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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 319 383
Rank change year-on-year +249 +64 +3
Permanent jobs citing IoT 1,875 533 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.56% 0.79% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.43% 2.42% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 195 331 305
10th Percentile £32,900 £32,500 £40,200
25th Percentile £38,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -6.06%

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 19,880 22,052 20,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.76% 32.63% 38.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,739 10,633 15,119
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in the UK

IoT
Top 18 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 13 November 2025. 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 +284 1,824 £55,000 -8.33% 382
UK excluding London +218 1,560 £55,000 - 231
North of England +221 660 £55,000 +37.50% 37
North West +182 605 £55,000 +57.14% 24
South East +148 426 £65,000 +8.33% 87
London +210 295 £65,000 - 163
East of England +96 295 £57,500 - 36
Midlands +80 86 £53,750 -10.42% 24
East Midlands +49 73 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Work from Home -20 67 £55,000 -8.33% 166
South West +51 57 £45,000 -21.74% 33
Yorkshire +46 54 £55,000 -18.52% 10
Wales +12 31 £51,500 +87.27% 6
West Midlands +27 13 £51,250 -14.58% 19
Channel Islands - 6 - -
Northern Ireland 0 4 £70,000 - 6
Scotland -15 3 £57,250 +34.71% 7
North East +11 1 £40,000 -20.79% 3

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 37 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 18 (0.96%) Confluence
3 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.11%) nginx
4 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.053%) Apache
5 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (0.43%) AutoCAD
1 8 (0.43%) Revit
2 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Blender
4 2 (0.11%) Civil 3D
4 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
4 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
3 3 (0.16%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.11%) SAP APO
4 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.11%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.053%) Maximo
5 1 (0.053%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.053%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.053%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.053%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.053%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.053%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.053%) Shopify
5 1 (0.053%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,609 (85.81%) Cloud Computing
2 55 (2.93%) Azure
3 32 (1.71%) AWS
4 25 (1.33%) Power Platform
5 24 (1.28%) Entra ID
6 19 (1.01%) Power Automate
6 19 (1.01%) Serverless
7 18 (0.96%) PowerApps
8 11 (0.59%) GCP
9 10 (0.53%) SaaS
10 8 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.27%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.21%) GitHub
12 4 (0.21%) SurveyMonkey
13 3 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.16%) Azure Functions
13 3 (0.16%) Firebase
13 3 (0.16%) IaaS
13 3 (0.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,632 (87.04%) Internet
2 42 (2.24%) Network Security
3 34 (1.81%) Wireless
4 28 (1.49%) Modbus
5 24 (1.28%) MQTT
6 14 (0.75%) Ethernet
7 13 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.64%) Firewall
9 11 (0.59%) WAN
10 9 (0.48%) 5G
10 9 (0.48%) Bluetooth
11 8 (0.43%) VLAN
12 7 (0.37%) LAN
13 6 (0.32%) LoRaWAN
13 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.27%) Broadband
14 5 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.27%) VoIP
14 5 (0.27%) ZigBee
15 4 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (0.69%) Big Data
2 9 (0.48%) MySQL
3 7 (0.37%) MongoDB
3 7 (0.37%) Power BI
4 6 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.32%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.21%) ClickHouse
5 4 (0.21%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.16%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.16%) GIS
7 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.11%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.11%) Metadata
7 2 (0.11%) QGIS
7 2 (0.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.053%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.053%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.053%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (1.33%) JIRA
2 10 (0.53%) Git
3 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.21%) GitLab
3 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.11%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) MLflow
4 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.053%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.053%) Postman
5 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.053%) Selenium
5 1 (0.053%) SoapUI
General
1 1,692 (90.24%) Social Skills
2 1,614 (86.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,608 (85.76%) Banking
4 45 (2.40%) Manufacturing
5 32 (1.71%) Finance
6 27 (1.44%) Marketing
7 25 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (1.12%) Electronics
9 20 (1.07%) Automotive
10 17 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (0.91%) Public Sector
11 14 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.69%) Retail
13 9 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.37%) Law
15 6 (0.32%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.32%) Wearables
16 5 (0.27%) Back Office
16 5 (0.27%) Billing
16 5 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,300 (69.33%) Lecturer
2 32 (1.71%) Developer
2 32 (1.71%) Senior
3 20 (1.07%) Architect
3 20 (1.07%) Software Engineer
4 17 (0.91%) Lead
5 13 (0.69%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (0.59%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (0.53%) Embedded Engineer
7 10 (0.53%) React Developer
7 10 (0.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (0.53%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (0.48%) Sales Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Analyst
9 8 (0.43%) Applications Developer
9 8 (0.43%) Backend Developer
9 8 (0.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (0.43%) Firmware Engineer
9 8 (0.43%) Mobile Developer
9 8 (0.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (0.80%) .NET
2 9 (0.48%) React
3 8 (0.43%) React Native
4 7 (0.37%) CSS
4 7 (0.37%) Node.js
5 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.27%) REST
7 4 (0.21%) FastAPI
7 4 (0.21%) Kafka
8 3 (0.16%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.16%) Django
8 3 (0.16%) HTML
8 3 (0.16%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.16%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.16%) SAPUI5
8 3 (0.16%) Swagger
8 3 (0.16%) Yocto
9 2 (0.11%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (1.23%) Operational Technology
2 22 (1.17%) SCADA
3 21 (1.12%) Management Information System
4 16 (0.85%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
6 13 (0.69%) Biopharmaceutical
6 13 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 12 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 11 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
8 11 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.43%) Driving Licence
9 8 (0.43%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.37%) Home Automation
11 6 (0.32%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.32%) Device Driver
11 6 (0.32%) Digital Signage
11 6 (0.32%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.27%) Robotics
12 5 (0.27%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.01%) Linux
2 17 (0.91%) Windows
3 9 (0.48%) Unix
4 7 (0.37%) Android
5 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.053%) Debian
8 1 (0.053%) Solaris
8 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,673 (89.23%) Cybersecurity
2 1,628 (86.83%) AI
3 1,621 (86.45%) Machine Learning
4 1,611 (85.92%) User Experience
5 1,607 (85.71%) Web Development
6 63 (3.36%) Agile
7 49 (2.61%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (2.03%) Mentoring
9 35 (1.87%) DevOps
10 34 (1.81%) Software Engineering
11 33 (1.76%) Project Management
12 32 (1.71%) Customer Service
13 31 (1.65%) Roadmaps
14 29 (1.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (1.49%) Business Development
15 28 (1.49%) Project Delivery
16 27 (1.44%) Computer Science
17 24 (1.28%) Prototyping
18 23 (1.23%) Analytics
19 20 (1.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 54 (2.88%) Python
2 26 (1.39%) C++
3 25 (1.33%) C#
4 24 (1.28%) SQL
5 18 (0.96%) Java
5 18 (0.96%) PowerShell
6 16 (0.85%) C
7 15 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.48%) PHP
9 9 (0.48%) Ruby
10 8 (0.43%) Elixir
10 8 (0.43%) Go
11 6 (0.32%) R
12 4 (0.21%) Bash
12 4 (0.21%) Rust
13 2 (0.11%) Bicep
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,661 (88.59%) Degree
2 1,612 (85.97%) Master's Degree
3 1,601 (85.39%) PhD
4 1,600 (85.33%) Postgraduate
5 23 (1.23%) HND
6 19 (1.01%) Security Cleared
7 15 (0.80%) HNC
8 13 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
8 13 (0.69%) SC Cleared
9 10 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.27%) PMP
12 3 (0.16%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.11%) CISA
13 2 (0.11%) CISM
13 2 (0.11%) CISSP
13 2 (0.11%) MCP
14 1 (0.053%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (0.96%) QA
2 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.27%) GDPR
3 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.16%) SLA
5 2 (0.11%) NIST
6 1 (0.053%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.053%) JTAG
6 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.053%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (1.12%) Firmware
2 12 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (0.48%) Docker
5 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.69%) Functional Safety
3 10 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.27%) Grafana
4 5 (0.27%) Terraform
5 4 (0.21%) Nessus
5 4 (0.21%) Nmap
6 2 (0.11%) Ansible
6 2 (0.11%) Argo
6 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.053%) Kibana
Vendors
1 57 (3.04%) Microsoft
2 17 (0.91%) Atlassian
3 14 (0.75%) Cisco
3 14 (0.75%) SAP
3 14 (0.75%) Siemens
4 13 (0.69%) AVEVA
4 13 (0.69%) Rockwell
5 12 (0.64%) VMware
6 10 (0.53%) Google
7 8 (0.43%) Autodesk
8 6 (0.32%) NEC
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle
8 6 (0.32%) Panasonic
8 6 (0.32%) Polycom
8 6 (0.32%) Ruckus Wireless
8 6 (0.32%) Samsung
8 6 (0.32%) Sony
9 5 (0.27%) Epicor
9 5 (0.27%) Infor
9 5 (0.27%) Red Hat