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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 454 289
Rank change year-on-year +43 -165 +77
Permanent jobs citing IoT 395 235 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.48% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.17% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 294 171 756
10th Percentile £39,125 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £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 25,559 20,088 34,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.99% 40.97% 33.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,323 9,888 22,058
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 11 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 11 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 +60 326 £56,000 -6.67% 170
UK excluding London +39 295 £55,000 -8.33% 149
Work from Home +3 111 £66,750 +15.09% 91
South East +3 76 £55,000 -12.00% 54
London +14 71 £75,000 -4.76% 76
North of England +5 64 £55,000 -5.17% 14
South West -39 47 £55,000 +2.33% 14
Midlands -21 40 £42,500 -29.17% 19
Scotland +35 34 £60,000 +2.13% 15
Yorkshire -4 26 £60,000 - 6
North West -2 25 £52,500 -9.48% 7
East of England -8 24 £62,500 +8.70% 17
East Midlands -29 21 £52,500 +5.00% 11
West Midlands -6 19 £38,500 -45.00% 8
North East - 13 £50,000 - 2
Northern Ireland -53 10 £65,000 +30.00% 17

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 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.01%) CMS
3 4 (1.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.01%) 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 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.03%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.01%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.76%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.76%) Simulink
5 2 (0.51%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.51%) Windchill
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
2 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.42%) AWS
2 45 (11.39%) Azure
3 20 (5.06%) SaaS
4 17 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.80%) Serverless
6 14 (3.54%) GCP
7 10 (2.53%) AWS IoT
8 9 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.52%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.27%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon CloudSearch
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.01%) Canva
12 4 (1.01%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.87%) Wireless
2 27 (6.84%) MQTT
3 21 (5.32%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (5.06%) Firewall
5 17 (4.30%) Bluetooth
6 15 (3.80%) Internet
6 15 (3.80%) VPN
7 12 (3.04%) DNS
7 12 (3.04%) LoRaWAN
8 7 (1.77%) ZigBee
9 6 (1.52%) DHCP
9 6 (1.52%) Modbus
10 5 (1.27%) 5G
10 5 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.01%) LTE
12 3 (0.76%) Ethernet
12 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.76%) VoIP
13 2 (0.51%) AMQP
14 1 (0.25%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 11 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.28%) Big Data
3 8 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.03%) MySQL
3 8 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.52%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.51%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.51%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.51%) Power BI
7 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (5.57%) Git
2 8 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.77%) GitLab
4 6 (1.52%) GDB
5 5 (1.27%) JIRA
6 4 (1.01%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.76%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) Poetry
8 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (17.22%) Electronics
2 58 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 35 (8.86%) Manufacturing
4 27 (6.84%) Finance
5 26 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.30%) Automotive
8 15 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 14 (3.54%) Marketing
10 12 (3.04%) Retail
10 12 (3.04%) Tech for Good
11 8 (2.03%) Local Government
11 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.77%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.77%) Law
12 7 (1.77%) Legal
12 7 (1.77%) Social Housing
13 6 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.27%) French Language
14 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 73 (18.48%) Software Engineer
2 53 (13.42%) Embedded Engineer
3 42 (10.63%) Senior
4 33 (8.35%) Developer
5 32 (8.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 30 (7.59%) Technical Engineer
7 28 (7.09%) Architect
8 26 (6.58%) Sales Manager
9 20 (5.06%) Firmware Engineer
10 17 (4.30%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.80%) Electronics Engineer
11 15 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.29%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.29%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (3.04%) Operations Engineer
13 12 (3.04%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.78%) Design Engineer
14 11 (2.78%) Hardware Engineer
14 11 (2.78%) Principal Architect
14 11 (2.78%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.56%) Yocto
2 15 (3.80%) Node.js
3 14 (3.54%) React
4 11 (2.78%) .NET
5 5 (1.27%) REST
6 4 (1.01%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.01%) pytest
6 4 (1.01%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.76%) Kafka
8 2 (0.51%) Blazor
8 2 (0.51%) Django
8 2 (0.51%) GStreamer
8 2 (0.51%) HTML
8 2 (0.51%) Laravel
8 2 (0.51%) pgvector
8 2 (0.51%) Vue
8 2 (0.51%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.14%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.81%) Device Driver
3 16 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.04%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.04%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.78%) PropTech
6 11 (2.78%) Robotics
7 10 (2.53%) ARM Cortex
7 10 (2.53%) Smart Home
8 9 (2.28%) SCADA
9 8 (2.03%) Smart Energy
10 7 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.77%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.52%) Blog
11 6 (1.52%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.67%) Linux
2 19 (4.81%) Windows
3 16 (4.05%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.52%) Android
5 6 (1.52%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (1.52%) Unix
6 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.01%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (25.32%) Software Engineering
2 78 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (15.95%) AI
4 44 (11.14%) Analytics
5 43 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (10.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 33 (8.35%) CI/CD
7 33 (8.35%) DevOps
8 31 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (7.34%) CRM
11 26 (6.58%) ERP
11 26 (6.58%) Machine Learning
11 26 (6.58%) Roadmaps
12 25 (6.33%) Validation
13 24 (6.08%) Agile
14 22 (5.57%) Computer Science
15 20 (5.06%) Mentoring
16 19 (4.81%) Business Development
16 19 (4.81%) Energy Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.43%) Python
2 40 (10.13%) C++
3 32 (8.10%) C
4 19 (4.81%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.81%) SQL
5 17 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.05%) C#
7 14 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.29%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.29%) Java
9 7 (1.77%) Bash
10 6 (1.52%) PHP
11 5 (1.27%) Go
12 4 (1.01%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.01%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.01%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) Haskell
13 1 (0.25%) OCaml
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (17.97%) Degree
2 17 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.28%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.03%) HND
6 7 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.51%) CISM
10 2 (0.51%) CISSP
10 2 (0.51%) MBA
11 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) CISA
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.25%) PhD
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.29%) QA
2 9 (2.28%) JTAG
3 8 (2.03%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) ECSS
5 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (14.94%) Firmware
2 24 (6.08%) Embedded Firmware
3 20 (5.06%) Docker
4 12 (3.04%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (2.28%) vSphere
7 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.52%) Terraform
4 5 (1.27%) SCCM
5 4 (1.01%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.76%) 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 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.78%) Google
2 11 (2.78%) VMware
3 10 (2.53%) SAP
4 9 (2.28%) EMC
5 7 (1.77%) Cisco
5 7 (1.77%) Oracle
6 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.27%) Aruba
7 5 (1.27%) Cognizant
8 4 (1.01%) Adobe
9 3 (0.76%) dotdigital
9 3 (0.76%) IFS
9 3 (0.76%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.51%) ConnectWise
10 2 (0.51%) Draytek
10 2 (0.51%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.51%) Meraki
10 2 (0.51%) Siemens
11 1 (0.25%) Palo Alto