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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 289 384
Rank change year-on-year -197 +95 -59
Permanent jobs citing IoT 244 1,034 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.93% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.16% 2.79% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 155 789 479
10th Percentile £41,600 £35,000 £39,150
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £85,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

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 21,048 37,076 40,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 33.46% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,744 23,538 22,033
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,591 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £109,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT.

Salary trend for IoT in the UK

IoT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

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 16 June 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 -222 187 £60,000 - 3,168
UK excluding London -154 181 £60,000 +4.35% 2,442
Work from Home -81 87 £60,000 - 1,209
South East -47 50 £61,250 +6.52% 615
London -50 39 £81,250 +25.00% 1,064
Midlands +11 35 £57,500 -4.17% 386
Wales +64 28 £77,500 +10.71% 63
South West +86 26 £57,500 - 251
North of England -76 23 £58,000 +5.45% 515
North West -56 19 £58,000 +16.00% 283
West Midlands +30 17 £65,000 +10.64% 188
East Midlands +21 17 £50,000 -16.67% 191
East of England -95 13 £57,500 - 372
Scotland +76 5 £65,000 +8.33% 208
Yorkshire +12 3 £60,000 -7.69% 186
Northern Ireland +27 2 £50,000 -28.57% 48

IoT
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 9 (3.69%) Confluence
2 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.23%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.82%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.46%) AutoCAD
4 5 (2.05%) Revit
5 4 (1.64%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.64%) Maya
6 3 (1.23%) Blender
6 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.23%) ProjectWise
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.82%) Simulink
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (24.18%) Azure
2 47 (19.26%) AWS
3 21 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.97%) SaaS
5 11 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.10%) Serverless
7 9 (3.69%) GCP
7 9 (3.69%) IaaS
7 9 (3.69%) PaaS
8 8 (3.28%) AWS IoT
9 5 (2.05%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.05%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.64%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.64%) GitHub
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.82%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.57%) MQTT
2 37 (15.16%) Modbus
3 26 (10.66%) Internet
3 26 (10.66%) Network Security
4 21 (8.61%) 5G
5 20 (8.20%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (7.38%) WAN
7 16 (6.56%) Bluetooth
7 16 (6.56%) Wireless
8 15 (6.15%) LTE
9 14 (5.74%) Ethernet
10 13 (5.33%) LoRaWAN
10 13 (5.33%) TCP/IP
11 11 (4.51%) DNS
12 10 (4.10%) Firewall
13 8 (3.28%) 4G
14 7 (2.87%) Unified Communications
15 6 (2.46%) LAN
15 6 (2.46%) VoIP
16 5 (2.05%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.97%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.56%) MySQL
4 14 (5.74%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.87%) Power BI
7 6 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.05%) TimescaleDB
9 4 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.23%) Big Data
10 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.23%) GIS
10 3 (1.23%) QGIS
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.82%) HDInsight
12 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (8.20%) Git
2 12 (4.92%) JIRA
3 4 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.23%) Subversion
5 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.82%) GitLab
5 2 (0.82%) MSI
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 115 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.77%) Manufacturing
3 40 (16.39%) Finance
4 39 (15.98%) Electronics
5 31 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (11.07%) Marketing
7 24 (9.84%) Telecoms
8 18 (7.38%) Law
8 18 (7.38%) Public Sector
9 15 (6.15%) Automotive
9 15 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.69%) Games
12 8 (3.28%) Welsh Language
13 7 (2.87%) Tech for Good
14 5 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.05%) Social Housing
15 4 (1.64%) Banking
15 4 (1.64%) Legal
15 4 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (22.54%) Lead
2 38 (15.57%) Software Engineer
3 37 (15.16%) Senior
4 30 (12.30%) Developer
5 16 (6.56%) Architect
6 15 (6.15%) Team Leader
7 13 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 11 (4.51%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (4.51%) Embedded Engineer
8 11 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.51%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.10%) Consultant
9 10 (4.10%) Lead Developer
9 10 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Software Team Leader
11 8 (3.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Product Manager
11 8 (3.28%) Server Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.52%) .NET
2 19 (7.79%) React
3 14 (5.74%) Node.js
4 10 (4.10%) AngularJS
4 10 (4.10%) CSS
4 10 (4.10%) RESTful
5 7 (2.87%) NestJS
5 7 (2.87%) Vue
6 5 (2.05%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.05%) REST
7 4 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.23%) gRPC
8 3 (1.23%) HTML
8 3 (1.23%) JSON
8 3 (1.23%) Kafka
8 3 (1.23%) Laravel
8 3 (1.23%) Leaflet
8 3 (1.23%) PostGIS
8 3 (1.23%) React Native
8 3 (1.23%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.89%) Operational Technology
2 26 (10.66%) SCADA
3 25 (10.25%) Renewable Energy
4 19 (7.79%) NB-IoT
5 15 (6.15%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.74%) Industry 4.0
7 13 (5.33%) Biopharmaceutical
7 13 (5.33%) Device Driver
7 13 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (4.10%) Smart City
10 9 (3.69%) Driving Licence
10 9 (3.69%) Management Information System
11 8 (3.28%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 8 (3.28%) NHS
11 8 (3.28%) Smart Meter
12 7 (2.87%) Smart Home
13 6 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (2.46%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 6 (2.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.90%) Linux
2 47 (19.26%) Windows
3 23 (9.43%) Unix
4 22 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Debian
6 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (27.87%) Mentoring
3 63 (25.82%) Agile
4 51 (20.90%) Software Engineering
5 31 (12.70%) Project Delivery
6 28 (11.48%) Asset Management
7 27 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (11.07%) Strategic Thinking
8 26 (10.66%) Product Strategy
9 25 (10.25%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.25%) Project Management
10 24 (9.84%) Analytics
11 22 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (9.02%) Machine Learning
11 22 (9.02%) Technical Debt
12 21 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (8.20%) Network Design
13 20 (8.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.49%) Python
2 41 (16.80%) C#
3 33 (13.52%) SQL
4 28 (11.48%) C
5 24 (9.84%) C++
6 21 (8.61%) PowerShell
7 18 (7.38%) Bash
7 18 (7.38%) TypeScript
8 17 (6.97%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.51%) PHP
10 7 (2.87%) Java
11 5 (2.05%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.23%) Go
12 3 (1.23%) R
13 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.41%) Bicep
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.41%) Rust
14 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (28.28%) Degree
2 13 (5.33%) Chartered Engineer
2 13 (5.33%) HNC
2 13 (5.33%) HND
3 11 (4.51%) CompTIA Security+
3 11 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (4.51%) Network+ Certification
4 10 (4.10%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.28%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.28%) MCSA
5 8 (3.28%) MCSE
6 5 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.64%) CCNP
7 4 (1.64%) PMP
8 3 (1.23%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.97%) SLA
2 6 (2.46%) QA
3 5 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.64%) GDPR
5 3 (1.23%) NCSC
5 3 (1.23%) NIST
6 2 (0.82%) JTAG
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.41%) GMP
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (9.43%) Firmware
2 22 (9.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.79%) Docker
4 14 (5.74%) Active Directory
5 11 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.51%) vSphere
6 8 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (6.97%) Terraform
2 13 (5.33%) Functional Safety
3 11 (4.51%) Ansible
3 11 (4.51%) Puppet
4 10 (4.10%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.23%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.23%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 49 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.25%) SAP
3 22 (9.02%) Siemens
3 22 (9.02%) VMware
4 21 (8.61%) Rockwell
5 13 (5.33%) AVEVA
6 7 (2.87%) Oracle
7 6 (2.46%) Cisco
8 5 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.05%) Atmel
8 5 (2.05%) Autodesk
8 5 (2.05%) Workday
9 4 (1.64%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.64%) Google
9 4 (1.64%) NVIDIA
9 4 (1.64%) Okta
10 3 (1.23%) Aruba
10 3 (1.23%) Meraki
11 2 (0.82%) Facebook
11 2 (0.82%) Ribbon
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