Hybrid/Remote Broadband Job Trends

Broadband
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Broadband skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 178 62
Rank change year-on-year +118 -116 +441
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 794 312 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 2.00% 3.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.13% 16.27% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 41 154 142
10th Percentile - - £40,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £25,087 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +119.24% -56.37% -28.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £31,738 -
UK median annual salary £28,500 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.60% -49.83% -0.99%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,260 1,918 5,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.09% 12.26% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 1,155 3,249
10th Percentile £29,663 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Broadband and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Broadband job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Broadband
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Broadband.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Broadband

Broadband
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Broadband over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Broadband salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 30 (3.78%) Confluence
2 25 (3.15%) CMS
3 14 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.76%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
Applications
1 54 (6.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 45 (5.67%) UserZoom
3 13 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (4.91%) Workfront
2 34 (4.28%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 189 (23.80%) Adobe Analytics
2 136 (17.13%) AWS
3 100 (12.59%) GCP
4 99 (12.47%) Figma
5 70 (8.82%) Contentsquare
6 59 (7.43%) Azure
7 53 (6.68%) iPaaS
8 44 (5.54%) Entra ID
8 44 (5.54%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.76%) Pulumi
10 13 (1.64%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.51%) Cloud Functions
11 12 (1.51%) Cloud Run
12 10 (1.26%) SaaS
13 9 (1.13%) Slack
14 7 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
14 7 (0.88%) Vertex AI
15 6 (0.76%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (0.76%) Dagster
15 6 (0.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) 4G
2 12 (1.51%) MPLS
3 10 (1.26%) 5G
3 10 (1.26%) BGP
3 10 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (1.26%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (1.26%) IOS XR
4 6 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.63%) NGN
6 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.50%) SSH
6 4 (0.50%) SSL
6 4 (0.50%) WAN
7 2 (0.25%) DNS
7 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.33%) Metadata
2 50 (6.30%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 23 (2.90%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.39%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
8 14 (1.76%) Tableau
9 13 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.64%) MySQL
9 13 (1.64%) Power BI
10 12 (1.51%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.51%) SAP BW
11 6 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.50%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.13%) Big Data
13 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 75 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 45 (5.67%) GitLab
3 34 (4.28%) SonarQube
4 23 (2.90%) Git
5 22 (2.77%) TeamCity
6 12 (1.51%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.51%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.51%) Jaeger
7 9 (1.13%) JIRA
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 357 (44.96%) Games
2 172 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 137 (17.25%) Marketing
4 81 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
7 47 (5.92%) Telecoms
8 32 (4.03%) Legal
9 22 (2.77%) Banking
9 22 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.64%) Finance
11 6 (0.76%) Advertising
11 6 (0.76%) Law
12 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.13%) Back Office
13 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (27.20%) Lead
2 146 (18.39%) Senior
3 86 (10.83%) Architect
4 71 (8.94%) Developer
5 61 (7.68%) Designer
6 49 (6.17%) Lead Designer
7 46 (5.79%) Product Owner
8 42 (5.29%) Scala Engineer
9 38 (4.79%) Digital Designer
10 36 (4.53%) Product Manager
10 36 (4.53%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.28%) Campaign Manager
12 33 (4.16%) Salesforce Architect
13 31 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
14 28 (3.53%) Analyst
15 27 (3.40%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.15%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.90%) Scala Software Engineer
18 22 (2.77%) Scala Developer
19 21 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (10.71%) REST
2 78 (9.82%) SOAP
3 45 (5.67%) gRPC
4 44 (5.54%) GraphQL
4 44 (5.54%) LDAP
4 44 (5.54%) OAuth
4 44 (5.54%) OpenID
4 44 (5.54%) SAML
5 34 (4.28%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (4.28%) RESTful
5 34 (4.28%) Visualforce
6 29 (3.65%) PyTorch
7 27 (3.40%) Node.js
8 25 (3.15%) TensorFlow
9 22 (2.77%) Akka
10 20 (2.52%) React
11 12 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (1.51%) Leaflet
11 12 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (1.51%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 323 (40.68%) Social Media
2 166 (20.91%) Over-the-Top Content
3 142 (17.88%) Product Ownership
4 125 (15.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 90 (11.34%) Marketing Technology
6 87 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
7 77 (9.70%) Cyber Threat
7 77 (9.70%) Cyberattack
8 56 (7.05%) Cloud Native
9 44 (5.54%) Mobile App
10 31 (3.90%) Low-Code
11 30 (3.78%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.90%) Algorithms
13 18 (2.27%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.51%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.76%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (0.76%) Clustering
15 6 (0.76%) Public Cloud
16 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.90%) Android
1 23 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 21 (2.64%) Linux
3 12 (1.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (58.31%) Roadmaps
2 423 (53.27%) Agile
3 342 (43.07%) Customer Experience
4 339 (42.70%) AI
5 269 (33.88%) Analytics
6 198 (24.94%) CI/CD
7 197 (24.81%) Mentoring
8 193 (24.31%) Product Roadmap
9 189 (23.80%) Storytelling
10 188 (23.68%) Digital Customer Experience
10 188 (23.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 184 (23.17%) User Research
12 178 (22.42%) Decision-Making
13 160 (20.15%) Personalization
14 159 (20.03%) Software Engineering
15 144 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
16 140 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (17.00%) Machine Learning
18 97 (12.22%) Data Science
19 94 (11.84%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 197 (24.81%) Python
2 91 (11.46%) Go
3 74 (9.32%) Scala
4 61 (7.68%) SQL
5 57 (7.18%) Bash
6 44 (5.54%) PowerShell
6 44 (5.54%) T-SQL
7 38 (4.79%) JavaScript
8 34 (4.28%) Apex Code
8 34 (4.28%) Java
8 34 (4.28%) SOQL
8 34 (4.28%) SOSL
9 17 (2.14%) C#
10 6 (0.76%) C++
11 4 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (1.76%) Degree
2 12 (1.51%) AWS Certification
3 11 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (0.88%) PhD
5 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.25%) CCA
8 1 (0.13%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (26.83%) Accessibility
2 56 (7.05%) WCAG
3 48 (6.05%) NIST
4 44 (5.54%) NCSC
5 28 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.90%) QA
7 18 (2.27%) GDPR
8 17 (2.14%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.76%) PERC
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
11 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 103 (12.97%) Docker
2 44 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.02%) Terraform
3 13 (1.64%) Ansible
4 12 (1.51%) Argo
4 12 (1.51%) Kustomize
4 12 (1.51%) Podman
4 12 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.13%) Grafana
5 9 (1.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 300 (37.78%) Adobe
2 45 (5.67%) Typelevel
3 40 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 37 (4.66%) Google
5 34 (4.28%) Splunk
6 22 (2.77%) BT
7 13 (1.64%) SAP
8 12 (1.51%) Oracle
8 12 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.26%) Cisco
10 8 (1.01%) Microsoft
11 7 (0.88%) Foundry
12 6 (0.76%) Checkmarx
12 6 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.50%) Databricks
13 4 (0.50%) Thales
14 2 (0.25%) Facebook
15 1 (0.13%) Ariba
15 1 (0.13%) Dell
15 1 (0.13%) HP