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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 363 319
Rank change year-on-year +52 -44 +14
Permanent jobs citing IoT 952 906 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.91% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.71% 2.14% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 742 510 927
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
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 £86,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 18 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 18 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 +66 871 £57,500 -8.00% 249
UK excluding London +46 735 £55,000 -5.98% 172
Work from Home +22 347 £60,000 -4.00% 107
South East +49 189 £60,000 -7.69% 60
London +81 177 £67,500 -12.90% 74
East of England +37 174 £55,000 -12.00% 26
North of England +42 173 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Midlands +43 97 £55,000 +15.79% 34
North West 0 95 £50,000 -16.67% 6
West Midlands +52 62 £60,000 +33.33% 16
Yorkshire +58 55 £61,250 +44.12% 13
South West -30 54 £57,500 -8.00% 25
East Midlands +6 35 £50,000 +5.26% 18
Scotland -48 35 £60,000 +4.35% 6
North East +13 23 £55,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 11 £70,000 - 2
Wales -5 2 £48,750 -18.75%

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 (1.58%) Apache
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.63%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.53%) nginx
7 4 (0.42%) 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 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.63%) 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 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) Misys Midas
2 4 (0.42%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (16.18%) AWS
2 148 (15.55%) Azure
3 47 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
4 46 (4.83%) GitHub
5 36 (3.78%) AWS IoT
6 29 (3.05%) GCP
7 24 (2.52%) Serverless
8 22 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 19 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (1.79%) IaaS
10 17 (1.79%) SaaS
11 13 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (1.37%) Nutanix
12 12 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.05%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 84 (8.82%) Internet
1 84 (8.82%) Wireless
2 58 (6.09%) TCP/IP
3 49 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
4 45 (4.73%) MQTT
5 44 (4.62%) WAN
6 42 (4.41%) Bluetooth
7 41 (4.31%) Firewall
8 25 (2.63%) LAN
9 23 (2.42%) 4G
10 22 (2.31%) 5G
11 21 (2.21%) HTTP
11 21 (2.21%) ZigBee
12 20 (2.10%) DNS
13 16 (1.68%) MPLS
14 14 (1.47%) RS-232
15 13 (1.37%) Modbus
15 13 (1.37%) VoIP
16 12 (1.26%) LoRaWAN
16 12 (1.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.83%) MySQL
2 27 (2.84%) NoSQL
3 22 (2.31%) Big Data
4 20 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.10%) Power BI
5 19 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 14 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.95%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.63%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.42%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.42%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.42%) Tableau
12 3 (0.32%) Data Hub
12 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.32%) Metadata
12 3 (0.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 82 (8.61%) Git
2 55 (5.78%) JIRA
3 26 (2.73%) Subversion
4 22 (2.31%) Oracle APEX
5 19 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 18 (1.89%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.74%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.74%) GitLab
7 7 (0.74%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.63%) MSTest
8 6 (0.63%) PHPUnit
8 6 (0.63%) Selenium
9 5 (0.53%) Xcode
10 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.21%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 278 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.65%) Electronics
3 128 (13.45%) Automotive
4 116 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (9.45%) Manufacturing
6 83 (8.72%) Finance
7 71 (7.46%) Marketing
8 55 (5.78%) Telecoms
9 53 (5.57%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (3.68%) Aerospace
12 33 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (3.15%) Law
14 26 (2.73%) Games
14 26 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (2.00%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.89%) Legal
16 18 (1.89%) Retail
17 14 (1.47%) Social Housing
18 11 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 226 (23.74%) Senior
2 209 (21.95%) Developer
3 179 (18.80%) Software Engineer
4 111 (11.66%) Embedded Engineer
5 85 (8.93%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 82 (8.61%) Architect
7 76 (7.98%) Consultant
8 70 (7.35%) Senior Developer
9 54 (5.67%) Hardware Engineer
10 52 (5.46%) Software Developer
11 48 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 47 (4.94%) Lead
13 42 (4.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 40 (4.20%) Senior Hardware Engineer
14 40 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (3.26%) Analyst
15 31 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
16 27 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (2.73%) Electronics Engineer
17 26 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (8.40%) Node.js
2 56 (5.88%) HTML
3 45 (4.73%) CSS
4 42 (4.41%) .NET
5 31 (3.26%) React
6 30 (3.15%) JSON
7 24 (2.52%) jQuery
7 24 (2.52%) REST
8 22 (2.31%) Yocto
9 21 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.10%) RESTful
11 15 (1.58%) Flask
12 14 (1.47%) GraphQL
13 13 (1.37%) .NET Core
13 13 (1.37%) web3js
14 12 (1.26%) .NET Framework
15 11 (1.16%) Laravel
15 11 (1.16%) Qt
16 10 (1.05%) LLVM
16 10 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.73%) Mobile App
2 36 (3.78%) Raspberry Pi
3 35 (3.68%) Client/Server
3 35 (3.68%) Embedded Systems
4 27 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.84%) Robotics
5 26 (2.73%) Driving Licence
6 24 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
7 22 (2.31%) Operational Technology
8 21 (2.21%) Blockchain
8 21 (2.21%) Blog
8 21 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.89%) Smart Home
10 16 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.68%) ARM Cortex
10 16 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.58%) Augmented Reality
11 15 (1.58%) Virtual Reality
11 15 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 205 (21.53%) Linux
2 57 (5.99%) Windows
3 50 (5.25%) Embedded Linux
4 41 (4.31%) Apple iOS
5 35 (3.68%) Android
6 17 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.47%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.74%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.42%) 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
1 273 (28.68%) Software Engineering
2 179 (18.80%) Agile
3 160 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
4 134 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
5 123 (12.92%) Artificial Intelligence
6 122 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 110 (11.55%) DevOps
8 88 (9.24%) Computer Science
9 78 (8.19%) Analytics
10 76 (7.98%) Project Management
11 73 (7.67%) Technical Leadership
12 70 (7.35%) CI/CD
13 64 (6.72%) Machine Learning
14 61 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
15 60 (6.30%) Microservices
16 54 (5.67%) Decision-Making
17 50 (5.25%) Software Testing
18 48 (5.04%) Business Development
19 46 (4.83%) Customer Requirements
20 43 (4.52%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 227 (23.84%) Python
2 158 (16.60%) C
3 99 (10.40%) C++
4 98 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 94 (9.87%) SQL
6 69 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.04%) C#
8 56 (5.88%) Java
9 47 (4.94%) Embedded C
10 40 (4.20%) SystemVerilog
11 30 (3.15%) Bash
12 27 (2.84%) PHP
13 18 (1.89%) Perl
14 17 (1.79%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.58%) Rust
16 12 (1.26%) PowerShell
17 11 (1.16%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.16%) Swift
18 10 (1.05%) Embedded C++
19 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (23.32%) Degree
2 52 (5.46%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 18 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.79%) CISSP
7 16 (1.68%) HND
8 13 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.37%) SC Cleared
9 12 (1.26%) PhD
10 11 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.16%) HNC
11 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (0.95%) GIAC
12 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.84%) CISA
13 8 (0.84%) CISM
13 8 (0.84%) OSCP
13 8 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.67%) QA
2 26 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.10%) GDPR
5 18 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.89%) SLA
6 17 (1.79%) ISO 13485
7 11 (1.16%) NIST
8 10 (1.05%) IEC 62304
8 10 (1.05%) ISO 9001
9 9 (0.95%) COSHH
10 8 (0.84%) JTAG
11 6 (0.63%) ISO 14001
11 6 (0.63%) MISRA
12 5 (0.53%) 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 57 (5.99%) Firmware
2 34 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 32 (3.36%) Docker
4 25 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 24 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (1.68%) Embedded Firmware
7 15 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.63%) Forefront TMG
8 6 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.42%) Ansible
3 20 (2.10%) Terraform
4 15 (1.58%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.74%) Nessus
7 7 (0.74%) Nmap
8 6 (0.63%) Opsgenie
8 6 (0.63%) SCOM
8 6 (0.63%) WSUS
9 5 (0.53%) Grafana
10 4 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.11%) MOM
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
12 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.36%) VMware
3 31 (3.26%) Synopsys
4 30 (3.15%) SAP
5 29 (3.05%) Oracle
6 28 (2.94%) Cadence
7 26 (2.73%) Google
8 25 (2.63%) Cisco
9 16 (1.68%) HP
10 15 (1.58%) Darktrace
10 15 (1.58%) NEC
11 13 (1.37%) Aruba
12 12 (1.26%) EMC
13 11 (1.16%) BT
14 9 (0.95%) Mitel
14 9 (0.95%) Ribbon
15 8 (0.84%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.84%) Databricks
15 8 (0.84%) Qualys
15 8 (0.84%) Xamarin