Broadband Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Broadband
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Broadband skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 182 253
Rank change year-on-year +11 +71 +273
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 790 604 753
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.79% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.64% 10.79% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 296 361 195
10th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £23,070
25th Percentile £27,000 £25,084 £31,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £25,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -49.83% +53.85%
75th Percentile £39,688 - £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £31,738 £65,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.58% -49.83% -0.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,050 5,596 9,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.07% 16.56% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,446 3,036 6,649
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,087 £25,852
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £39,458 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -10.32% -2.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.77%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Broadband job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Broadband.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Broadband

Broadband
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England -50 243 £28,000 +11.61% 30
Yorkshire +5 171 £26,000 +3.64% 11
South East +84 143 £30,000 -33.33% 32
Scotland +18 125 £35,000 +39.51% 20
East of England +73 112 £28,500 -32.94% 5
South West -14 73 £32,500 +29.09% 11
Midlands +17 67 £28,000 +3.83% 13
North West -66 49 £48,750 +94.32% 18
East Midlands -7 34 £28,000 +3.90% 9
West Midlands +5 33 £28,000 +3.70% 4
Wales -80 26 £23,354 -6.91% 1
North East -89 23 £25,087 - 2
Northern Ireland -59 1 £35,000 +48.91% 4
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (1.65%) Confluence
2 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.14%) CMS
4 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.90%) UserZoom
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.03%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.25%) Alphatax
2 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 105 (13.29%) Adobe Analytics
2 57 (7.22%) Figma
3 46 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.94%) Azure
5 27 (3.42%) AWS
6 24 (3.04%) Contentsquare
6 24 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 22 (2.78%) GCP
8 16 (2.03%) Google Workspace
9 10 (1.27%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.14%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.63%) Slack
12 4 (0.51%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.51%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.51%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.38%) Azure AI
13 3 (0.38%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (0.38%) Cloud Run
14 2 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.25%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 112 (14.18%) Internet
2 38 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
3 31 (3.92%) 4G
4 30 (3.80%) VoIP
5 28 (3.54%) Wireless
6 20 (2.53%) 5G
7 15 (1.90%) DNS
8 14 (1.77%) VLAN
9 11 (1.39%) Firewall
10 10 (1.27%) DHCP
11 7 (0.89%) VPN
11 7 (0.89%) WAN
12 6 (0.76%) LAN
13 5 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.63%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.63%) PBX
13 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.63%) WebEx
14 4 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
14 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.39%) Metadata
1 11 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 9 (1.14%) Power BI
3 7 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.63%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.38%) Tableau
7 2 (0.25%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) MySQL
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (4.81%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.43%) GitLab
3 34 (4.30%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.51%) JIRA
5 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.25%) Git
6 2 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 250 (31.65%) Games
2 137 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 104 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 75 (9.49%) Marketing
5 56 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (6.46%) Finance
7 40 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (4.56%) Legal
9 26 (3.29%) Banking
10 23 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.65%) Retail
12 10 (1.27%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Advertising
15 3 (0.38%) Billing
15 3 (0.38%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.25%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.25%) Military
17 1 (0.13%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 116 (14.68%) Lead
2 71 (8.99%) Sales Executive
3 58 (7.34%) Designer
4 54 (6.84%) Analyst
4 54 (6.84%) Field Sales Executive
5 51 (6.46%) Architect
6 47 (5.95%) Senior
7 39 (4.94%) IT Support
7 39 (4.94%) Salesforce Architect
8 37 (4.68%) Lead Designer
9 34 (4.30%) Developer
10 30 (3.80%) Customer Service Advisor
11 27 (3.42%) Support Analyst
12 26 (3.29%) Digital Designer
12 26 (3.29%) IT Analyst
12 26 (3.29%) IT Support Analyst
13 25 (3.16%) Account Manager
14 20 (2.53%) Coordinator
15 19 (2.41%) Product Manager
15 19 (2.41%) Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.96%) REST
2 50 (6.33%) SOAP
3 45 (5.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (4.30%) Visualforce
5 29 (3.67%) GraphQL
6 16 (2.03%) LDAP
6 16 (2.03%) OAuth
6 16 (2.03%) OpenID
6 16 (2.03%) SAML
7 13 (1.65%) Android SDK
8 11 (1.39%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.39%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.01%) gRPC
10 7 (0.89%) Node.js
11 5 (0.63%) TFX
12 4 (0.51%) LangChain
12 4 (0.51%) RESTful
13 3 (0.38%) Leaflet
13 3 (0.38%) React
13 3 (0.38%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 156 (19.75%) Social Media
2 61 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.19%) Mobile App
4 40 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 38 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
5 38 (4.81%) Cyberattack
5 38 (4.81%) Smart Home
6 34 (4.30%) Driving Licence
7 32 (4.05%) Over-the-Top Content
7 32 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (3.29%) Video\Live Streaming
9 19 (2.41%) Marketing Technology
10 18 (2.28%) Learning Management System
11 12 (1.52%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.39%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.39%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
14 7 (0.89%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.85%) Android
2 44 (5.57%) Windows
3 27 (3.42%) Windows 10
4 26 (3.29%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.38%) Linux
7 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (26.58%) Roadmaps
2 203 (25.70%) Agile
3 186 (23.54%) AI
4 158 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 129 (16.33%) Analytics
6 117 (14.81%) Customer Service
7 108 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (13.29%) Digital Customer Experience
8 105 (13.29%) Product Roadmap
8 105 (13.29%) Storytelling
8 105 (13.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 100 (12.66%) User Research
10 98 (12.41%) CI/CD
11 91 (11.52%) Mentoring
12 81 (10.25%) Decision-Making
13 74 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 72 (9.11%) Prototyping
15 65 (8.23%) Workshop Facilitation
16 61 (7.72%) Design Patterns
17 49 (6.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.44%) Python
2 34 (4.30%) Apex Code
2 34 (4.30%) SOQL
2 34 (4.30%) SOSL
3 23 (2.91%) Java
3 23 (2.91%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.03%) Bash
4 16 (2.03%) T-SQL
5 15 (1.90%) Go
6 13 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.65%) Kotlin
7 12 (1.52%) SQL
8 9 (1.14%) Scala
9 3 (0.38%) C#
10 2 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.13%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.13%) Swift
11 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (4.68%) Degree
2 29 (3.67%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.16%) A+ Certification
4 16 (2.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.39%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.76%) CCNA
8 6 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.38%) CCNP
9 3 (0.38%) MCSA
10 1 (0.13%) ACCA
10 1 (0.13%) CCA
10 1 (0.13%) CIMA
10 1 (0.13%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (16.20%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.05%) WCAG
3 22 (2.78%) GDPR
4 18 (2.28%) NIST
5 16 (2.03%) NCSC
6 11 (1.39%) QA
7 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) PERC
10 2 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.52%) Docker
3 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.51%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.63%) Kubeflow
3 4 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 129 (16.33%) Adobe
2 120 (15.19%) BT
3 48 (6.08%) Salesforce
4 37 (4.68%) Microsoft
5 34 (4.30%) Splunk
6 25 (3.16%) Starlink
7 22 (2.78%) Cisco
8 17 (2.15%) Aruba
9 16 (2.03%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.39%) Google
11 8 (1.01%) Juniper
11 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.01%) Typelevel
12 7 (0.89%) Veeam
13 5 (0.63%) MikroTik
13 5 (0.63%) Ubiquiti
14 4 (0.51%) Foundry
14 4 (0.51%) Sophos
15 3 (0.38%) Draytek
15 3 (0.38%) Openreach