Broadband Jobs

Broadband
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 53 191 679
Rank change year-on-year +138 +488 -249
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 2,496 1,538 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 1.55% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.08% 11.37% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 657 247 167
10th Percentile £23,250 £23,000 £24,000
25th Percentile - £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.99% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £25,087 £61,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £25,267 £65,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £23,504 £47,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -50.52% +46.15% -35.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,582 13,531 15,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 13.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,313 9,431 7,998
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%

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 12 May 2025.

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 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
Work from Home +57 2,349 £23,504 -59.12% 226
England +104 1,958 £25,087 -49.83% 443
UK excluding London +193 1,677 £23,504 -50.52% 368
North of England +243 631 £23,504 -59.12% 102
London -23 372 £33,850 -32.30% 117
North West +162 334 £23,504 -59.12% 54
Wales +113 325 £23,504 -44.70% 10
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% 92
South West +198 168 £25,087 -49.83% 40
East of England +106 116 £42,500 -26.09% 46
Yorkshire +112 101 £25,087 -47.19% 38
Midlands +44 39 £25,267 -22.18% 78
East Midlands +13 21 £25,267 -23.69% 38
Northern Ireland - 19 £23,504 - 3
West Midlands +70 18 - - 38

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 4 (0.16%) Confluence
1 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.080%) CMS
3 1 (0.040%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.040%) Strapi
3 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.040%) InDesign
4 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 262 (10.50%) AWS
2 215 (8.61%) Pulumi
3 50 (2.00%) GCP
4 46 (1.84%) Azure
5 44 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (1.76%) Serverless
6 7 (0.28%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.24%) GitHub
8 1 (0.040%) Asana
8 1 (0.040%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.040%) ClickUp
8 1 (0.040%) Contentful
8 1 (0.040%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.040%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.48%) Internet
2 11 (0.44%) VoIP
3 8 (0.32%) VPN
4 7 (0.28%) Firewall
5 6 (0.24%) 5G
5 6 (0.24%) DNS
6 4 (0.16%) LAN
6 4 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
6 4 (0.16%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.12%) DHCP
7 3 (0.12%) GPON
7 3 (0.12%) IPv4
7 3 (0.12%) IPv6
7 3 (0.12%) MPLS
7 3 (0.12%) Network Security
7 3 (0.12%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.12%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.12%) VLAN
7 3 (0.12%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.69%) NoSQL
2 215 (8.61%) RDBMS
2 215 (8.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.080%) Couchbase
3 2 (0.080%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.080%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.080%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.040%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.040%) GIS
Development Applications
1 219 (8.77%) JIRA
2 215 (8.61%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.080%) GitLab
3 2 (0.080%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.080%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.080%) Spock
3 2 (0.080%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.040%) Git
4 1 (0.040%) gulp
4 1 (0.040%) Yeoman
General
1 1,193 (47.80%) Banking
2 741 (29.69%) Games
3 640 (25.64%) Social Skills
4 216 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (3.33%) Multimedia
6 46 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 33 (1.32%) Billing
9 30 (1.20%) Retail
10 12 (0.48%) Finance
11 11 (0.44%) Legal
12 8 (0.32%) Marketing
13 4 (0.16%) Back Office
14 2 (0.080%) Law
14 2 (0.080%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.040%) Advertising
15 1 (0.040%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.040%) French Language
15 1 (0.040%) German Language
15 1 (0.040%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 745 (29.85%) Customer Service Advisor
2 454 (18.19%) Lead
3 288 (11.54%) Team Leader
4 215 (8.61%) Embedded Engineer
4 215 (8.61%) Release Engineer
5 151 (6.05%) Systems Engineer
6 110 (4.41%) Senior
7 96 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
8 60 (2.40%) Support Engineer
9 56 (2.24%) Sales Representative
10 54 (2.16%) Customer Service Representative
11 44 (1.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 22 (0.88%) Technical Advisor
13 8 (0.32%) Developer
14 7 (0.28%) Account Manager
14 7 (0.28%) Analyst
14 7 (0.28%) Field Engineer
14 7 (0.28%) Field Service Engineer
15 6 (0.24%) Client Account Manager
15 6 (0.24%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (8.69%) Middleware
2 215 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (8.61%) OpenTelemetry
3 59 (2.36%) GraphQL
4 58 (2.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 58 (2.32%) WebGL
5 5 (0.20%) React
6 4 (0.16%) .NET
6 4 (0.16%) Node.js
7 3 (0.12%) REST
7 3 (0.12%) Vue
8 2 (0.080%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.080%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.080%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.080%) CSS
8 2 (0.080%) CSS3
8 2 (0.080%) HTML
8 2 (0.080%) HTML5
8 2 (0.080%) Kafka
8 2 (0.080%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 215 (8.61%) Embedded Systems
2 58 (2.32%) Animation
3 53 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (0.72%) Driving Licence
5 9 (0.36%) Learning Management System
6 6 (0.24%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.16%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.16%) Smartphone
7 4 (0.16%) Social Media
8 3 (0.12%) Handset
8 3 (0.12%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.12%) NHS
8 3 (0.12%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.080%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.080%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (0.080%) SCADA
10 1 (0.040%) BYOD
10 1 (0.040%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.040%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.040%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.65%) Linux
2 215 (8.61%) Unix
3 60 (2.40%) Windows
4 57 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,360 (54.49%) Problem-Solving
2 991 (39.70%) Roadmaps
3 838 (33.57%) Customer Service
4 820 (32.85%) Mentoring
5 773 (30.97%) High Availability
6 772 (30.93%) Product Management
7 614 (24.60%) Broadcast Engineering
8 558 (22.36%) Computer Science
9 486 (19.47%) Agile
10 274 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 262 (10.50%) CI/CD
12 217 (8.69%) DevOps
13 216 (8.65%) Containerisation
13 216 (8.65%) Software Delivery
14 215 (8.61%) Continuous Deployment
14 215 (8.61%) Cost Optimisation
14 215 (8.61%) GitOps
14 215 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 215 (8.61%) Performance Optimisation
14 215 (8.61%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 266 (10.66%) Python
2 221 (8.85%) JavaScript
3 219 (8.77%) Bash
4 217 (8.69%) Java
5 215 (8.61%) Go
6 58 (2.32%) HLSL
7 47 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.32%) SQL
9 4 (0.16%) C#
10 2 (0.080%) Groovy
11 1 (0.040%) C++
11 1 (0.040%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.040%) Rust
Qualifications
1 663 (26.56%) Degree
2 558 (22.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 215 (8.61%) AWS Certification
4 44 (1.76%) PhD
5 3 (0.12%) JNCIS
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.080%) CCNA
6 2 (0.080%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.080%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.040%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.040%) CIPD
7 1 (0.040%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.040%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.040%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.20%) GDPR
2 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.12%) QA
4 1 (0.040%) ISAE 3402
4 1 (0.040%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 223 (8.93%) Docker
2 60 (2.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 220 (8.81%) Kubernetes
1 220 (8.81%) Terraform
2 217 (8.69%) Prometheus
3 216 (8.65%) Ansible
4 215 (8.61%) Argo
4 215 (8.61%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.080%) Grafana
6 1 (0.040%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,255 (50.28%) BT
2 216 (8.65%) Google
3 83 (3.33%) Sun
4 71 (2.84%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.20%) Virgin Media
6 4 (0.16%) Juniper
7 2 (0.080%) Oracle
7 2 (0.080%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe
8 1 (0.040%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.040%) Cisco
8 1 (0.040%) F5
8 1 (0.040%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.040%) Sage
8 1 (0.040%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.040%) Xero