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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 463 316
Rank change year-on-year +63 -147 +19
Permanent jobs citing IoT 485 213 656
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.43% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 1.05% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 368 144 471
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £96,250 £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 29,683 20,216 24,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.06% 41.14% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,536 10,087 13,167
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,010 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.68% -10.46% -4.55%

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 September 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 15 September 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 +54 403 £55,000 -8.33% 699
UK excluding London +51 376 £55,000 -4.35% 423
Work from Home +15 141 £63,335 +10.15% 325
South East +18 101 £55,000 -10.20% 123
London +14 90 £61,250 -35.53% 344
North of England +8 86 £55,000 -8.33% 74
Scotland +54 54 £60,000 +4.80% 36
South West -52 50 £55,000 +22.22% 36
Midlands -25 48 £46,000 -16.36% 50
Yorkshire -3 42 £55,000 +22.22% 16
North West -12 28 £50,000 -16.67% 39
East of England -38 27 £82,500 +43.48% 84
East Midlands -21 24 £67,500 +28.57% 19
West Midlands -21 24 £42,500 -28.60% 31
North East - 16 £50,000 - 19
Northern Ireland -68 10 £65,000 - 20

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 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.21%) Apache
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.62%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.62%) Simulink
4 2 (0.41%) CATIA
4 2 (0.41%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.41%) Windchill
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.62%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Maximo
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 57 (11.75%) AWS
2 41 (8.45%) Azure
3 24 (4.95%) SaaS
4 20 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.27%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.27%) Serverless
7 10 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.65%) GCP
9 5 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (0.82%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.82%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (0.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.04%) Internet
1 39 (8.04%) Wireless
2 27 (5.57%) MQTT
3 26 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (3.92%) Firewall
5 18 (3.71%) DNS
6 17 (3.51%) VPN
7 15 (3.09%) 5G
7 15 (3.09%) Bluetooth
8 12 (2.47%) DHCP
9 9 (1.86%) LoRaWAN
9 9 (1.86%) ZigBee
10 7 (1.44%) Ethernet
11 6 (1.24%) VLAN
12 5 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.03%) SSH
12 5 (1.03%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.82%) HTTP
13 4 (0.82%) Modbus
13 4 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.68%) Big Data
2 11 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.65%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.24%) MySQL
5 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.03%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.62%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.62%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.41%) GIS
9 2 (0.41%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 31 (6.39%) Git
2 11 (2.27%) JIRA
3 7 (1.44%) GitLab
3 7 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.24%) GDB
5 4 (0.82%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.82%) Selenium
6 3 (0.62%) PetaLinux
6 3 (0.62%) Postman
7 1 (0.21%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Poetry
General
1 76 (15.67%) Electronics
2 72 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 41 (8.45%) Finance
4 40 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 37 (7.63%) Telecoms
6 34 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.33%) Wearables
9 19 (3.92%) Automotive
10 15 (3.09%) Aerospace
10 15 (3.09%) Marketing
11 13 (2.68%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.47%) Legal
13 11 (2.27%) Retail
14 8 (1.65%) Banking
14 8 (1.65%) Law
14 8 (1.65%) Local Government
15 7 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (12.78%) Software Engineer
2 55 (11.34%) Senior
3 51 (10.52%) Embedded Engineer
4 45 (9.28%) Developer
5 43 (8.87%) Design Engineer
6 42 (8.66%) Sales Manager
7 38 (7.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 34 (7.01%) Architect
9 32 (6.60%) Technical Engineer
10 27 (5.57%) Hardware Engineer
11 23 (4.74%) Electronics Engineer
12 17 (3.51%) Account Manager
12 17 (3.51%) Hardware Design Engineer
12 17 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.51%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.51%) Technical Support
13 14 (2.89%) Test Engineer
14 13 (2.68%) Product Design Engineer
14 13 (2.68%) Product Engineer
14 13 (2.68%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.54%) Yocto
2 21 (4.33%) Terraform
3 17 (3.51%) .NET
3 17 (3.51%) REST
4 13 (2.68%) React
5 10 (2.06%) Node.js
6 7 (1.44%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.44%) Kafka
7 6 (1.24%) Blazor
8 5 (1.03%) Vue
9 4 (0.82%) HTML
9 4 (0.82%) pytest
9 4 (0.82%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (0.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.62%) CarPlay
10 3 (0.62%) CSS
10 3 (0.62%) Flash
10 3 (0.62%) PySpark
10 3 (0.62%) Symfony
11 2 (0.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.90%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.92%) Device Driver
3 19 (3.92%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.30%) Robotics
5 15 (3.09%) Driving Licence
6 13 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.47%) ARM Cortex
8 11 (2.27%) PropTech
9 10 (2.06%) Smart Home
10 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.86%) FPGA
10 9 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.86%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.44%) GNSS
12 7 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.58%) Linux
2 22 (4.54%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.30%) Windows
4 10 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.86%) Android
6 7 (1.44%) VMS
7 5 (1.03%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (19.38%) Software Engineering
3 93 (19.18%) AI
4 44 (9.07%) Analytics
4 44 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (9.07%) Machine Learning
5 42 (8.66%) CI/CD
6 38 (7.84%) Agile
7 37 (7.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (7.63%) DevOps
7 37 (7.63%) Validation
8 36 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (6.19%) Business Development
10 29 (5.98%) Decision-Making
10 29 (5.98%) Roadmaps
11 28 (5.77%) Computer Science
12 27 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 25 (5.15%) CRM
13 25 (5.15%) Customer Engagement
14 24 (4.95%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (12.58%) Python
2 45 (9.28%) C++
3 37 (7.63%) C
4 23 (4.74%) SQL
5 21 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.12%) C#
6 20 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.92%) Embedded C
8 16 (3.30%) Go
9 13 (2.68%) Java
10 12 (2.47%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.86%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.24%) Bash
13 4 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.82%) PHP
13 4 (0.82%) Rust
14 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.41%) Bicep
16 1 (0.21%) Haskell
16 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (21.24%) Degree
2 25 (5.15%) DBS Check
3 22 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.54%) Master's Degree
4 14 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.06%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.86%) HNC
7 8 (1.65%) PhD
7 8 (1.65%) Postgraduate
8 7 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.82%) HND
10 3 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.41%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.21%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.09%) QA
2 9 (1.86%) JTAG
3 8 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.24%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.62%) ECSS
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (0.62%) NCSC
6 2 (0.41%) GDPR
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) COBIT
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (9.48%) Firmware
2 23 (4.74%) Docker
3 12 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.65%) vSphere
6 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.41%) iptables
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.24%) Grafana
3 5 (1.03%) SCCM
4 4 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.62%) BMC PATROL
5 3 (0.62%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (0.62%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) MOM
Vendors
1 49 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.86%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.65%) Cisco
3 8 (1.65%) SAP
3 8 (1.65%) VMware
4 7 (1.44%) Oracle
5 6 (1.24%) Aruba
5 6 (1.24%) EMC
6 5 (1.03%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.03%) Databricks
6 5 (1.03%) Google
7 4 (0.82%) Adobe
7 4 (0.82%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.82%) IFS
8 3 (0.62%) Apple
8 3 (0.62%) BT
8 3 (0.62%) Meraki
8 3 (0.62%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.41%) Planon
9 2 (0.41%) Thales