Broadband Jobs in the South West

Broadband
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Broadband skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Broadband over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 254 259
Rank change year-on-year +210 +5 +32
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 183 39 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.14% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.66% 3.16% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 72 35 5
10th Percentile £23,504 £34,250 -
25th Percentile - £37,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% +66.67% -24.90%
75th Percentile £25,132 £61,250 £32,500
90th Percentile £25,267 £63,500 £47,500
England median annual salary £25,087 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -49.83% +1.01% -17.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 528 1,235 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.82% 13.34% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 325 921 545
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,057 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the South West.

Salary trend for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
Devon +72 97 £25,087 -56.37% 7
Cornwall +33 59 £25,087 +4.53% 1
Gloucestershire +78 18 £30,000 -42.86% 9
Bristol +48 6 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Somerset +8 3 - - 5
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (6.56%) AWS
2 7 (3.83%) Azure
2 7 (3.83%) GCP
3 6 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (3.28%) Pulumi
3 6 (3.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.55%) Converged Networks
1 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (0.55%) Firewall
1 1 (0.55%) LAN
1 1 (0.55%) Network Security
1 1 (0.55%) NX-OS
1 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.55%) VoIP
1 1 (0.55%) VPN
1 1 (0.55%) WAN
1 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.28%) NoSQL
1 6 (3.28%) RDBMS
1 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Jaeger
1 6 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 130 (71.04%) Games
2 126 (68.85%) Banking
3 26 (14.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.64%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.64%) Retail
7 2 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 127 (69.40%) Customer Service Advisor
2 14 (7.65%) Lead
3 12 (6.56%) Senior
4 9 (4.92%) Team Leader
5 6 (3.28%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (3.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 6 (3.28%) Release Engineer
5 6 (3.28%) Support Engineer
6 4 (2.19%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (1.64%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (1.64%) Sales Executive
8 2 (1.09%) Business Development Executive
9 1 (0.55%) Business Development Manager
9 1 (0.55%) Business Manager
9 1 (0.55%) Development Manager
9 1 (0.55%) Network Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.28%) GraphQL
1 6 (3.28%) Middleware
1 6 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
1 6 (3.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 6 (3.28%) WebGL
2 1 (0.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.28%) Animation
2 6 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (1.64%) Handset
3 3 (1.64%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.09%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.09%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.28%) Linux
1 6 (3.28%) Unix
1 6 (3.28%) Windows
1 6 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (83.06%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (71.04%) Customer Service
3 28 (15.30%) Mentoring
3 28 (15.30%) Roadmaps
4 22 (12.02%) Broadcast Engineering
4 22 (12.02%) High Availability
4 22 (12.02%) Product Management
5 18 (9.84%) Agile
6 16 (8.74%) Computer Science
7 12 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (6.56%) CI/CD
8 6 (3.28%) Clean Code
8 6 (3.28%) Containerisation
8 6 (3.28%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (3.28%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (3.28%) GitOps
8 6 (3.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (3.28%) Proactive Maintenance
8 6 (3.28%) Prototyping
8 6 (3.28%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.10%) Python
2 6 (3.28%) Bash
2 6 (3.28%) Go
2 6 (3.28%) HLSL
2 6 (3.28%) Java
2 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
2 6 (3.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (15.30%) Degree
2 16 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.28%) PhD
4 1 (0.55%) CCNA
4 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.83%) Ansible
1 7 (3.83%) Terraform
2 6 (3.28%) Argo
2 6 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.28%) Kustomize
2 6 (3.28%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 129 (70.49%) BT
2 7 (3.83%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.28%) Sun
4 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.55%) Cisco
4 1 (0.55%) F5
4 1 (0.55%) Juniper
4 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto