5 4 (1.04%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.04%) pytest
5 4 (1.04%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (0.78%) Kafka
7 2 (0.52%) Blazor
7 2 (0.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (0.52%) Django
7 2 (0.52%) GStreamer
7 2 (0.52%) HTML
7 2 (0.52%) pgvector
7 2 (0.52%) React Native
7 2 (0.52%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.52%) Vue
7 2 (0.52%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.40%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.66%) Device Driver
4 13 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.87%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.87%) Operational Technology
5 11 (2.87%) PropTech
6 10 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.61%) Robotics
6 10 (2.61%) Smart Energy
7 9 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.35%) SCADA
7 9 (2.35%) Smart Home
8 8 (2.09%) ARM Cortex
9 7 (1.83%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.57%) NB-IoT
11 5 (1.31%) Blog
11 5 (1.31%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.32%) Linux
2 20 (5.22%) Windows
3 11 (2.87%) Embedded Linux
3 11 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.09%) Android
5 6 (1.57%) Unix
6 4 (1.04%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.04%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (25.59%) Software Engineering
2 68 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (14.36%) AI
4 41 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (9.92%) Analytics
6 37 (9.66%) Collaborative Culture
7 30 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (7.83%) DevOps
7 30 (7.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (7.05%) CI/CD
8 27 (7.05%) CRM
8 27 (7.05%) ERP
9 24 (6.27%) Roadmaps
10 22 (5.74%) Machine Learning
11 21 (5.48%) Agile
11 21 (5.48%) Energy Management
11 21 (5.48%) Mentoring
12 19 (4.96%) Asset Management
13 18 (4.70%) Tech Ops
14 17 (4.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.10%) Python
2 31 (8.09%) C++
3 24 (6.27%) C
4 18 (4.70%) SQL
5 17 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.18%) Java
6 16 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.92%) C#
8 14 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.61%) Embedded C
10 8 (2.09%) Bash
11 5 (1.31%) Go
11 5 (1.31%) PHP
12 4 (1.04%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.04%) Rust
13 3 (0.78%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.26%) R
14 1 (0.26%) Scala
14 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (15.14%) Degree
2 13 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.87%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.61%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.09%) HND
6 7 (1.83%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CISM
10 2 (0.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.52%) MBA
11 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISA
11 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.26%) PhD
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.87%) QA
2 6 (1.57%) ISO 9001
3 5 (1.31%) JTAG
4 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.78%) ECSS
5 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) GDPR
7 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (15.14%) Firmware
2 28 (7.31%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (4.70%) Docker
4 12 (3.13%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.35%) vSphere
7 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.31%) SCCM
3 5 (1.31%) Terraform
4 4 (1.04%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.78%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.26%) MOM
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.87%) VMware
3 9 (2.35%) Google
4 8 (2.09%) SAP
5 7 (1.83%) Oracle
6 6 (1.57%) EMC
6 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.31%) Aruba
7 5 (1.31%) Cisco
7 5 (1.31%) Cognizant
8 4 (1.04%) Adobe
9 3 (0.78%) dotdigital
9 3 (0.78%) IFS
9 3 (0.78%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.52%) ConnectWise
10 2 (0.52%) Draytek
10 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.52%) Meraki
10 2 (0.52%) Siemens
11 1 (0.26%) Palo Alto