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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 364 316
Rank change year-on-year +69 -48 +24
Permanent jobs citing IoT 954 912 2,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.92% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.71% 2.15% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 744 515 932
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +1.30% +9.52%

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 35,155 42,392 77,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.62% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,026 23,184 34,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 £109,865 £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 20 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 20 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 +70 871 £57,500 -8.00% 264
UK excluding London +53 735 £55,000 -5.58% 189
Work from Home +39 347 £60,000 -4.00% 112
South East +52 188 £60,000 -7.69% 66
London +77 178 £67,500 -10.12% 79
East of England +38 174 £55,000 -12.00% 23
North of England +26 173 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Midlands +44 97 £55,000 +15.79% 39
North West -6 95 £50,000 -16.67% 7
West Midlands +52 62 £60,000 +33.33% 21
Yorkshire +57 55 £61,250 +44.12% 11
South West -26 54 £57,500 -8.00% 27
Scotland -49 36 £60,000 +4.35% 10
East Midlands -5 35 £50,000 +5.26% 18
North East +18 23 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 11 £70,000 - 2
Wales -3 2 £48,750 -18.75% 3

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 (2.31%) Confluence
2 18 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.57%) Apache
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.63%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 2 (0.21%) WordPress
10 1 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.52%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) Misys Midas
2 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.31%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (16.14%) AWS
2 149 (15.62%) Azure
3 47 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
4 46 (4.82%) GitHub
5 36 (3.77%) AWS IoT
6 29 (3.04%) GCP
7 24 (2.52%) Serverless
8 22 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (1.89%) IaaS
11 17 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.78%) SaaS
12 14 (1.47%) Nutanix
13 13 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.05%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 84 (8.81%) Internet
1 84 (8.81%) Wireless
2 58 (6.08%) TCP/IP
3 48 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
4 45 (4.72%) MQTT
5 44 (4.61%) WAN
6 42 (4.40%) Firewall
7 41 (4.30%) Bluetooth
8 25 (2.62%) LAN
9 23 (2.41%) 4G
10 22 (2.31%) 5G
11 21 (2.20%) DNS
11 21 (2.20%) HTTP
12 20 (2.10%) ZigBee
13 16 (1.68%) MPLS
14 14 (1.47%) RS-232
15 13 (1.36%) Modbus
15 13 (1.36%) VoIP
16 12 (1.26%) LoRaWAN
16 12 (1.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.72%) MySQL
2 27 (2.83%) NoSQL
3 22 (2.31%) Big Data
4 20 (2.10%) Power BI
5 19 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.78%) Oracle Database
8 14 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.47%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.94%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.63%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.42%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.42%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.42%) Tableau
13 3 (0.31%) Data Hub
13 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.31%) Metadata
13 3 (0.31%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 82 (8.60%) Git
2 55 (5.77%) JIRA
3 26 (2.73%) Subversion
4 22 (2.31%) Oracle APEX
5 19 (1.99%) Jenkins
6 18 (1.89%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.73%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.73%) GitLab
7 7 (0.73%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.73%) Selenium
8 6 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.63%) MSTest
8 6 (0.63%) PHPUnit
9 5 (0.52%) Xcode
10 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.21%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.10%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 278 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.62%) Electronics
3 128 (13.42%) Automotive
4 117 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (9.33%) Manufacturing
6 83 (8.70%) Finance
7 71 (7.44%) Marketing
8 55 (5.77%) Telecoms
9 53 (5.56%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (3.67%) Aerospace
12 33 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (3.14%) Law
14 27 (2.83%) Games
15 26 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.99%) Tech for Good
17 18 (1.89%) Legal
17 18 (1.89%) Retail
18 14 (1.47%) Social Housing
19 11 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 226 (23.69%) Senior
2 209 (21.91%) Developer
3 180 (18.87%) Software Engineer
4 111 (11.64%) Embedded Engineer
5 85 (8.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 83 (8.70%) Architect
7 76 (7.97%) Consultant
8 70 (7.34%) Senior Developer
9 54 (5.66%) Hardware Engineer
10 52 (5.45%) Software Developer
11 48 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 47 (4.93%) Lead
13 42 (4.40%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 40 (4.19%) Senior Hardware Engineer
14 40 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (3.25%) Analyst
15 31 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
16 28 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
18 25 (2.62%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (8.28%) Node.js
2 55 (5.77%) HTML
3 44 (4.61%) CSS
4 42 (4.40%) .NET
5 30 (3.14%) JSON
5 30 (3.14%) React
6 24 (2.52%) jQuery
6 24 (2.52%) REST
7 22 (2.31%) Yocto
8 21 (2.20%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.10%) RESTful
10 15 (1.57%) Flask
11 14 (1.47%) GraphQL
11 14 (1.47%) web3js
12 13 (1.36%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.26%) .NET Framework
14 11 (1.15%) Laravel
14 11 (1.15%) Qt
15 10 (1.05%) LLVM
15 10 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.61%) Mobile App
2 36 (3.77%) Raspberry Pi
3 35 (3.67%) Client/Server
4 34 (3.56%) Embedded Systems
5 27 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.83%) Robotics
6 26 (2.73%) Driving Licence
7 24 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
8 22 (2.31%) Blockchain
9 21 (2.20%) Blog
9 21 (2.20%) Operational Technology
9 21 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.89%) Smart Home
11 16 (1.68%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.68%) ARM Cortex
11 16 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.57%) Augmented Reality
12 15 (1.57%) Virtual Reality
12 15 (1.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 205 (21.49%) Linux
2 58 (6.08%) Windows
3 50 (5.24%) Embedded Linux
4 41 (4.30%) Apple iOS
5 35 (3.67%) Android
6 17 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.47%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.73%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 3 (0.31%) Unix
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.10%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) Solaris
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (28.83%) Software Engineering
2 179 (18.76%) Agile
3 161 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 132 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
5 124 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 122 (12.79%) Mentoring
7 111 (11.64%) DevOps
8 88 (9.22%) Computer Science
9 77 (8.07%) Analytics
10 75 (7.86%) Project Management
11 74 (7.76%) Technical Leadership
12 70 (7.34%) CI/CD
13 64 (6.71%) Machine Learning
14 61 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
15 60 (6.29%) Microservices
16 55 (5.77%) Decision-Making
17 51 (5.35%) Software Testing
18 48 (5.03%) Business Development
19 46 (4.82%) Customer Requirements
20 43 (4.51%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 228 (23.90%) Python
2 158 (16.56%) C
3 100 (10.48%) C++
4 97 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 94 (9.85%) SQL
6 69 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.92%) C#
8 57 (5.97%) Java
9 47 (4.93%) Embedded C
10 40 (4.19%) SystemVerilog
11 30 (3.14%) Bash
12 26 (2.73%) PHP
13 19 (1.99%) Perl
14 17 (1.78%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.57%) Rust
16 12 (1.26%) PowerShell
17 11 (1.15%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.15%) Swift
18 10 (1.05%) Embedded C++
19 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (23.27%) Degree
2 52 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (3.56%) Master's Degree
5 18 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.78%) CISSP
7 16 (1.68%) HND
8 14 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.36%) SC Cleared
10 12 (1.26%) PhD
11 11 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.15%) HNC
12 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
13 9 (0.94%) GIAC
13 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.84%) CISA
14 8 (0.84%) CISM
14 8 (0.84%) OSCP
14 8 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.77%) QA
2 26 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.10%) GDPR
5 19 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.89%) SLA
7 17 (1.78%) ISO 13485
8 10 (1.05%) IEC 62304
8 10 (1.05%) ISO 9001
8 10 (1.05%) NIST
9 9 (0.94%) COSHH
10 8 (0.84%) JTAG
11 6 (0.63%) ISO 14001
11 6 (0.63%) MISRA
12 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.42%) IEC 61131
13 4 (0.42%) PMO
14 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.21%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (5.87%) Firmware
2 35 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 32 (3.35%) Docker
4 25 (2.62%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.68%) Embedded Firmware
5 16 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.63%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.41%) Ansible
3 20 (2.10%) Terraform
4 15 (1.57%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.73%) Nessus
7 7 (0.73%) Nmap
8 6 (0.63%) Opsgenie
8 6 (0.63%) SCOM
8 6 (0.63%) WSUS
9 5 (0.52%) Grafana
10 4 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.10%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.10%) MOM
12 1 (0.10%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.46%) VMware
3 31 (3.25%) Synopsys
4 30 (3.14%) SAP
5 29 (3.04%) Oracle
6 28 (2.94%) Cadence
7 26 (2.73%) Cisco
7 26 (2.73%) Google
8 16 (1.68%) HP
9 15 (1.57%) Darktrace
9 15 (1.57%) NEC
10 13 (1.36%) Aruba
11 11 (1.15%) BT
11 11 (1.15%) EMC
12 9 (0.94%) Mitel
12 9 (0.94%) Ribbon
13 8 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.84%) Databricks
13 8 (0.84%) Xamarin
14 7 (0.73%) Qualys