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 have cited IoT over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 367 317
Rank change year-on-year +63 -50 +28
Permanent jobs citing IoT 931 930 1,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.90% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 2.10% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 729 516 914
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -7.50% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £99,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% +3.72%

All Generic Skills
UK

IoT 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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
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 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 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 +87 862 £60,000 -4.00% 247
UK excluding London +64 726 £55,000 -4.35% 173
Work from Home +36 349 £60,000 -4.00% 108
South East +52 193 £60,000 -7.69% 54
East of England +43 173 £55,000 -12.00% 22
London +86 170 £66,250 -14.52% 69
North of England +23 166 £51,000 -7.27% 25
Midlands +65 99 £55,000 +15.79% 29
North West -3 92 £50,000 -18.37% 8
West Midlands +54 63 £58,750 +23.68% 12
South West -29 54 £57,500 -8.00% 30
Yorkshire +43 51 £55,000 +29.41% 13
East Midlands +12 36 £50,750 +6.84% 17
Scotland -52 32 £60,000 -2.04% 13
North East +14 23 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
Wales -2 1 £27,500 -54.17% 1

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 22 (2.36%) Confluence
2 18 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.61%) Apache
4 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.64%) IIS
6 5 (0.54%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.54%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 2 (0.21%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.64%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.32%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.21%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 152 (16.33%) AWS
2 151 (16.22%) Azure
3 45 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
4 44 (4.73%) GitHub
5 37 (3.97%) AWS IoT
6 30 (3.22%) GCP
7 26 (2.79%) Serverless
8 22 (2.36%) Power Platform
9 19 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (2.04%) IaaS
10 16 (1.72%) SaaS
11 15 (1.61%) Nutanix
12 13 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.29%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (8.70%) Wireless
2 80 (8.59%) Internet
3 55 (5.91%) TCP/IP
4 49 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
5 43 (4.62%) MQTT
6 42 (4.51%) WAN
7 41 (4.40%) Bluetooth
8 38 (4.08%) Firewall
9 25 (2.69%) LAN
10 22 (2.36%) DNS
11 21 (2.26%) 4G
11 21 (2.26%) ZigBee
12 19 (2.04%) 5G
13 18 (1.93%) HTTP
14 14 (1.50%) MPLS
14 14 (1.50%) RS-232
15 13 (1.40%) Modbus
15 13 (1.40%) VoIP
16 12 (1.29%) LoRaWAN
16 12 (1.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.73%) MySQL
2 24 (2.58%) NoSQL
3 22 (2.36%) Big Data
4 21 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.15%) Power BI
6 17 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.83%) Oracle Database
7 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.97%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.64%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.43%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.43%) Tableau
12 3 (0.32%) Data Hub
12 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 86 (9.24%) Git
2 55 (5.91%) JIRA
3 27 (2.90%) Subversion
4 22 (2.36%) Oracle APEX
5 18 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.93%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.64%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.64%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.64%) GitLab
7 6 (0.64%) Metasploit
7 6 (0.64%) MSTest
7 6 (0.64%) PHPUnit
8 5 (0.54%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.54%) Selenium
8 5 (0.54%) Xcode
9 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.21%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Mockito
11 1 (0.11%) Moq
General
1 273 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 148 (15.90%) Electronics
3 125 (13.43%) Automotive
4 117 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.34%) Manufacturing
6 84 (9.02%) Finance
7 71 (7.63%) Marketing
8 53 (5.69%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.48%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (3.54%) Aerospace
12 32 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (3.01%) Law
14 25 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (2.04%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.93%) Legal
16 18 (1.93%) Retail
17 14 (1.50%) Social Housing
18 13 (1.40%) Games
19 12 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (24.06%) Senior
2 198 (21.27%) Developer
3 177 (19.01%) Software Engineer
4 111 (11.92%) Embedded Engineer
5 84 (9.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 79 (8.49%) Architect
7 72 (7.73%) Consultant
8 70 (7.52%) Senior Developer
9 53 (5.69%) Hardware Engineer
9 53 (5.69%) Software Developer
10 48 (5.16%) Lead
11 45 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 41 (4.40%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 40 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
14 39 (4.19%) Senior Hardware Engineer
15 31 (3.33%) Analyst
16 30 (3.22%) Systems Engineer
17 27 (2.90%) Data Engineer
17 27 (2.90%) Electronics Engineer
17 27 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.16%) Node.js
2 57 (6.12%) HTML
3 46 (4.94%) CSS
4 43 (4.62%) .NET
5 31 (3.33%) React
6 30 (3.22%) JSON
7 24 (2.58%) jQuery
7 24 (2.58%) REST
8 23 (2.47%) Yocto
9 20 (2.15%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.93%) RESTful
11 15 (1.61%) Flask
12 14 (1.50%) GraphQL
13 13 (1.40%) .NET Core
14 12 (1.29%) .NET Framework
14 12 (1.29%) Laravel
15 11 (1.18%) Qt
16 10 (1.07%) LLVM
17 9 (0.97%) Symfony
17 9 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.51%) Mobile App
2 37 (3.97%) Raspberry Pi
3 35 (3.76%) Client/Server
3 35 (3.76%) Embedded Systems
4 27 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.90%) Robotics
5 23 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
6 22 (2.36%) Driving Licence
7 21 (2.26%) Blog
7 21 (2.26%) Operational Technology
7 21 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.93%) Smart Home
9 16 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.61%) ARM Cortex
10 15 (1.61%) Augmented Reality
10 15 (1.61%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (1.50%) Arduino
11 14 (1.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 206 (22.13%) Linux
2 59 (6.34%) Windows
3 52 (5.59%) Embedded Linux
4 40 (4.30%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.65%) Android
6 17 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.50%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.64%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.32%) Debian
10 3 (0.32%) Unix
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
10 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.11%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (28.79%) Software Engineering
2 181 (19.44%) Agile
3 161 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
4 129 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
5 120 (12.89%) Mentoring
6 116 (12.46%) DevOps
7 112 (12.03%) Artificial Intelligence
8 85 (9.13%) Computer Science
9 75 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
10 74 (7.95%) Analytics
10 74 (7.95%) Project Management
11 71 (7.63%) CI/CD
12 66 (7.09%) Machine Learning
13 62 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (6.12%) Microservices
15 55 (5.91%) Decision-Making
16 48 (5.16%) Business Development
16 48 (5.16%) Software Testing
17 43 (4.62%) Customer Requirements
18 40 (4.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (24.70%) Python
2 162 (17.40%) C
3 101 (10.85%) C++
4 98 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 98 (10.53%) SQL
5 72 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 67 (7.20%) C#
7 55 (5.91%) Java
8 46 (4.94%) Embedded C
9 40 (4.30%) SystemVerilog
10 32 (3.44%) Bash
11 26 (2.79%) PHP
12 20 (2.15%) Perl
13 17 (1.83%) PL/SQL
14 15 (1.61%) Rust
15 12 (1.29%) PowerShell
16 11 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.18%) Swift
17 9 (0.97%) Embedded C++
18 8 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (22.88%) Degree
2 51 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (3.44%) Master's Degree
5 18 (1.93%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.72%) CISSP
6 16 (1.72%) HND
7 14 (1.50%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.18%) HNC
9 10 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.07%) PhD
10 9 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
10 9 (0.97%) GIAC
10 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.86%) CISA
12 7 (0.75%) CISM
12 7 (0.75%) OSCP
12 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.37%) QA
2 24 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.36%) GDPR
4 21 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.93%) SLA
6 17 (1.83%) ISO 13485
7 10 (1.07%) IEC 62304
7 10 (1.07%) ISO 9001
7 10 (1.07%) NIST
8 9 (0.97%) COSHH
9 8 (0.86%) JTAG
10 6 (0.64%) ISO 14001
10 6 (0.64%) MISRA
11 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.43%) IEC 61131
12 4 (0.43%) PMO
13 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (6.34%) Firmware
2 35 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.54%) Docker
4 26 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (2.47%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
7 17 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.64%) Forefront TMG
8 6 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.26%) Ansible
3 20 (2.15%) Terraform
4 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.40%) FortiGate
6 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.64%) Nessus
7 6 (0.64%) Nmap
7 6 (0.64%) Opsgenie
7 6 (0.64%) SCOM
7 6 (0.64%) WSUS
8 5 (0.54%) Grafana
9 4 (0.43%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.11%) MOM
11 1 (0.11%) Puppet
11 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 94 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.65%) VMware
3 31 (3.33%) Synopsys
4 30 (3.22%) SAP
5 29 (3.11%) Oracle
6 28 (3.01%) Cadence
7 24 (2.58%) Google
8 23 (2.47%) Cisco
9 14 (1.50%) HP
10 13 (1.40%) Aruba
10 13 (1.40%) Darktrace
10 13 (1.40%) NEC
11 12 (1.29%) EMC
12 11 (1.18%) BT
12 11 (1.18%) Databricks
13 9 (0.97%) Mitel
13 9 (0.97%) Ribbon
14 8 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.86%) Xamarin
15 7 (0.75%) Qualys