Broadband
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Broadband skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Broadband over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 670 443
Rank change year-on-year +484 -227 +152
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 1,552 315 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 0.30% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.42% 1.96% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 258 169 699
10th Percentile £22,750 £24,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £30,274 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +42.31% -35.00% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Broadband is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +537 1,508 £47,500 -3.06% 93
Work from Home +475 1,353 £57,500 -28.13% 36
UK excluding London +322 789 £46,250 +42.31% 74
London +475 737 £50,000 -37.50% 26
South East +280 508 £35,000 +7.69% 21
North of England +101 106 £57,500 +38.55% 24
Midlands +44 65 £28,734 -4.22% 11
North West +43 50 £57,500 +17.35% 11
East Midlands +32 50 £33,113 +43.97% 5
Yorkshire +105 49 £47,500 +25.00% 13
South West +24 38 £50,000 +63.93% 7
East of England +24 36 £57,500 +99.65% 6
Scotland -48 31 £57,500 -8.00% 8
West Midlands +11 9 £41,250 +35.25% 6
North East - 7 £57,500 - 2
Wales +12 4 £42,500 -15.00%
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 299 (19.27%) SAS
2 4 (0.26%) Confluence
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.19%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 511 (32.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 299 (19.27%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 311 (20.04%) Azure
2 221 (14.24%) Entra ID
3 74 (4.77%) Power Platform
4 48 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (0.64%) Google Workspace
6 8 (0.52%) AWS
6 8 (0.52%) GCP
6 8 (0.52%) SaaS
7 6 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (0.39%) OCI
8 3 (0.19%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 252 (16.24%) 5G
2 75 (4.83%) Internet
3 60 (3.87%) Wireless
4 41 (2.64%) WAN
5 39 (2.51%) Firewall
6 30 (1.93%) LAN
7 26 (1.68%) VoIP
8 22 (1.42%) ADSL
9 19 (1.22%) VLAN
10 17 (1.10%) DNS
11 16 (1.03%) WPA
12 15 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.90%) VPN
14 13 (0.84%) Mobile Broadband
15 12 (0.77%) NAS
15 12 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.71%) BGP
17 10 (0.64%) PBX
18 7 (0.45%) DHCP
18 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 74 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 74 (4.77%) Power BI
3 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.26%) Tableau
4 3 (0.19%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.13%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (0.26%) JIRA
2 1 (0.064%) Git
2 1 (0.064%) XCTest
General
1 989 (63.72%) Social Skills
2 852 (54.90%) Finance
3 730 (47.04%) Analytical Skills
4 449 (28.93%) Influencing Skills
5 274 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 227 (14.63%) Marketing
7 186 (11.98%) Advertising
8 128 (8.25%) Telecoms
9 52 (3.35%) Retail
10 19 (1.22%) Billing
11 18 (1.16%) Games
12 12 (0.77%) Legal
12 12 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.71%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.19%) Local Government
15 2 (0.13%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.064%) Law
16 1 (0.064%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.064%) Military
Job Titles
1 515 (33.18%) Analyst
2 399 (25.71%) Senior
3 306 (19.72%) Architect
4 300 (19.33%) Solutions Architect
5 251 (16.17%) Senior Analyst
6 210 (13.53%) Linux Specialist
6 210 (13.53%) Technical Specialist
7 192 (12.37%) Lead
8 129 (8.31%) Financial Analyst
9 127 (8.18%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 127 (8.18%) Senior Linux Specialist
9 127 (8.18%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 127 (8.18%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 113 (7.28%) Commercial Analyst
11 74 (4.77%) DBA
11 74 (4.77%) SQL DBA
12 31 (2.00%) Network Engineer
13 30 (1.93%) IT Support
13 30 (1.93%) IT Technician
14 24 (1.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.84%) .NET
1 13 (0.84%) WPF
2 12 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
3 11 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.39%) OLE
5 4 (0.26%) CSS
5 4 (0.26%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.26%) HTML
5 4 (0.26%) Node.js
5 4 (0.26%) React
6 3 (0.19%) Kafka
6 3 (0.19%) LDAP
6 3 (0.19%) ODBC
6 3 (0.19%) REST
6 3 (0.19%) SOAP
7 1 (0.064%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 235 (15.14%) Social Media
2 184 (11.86%) Marketing Technology
3 46 (2.96%) Driving Licence
4 31 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.03%) NHS
5 16 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
6 14 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 13 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 11 (0.71%) Smartphone
10 10 (0.64%) CCTV
10 10 (0.64%) Fibre Optics
11 7 (0.45%) Cyberattack
11 7 (0.45%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.39%) IoT
13 4 (0.26%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.19%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.19%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.19%) TM Forum
14 3 (0.19%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 234 (15.08%) Linux
2 210 (13.53%) Ubuntu
3 74 (4.77%) VMS
4 55 (3.54%) Windows
5 21 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.13%) Android
9 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.064%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (53.03%) Agile
2 631 (40.66%) Business Case
3 486 (31.31%) Mentoring
4 467 (30.09%) Decision-Making
5 453 (29.19%) Actionable Insight
6 447 (28.80%) Budgeting
6 447 (28.80%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 329 (21.20%) Roadmaps
7 329 (21.20%) Strategic Roadmap
8 323 (20.81%) Data Management
9 310 (19.97%) ERP
10 299 (19.27%) Change Management
10 299 (19.27%) Enterprise Architecture
10 299 (19.27%) Performance Management
10 299 (19.27%) TOGAF
11 234 (15.08%) Cybersecurity
12 218 (14.05%) CRM
13 216 (13.92%) Artificial Intelligence
14 215 (13.85%) Matrix Organization
15 210 (13.53%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 220 (14.18%) Bash
2 80 (5.15%) SQL
3 74 (4.77%) T-SQL
4 15 (0.97%) Python
5 13 (0.84%) C#
6 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.26%) R
8 3 (0.19%) Perl
8 3 (0.19%) Tcl
9 2 (0.13%) Go
9 2 (0.13%) Java
9 2 (0.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 478 (30.80%) ACCA
1 478 (30.80%) CIMA
2 103 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 66 (4.25%) Degree
4 30 (1.93%) Master's Degree
4 30 (1.93%) MBA
5 27 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.61%) CCNA
7 16 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.03%) MCITP
7 16 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
8 13 (0.84%) A+ Certification
9 6 (0.39%) CCNP
9 6 (0.39%) Security Cleared
10 4 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PMP
12 2 (0.13%) CISA
12 2 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.22%) SLA
2 12 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (0.64%) SOC 2
4 4 (0.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.26%) PMO
5 3 (0.19%) GDPR
5 3 (0.19%) GRC
5 3 (0.19%) QA
6 2 (0.13%) COBIT
6 2 (0.13%) COSO
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 261 (16.82%) Active Directory
2 76 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 211 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (13.53%) Jamf Pro
3 10 (0.64%) FortiGate
3 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.064%) Ansible
4 1 (0.064%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.064%) Puppet
4 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.064%) Terraform
Vendors
1 820 (52.84%) Microsoft
2 317 (20.43%) SAP
3 311 (20.04%) Oracle
4 299 (19.27%) Anaplan
4 299 (19.27%) Hyperion
5 210 (13.53%) CyberArk
5 210 (13.53%) Tanium
6 88 (5.67%) Virgin Media
7 29 (1.87%) Cisco
8 26 (1.68%) Google
9 20 (1.29%) Openreach
10 18 (1.16%) NEC
11 16 (1.03%) Salesforce
12 15 (0.97%) Juniper
13 12 (0.77%) VMware
14 11 (0.71%) CA
15 10 (0.64%) Apple
15 10 (0.64%) Draytek
16 6 (0.39%) BT
16 6 (0.39%) Meraki