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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 461 290
Rank change year-on-year +43 -171 +56
Permanent jobs citing IoT 402 227 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 1.12% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 301 167 671
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £34,750
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 £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
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 25,799 20,211 31,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.79% 41.08% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,442 10,061 19,771
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,251 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -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 21 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 21 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 +80 328 £55,000 -8.33% 191
UK excluding London +28 303 £55,000 -8.33% 163
Work from Home +2 115 £66,750 +15.09% 129
South East +5 79 £55,000 -12.00% 57
London +30 72 £75,000 -9.09% 90
North of England +7 59 £53,750 -7.33% 18
South West -36 48 £52,500 - 14
Scotland +49 41 £60,000 +2.13% 14
Midlands -21 40 £42,500 -29.17% 17
East of England -4 26 £62,500 +8.70% 19
Yorkshire -16 25 £60,000 - 7
East Midlands -20 22 £60,000 +14.29% 11
North West -5 21 £52,500 -9.48% 8
West Midlands -9 18 £38,500 -45.00% 6
North East - 13 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -58 10 £65,000 +30.00% 26

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 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.00%) CMS
3 4 (1.00%) Confluence
3 4 (1.00%) 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 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.99%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.00%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.75%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.75%) Simulink
5 2 (0.50%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.50%) Windchill
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
2 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.94%) AWS
2 45 (11.19%) Azure
3 23 (5.72%) SaaS
4 16 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (3.98%) Serverless
5 12 (2.99%) GCP
6 11 (2.74%) AWS IoT
6 11 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.24%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.00%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.00%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.00%) Canva
9 4 (1.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.20%) Wireless
2 26 (6.47%) MQTT
3 23 (5.72%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (4.73%) Bluetooth
5 18 (4.48%) Firewall
6 17 (4.23%) Internet
7 14 (3.48%) VPN
8 12 (2.99%) LoRaWAN
9 11 (2.74%) DNS
10 9 (2.24%) ZigBee
11 6 (1.49%) 5G
11 6 (1.49%) DHCP
12 5 (1.24%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.24%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.24%) Modbus
13 4 (1.00%) LTE
13 4 (1.00%) VoIP
14 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.50%) RS-232
15 2 (0.50%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.74%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.49%) Big Data
3 8 (1.99%) MySQL
3 8 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.49%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.49%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.75%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.50%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 25 (6.22%) Git
2 8 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.74%) GitLab
4 6 (1.49%) GDB
5 5 (1.24%) JIRA
6 4 (1.00%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.75%) PetaLinux
8 2 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) Poetry
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (17.66%) Electronics
2 59 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.46%) Manufacturing
4 27 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.47%) Finance
6 22 (5.47%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.98%) Automotive
7 16 (3.98%) Marketing
7 16 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.49%) Retail
9 9 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.99%) Legal
10 8 (1.99%) Local Government
10 8 (1.99%) Wearables
11 7 (1.74%) Law
11 7 (1.74%) Social Housing
11 7 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.49%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (16.42%) Software Engineer
2 50 (12.44%) Embedded Engineer
3 37 (9.20%) Senior
4 35 (8.71%) Developer
5 32 (7.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (7.96%) Technical Engineer
6 30 (7.46%) Architect
7 29 (7.21%) Sales Manager
8 17 (4.23%) Design Engineer
8 17 (4.23%) Hardware Engineer
8 17 (4.23%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.98%) Firmware Engineer
10 15 (3.73%) Electronics Engineer
11 13 (3.23%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.23%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (2.99%) Operations Engineer
12 12 (2.99%) Principal Architect
12 12 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (2.99%) Test Engineer
13 11 (2.74%) Embedded Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.73%) Yocto
2 14 (3.48%) .NET
3 10 (2.49%) Node.js
3 10 (2.49%) React
4 8 (1.99%) REST
5 5 (1.24%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.00%) Blazor
6 4 (1.00%) Kafka
6 4 (1.00%) pytest
6 4 (1.00%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.75%) Vue
8 2 (0.50%) Django
8 2 (0.50%) Flash
8 2 (0.50%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.50%) HTML
8 2 (0.50%) Laravel
8 2 (0.50%) pgvector
8 2 (0.50%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.19%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (4.98%) Device Driver
3 19 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.98%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.48%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.48%) Operational Technology
6 13 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.99%) Smart Home
8 11 (2.74%) PropTech
8 11 (2.74%) Robotics
9 10 (2.49%) ARM Cortex
10 8 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.99%) SCADA
11 7 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.74%) Blog
11 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.74%) Smart Energy
12 6 (1.49%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.69%) Linux
2 17 (4.23%) Embedded Linux
2 17 (4.23%) Windows
3 11 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.24%) Android
6 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
6 4 (1.00%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (23.38%) Software Engineering
2 79 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (17.41%) AI
4 46 (11.44%) Analytics
5 43 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
7 35 (8.71%) CI/CD
7 35 (8.71%) DevOps
8 31 (7.71%) CRM
8 31 (7.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (6.97%) Machine Learning
10 28 (6.97%) Roadmaps
11 26 (6.47%) Validation
12 24 (5.97%) Agile
12 24 (5.97%) ERP
13 23 (5.72%) Computer Science
14 21 (5.22%) Business Development
15 19 (4.73%) Asset Management
15 19 (4.73%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.18%) Python
2 40 (9.95%) C++
3 33 (8.21%) C
4 19 (4.73%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.73%) SQL
5 17 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.98%) C#
7 14 (3.48%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.49%) Java
10 6 (1.49%) Bash
11 5 (1.24%) Go
11 5 (1.24%) PHP
12 4 (1.00%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.00%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.00%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.25%) Haskell
13 1 (0.25%) OCaml
13 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (18.41%) Degree
2 17 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.48%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.74%) HND
5 7 (1.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.50%) CISM
8 2 (0.50%) CISSP
8 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CISA
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.48%) QA
2 9 (2.24%) JTAG
3 8 (1.99%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.75%) ECSS
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (13.43%) Firmware
2 20 (4.98%) Docker
3 19 (4.73%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.24%) vSphere
7 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.24%) Terraform
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.24%) SCCM
5 4 (1.00%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.49%) SAP
2 10 (2.49%) VMware
3 9 (2.24%) EMC
3 9 (2.24%) Google
4 7 (1.74%) Cisco
4 7 (1.74%) Oracle
4 7 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.24%) Aruba
5 5 (1.24%) Cognizant
6 4 (1.00%) Adobe
7 3 (0.75%) dotdigital
7 3 (0.75%) IFS
7 3 (0.75%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.50%) BT
8 2 (0.50%) Databricks
8 2 (0.50%) Meraki
8 2 (0.50%) Siemens
9 1 (0.25%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.25%) HubSpot