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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 342 315
Rank change year-on-year +316 -27 +71
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,387 426 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.87% 0.82% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.87% 2.22% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 242 216 504
10th Percentile £32,550 £35,625 £35,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -7.81%
75th Percentile £73,438 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,375 £89,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% - -4.17%

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 21,018 19,221 26,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.89% 37.21% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,557 8,854 19,543
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,820 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,158 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +6.36% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +325 4,321 £60,000 - 210
UK excluding London +267 3,901 £56,250 -2.17% 164
North of England +212 1,662 £53,750 +34.38% 26
North West +168 1,511 £55,000 +37.50% 16
Midlands +170 1,059 £50,000 -13.04% 25
West Midlands +140 929 £50,000 -16.67% 18
South East +177 647 £65,000 -6.81% 53
London +268 445 £75,000 +3.45% 67
East of England +118 415 £57,500 +4.55% 21
Yorkshire +85 150 £50,000 -36.51% 10
East Midlands +81 142 - - 7
South West +22 73 £55,000 -8.33% 27
Work from Home -28 57 £60,000 -1.23% 87
Wales +26 41 £50,500 +83.64% 2
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -17 4 £76,250 +27.08% 11
Northern Ireland - 4 £70,000 - 1
North East - 1 £40,000 -

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 26 (0.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.14%) Confluence
3 2 (0.046%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.046%) nginx
4 1 (0.023%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.023%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (0.091%) AutoCAD
1 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (0.091%) MS Visio
1 4 (0.091%) Revit
2 2 (0.046%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.023%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.046%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.023%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.023%) Maximo
4 1 (0.023%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.023%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.023%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.023%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.023%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.023%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 4,066 (92.68%) Cloud Computing
2 49 (1.12%) Azure
3 37 (0.84%) AWS
4 25 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 13 (0.30%) Power Platform
6 11 (0.25%) SaaS
7 9 (0.21%) GCP
8 8 (0.18%) Power Automate
9 7 (0.16%) GitHub
9 7 (0.16%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.11%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.11%) Serverless
11 4 (0.091%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.091%) IaaS
11 4 (0.091%) PaaS
11 4 (0.091%) SurveyMonkey
11 4 (0.091%) Zapier
12 2 (0.046%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.046%) Firebase
12 2 (0.046%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4,067 (92.71%) Internet
2 39 (0.89%) Network Security
3 32 (0.73%) Wireless
4 14 (0.32%) Modbus
5 13 (0.30%) Firewall
6 12 (0.27%) Bluetooth
7 11 (0.25%) MQTT
7 11 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.21%) WAN
9 8 (0.18%) 5G
9 8 (0.18%) VLAN
10 7 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.14%) LAN
11 6 (0.14%) VPN
12 5 (0.11%) DNS
12 5 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.11%) ZigBee
13 4 (0.091%) Broadband
13 4 (0.091%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.068%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (0.57%) Big Data
2 11 (0.25%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Power BI
4 7 (0.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.068%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.046%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.046%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.046%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.046%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.046%) Informix
6 2 (0.046%) Metadata
6 2 (0.046%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.023%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.023%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.023%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.023%) GIS
7 1 (0.023%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.023%) Redis
7 1 (0.023%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (0.11%) Git
1 5 (0.11%) JIRA
2 4 (0.091%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.091%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.068%) GitLab
4 2 (0.046%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.046%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.046%) MLflow
4 2 (0.046%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.023%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.023%) Postman
5 1 (0.023%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
General
1 4,146 (94.51%) Social Skills
2 4,074 (92.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,069 (92.75%) Banking
4 38 (0.87%) Manufacturing
5 34 (0.78%) Finance
6 31 (0.71%) Marketing
7 30 (0.68%) Electronics
8 22 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (0.39%) Public Sector
9 17 (0.39%) Tech for Good
10 15 (0.34%) Wearables
11 11 (0.25%) Automotive
12 10 (0.23%) Law
12 10 (0.23%) Retail
13 9 (0.21%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.18%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.14%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.11%) Back Office
16 5 (0.11%) French Language
16 5 (0.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 3,159 (72.01%) Lecturer
2 44 (1.00%) Developer
3 43 (0.98%) Senior
3 43 (0.98%) Software Engineer
4 29 (0.66%) Architect
5 24 (0.55%) Embedded Engineer
6 21 (0.48%) Firmware Engineer
7 18 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 17 (0.39%) React Developer
9 16 (0.36%) Mobile Developer
10 14 (0.32%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (0.32%) Principal Software Engineer
11 13 (0.30%) IoT Developer
11 13 (0.30%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (0.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (0.27%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.25%) Analyst
13 11 (0.25%) Applications Developer
13 11 (0.25%) Senior Developer
14 9 (0.21%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (0.43%) Node.js
1 19 (0.43%) React
2 18 (0.41%) React Native
3 10 (0.23%) .NET
3 10 (0.23%) REST
4 5 (0.11%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.11%) OpenAPI
4 5 (0.11%) Spring Boot
4 5 (0.11%) Swagger
5 4 (0.091%) Kafka
6 3 (0.068%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.068%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.046%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.046%) Django
7 2 (0.046%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.046%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.046%) Next.js
7 2 (0.046%) RESTful
7 2 (0.046%) WebRTC
7 2 (0.046%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (0.41%) Management Information System
1 18 (0.41%) Mobile App
2 14 (0.32%) SCADA
2 14 (0.32%) Smart Energy
3 12 (0.27%) Operational Technology
4 9 (0.21%) Smart Home
5 8 (0.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (0.18%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (0.18%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (0.16%) Cloud Native
6 7 (0.16%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (0.16%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.14%) Digital Signage
7 6 (0.14%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.14%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.11%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 4 (0.091%) CAN bus
9 4 (0.091%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.50%) Linux
2 17 (0.39%) Windows
3 14 (0.32%) Android
4 10 (0.23%) Unix
5 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.091%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.068%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.046%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.046%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.023%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,119 (93.89%) Cybersecurity
2 4,076 (92.91%) AI
3 4,065 (92.66%) Machine Learning
4 4,064 (92.64%) Web Development
5 4,054 (92.41%) User Experience
6 56 (1.28%) Software Engineering
7 42 (0.96%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (0.93%) Agile
9 40 (0.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (0.68%) Customer Service
11 29 (0.66%) DevOps
12 28 (0.64%) Project Management
12 28 (0.64%) Roadmaps
13 27 (0.62%) ERP
13 27 (0.62%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (0.57%) Decision-Making
15 23 (0.52%) Analytics
15 23 (0.52%) Digital Marketing
16 21 (0.48%) Mentoring
17 20 (0.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 32 (0.73%) Python
2 26 (0.59%) Java
3 19 (0.43%) C++
4 17 (0.39%) SQL
5 14 (0.32%) C#
6 13 (0.30%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.18%) C
7 8 (0.18%) PHP
7 8 (0.18%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.16%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.091%) Bash
9 4 (0.091%) R
9 4 (0.091%) Rust
10 3 (0.068%) Perl
11 2 (0.046%) Elixir
11 2 (0.046%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.046%) Go
11 2 (0.046%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.046%) Ruby
11 2 (0.046%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4,101 (93.48%) Degree
2 4,069 (92.75%) Master's Degree
3 4,048 (92.27%) PhD
4 4,044 (92.18%) Postgraduate
5 26 (0.59%) HND
6 16 (0.36%) Security Cleared
7 11 (0.25%) SC Cleared
8 10 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.091%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.091%) PMP
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.046%) CISA
12 2 (0.046%) CISM
12 2 (0.046%) CISSP
13 1 (0.023%) CCNA
13 1 (0.023%) CCNP
13 1 (0.023%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.023%) MBA
13 1 (0.023%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (0.27%) QA
2 5 (0.11%) GDPR
3 4 (0.091%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.068%) SLA
5 2 (0.046%) NIST
6 1 (0.023%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.023%) GMP
6 1 (0.023%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.023%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (0.84%) Firmware
2 19 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (0.18%) Docker
4 6 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.046%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.046%) NFS
5 2 (0.046%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.11%) Grafana
4 4 (0.091%) Nessus
4 4 (0.091%) Nmap
5 2 (0.046%) Ansible
5 2 (0.046%) Argo
5 2 (0.046%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.046%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (1.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (0.27%) Cisco
3 11 (0.25%) Google
4 9 (0.21%) SAP
5 6 (0.14%) EMC
5 6 (0.14%) Ruckus Wireless
6 5 (0.11%) Epicor
6 5 (0.11%) Infor
6 5 (0.11%) Oracle
6 5 (0.11%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.091%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.091%) Autodesk
7 4 (0.091%) IBM
7 4 (0.091%) NEC
7 4 (0.091%) Panasonic
7 4 (0.091%) Polycom
7 4 (0.091%) Qualtrics
7 4 (0.091%) Samsung
7 4 (0.091%) Sony
7 4 (0.091%) Splunk