Broadband Jobs in the UK excluding London

Broadband
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 255 562
Rank change year-on-year +193 +307 -124
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 1,677 774 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.28% 1.09% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.11% 7.92% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 648 218 84
10th Percentile £23,250 £23,000 £23,000
25th Percentile - £31,863 £25,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £47,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.52% +46.15% -35.00%
75th Percentile £25,087 £61,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £25,267 £65,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £23,504 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -52.99% -9.09% -8.33%

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 6,187 9,778 10,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 13.77% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,189 7,087 4,761
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,600 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
North of England +243 631 £23,504 -59.12% 114
North West +162 334 £23,504 -59.12% 66
Wales +113 325 £23,504 -44.70% 22
North East +108 196 £25,087 -56.37% 15
Scotland +203 191 £23,504 -59.12% 17
South East -49 188 £45,000 +12.50% 313
South West +198 168 £25,087 -49.83% 76
East of England +106 116 £42,500 -26.09% 60
Yorkshire +112 101 £25,087 -47.19% 38
Midlands +44 39 £25,267 -22.18% 102
East Midlands +13 21 £25,267 -23.69% 62
Northern Ireland - 19 £23,504 - 3
West Midlands +70 18 - - 38
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.24%) Confluence
2 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.060%) CMS
3 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.060%) Strapi
3 1 (0.060%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 81 (4.83%) AWS
2 65 (3.88%) Pulumi
3 19 (1.13%) GCP
4 15 (0.89%) Azure
5 13 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (0.78%) Serverless
6 6 (0.36%) GitHub
6 6 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.060%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.060%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) Internet
1 11 (0.66%) VoIP
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 7 (0.42%) Firewall
4 6 (0.36%) 5G
4 6 (0.36%) DNS
5 4 (0.24%) LAN
5 4 (0.24%) WAN
6 3 (0.18%) DHCP
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.18%) GPON
6 3 (0.18%) IPv4
6 3 (0.18%) IPv6
6 3 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) MPLS
6 3 (0.18%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.18%) VLAN
6 3 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 65 (3.88%) RDBMS
2 65 (3.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.12%) Couchbase
3 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.060%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.060%) GIS
Development Applications
1 69 (4.11%) JIRA
2 65 (3.88%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.12%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.12%) Spock
3 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.060%) Git
4 1 (0.060%) gulp
4 1 (0.060%) Yeoman
General
1 1,192 (71.08%) Banking
2 704 (41.98%) Games
3 201 (11.99%) Social Skills
4 65 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (2.03%) Telecoms
6 33 (1.97%) Billing
7 30 (1.79%) Retail
8 25 (1.49%) Multimedia
9 15 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (0.60%) Finance
10 10 (0.60%) Legal
11 5 (0.30%) Marketing
12 4 (0.24%) Back Office
13 1 (0.060%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.060%) Law
13 1 (0.060%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 744 (44.36%) Customer Service Advisor
2 135 (8.05%) Lead
3 86 (5.13%) Team Leader
4 65 (3.88%) Embedded Engineer
4 65 (3.88%) Release Engineer
5 56 (3.34%) Sales Representative
6 54 (3.22%) Customer Service Representative
7 43 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
8 41 (2.44%) Senior
9 30 (1.79%) Engineering Manager
10 22 (1.31%) Support Engineer
10 22 (1.31%) Technical Advisor
11 13 (0.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (0.48%) Developer
13 7 (0.42%) Account Manager
14 6 (0.36%) Client Account Manager
14 6 (0.36%) Sales Executive
15 4 (0.24%) Analyst
15 4 (0.24%) Applications Developer
15 4 (0.24%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.00%) Middleware
2 65 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
2 65 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 23 (1.37%) GraphQL
4 22 (1.31%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 22 (1.31%) WebGL
5 5 (0.30%) React
6 4 (0.24%) .NET
6 4 (0.24%) Node.js
7 3 (0.18%) REST
7 3 (0.18%) Vue
8 2 (0.12%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.12%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.12%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.12%) CSS
8 2 (0.12%) CSS3
8 2 (0.12%) HTML
8 2 (0.12%) HTML5
8 2 (0.12%) Kafka
8 2 (0.12%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 65 (3.88%) Embedded Systems
2 22 (1.31%) Animation
3 21 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (0.83%) Driving Licence
5 9 (0.54%) Learning Management System
6 4 (0.24%) Data Centre
6 4 (0.24%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.18%) Handset
7 3 (0.18%) NHS
7 3 (0.18%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.18%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.12%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.12%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (0.12%) SCADA
9 1 (0.060%) MPEG
9 1 (0.060%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.060%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.060%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.94%) Linux
2 65 (3.88%) Unix
3 22 (1.31%) Windows
4 19 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (52.95%) Problem-Solving
2 833 (49.67%) Customer Service
3 293 (17.47%) Roadmaps
4 241 (14.37%) Mentoring
5 225 (13.42%) High Availability
6 224 (13.36%) Product Management
7 178 (10.61%) Broadcast Engineering
8 160 (9.54%) Computer Science
9 154 (9.18%) Agile
10 87 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 81 (4.83%) CI/CD
12 67 (4.00%) DevOps
13 66 (3.94%) Containerisation
13 66 (3.94%) Software Delivery
14 65 (3.88%) Continuous Deployment
14 65 (3.88%) Cost Optimisation
14 65 (3.88%) GitOps
14 65 (3.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 65 (3.88%) Performance Optimisation
14 65 (3.88%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (5.01%) Python
2 71 (4.23%) JavaScript
3 69 (4.11%) Bash
4 67 (4.00%) Java
5 65 (3.88%) Go
6 22 (1.31%) HLSL
7 16 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.48%) SQL
9 4 (0.24%) C#
10 2 (0.12%) Groovy
11 1 (0.060%) C++
11 1 (0.060%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.060%) Rust
Qualifications
1 192 (11.45%) Degree
2 160 (9.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 65 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 13 (0.78%) PhD
5 3 (0.18%) JNCIS
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.12%) CCNA
6 2 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.060%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.060%) CIPD
7 1 (0.060%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.060%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.060%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.18%) GDPR
1 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (0.18%) QA
2 1 (0.060%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (4.35%) Docker
2 22 (1.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 70 (4.17%) Terraform
2 67 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 66 (3.94%) Ansible
4 65 (3.88%) Argo
4 65 (3.88%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,254 (74.78%) BT
2 66 (3.94%) Google
3 45 (2.68%) Sun
4 27 (1.61%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.24%) Juniper
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle
6 2 (0.12%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.12%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.060%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.060%) Cisco
7 1 (0.060%) F5
7 1 (0.060%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.060%) ServiceNow