Broadband Job Trends in the East of England

Broadband
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Broadband skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 163 145
Rank change year-on-year +56 -18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 101 11 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.40% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.75% 1.60% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 26 5 2
10th Percentile £26,875 £25,200 -
25th Percentile £27,813 £25,500 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,250 £42,500 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% +49.12% +3.64%
75th Percentile £33,750 £48,750 £30,250
90th Percentile £48,750 - -
England median annual salary £30,000 £25,087 £35,750
% change year-on-year +19.58% -29.83% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

Broadband falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 569 687 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.87% 19.97% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 384 262 460
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £25,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,625 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.63%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Broadband relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Broadband job vacancy trend in the East of England

Broadband
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Broadband.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Broadband

Broadband
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Broadband in the East of England

Broadband
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +6 41 - -
Essex +16 37 £28,000 -34.12% 3
Bedfordshire - 9 - -
Suffolk - 6 £28,250 - 13
Cambridgeshire - 5 £28,500 - 5
Norfolk - 3 £32,500 - 2
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) CMS
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (10.89%) UserZoom
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.99%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.53%) Adobe Analytics
2 21 (20.79%) Figma
3 12 (11.88%) Contentsquare
4 10 (9.90%) AWS
4 10 (9.90%) GCP
5 7 (6.93%) Azure
6 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.97%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (0.99%) Dagster
8 1 (0.99%) dbt
8 1 (0.99%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.97%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.97%) Wireless
3 2 (1.98%) VLAN
4 1 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.95%) Metadata
2 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.97%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.99%) MySQL
5 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.99%) Power BI
5 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.99%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.98%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) GitLab
General
1 49 (48.51%) Games
2 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.87%) Telecoms
4 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.92%) Marketing
5 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Advertising
6 2 (1.98%) Military
7 1 (0.99%) Finance
7 1 (0.99%) Law
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (33.66%) Lead
2 15 (14.85%) Designer
3 13 (12.87%) Lead Designer
4 12 (11.88%) Product Manager
5 11 (10.89%) Senior
6 10 (9.90%) Digital Designer
7 9 (8.91%) Sales Executive
8 8 (7.92%) Field Sales Executive
9 7 (6.93%) Systems Manager
10 6 (5.94%) Campaign Manager
11 5 (4.95%) Lead UX Designer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Campaign Manager
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Manager
11 5 (4.95%) UX Designer
12 4 (3.96%) Developer
12 4 (3.96%) Digital Product Manager
12 4 (3.96%) Senior Product Manager
12 4 (3.96%) User Researcher
13 3 (2.97%) Network Engineer
13 3 (2.97%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.97%) Node.js
1 3 (2.97%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.97%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.98%) gRPC
3 1 (0.99%) CSS
3 1 (0.99%) GreenSock GSAP
3 1 (0.99%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) JSON
3 1 (0.99%) Kafka
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.99%) REST
3 1 (0.99%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 58 (57.43%) Social Media
2 10 (9.90%) Over-the-Top Content
3 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.93%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (5.94%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.96%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.97%) CCTV
8 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.99%) Animation
10 1 (0.99%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.97%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (59.41%) Customer Experience
2 59 (58.42%) Roadmaps
3 58 (57.43%) AI
4 55 (54.46%) Analytics
5 53 (52.48%) Agile
6 47 (46.53%) Digital Customer Experience
6 47 (46.53%) Product Roadmap
6 47 (46.53%) Storytelling
6 47 (46.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 46 (45.54%) User Research
8 33 (32.67%) Prototyping
9 24 (23.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 19 (18.81%) Customer Insight
11 16 (15.84%) DesignOps
12 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (11.88%) Personalization
13 12 (11.88%) Quantitative Research
13 12 (11.88%) User Experience
14 11 (10.89%) Behavioural Analytics
14 11 (10.89%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.85%) Python
2 5 (4.95%) Java
3 4 (3.96%) SQL
4 3 (2.97%) Go
4 3 (2.97%) Scala
5 1 (0.99%) C#
5 1 (0.99%) C++
5 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (1.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (46.53%) Accessibility
2 12 (11.88%) WCAG
3 4 (3.96%) QA
4 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.98%) GDPR
5 2 (1.98%) PERC
6 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.97%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Kubeflow
1 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (53.47%) Adobe
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.97%) Acronis
3 3 (2.97%) Google
3 3 (2.97%) Veeam
4 2 (1.98%) Draytek
4 2 (1.98%) MikroTik
4 2 (1.98%) Typelevel
4 2 (1.98%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (0.99%) DoubleClick
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) SAP
5 1 (0.99%) Virgin Media