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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 454 293
Rank change year-on-year +35 -161 +63
Permanent jobs citing IoT 401 227 910
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.12% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 299 167 700
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £33,976
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 25,793 20,229 32,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.86% 41.08% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,466 10,071 20,799
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +4.55% -14.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -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 19 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 19 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 +65 328 £55,000 -8.33% 158
UK excluding London +24 302 £55,000 -8.33% 137
Work from Home +21 115 £66,000 +13.79% 93
South East +7 78 £55,000 -12.00% 53
London -2 72 £75,000 -9.09% 76
North of England 0 59 £52,500 -9.48% 17
South West -40 49 £52,500 - 9
Scotland +53 40 £60,000 +2.13% 13
Midlands -17 40 £42,500 -29.17% 13
East of England -12 26 £62,500 +8.70% 16
Yorkshire -13 24 £60,000 - 6
North West -9 22 £52,500 -9.48% 8
East Midlands -13 22 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands -6 18 £38,500 -45.00% 6
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -53 10 £65,000 +30.00% 18

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 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.00%) CMS
3 4 (1.00%) Confluence
3 4 (1.00%) WordPress
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.00%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.75%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.75%) Simulink
5 2 (0.50%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.50%) Windchill
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
2 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.22%) AWS
2 44 (10.97%) Azure
3 22 (5.49%) SaaS
4 16 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (3.99%) Serverless
5 12 (2.99%) GCP
6 11 (2.74%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.25%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.25%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.25%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.00%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.00%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.00%) Canva
9 4 (1.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.22%) Wireless
2 26 (6.48%) MQTT
3 23 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (4.74%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.49%) Firewall
6 17 (4.24%) Internet
7 14 (3.49%) VPN
8 12 (2.99%) LoRaWAN
9 11 (2.74%) DNS
10 9 (2.24%) ZigBee
11 6 (1.50%) 5G
11 6 (1.50%) DHCP
12 5 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.25%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.25%) Modbus
13 4 (1.00%) LTE
13 4 (1.00%) VoIP
14 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.50%) RS-232
15 2 (0.50%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.74%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.49%) Big Data
3 8 (2.00%) MySQL
3 8 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.50%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.75%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.50%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 24 (5.99%) Git
2 8 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.75%) GitLab
4 6 (1.50%) GDB
5 5 (1.25%) JIRA
6 4 (1.00%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.75%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) Poetry
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (17.46%) Electronics
2 59 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.48%) Manufacturing
4 27 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.23%) Finance
6 22 (5.49%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.99%) Automotive
7 16 (3.99%) Marketing
8 15 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.74%) Retail
10 9 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.00%) Legal
11 8 (2.00%) Local Government
11 8 (2.00%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.75%) Law
12 7 (1.75%) Social Housing
12 7 (1.75%) Wearables
13 6 (1.50%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.50%) Health Technology
14 5 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (16.46%) Software Engineer
2 49 (12.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 39 (9.73%) Senior
4 37 (9.23%) Developer
5 32 (7.98%) Technical Engineer
6 31 (7.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 30 (7.48%) Architect
8 29 (7.23%) Sales Manager
9 17 (4.24%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.99%) Design Engineer
10 16 (3.99%) Firmware Engineer
10 16 (3.99%) Hardware Engineer
11 15 (3.74%) Electronics Engineer
12 13 (3.24%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.24%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (2.99%) Operations Engineer
13 12 (2.99%) Principal Architect
13 12 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (2.99%) Test Engineer
14 11 (2.74%) Embedded Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.74%) Yocto
2 13 (3.24%) .NET
3 12 (2.99%) Node.js
4 11 (2.74%) React
5 7 (1.75%) REST
6 5 (1.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.00%) Kafka
7 4 (1.00%) pytest
7 4 (1.00%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (0.75%) Blazor
8 3 (0.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.75%) Vue
9 2 (0.50%) Django
9 2 (0.50%) Flash
9 2 (0.50%) GStreamer
9 2 (0.50%) HTML
9 2 (0.50%) Laravel
9 2 (0.50%) pgvector
9 2 (0.50%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.22%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (4.99%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.49%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.49%) Operational Technology
6 13 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.99%) Smart Home
8 11 (2.74%) PropTech
8 11 (2.74%) Robotics
9 10 (2.49%) ARM Cortex
10 8 (2.00%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.00%) SCADA
11 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.75%) Blog
11 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.75%) Smart Energy
12 6 (1.50%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.97%) Linux
2 17 (4.24%) Embedded Linux
2 17 (4.24%) Windows
3 11 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.50%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.25%) Android
6 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
6 4 (1.00%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (23.94%) Software Engineering
2 79 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (16.96%) AI
4 46 (11.47%) Analytics
5 42 (10.47%) Collaborative Culture
5 42 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (8.98%) CI/CD
7 34 (8.48%) DevOps
8 31 (7.73%) CRM
9 30 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (7.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (6.98%) Machine Learning
11 27 (6.73%) Roadmaps
12 26 (6.48%) Validation
13 24 (5.99%) ERP
14 23 (5.74%) Agile
14 23 (5.74%) Computer Science
15 21 (5.24%) Business Development
16 19 (4.74%) Asset Management
16 19 (4.74%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.21%) Python
2 40 (9.98%) C++
3 33 (8.23%) C
4 20 (4.99%) SQL
5 19 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.99%) C#
8 14 (3.49%) Embedded C
9 13 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.49%) Java
11 7 (1.75%) Bash
12 6 (1.50%) PHP
13 5 (1.25%) Go
14 4 (1.00%) Embedded C++
14 4 (1.00%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.00%) Rust
15 1 (0.25%) Bicep
15 1 (0.25%) Haskell
15 1 (0.25%) OCaml
15 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (18.45%) Degree
2 17 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.49%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.75%) HND
5 7 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.50%) CISM
8 2 (0.50%) CISSP
8 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CISA
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.49%) QA
2 9 (2.24%) JTAG
3 8 (2.00%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.75%) ECSS
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (13.47%) Firmware
2 19 (4.74%) Docker
2 19 (4.74%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.24%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.25%) SCCM
5 4 (1.00%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.49%) SAP
2 10 (2.49%) VMware
3 9 (2.24%) EMC
3 9 (2.24%) Google
4 7 (1.75%) Cisco
4 7 (1.75%) Oracle
4 7 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.25%) Aruba
5 5 (1.25%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.00%) Adobe
7 3 (0.75%) dotdigital
7 3 (0.75%) IFS
7 3 (0.75%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.50%) BT
8 2 (0.50%) Databricks
8 2 (0.50%) Meraki
8 2 (0.50%) Siemens
9 1 (0.25%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.25%) HubSpot