Smart Home (Connected Home)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Home in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Home over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 841 952 1196
Rank change year-on-year +111 +244 -320
Permanent jobs citing Smart Home 55 23 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.023% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.054% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 55 16 19
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,500 £43,924
25th Percentile £43,125 £50,492 £53,271
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -29.05% +55.79%
75th Percentile £60,625 £70,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £112,500 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £73,250
% change year-on-year -23.08% -11.26% +62.78%

All Generic Skills
UK

Smart Home is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,986 42,866 76,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 42.72% 47.73%
Number of salaries quoted 22,999 23,359 34,161
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,367 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Smart Home
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Smart Home as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Smart Home.

Salary trend for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Home over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Smart Home in the UK

Smart Home
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Home within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 +112 53 £50,000 -4.76% 25
UK excluding London +16 41 £50,000 -23.08% 20
East of England +23 20 £50,000 -65.52% 6
Work from Home +79 14 £55,000 -15.38% 16
London +129 12 £40,000 -23.81% 4
South West -17 9 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Yorkshire +93 6 £42,500 -11.86%
North of England +31 6 £42,500 +11.52%
Midlands - 6 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 6 £55,000 -

Smart Home
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (29.09%) AutoCAD
2 6 (10.91%) LightWave 3D
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) Azure
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (3.64%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) RS-232
1 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.09%) Bluetooth
2 5 (9.09%) RS-485
2 5 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (9.09%) Wireless
2 5 (9.09%) ZigBee
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Social Housing
2 9 (16.36%) Tech for Good
3 6 (10.91%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) AutoCAD Designer
1 16 (29.09%) CAD Designer
1 16 (29.09%) Designer
1 16 (29.09%) Systems Designer
2 10 (18.18%) Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Senior
4 8 (14.55%) Software Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Consultant
6 6 (10.91%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Support Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Flutter Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Programmer
8 1 (1.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Node.js
2 1 (1.82%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 31 (56.36%) Home Automation
2 18 (32.73%) IoT
3 6 (10.91%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.45%) CCTV
5 1 (1.82%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.82%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.82%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) CAD
2 13 (23.64%) Customer Service
3 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
4 7 (12.73%) Customer Experience
5 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (9.09%) Agile
7 3 (5.45%) Bill of Materials
7 3 (5.45%) Commercial Awareness
8 1 (1.82%) Clean Code
8 1 (1.82%) Computer Science
8 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis
8 1 (1.82%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (1.82%) Machine Learning
8 1 (1.82%) Microservices
8 1 (1.82%) Product Roadmap
8 1 (1.82%) Roadmaps
8 1 (1.82%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
2 5 (9.09%) C
2 5 (9.09%) Embedded C
3 2 (3.64%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) C#
4 1 (1.82%) C++
4 1 (1.82%) Python
4 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) RIBA
2 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) MISRA
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Palo Alto
2 3 (5.45%) Cisco
2 3 (5.45%) Meraki