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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 437 322
Rank change year-on-year +58 -115 +11
Permanent jobs citing IoT 525 229 600
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.46% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 1.13% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 396 153 393
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,600 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 31,520 20,297 23,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.77% 40.87% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19,378 10,198 11,792
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,325 £32,008
25th Percentile £40,793 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -4.55%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +64 440 £55,000 -4.35% 663
UK excluding London +54 416 £55,000 -4.35% 415
Work from Home +27 153 £60,000 +9.09% 291
South East +24 116 £55,000 -12.00% 87
London -9 90 £56,750 -40.26% 285
North of England -7 88 £55,000 -4.35% 70
Scotland +53 57 £60,000 +4.80% 41
Midlands -11 56 £61,011 +10.93% 60
South West -41 54 £55,000 +22.22% 32
Yorkshire +1 38 £55,000 - 19
East of England -36 35 £85,000 +47.83% 85
North West -13 34 £42,000 -30.00% 35
East Midlands -20 28 £67,500 +28.57% 17
West Midlands -21 28 £51,000 -14.32% 43
North East -45 16 £50,000 +25.00% 17
Northern Ireland -69 10 £65,000 - 36
Wales -90 1 £47,500 -5.94% 8

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 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.76%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.76%) Simulink
3 2 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.38%) CATIA
3 2 (0.38%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.38%) Windchill
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.57%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (11.81%) AWS
2 41 (7.81%) Azure
3 24 (4.57%) Cloud Computing
4 23 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (4.38%) SaaS
5 10 (1.90%) AWS IoT
5 10 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.71%) Serverless
7 7 (1.33%) GCP
8 5 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (0.95%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon CloudSearch
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.76%) Internet
2 43 (8.19%) Wireless
3 26 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (4.19%) MQTT
5 19 (3.62%) VPN
6 17 (3.24%) DNS
7 16 (3.05%) Firewall
8 15 (2.86%) 5G
9 14 (2.67%) Bluetooth
10 12 (2.29%) Ethernet
11 11 (2.10%) DHCP
12 10 (1.90%) VLAN
13 9 (1.71%) ZigBee
14 7 (1.33%) LoRaWAN
15 6 (1.14%) LAN
15 6 (1.14%) Network Security
15 6 (1.14%) TCP/IP
16 5 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
16 5 (0.95%) SSH
16 5 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.86%) Big Data
2 9 (1.71%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.76%) MySQL
7 3 (0.57%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.57%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.38%) Power BI
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.19%) Metadata
9 1 (0.19%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 36 (6.86%) Git
2 12 (2.29%) JIRA
3 7 (1.33%) GitLab
3 7 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.14%) GDB
5 4 (0.76%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.76%) Selenium
6 3 (0.57%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Poetry
General
1 82 (15.62%) Electronics
1 82 (15.62%) Social Skills
2 49 (9.33%) Manufacturing
3 43 (8.19%) Finance
3 43 (8.19%) Telecoms
4 41 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.95%) Wearables
7 19 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 18 (3.43%) Automotive
9 17 (3.24%) Marketing
10 14 (2.67%) Retail
11 13 (2.48%) Legal
12 12 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.10%) Banking
14 8 (1.52%) Billing
14 8 (1.52%) Local Government
14 8 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (11.81%) Senior
2 57 (10.86%) Software Engineer
3 55 (10.48%) Design Engineer
4 49 (9.33%) Embedded Engineer
5 47 (8.95%) Developer
6 45 (8.57%) Sales Manager
7 34 (6.48%) Hardware Engineer
8 33 (6.29%) Architect
8 33 (6.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 29 (5.52%) Technical Engineer
10 28 (5.33%) Electronics Engineer
11 22 (4.19%) Hardware Design Engineer
12 20 (3.81%) Account Manager
13 18 (3.43%) Support Engineer
13 18 (3.43%) Technical Support
14 15 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.67%) Business Development Manager
15 14 (2.67%) Development Manager
15 14 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.14%) Yocto
2 23 (4.38%) REST
3 21 (4.00%) .NET
4 20 (3.81%) Terraform
5 14 (2.67%) React
6 13 (2.48%) Node.js
7 9 (1.71%) Kafka
8 7 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.14%) Blazor
9 6 (1.14%) Symfony
10 5 (0.95%) Django
10 5 (0.95%) NestJS
10 5 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (0.95%) Vue
11 4 (0.76%) HTML
11 4 (0.76%) pytest
11 4 (0.76%) Unity DI Container
11 4 (0.76%) Web Services
12 3 (0.57%) CSS
12 3 (0.57%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.10%) Embedded Systems
2 28 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 25 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 22 (4.19%) Device Driver
4 22 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.81%) Robotics
6 19 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 15 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 14 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.67%) Smart Home
9 13 (2.48%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.29%) ARM Cortex
11 11 (2.10%) FPGA
11 11 (2.10%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.90%) SCADA
12 10 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.76%) Linux
2 25 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
3 23 (4.38%) Windows
4 10 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.71%) Android
6 7 (1.33%) VMS
7 6 (1.14%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (18.48%) Software Engineering
3 94 (17.90%) AI
4 53 (10.10%) CI/CD
4 53 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (9.52%) Agile
6 43 (8.19%) Analytics
7 41 (7.81%) DevOps
8 40 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
8 40 (7.62%) Machine Learning
8 40 (7.62%) Validation
9 37 (7.05%) Collaborative Culture
10 36 (6.86%) Business Development
10 36 (6.86%) Roadmaps
11 28 (5.33%) Computer Science
11 28 (5.33%) Decision-Making
12 27 (5.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (5.14%) Tech Ops
13 26 (4.95%) Customer Engagement
14 25 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (12.57%) Python
2 51 (9.71%) C++
3 41 (7.81%) C
4 26 (4.95%) C#
5 24 (4.57%) SQL
6 23 (4.38%) Embedded C
6 23 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.38%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.24%) Go
8 13 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.10%) Java
10 10 (1.90%) Embedded C++
11 7 (1.33%) PHP
12 6 (1.14%) Bash
12 6 (1.14%) Rust
13 5 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.95%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.38%) Bicep
15 1 (0.19%) Haskell
15 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (23.05%) Degree
2 31 (5.90%) DBS Check
3 25 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 22 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.62%) HNC
6 17 (3.24%) Security Cleared
7 11 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.10%) PhD
7 11 (2.10%) Postgraduate
7 11 (2.10%) SC Cleared
8 9 (1.71%) HND
9 7 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.38%) ACCA
12 2 (0.38%) CCNP
12 2 (0.38%) CIMA
12 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.76%) QA
2 9 (1.71%) JTAG
3 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.14%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.95%) NIST
7 4 (0.76%) ECSS
7 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) GDPR
8 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.57%) NCSC
8 3 (0.57%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (9.33%) Firmware
2 23 (4.38%) Docker
3 10 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.71%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.14%) vSphere
6 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.38%) iptables
8 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.95%) Grafana
2 5 (0.95%) Prometheus
2 5 (0.95%) SCCM
3 3 (0.57%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.19%) Galera Cluster
4 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) MOM
4 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.90%) EMC
3 9 (1.71%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.14%) Aruba
4 6 (1.14%) Cisco
4 6 (1.14%) Databricks
4 6 (1.14%) Oracle
4 6 (1.14%) SAP
4 6 (1.14%) VMware
5 5 (0.95%) Google
6 4 (0.76%) dotdigital
6 4 (0.76%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.76%) IFS
6 4 (0.76%) Siemens
6 4 (0.76%) Xilinx
7 3 (0.57%) Apple
7 3 (0.57%) BT
8 2 (0.38%) MEDITECH
8 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.38%) Thales