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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 363 301
Rank change year-on-year +333 -62 +84
Permanent jobs citing IoT 4,412 352 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.95% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.24% 2.07% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 271 204 613
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22,926 17,031 30,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.93% 39.05% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11,671 8,821 21,651
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,770 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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 +319 4,342 £55,000 -8.33% 155
UK excluding London +265 3,917 £55,000 -8.33% 126
North of England +201 1,669 £52,500 -8.70% 23
North West +148 1,512 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Midlands +156 1,060 £42,500 -29.17% 19
West Midlands +136 930 £42,500 -29.17% 9
South East +168 656 £60,000 -13.67% 37
London +243 446 £75,000 +3.45% 37
East of England +133 410 £34,000 -38.18% 28
Yorkshire +76 156 £50,000 -18.37% 13
East Midlands +60 142 - - 10
South West +10 81 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Work from Home -31 63 £64,169 +5.63% 67
Wales +2 35 £65,000 -14.75% 3
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -8 6 £72,500 +18.37% 7
Northern Ireland -26 4 £70,000 +40.00% 2
North East - 1 £40,000 - 1

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 23 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.16%) Confluence
3 4 (0.091%) CMS
3 4 (0.091%) WordPress
4 2 (0.045%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.023%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.023%) Mendix
5 1 (0.023%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.091%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.045%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.045%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.045%) Revit
3 2 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.023%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.023%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.023%) Maximo
3 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4,066 (92.16%) Cloud Computing
2 46 (1.04%) Azure
3 44 (1.00%) AWS
4 25 (0.57%) Entra ID
5 17 (0.39%) SaaS
6 13 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (0.25%) Power Platform
8 10 (0.23%) GCP
9 7 (0.16%) GitHub
10 5 (0.11%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.11%) Google Workspace
10 5 (0.11%) Serverless
11 4 (0.091%) Canva
11 4 (0.091%) IaaS
11 4 (0.091%) PaaS
11 4 (0.091%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.068%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.068%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.068%) Zapier
13 2 (0.045%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4,057 (91.95%) Internet
2 29 (0.66%) Wireless
3 28 (0.63%) Network Security
4 14 (0.32%) Firewall
5 13 (0.29%) Bluetooth
6 9 (0.20%) Modbus
6 9 (0.20%) VPN
7 7 (0.16%) MQTT
8 6 (0.14%) DNS
9 5 (0.11%) WAN
10 4 (0.091%) 5G
10 4 (0.091%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.091%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.091%) VLAN
10 4 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.068%) DHCP
11 3 (0.068%) LAN
11 3 (0.068%) LTE
11 3 (0.068%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.045%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (0.52%) Big Data
2 11 (0.25%) MySQL
3 8 (0.18%) Power BI
4 6 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.14%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.045%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.045%) Informix
6 2 (0.045%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.023%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.023%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.023%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.023%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.023%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.023%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.023%) GIS
7 1 (0.023%) Redis
7 1 (0.023%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.023%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (0.14%) Git
1 6 (0.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.045%) GitLab
2 2 (0.045%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.023%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.023%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.023%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.023%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.023%) MLflow
3 1 (0.023%) Postman
3 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.023%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.023%) Zephyr
General
1 4,151 (94.08%) Social Skills
2 4,073 (92.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,069 (92.23%) Banking
4 39 (0.88%) Manufacturing
5 35 (0.79%) Marketing
6 34 (0.77%) Electronics
7 32 (0.73%) Finance
8 21 (0.48%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (0.48%) Public Sector
9 17 (0.39%) Tech for Good
10 15 (0.34%) Telecoms
11 14 (0.32%) Wearables
12 11 (0.25%) Retail
13 10 (0.23%) Automotive
14 8 (0.18%) Law
14 8 (0.18%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.14%) French Language
15 6 (0.14%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.11%) Back Office
16 5 (0.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3,159 (71.60%) Lecturer
2 54 (1.22%) Software Engineer
3 41 (0.93%) Developer
4 39 (0.88%) Senior
5 36 (0.82%) Embedded Engineer
6 29 (0.66%) Architect
7 23 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 23 (0.52%) Firmware Engineer
8 18 (0.41%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (0.41%) Principal Software Engineer
9 17 (0.39%) React Developer
10 16 (0.36%) Mobile Developer
11 15 (0.34%) Sales Manager
12 14 (0.32%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (0.29%) IoT Developer
14 12 (0.27%) 2nd Line Support
14 12 (0.27%) Analyst
14 12 (0.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (0.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 11 (0.25%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (0.50%) Node.js
1 22 (0.50%) React
2 18 (0.41%) React Native
3 9 (0.20%) .NET
3 9 (0.20%) REST
4 5 (0.11%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.11%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.091%) Kafka
5 4 (0.091%) OpenAPI
5 4 (0.091%) Swagger
6 2 (0.045%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.045%) Django
6 2 (0.045%) Next.js
6 2 (0.045%) RESTful
6 2 (0.045%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.023%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.023%) EDI
7 1 (0.023%) HTML
7 1 (0.023%) Middleware
7 1 (0.023%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (0.50%) Mobile App
2 18 (0.41%) Smart Energy
3 17 (0.39%) Management Information System
4 14 (0.32%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (0.29%) SCADA
6 11 (0.25%) Cloud Native
6 11 (0.25%) Operational Technology
6 11 (0.25%) Smart Home
7 7 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.14%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.11%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.11%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.11%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (0.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 5 (0.11%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.11%) Robotics
9 5 (0.11%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.11%) Social Media
10 4 (0.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.50%) Linux
2 14 (0.32%) Windows
3 11 (0.25%) Android
4 9 (0.20%) Unix
5 4 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.091%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.045%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.045%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.045%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.023%) Solaris
7 1 (0.023%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,116 (93.29%) Cybersecurity
2 4,080 (92.48%) AI
3 4,064 (92.11%) Web Development
4 4,063 (92.09%) Machine Learning
5 4,054 (91.89%) User Experience
6 68 (1.54%) Software Engineering
7 47 (1.07%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (0.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (0.86%) Agile
10 32 (0.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (0.70%) DevOps
12 30 (0.68%) Customer Service
12 30 (0.68%) Project Management
13 29 (0.66%) ERP
14 28 (0.63%) Analytics
15 27 (0.61%) Digital Marketing
16 26 (0.59%) Roadmaps
17 24 (0.54%) Energy Management
18 22 (0.50%) Mentoring
19 20 (0.45%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (0.68%) Python
2 21 (0.48%) Java
3 18 (0.41%) SQL
4 15 (0.34%) TypeScript
5 14 (0.32%) C++
6 12 (0.27%) C#
7 10 (0.23%) PHP
8 9 (0.20%) C
9 7 (0.16%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.14%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.091%) Bash
12 3 (0.068%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.045%) Go
13 2 (0.045%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.045%) Perl
13 2 (0.045%) VBA
14 1 (0.023%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.023%) R
14 1 (0.023%) Rust
14 1 (0.023%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,102 (92.97%) Degree
2 4,069 (92.23%) Master's Degree
3 4,047 (91.73%) PhD
4 4,044 (91.66%) Postgraduate
5 26 (0.59%) HND
6 11 (0.25%) Security Cleared
7 6 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.11%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.068%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.045%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.045%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.045%) CISM
10 2 (0.045%) CISSP
10 2 (0.045%) MBA
10 2 (0.045%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.045%) PMP
11 1 (0.023%) CCNA
11 1 (0.023%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (0.29%) QA
2 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.091%) GDPR
5 3 (0.068%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.068%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.068%) SLA
6 2 (0.045%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.045%) NIST
7 1 (0.023%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.023%) GMP
7 1 (0.023%) JTAG
System Software
1 44 (1.00%) Firmware
2 26 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (0.25%) Docker
4 7 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.023%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.091%) Grafana
4 3 (0.068%) Terraform
5 1 (0.023%) Ansible
5 1 (0.023%) Argo
5 1 (0.023%) Nessus
5 1 (0.023%) Nmap
5 1 (0.023%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (1.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.23%) Google
2 10 (0.23%) SAP
3 8 (0.18%) EMC
4 6 (0.14%) Cisco
5 5 (0.11%) Epicor
5 5 (0.11%) Infor
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle
6 4 (0.091%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.068%) ConnectWise
7 3 (0.068%) Draytek
7 3 (0.068%) IBM
7 3 (0.068%) Ruckus Wireless
7 3 (0.068%) VMware
8 2 (0.045%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.045%) HP
8 2 (0.045%) NEC
8 2 (0.045%) Panasonic
8 2 (0.045%) Samsung
8 2 (0.045%) Sony