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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 462 288
Rank change year-on-year +55 -174 +76
Permanent jobs citing IoT 379 231 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.50% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.19% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 287 165 779
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £52,500 £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 £85,500 £93,000 £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 24,585 19,421 35,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.75% 42.00% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 9,391 23,094
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +4.55% -14.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +51 317 £60,000 - 134
UK excluding London +14 280 £55,000 -8.33% 122
Work from Home +8 90 £67,500 +12.50% 59
South East +11 74 £55,000 -12.00% 44
London +11 72 £75,000 -9.09% 51
North of England -11 65 £55,000 -5.17% 15
South West -46 46 £57,500 - 12
Midlands -24 34 £42,500 -29.17% 18
Scotland +43 29 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Yorkshire -11 28 £60,000 - 5
North West +4 26 £53,750 -7.33% 9
East of England -5 22 £66,250 +15.22% 17
West Midlands -10 17 £38,500 -45.00% 13
East Midlands -19 17 £42,500 -19.05% 5
North East - 11 £50,500 - 1
Northern Ireland -24 10 £65,000 +30.00% 9

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 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.06%) CMS
3 4 (1.06%) Confluence
3 4 (1.06%) 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 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.53%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.53%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.53%) Simulink
4 2 (0.53%) Windchill
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Maximo
2 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.14%) AWS
2 43 (11.35%) Azure
3 19 (5.01%) SaaS
4 16 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.69%) Serverless
6 12 (3.17%) GCP
7 7 (1.85%) AWS IoT
8 5 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.32%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.06%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.06%) Canva
9 4 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.53%) Amazon CloudSearch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.71%) Wireless
2 24 (6.33%) MQTT
3 20 (5.28%) Firewall
4 17 (4.49%) Bluetooth
4 17 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (3.96%) VPN
6 14 (3.69%) Internet
7 12 (3.17%) DNS
8 10 (2.64%) LoRaWAN
9 6 (1.58%) DHCP
9 6 (1.58%) Modbus
10 5 (1.32%) ZigBee
11 4 (1.06%) LTE
12 3 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (0.53%) AMQP
13 2 (0.53%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.53%) VoIP
14 1 (0.26%) FTP
14 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.64%) NoSQL
1 10 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.11%) MySQL
2 8 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.58%) Neo4j
4 5 (1.32%) Big Data
4 5 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.53%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.53%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.53%) Power BI
7 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (3.96%) Git
2 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.32%) JIRA
3 4 (1.06%) GDB
3 4 (1.06%) GitLab
3 4 (1.06%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.53%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.26%) Poetry
5 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (15.30%) Electronics
2 52 (13.72%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.71%) Manufacturing
4 28 (7.39%) Finance
5 22 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.75%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.49%) Automotive
8 14 (3.69%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.43%) Tech for Good
10 10 (2.64%) Marketing
10 10 (2.64%) Retail
11 9 (2.37%) Wearables
12 8 (2.11%) Health Technology
12 8 (2.11%) Local Government
13 7 (1.85%) Law
13 7 (1.85%) Social Housing
14 6 (1.58%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.58%) French Language
14 6 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (19.26%) Software Engineer
2 51 (13.46%) Embedded Engineer
3 44 (11.61%) Senior
4 35 (9.23%) Developer
5 28 (7.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 26 (6.86%) Architect
6 26 (6.86%) Firmware Engineer
7 24 (6.33%) Sales Manager
7 24 (6.33%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (4.22%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 16 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (3.96%) Electronics Engineer
9 15 (3.96%) Support Engineer
10 13 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (3.43%) Principal Software Engineer
11 12 (3.17%) Operations Engineer
12 11 (2.90%) Technical Support
12 11 (2.90%) Technical Support Engineer
12 11 (2.90%) Test Engineer
13 10 (2.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.22%) Node.js
1 16 (4.22%) React
2 11 (2.90%) Yocto
3 9 (2.37%) .NET
4 5 (1.32%) REST
5 4 (1.06%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.06%) pytest
5 4 (1.06%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (0.79%) Kafka
6 3 (0.79%) React Native
7 2 (0.53%) Blazor
7 2 (0.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (0.53%) Django
7 2 (0.53%) GStreamer
7 2 (0.53%) HTML
7 2 (0.53%) pgvector
7 2 (0.53%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.53%) Vue
7 2 (0.53%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.97%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.69%) Device Driver
4 12 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.17%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.90%) Operational Technology
5 11 (2.90%) PropTech
6 10 (2.64%) Robotics
6 10 (2.64%) Smart Energy
7 9 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.37%) SCADA
7 9 (2.37%) Smart Home
8 8 (2.11%) ARM Cortex
9 7 (1.85%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.58%) NB-IoT
11 5 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.93%) Linux
2 20 (5.28%) Windows
3 11 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.64%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (2.11%) Android
6 6 (1.58%) Unix
7 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.06%) VMS
8 3 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (25.33%) Software Engineering
2 66 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (14.25%) AI
4 40 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (9.76%) Analytics
5 37 (9.76%) Collaborative Culture
6 30 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (7.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (7.65%) DevOps
8 27 (7.12%) ERP
9 26 (6.86%) CRM
10 25 (6.60%) CI/CD
11 23 (6.07%) Roadmaps
12 22 (5.80%) Machine Learning
13 21 (5.54%) Energy Management
13 21 (5.54%) Mentoring
14 20 (5.28%) Agile
15 19 (5.01%) Asset Management
16 17 (4.49%) Computer Science
16 17 (4.49%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.72%) Python
2 30 (7.92%) C++
3 23 (6.07%) C
4 18 (4.75%) SQL
5 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.22%) Java
6 16 (4.22%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.96%) C#
8 14 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.64%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.85%) Bash
11 5 (1.32%) Go
11 5 (1.32%) PHP
12 3 (0.79%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Haskell
13 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (15.04%) Degree
2 13 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.90%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.11%) HND
6 7 (1.85%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.53%) CISM
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) MBA
11 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.26%) CISA
11 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) PhD
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.64%) QA
2 6 (1.58%) ISO 9001
3 5 (1.32%) JTAG
4 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) ECSS
6 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (14.78%) Firmware
2 28 (7.39%) Embedded Firmware
3 17 (4.49%) Docker
4 12 (3.17%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.32%) SCCM
4 4 (1.06%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.06%) Terraform
4 4 (1.06%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.26%) MOM
Vendors
1 44 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.90%) VMware
3 9 (2.37%) Google
4 8 (2.11%) SAP
5 7 (1.85%) Oracle
6 6 (1.58%) EMC
6 6 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.32%) Aruba
7 5 (1.32%) Cisco
7 5 (1.32%) Cognizant
8 4 (1.06%) Adobe
9 3 (0.79%) dotdigital
9 3 (0.79%) IFS
10 2 (0.53%) ConnectWise
10 2 (0.53%) Draytek
10 2 (0.53%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.53%) Meraki
10 2 (0.53%) Siemens
10 2 (0.53%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.26%) Palo Alto