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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 348 297
Rank change year-on-year +320 -51 +85
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,410 308 840
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.68% 0.76% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.82% 1.94% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 269 201 659
10th Percentile £33,500 £44,000 £33,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £47,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £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 23,435 15,863 32,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.21% 39.08% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11,924 8,860 22,202
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £44,590 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 17 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 27 March 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 +335 4,341 £55,000 -8.33% 183
UK excluding London +265 3,915 £55,000 -8.33% 139
North of England +204 1,665 £51,250 -10.87% 26
North West +155 1,509 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Midlands +152 1,062 £42,500 -29.17% 19
West Midlands +131 930 £42,500 -29.17% 12
South East +170 662 £55,000 -21.43% 45
London +233 447 £75,000 +3.45% 59
East of England +115 408 £34,000 -38.18% 26
Yorkshire +64 156 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East Midlands +55 144 - - 7
South West -7 77 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Work from Home -42 60 £65,000 +8.33% 71
Wales -13 34 - - 3
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -22 7 £72,500 +16.00% 8
Northern Ireland -32 4 £70,000 +40.00% 2

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 23 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.16%) Confluence
3 4 (0.091%) CMS
3 4 (0.091%) WordPress
4 1 (0.023%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.023%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.023%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.091%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.045%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.045%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.023%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.023%) Maximo
4 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4,066 (92.20%) Cloud Computing
2 44 (1.00%) AWS
3 42 (0.95%) Azure
4 25 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 15 (0.34%) SaaS
6 12 (0.27%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (0.23%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.20%) GCP
9 5 (0.11%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.11%) GitHub
9 5 (0.11%) Google Workspace
9 5 (0.11%) Serverless
10 4 (0.091%) Canva
10 4 (0.091%) IaaS
10 4 (0.091%) PaaS
10 4 (0.091%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.068%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.068%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.068%) Zapier
12 2 (0.045%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4,055 (91.95%) Internet
2 28 (0.63%) Wireless
3 26 (0.59%) Network Security
4 15 (0.34%) Firewall
5 13 (0.29%) Bluetooth
6 10 (0.23%) VPN
7 9 (0.20%) Modbus
7 9 (0.20%) MQTT
8 6 (0.14%) DNS
9 5 (0.11%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.091%) 5G
10 4 (0.091%) WAN
11 3 (0.068%) DHCP
11 3 (0.068%) LAN
11 3 (0.068%) LTE
11 3 (0.068%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.068%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.068%) VLAN
11 3 (0.068%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.045%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (0.52%) Big Data
2 11 (0.25%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Power BI
4 7 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.11%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.091%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.091%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.068%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.045%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.045%) Informix
9 1 (0.023%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.023%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.023%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.023%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.023%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.023%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.023%) GIS
9 1 (0.023%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.023%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (0.14%) Git
1 6 (0.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.023%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.023%) GitLab
2 1 (0.023%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (0.023%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.023%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.023%) Postman
2 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.023%) Zephyr
General
1 4,146 (94.01%) Social Skills
2 4,072 (92.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,069 (92.27%) Banking
4 41 (0.93%) Manufacturing
5 34 (0.77%) Electronics
5 34 (0.77%) Marketing
6 31 (0.70%) Finance
7 21 (0.48%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (0.45%) Public Sector
9 16 (0.36%) Tech for Good
9 16 (0.36%) Telecoms
10 14 (0.32%) Wearables
11 12 (0.27%) Automotive
12 10 (0.23%) Law
13 9 (0.20%) Retail
14 8 (0.18%) Social Housing
15 7 (0.16%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.14%) French Language
17 5 (0.11%) Back Office
17 5 (0.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3,159 (71.63%) Lecturer
2 56 (1.27%) Software Engineer
3 38 (0.86%) Developer
3 38 (0.86%) Embedded Engineer
4 37 (0.84%) Senior
5 30 (0.68%) Architect
6 23 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 23 (0.52%) Firmware Engineer
7 20 (0.45%) Principal Engineer
7 20 (0.45%) Principal Software Engineer
7 20 (0.45%) Sales Manager
8 17 (0.39%) React Developer
9 16 (0.36%) Mobile Developer
10 14 (0.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (0.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 14 (0.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (0.27%) 2nd Line Support
11 12 (0.27%) Analyst
11 12 (0.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 12 (0.27%) IoT Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (0.50%) React
2 20 (0.45%) Node.js
3 18 (0.41%) React Native
4 9 (0.20%) REST
5 7 (0.16%) .NET
6 5 (0.11%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.091%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.068%) Kafka
9 2 (0.045%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.045%) Django
9 2 (0.045%) Next.js
9 2 (0.045%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.045%) Swagger
9 2 (0.045%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.023%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.023%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.023%) GStreamer
10 1 (0.023%) Middleware
10 1 (0.023%) OAuth
10 1 (0.023%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (0.45%) Mobile App
1 20 (0.45%) Smart Energy
2 17 (0.39%) Management Information System
3 13 (0.29%) Embedded Systems
3 13 (0.29%) SCADA
4 11 (0.25%) Operational Technology
4 11 (0.25%) Smart Home
5 9 (0.20%) Cloud Native
6 7 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.14%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.11%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (0.11%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (0.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (0.11%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.11%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.091%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.091%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.091%) PropTech
9 4 (0.091%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (0.52%) Linux
2 13 (0.29%) Windows
3 9 (0.20%) Android
4 8 (0.18%) Unix
5 4 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.091%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.091%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.045%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.045%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.023%) Solaris
7 1 (0.023%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,114 (93.29%) Cybersecurity
2 4,077 (92.45%) AI
3 4,064 (92.15%) Web Development
4 4,062 (92.11%) Machine Learning
5 4,053 (91.90%) User Experience
6 69 (1.56%) Software Engineering
7 50 (1.13%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (0.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (0.79%) Agile
10 33 (0.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (0.68%) Customer Service
11 30 (0.68%) ERP
12 29 (0.66%) Project Management
13 27 (0.61%) Analytics
13 27 (0.61%) DevOps
13 27 (0.61%) Digital Marketing
14 26 (0.59%) Energy Management
15 25 (0.57%) Roadmaps
16 23 (0.52%) Business Analysis
17 21 (0.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (0.63%) Python
2 18 (0.41%) Java
3 16 (0.36%) SQL
4 14 (0.32%) TypeScript
5 13 (0.29%) C++
6 9 (0.20%) C#
6 9 (0.20%) PHP
7 8 (0.18%) C
8 7 (0.16%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.14%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.091%) Bash
11 2 (0.045%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.045%) Go
11 2 (0.045%) Perl
11 2 (0.045%) VBA
12 1 (0.023%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.023%) Groovy
12 1 (0.023%) R
12 1 (0.023%) Rust
12 1 (0.023%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,100 (92.97%) Degree
2 4,069 (92.27%) Master's Degree
3 4,047 (91.77%) PhD
4 4,044 (91.70%) Postgraduate
5 26 (0.59%) HND
6 9 (0.20%) Security Cleared
7 6 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.091%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.068%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.045%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.045%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.045%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.045%) CISM
11 2 (0.045%) CISSP
11 2 (0.045%) MBA
11 2 (0.045%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.045%) PMP
12 1 (0.023%) CCNA
12 1 (0.023%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (0.29%) QA
2 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.091%) GDPR
5 3 (0.068%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.068%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.068%) SLA
6 2 (0.045%) NIST
7 1 (0.023%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.023%) GMP
7 1 (0.023%) JTAG
7 1 (0.023%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (1.00%) Firmware
2 27 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.20%) Docker
4 5 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.068%) Grafana
4 2 (0.045%) Galera Cluster
4 2 (0.045%) Terraform
4 2 (0.045%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.023%) Nessus
5 1 (0.023%) Nmap
Vendors
1 47 (1.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.25%) SAP
3 10 (0.23%) Google
4 8 (0.18%) EMC
5 5 (0.11%) Epicor
5 5 (0.11%) Infor
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle
5 5 (0.11%) VMware
6 4 (0.091%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.068%) Cisco
7 3 (0.068%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.068%) Draytek
7 3 (0.068%) IBM
7 3 (0.068%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (0.045%) Apple
8 2 (0.045%) HP
8 2 (0.045%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.045%) Siemens
9 1 (0.023%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.023%) Patsystems