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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 469 297
Rank change year-on-year +46 -172 +59
Permanent jobs citing IoT 406 228 855
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.13% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 303 168 662
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £34,775
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -1.71%

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 25,907 20,249 31,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.82% 41.24% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16,488 10,085 19,491
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,250
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% -15.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,440 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 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 23 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 +52 332 £55,250 -7.92% 202
UK excluding London +31 306 £55,000 -8.33% 169
Work from Home +12 118 £67,500 +16.38% 124
South East +20 80 £55,000 -12.00% 59
London +8 74 £75,000 -9.09% 97
North of England -1 59 £53,750 -7.33% 17
South West -35 49 £52,500 - 16
Scotland +56 42 £60,000 +2.13% 13
Midlands -18 40 £42,500 -29.17% 18
East of England -1 26 £62,500 +8.70% 20
Yorkshire -9 25 £60,000 - 7
East Midlands -25 22 £60,000 +14.29% 12
North West -4 21 £52,500 -9.48% 8
West Midlands -19 18 £38,500 -45.00% 6
North East - 13 £50,000 - 3
Northern Ireland -60 10 £65,000 +30.00% 27

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 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.99%) CMS
3 4 (0.99%) Confluence
3 4 (0.99%) 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 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.97%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.99%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.74%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.74%) Simulink
5 2 (0.49%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.49%) Windchill
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.49%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Maximo
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.05%) AWS
2 45 (11.08%) Azure
3 25 (6.16%) SaaS
4 16 (3.94%) Serverless
5 15 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.96%) GCP
7 11 (2.71%) AWS IoT
7 11 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.23%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.23%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.99%) Amazon CloudSearch
10 4 (0.99%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.99%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.99%) Canva
10 4 (0.99%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.10%) Wireless
2 26 (6.40%) MQTT
3 23 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (4.68%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.43%) Firewall
6 17 (4.19%) Internet
7 14 (3.45%) VPN
8 12 (2.96%) LoRaWAN
9 11 (2.71%) DNS
10 9 (2.22%) ZigBee
11 6 (1.48%) 5G
11 6 (1.48%) DHCP
12 5 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.23%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.99%) LTE
13 4 (0.99%) Modbus
13 4 (0.99%) VoIP
14 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.49%) RS-232
15 2 (0.49%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.71%) Big Data
1 11 (2.71%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.97%) MySQL
4 7 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.48%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.48%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.74%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.49%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.49%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.49%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 25 (6.16%) Git
2 8 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.72%) GitLab
4 6 (1.48%) GDB
5 5 (1.23%) JIRA
6 4 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.74%) PetaLinux
8 2 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) Poetry
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (17.24%) Electronics
2 61 (15.02%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.37%) Manufacturing
4 29 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.14%) Finance
5 22 (5.42%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.94%) Automotive
7 16 (3.94%) Marketing
8 10 (2.46%) Retail
8 10 (2.46%) Wearables
9 9 (2.22%) Legal
9 9 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.97%) Law
10 8 (1.97%) Local Government
11 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.72%) Social Housing
12 6 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.48%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (15.76%) Software Engineer
2 50 (12.32%) Embedded Engineer
3 38 (9.36%) Senior
4 35 (8.62%) Developer
5 32 (7.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (7.88%) Technical Engineer
6 31 (7.64%) Architect
7 29 (7.14%) Sales Manager
8 18 (4.43%) Design Engineer
8 18 (4.43%) Hardware Engineer
9 17 (4.19%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.94%) Firmware Engineer
11 15 (3.69%) Electronics Engineer
12 14 (3.45%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.20%) Technical Support Engineer
14 12 (2.96%) Operations Engineer
14 12 (2.96%) Principal Architect
14 12 (2.96%) Test Engineer
15 11 (2.71%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (2.71%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.68%) Yocto
2 14 (3.45%) .NET
3 10 (2.46%) React
4 9 (2.22%) Node.js
4 9 (2.22%) REST
5 5 (1.23%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.23%) Kafka
6 4 (0.99%) Blazor
6 4 (0.99%) pytest
6 4 (0.99%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.74%) Vue
8 2 (0.49%) Django
8 2 (0.49%) Flash
8 2 (0.49%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.49%) HTML
8 2 (0.49%) Laravel
8 2 (0.49%) pgvector
8 2 (0.49%) PySpark
8 2 (0.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.33%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (4.93%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.69%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 13 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.96%) Robotics
8 12 (2.96%) Smart Home
9 11 (2.71%) PropTech
10 10 (2.46%) ARM Cortex
11 8 (1.97%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.97%) SCADA
12 7 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.72%) Blog
12 7 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.48%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.48%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.81%) Linux
2 17 (4.19%) Embedded Linux
2 17 (4.19%) Windows
3 11 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.48%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.23%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
6 4 (0.99%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (23.15%) Software Engineering
2 80 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (18.23%) AI
4 46 (11.33%) Analytics
5 45 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (10.10%) Collaborative Culture
7 37 (9.11%) CI/CD
8 36 (8.87%) DevOps
9 30 (7.39%) CRM
9 30 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (7.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (7.39%) Machine Learning
9 30 (7.39%) Roadmaps
10 26 (6.40%) Validation
11 25 (6.16%) Agile
12 24 (5.91%) Computer Science
12 24 (5.91%) ERP
13 21 (5.17%) Business Development
14 20 (4.93%) Decision-Making
15 19 (4.68%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.53%) Python
2 40 (9.85%) C++
3 33 (8.13%) C
4 20 (4.93%) SQL
5 19 (4.68%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.94%) C#
8 14 (3.45%) Embedded C
9 13 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.46%) Java
11 6 (1.48%) Bash
11 6 (1.48%) Go
12 5 (1.23%) PHP
13 4 (0.99%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.99%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.99%) Rust
14 1 (0.25%) Bicep
14 1 (0.25%) Haskell
14 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.25%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 74 (18.23%) Degree
2 18 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.46%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.48%) HND
7 5 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.49%) CISM
9 2 (0.49%) CISSP
9 2 (0.49%) MBA
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CISA
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.25%) PhD
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.45%) QA
2 9 (2.22%) JTAG
3 8 (1.97%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.74%) ECSS
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (13.30%) Firmware
2 21 (5.17%) Docker
3 19 (4.68%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (2.71%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.46%) Terraform
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.23%) SCCM
5 4 (0.99%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.99%) Grafana
5 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 48 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.46%) SAP
2 10 (2.46%) VMware
3 9 (2.22%) EMC
3 9 (2.22%) Google
4 7 (1.72%) Cisco
4 7 (1.72%) Oracle
4 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.23%) Aruba
5 5 (1.23%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.99%) Adobe
6 4 (0.99%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.99%) IFS
7 3 (0.74%) Databricks
7 3 (0.74%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.49%) BT
8 2 (0.49%) Meraki
8 2 (0.49%) Siemens
9 1 (0.25%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.25%) Palo Alto