Broadband Job Trends in England

Broadband
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Broadband skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 454 155
Rank change year-on-year +278 -299 +546
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 896 164 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.16% 0.44% 1.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.32% 3.30% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 214 89 240
10th Percentile £21,620 - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £25,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £25,087 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -45.76% -6.57%
75th Percentile £35,000 £46,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,075 £66,250 £63,875
UK median annual salary £26,000 £23,504 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.62% -50.52% -13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,617 4,972 11,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.50% 13.38% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,691 3,396 8,669
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.00% +5.26% -6.86%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Broadband job vacancy trend in England

Broadband
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Broadband.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Broadband

Broadband
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Broadband in England

Broadband
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
London +226 295 £29,500 -63.13% 10
North of England +44 249 £25,087 +6.74% 40
Yorkshire +46 191 £25,087 -18.61% 20
South East +53 120 £28,000 -37.78% 25
East of England +53 98 £35,000 -17.65% 10
South West -7 56 £32,500 +28.63% 11
North West -17 45 £25,087 +6.74% 16
Midlands -2 40 £35,000 +38.52% 12
East Midlands -26 29 £61,500 +143.40% 7
North East -39 13 £25,087 - 9
West Midlands - 11 £28,000 - 5
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 23 (2.57%) Confluence
2 22 (2.46%) CMS
3 14 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
Applications
1 35 (3.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (3.35%) UserZoom
3 15 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (3.13%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (2.23%) Workfront
3 6 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.11%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 165 (18.42%) Adobe Analytics
2 106 (11.83%) AWS
3 88 (9.82%) Figma
4 77 (8.59%) GCP
5 50 (5.58%) Contentsquare
6 42 (4.69%) Azure
7 34 (3.79%) iPaaS
8 31 (3.46%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (2.79%) Google Workspace
11 19 (2.12%) Pulumi
12 12 (1.34%) Cloud Functions
12 12 (1.34%) Cloud Run
13 10 (1.12%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.67%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (0.67%) Dagster
14 6 (0.67%) dbt
14 6 (0.67%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 102 (11.38%) Internet
2 28 (3.13%) 4G
3 25 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (2.57%) VoIP
5 19 (2.12%) Wireless
6 15 (1.67%) Ethernet
7 13 (1.45%) MPLS
8 12 (1.34%) BGP
9 11 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (1.23%) IOS XR
10 9 (1.00%) WAN
11 8 (0.89%) DHCP
12 7 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.78%) VPN
13 6 (0.67%) 5G
13 6 (0.67%) DNS
14 5 (0.56%) DSLAM
14 5 (0.56%) WebEx
15 4 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.69%) Metadata
2 33 (3.68%) NoSQL
3 19 (2.12%) MongoDB
3 19 (2.12%) RDBMS
3 19 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.12%) Power BI
5 7 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 7 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.67%) SAP BW
6 6 (0.67%) Tableau
7 3 (0.33%) Big Data
8 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (3.35%) Jenkins
2 23 (2.57%) TeamCity
3 19 (2.12%) Jaeger
4 13 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 13 (1.45%) Git
5 12 (1.34%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) JIRA
7 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 256 (28.57%) Games
2 147 (16.41%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.16%) Telecoms
4 95 (10.60%) Marketing
5 56 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (5.47%) Finance
7 42 (4.69%) Legal
8 38 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.12%) Banking
12 9 (1.00%) Billing
13 6 (0.67%) Law
14 5 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.33%) Advertising
15 3 (0.33%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.33%) Retail
16 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 185 (20.65%) Lead
2 102 (11.38%) Senior
3 70 (7.81%) Designer
4 57 (6.36%) Developer
5 47 (5.25%) Lead Designer
6 42 (4.69%) Scala Engineer
7 39 (4.35%) Sales Executive
8 38 (4.24%) Digital Designer
9 34 (3.79%) Architect
10 33 (3.68%) Customer Service Advisor
11 32 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.35%) Product Manager
13 28 (3.13%) Campaign Manager
13 28 (3.13%) Development Manager
14 27 (3.01%) Data Engineer
14 27 (3.01%) Product Owner
15 26 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
16 23 (2.57%) Scala Developer
16 23 (2.57%) Scala Software Engineer
17 21 (2.34%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.02%) gRPC
2 40 (4.46%) GraphQL
3 34 (3.79%) REST
4 27 (3.01%) SOAP
5 25 (2.79%) LDAP
5 25 (2.79%) OAuth
5 25 (2.79%) OpenID
5 25 (2.79%) SAML
6 23 (2.57%) Akka
7 19 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.12%) React
8 17 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (1.90%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.67%) TensorFlow
10 13 (1.45%) Android SDK
10 13 (1.45%) Playwright
11 12 (1.34%) Leaflet
11 12 (1.34%) Node.js
12 11 (1.23%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 278 (31.03%) Social Media
2 136 (15.18%) Over-the-Top Content
3 91 (10.16%) Video\Live Streaming
4 75 (8.37%) Product Ownership
5 64 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
6 59 (6.58%) Mobile App
7 51 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (4.35%) Onboarding
9 35 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (3.46%) Cyber Threat
10 31 (3.46%) Cyberattack
11 28 (3.13%) Smart Home
12 21 (2.34%) Driving Licence
13 14 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.56%) Learning Management System
14 12 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.23%) Fibre Optics
16 7 (0.78%) Low-Code
17 6 (0.67%) Anti-Piracy
17 6 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.58%) Android
2 30 (3.35%) Linux
3 25 (2.79%) Windows
4 24 (2.68%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.12%) Unix
6 16 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (38.28%) Agile
2 338 (37.72%) Roadmaps
3 297 (33.15%) Customer Experience
4 251 (28.01%) AI
5 235 (26.23%) Analytics
6 177 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
7 169 (18.86%) Product Roadmap
8 167 (18.64%) Storytelling
9 165 (18.42%) Digital Customer Experience
9 165 (18.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 164 (18.30%) User Research
11 147 (16.41%) Mentoring
12 128 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 122 (13.62%) Personalization
14 116 (12.95%) CI/CD
15 112 (12.50%) Software Engineering
16 84 (9.38%) Machine Learning
16 84 (9.38%) Prototyping
17 81 (9.04%) Data Science
17 81 (9.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 138 (15.40%) Python
2 75 (8.37%) Scala
3 72 (8.04%) Go
4 49 (5.47%) Java
5 46 (5.13%) Bash
6 36 (4.02%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.02%) SQL
7 28 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 25 (2.79%) T-SQL
9 14 (1.56%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.12%) C#
11 8 (0.89%) C++
12 5 (0.56%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.22%) C
13 2 (0.22%) SOQL
13 2 (0.22%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 30 (3.35%) Degree
2 21 (2.34%) AWS Certification
3 18 (2.01%) Security Cleared
4 13 (1.45%) A+ Certification
5 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.78%) PhD
7 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.56%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.22%) ACCA
8 2 (0.22%) CIMA
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) CCA
9 1 (0.11%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (21.09%) Accessibility
2 54 (6.03%) WCAG
3 25 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.79%) NCSC
3 25 (2.79%) NIST
4 18 (2.01%) QA
5 6 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.33%) PERC
7 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 101 (11.27%) Docker
2 32 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.33%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.34%) Terraform
3 20 (2.23%) Ansible
3 20 (2.23%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.12%) Argo
4 19 (2.12%) Kustomize
5 12 (1.34%) Podman
6 10 (1.12%) Grafana
7 5 (0.56%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Icinga
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 251 (28.01%) Adobe
2 84 (9.38%) BT
3 45 (5.02%) Typelevel
4 41 (4.58%) Google
5 25 (2.79%) Microsoft
6 23 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.34%) Cisco
8 13 (1.45%) Starlink
9 10 (1.12%) Aruba
9 10 (1.12%) Fortinet
10 7 (0.78%) Veeam
11 6 (0.67%) Checkmarx
11 6 (0.67%) Oracle
11 6 (0.67%) SAP
12 5 (0.56%) Juniper
12 5 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.45%) Foundry
13 4 (0.45%) Sophos
14 3 (0.33%) Acronis
15 2 (0.22%) Splunk