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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 241 230
Rank change year-on-year +173 -11 +314
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 596 173 408
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.49% 1.29% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.41% 10.13% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 52 72 162
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,087 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,708 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £35,000 £25,267 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,250 £47,500 -
UK median annual salary £25,087 £23,504 £35,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -32.85% -38.60%

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 1,839 1,707 4,186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.76% 12.69% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 965 1,204 3,462
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £30,513
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,375
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.25% -7.62%

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 23 March 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 14 (2.35%) Confluence
2 12 (2.01%) CMS
3 7 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
Applications
1 22 (3.69%) UserZoom
2 17 (2.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (2.35%) Adobe Campaign
2 10 (1.68%) Workfront
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (23.49%) Adobe Analytics
2 89 (14.93%) AWS
3 73 (12.25%) Azure
4 72 (12.08%) Figma
5 61 (10.23%) Entra ID
5 61 (10.23%) GCP
6 56 (9.40%) Google Workspace
7 32 (5.37%) Contentsquare
8 19 (3.19%) Pulumi
9 17 (2.85%) iPaaS
10 7 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (1.17%) Vertex AI
11 6 (1.01%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (1.01%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (1.01%) Cloud Run
11 6 (1.01%) Dagster
11 6 (1.01%) dbt
11 6 (1.01%) Serverless
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (2.35%) 4G
3 12 (2.01%) Ethernet
3 12 (2.01%) MPLS
4 11 (1.85%) BGP
4 11 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (1.85%) IOS XR
5 5 (0.84%) DHCP
6 4 (0.67%) 5G
6 4 (0.67%) Internet
6 4 (0.67%) VoIP
6 4 (0.67%) WAN
7 3 (0.50%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.50%) DSL
7 3 (0.50%) IPv4
7 3 (0.50%) IPv6
7 3 (0.50%) PPP
7 3 (0.50%) RTP
7 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.54%) Metadata
2 28 (4.70%) NoSQL
3 19 (3.19%) RDBMS
3 19 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.18%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.17%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.67%) Big Data
7 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 63 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.04%) GitLab
3 35 (5.87%) SonarQube
4 23 (3.86%) TeamCity
5 19 (3.19%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.18%) Git
7 8 (1.34%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.01%) JIRA
10 2 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.17%) Mocha
11 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 296 (49.66%) Games
2 138 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 82 (13.76%) Marketing
4 77 (12.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (11.24%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (9.06%) Telecoms
7 38 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (4.36%) Banking
10 12 (2.01%) Legal
11 6 (1.01%) Law
12 4 (0.67%) Advertising
12 4 (0.67%) Finance
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 165 (27.68%) Lead
2 110 (18.46%) Senior
3 70 (11.74%) Architect
4 56 (9.40%) Designer
5 55 (9.23%) Developer
6 45 (7.55%) Lead Designer
7 36 (6.04%) Scala Engineer
8 35 (5.87%) Digital Designer
9 33 (5.54%) Salesforce Architect
9 33 (5.54%) Systems Engineer
10 27 (4.53%) Development Manager
10 27 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.19%) Customer Service Advisor
12 24 (4.03%) Software Engineer
13 21 (3.52%) IAM Developer
14 20 (3.36%) Scala Developer
14 20 (3.36%) Scala Software Engineer
15 18 (3.02%) Product Manager
15 18 (3.02%) Salesforce Technical Architect
15 18 (3.02%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (16.78%) REST
2 93 (15.60%) SOAP
3 60 (10.07%) GraphQL
4 56 (9.40%) LDAP
4 56 (9.40%) OAuth
4 56 (9.40%) OpenID
4 56 (9.40%) SAML
5 36 (6.04%) gRPC
6 35 (5.87%) Lightning Web Components
6 35 (5.87%) Visualforce
7 23 (3.86%) Akka
8 19 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
9 16 (2.68%) PyTorch
10 15 (2.52%) TensorFlow
11 14 (2.35%) React
12 11 (1.85%) Jinja
12 11 (1.85%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.85%) YANG
13 8 (1.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 212 (35.57%) Social Media
2 94 (15.77%) Over-the-Top Content
3 81 (13.59%) Video\Live Streaming
4 77 (12.92%) Product Ownership
5 71 (11.91%) Cyber Threat
5 71 (11.91%) Cyberattack
6 46 (7.72%) Mobile App
7 42 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
8 32 (5.37%) Marketing Technology
9 27 (4.53%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.01%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.84%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
15 3 (0.50%) Management Information System
16 2 (0.34%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.87%) Linux
2 24 (4.03%) Android
3 23 (3.86%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.36%) Unix
5 5 (0.84%) Windows
6 3 (0.50%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (58.89%) Roadmaps
2 324 (54.36%) Agile
3 231 (38.76%) Customer Experience
4 214 (35.91%) AI
5 198 (33.22%) Analytics
6 172 (28.86%) Mentoring
7 150 (25.17%) User Research
8 142 (23.83%) Product Roadmap
9 141 (23.66%) Storytelling
10 140 (23.49%) Digital Customer Experience
10 140 (23.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 139 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (20.30%) CI/CD
13 108 (18.12%) Software Engineering
14 92 (15.44%) Decision-Making
15 89 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 80 (13.42%) Personalization
16 80 (13.42%) Prototyping
17 78 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
18 77 (12.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 133 (22.32%) Python
2 79 (13.26%) Bash
3 66 (11.07%) Scala
4 63 (10.57%) Go
5 58 (9.73%) PowerShell
6 56 (9.40%) T-SQL
7 39 (6.54%) Java
8 38 (6.38%) SQL
9 36 (6.04%) JavaScript
10 35 (5.87%) Apex Code
10 35 (5.87%) SOQL
10 35 (5.87%) SOSL
11 10 (1.68%) C#
12 9 (1.51%) C++
13 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.50%) C
15 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (3.52%) AWS Certification
2 10 (1.68%) Degree
3 7 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.17%) PhD
4 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.17%) CCA
6 1 (0.17%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (27.52%) Accessibility
2 58 (9.73%) NCSC
2 58 (9.73%) NIST
3 44 (7.38%) WCAG
4 25 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.52%) QA
6 3 (0.50%) GDPR
7 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.34%) PERC
7 2 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 86 (14.43%) Docker
2 59 (9.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.52%) Terraform
3 20 (3.36%) Ansible
3 20 (3.36%) Prometheus
4 19 (3.19%) Argo
4 19 (3.19%) Kustomize
5 10 (1.68%) Grafana
6 6 (1.01%) Podman
7 4 (0.67%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.17%) Icinga
8 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 194 (32.55%) Adobe
2 43 (7.21%) Salesforce
3 38 (6.38%) Google
4 36 (6.04%) Typelevel
5 35 (5.87%) Splunk
6 26 (4.36%) BT
7 11 (1.85%) Cisco
8 9 (1.51%) Microsoft
8 9 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.17%) Foundry
10 6 (1.01%) Checkmarx
11 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) VMware
13 2 (0.34%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.34%) Datto
13 2 (0.34%) Dell
13 2 (0.34%) Facebook
13 2 (0.34%) HP
13 2 (0.34%) Veeam
14 1 (0.17%) Apple