Broadband Job Trends in the Midlands

Broadband
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Broadband skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 239 104
Rank change year-on-year +58 -135 +193
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 40 9 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.51% 0.14% 2.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.51% 0.94% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 29 3 126
10th Percentile - - £25,000
25th Percentile £25,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £28,000 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +5.66% -44.21%
75th Percentile £35,000 £38,375 -
90th Percentile £47,300 £44,600 £28,000
England median annual salary £25,087 £40,000 £26,500
% change year-on-year -37.28% +50.94% -51.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,595 955 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.34% 14.88% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 429 394 862
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,150 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £35,813 £29,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £69,955
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Broadband job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Broadband
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Broadband.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Broadband

Broadband
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Broadband in the Midlands

Broadband
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
West Midlands +42 21 £27,000 -3.57% 6
East Midlands +9 19 £28,742 - 13
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) GCP
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Ethernet
1 9 (22.50%) VoIP
2 8 (20.00%) Internet
3 7 (17.50%) DNS
4 5 (12.50%) WAN
4 5 (12.50%) Wireless
5 4 (10.00%) ADSL
5 4 (10.00%) DHCP
5 4 (10.00%) Firewall
5 4 (10.00%) VDSL
5 4 (10.00%) VPN
6 3 (7.50%) LAN
6 3 (7.50%) PSTN
7 2 (5.00%) MPLS
7 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.50%) 4G
8 1 (2.50%) 5G
8 1 (2.50%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Metadata
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Jaeger
General
1 14 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Games
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Sales Executive
2 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Business Development Manager
3 5 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 5 (12.50%) Development Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Business Development Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Business Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Development Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Account Executive
6 2 (5.00%) IT Sales Executive
6 2 (5.00%) Sales Account Executive
7 1 (2.50%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.50%) LDAP
1 1 (2.50%) OAuth
1 1 (2.50%) OpenID
1 1 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.50%) REST
1 1 (2.50%) SAML
1 1 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.00%) Social Media
4 1 (2.50%) BYOD
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.50%) EPoS
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) B2B
2 10 (25.00%) B2B Sales
2 10 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (22.50%) Customer Experience
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.50%) Business Development
6 4 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
6 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (7.50%) Business Strategy
7 3 (7.50%) CRM
7 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.00%) Agile
8 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
8 2 (5.00%) Product Management
8 2 (5.00%) Strategic Planning
9 1 (2.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (2.50%) Go
2 1 (2.50%) Java
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Argo
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Kustomize
2 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) BT
2 3 (7.50%) Fortinet
2 3 (7.50%) Google
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (2.50%) Remedy