Broadband Job Trends in Scotland

Broadband
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 53 215
Rank change year-on-year +16 +162 -36
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 125 116 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.74% 4.66% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.81% 45.31% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 31 51 13
10th Percentile £26,000 - £38,550
25th Percentile £28,000 £23,504 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £25,087 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.51% -56.37% +59.72%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £30,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.58% -49.83% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 292 256 512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.74% 10.28% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 124 143 361
10th Percentile £25,488 £23,504 £27,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £33,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% -34.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,522 £70,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.47% -7.77%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Broadband job vacancy trend in Scotland

Broadband
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Broadband.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Broadband

Broadband
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Broadband in Scotland

Broadband
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Edinburgh - 25 £55,000 - 2
West Lothian +16 20 - - 8
Stirling - 17 £35,000 - 3
Fife - 12 - -
North Lanarkshire -3 11 - -
Lanarkshire +14 10 - -
Highlands -4 6 £26,500 - 3
Midlothian - 5 - - 1
Glasgow -7 4 - -
Aberdeen -18 4 £28,000 -
North Ayrshire - 3 £36,500 - 1
Renfrewshire -11 2 - -
Falkirk - 2 - - 3
West Dunbartonshire -7 1 - -
Dundee -14 1 £26,000 -0.11%
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.20%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) Entra ID
3 12 (9.60%) Google Workspace
4 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.40%) Azure AI
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.40%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.60%) Figma
7 2 (1.60%) Miro
8 1 (0.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) DNS
2 8 (6.40%) VLAN
3 5 (4.00%) DHCP
3 5 (4.00%) Firewall
3 5 (4.00%) VPN
4 3 (2.40%) Internet
4 3 (2.40%) PBX
4 3 (2.40%) VoIP
5 2 (1.60%) Mobile Broadband
5 2 (1.60%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (26.40%) Jenkins
2 32 (25.60%) GitLab
2 32 (25.60%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.60%) Postman
General
1 66 (52.80%) Games
2 40 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 34 (27.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (26.40%) Marketing
5 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (8.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.00%) Finance
8 4 (3.20%) Retail
9 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.40%) Legal
10 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.80%) Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 36 (28.80%) Architect
2 31 (24.80%) Salesforce Architect
3 20 (16.00%) Analyst
4 18 (14.40%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (14.40%) Senior
4 18 (14.40%) Technical Architect
5 11 (8.80%) Developer
6 9 (7.20%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 9 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Coordinator
7 8 (6.40%) IT Support
8 7 (5.60%) Lead
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Customer Executive
10 5 (4.00%) IT Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Support Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.20%) REST
1 44 (35.20%) SOAP
2 32 (25.60%) Lightning Web Components
2 32 (25.60%) Visualforce
3 12 (9.60%) GraphQL
3 12 (9.60%) LDAP
3 12 (9.60%) OAuth
3 12 (9.60%) OpenID
3 12 (9.60%) SAML
4 3 (2.40%) LangChain
4 3 (2.40%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (1.60%) Web Services
6 1 (0.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.20%) Product Ownership
2 30 (24.00%) Cyber Threat
2 30 (24.00%) Cyberattack
3 14 (11.20%) Social Media
4 11 (8.80%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.80%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.20%) Smart Home
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) iPhone
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.60%) Replication
8 2 (1.60%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Windows
2 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.00%) Roadmaps
2 43 (34.40%) Agile
2 43 (34.40%) Design Patterns
3 40 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (28.00%) Event-Driven
5 34 (27.20%) Scrum
5 34 (27.20%) Technical Analysis
6 33 (26.40%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (25.60%) Community of Practice
7 32 (25.60%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 32 (25.60%) Continuous Delivery
7 32 (25.60%) Continuous Integration
7 32 (25.60%) DevOps
7 32 (25.60%) OO
7 32 (25.60%) PLM
7 32 (25.60%) Static Code Analysis
7 32 (25.60%) Technology Roadmap
7 32 (25.60%) TOGAF
8 30 (24.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.60%) Apex Code
1 32 (25.60%) SOQL
1 32 (25.60%) SOSL
2 17 (13.60%) PowerShell
3 12 (9.60%) Bash
3 12 (9.60%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.00%) Python
6 4 (3.20%) SQL
7 3 (2.40%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.60%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.40%) CCNA
3 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.40%) MCSA
4 1 (0.80%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.60%) NCSC
1 12 (9.60%) NIST
2 11 (8.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (13.60%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.60%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (25.60%) Salesforce
1 32 (25.60%) Splunk
2 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.60%) BT
3 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.40%) Cisco
4 3 (2.40%) Foundry
4 3 (2.40%) Google
4 3 (2.40%) VMware
5 2 (1.60%) Bomgar
5 2 (1.60%) iManage
6 1 (0.80%) Adobe
6 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media