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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 247 419
Rank change year-on-year +55 +172 +43
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 200 233 84
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 1.19% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.21% 9.66% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 87 17 50
10th Percentile - £20,500 -
25th Percentile - £30,000 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £40,000 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +50.94% -54.70%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £40,500
90th Percentile £34,250 - £78,750
UK median annual salary £25,087 £37,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year -32.20% +48.00% -60.00%

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 1,407 2,413 2,985
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.20% 12.28% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 981 1,385 2,506
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,750 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.44% +7.00% -4.76%

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 20 November 2025.

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 2 (1.00%) CMS
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.00%) AWS
2 13 (6.50%) Azure
3 10 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.00%) Serverless
5 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (3.00%) GCP
5 6 (3.00%) Google Workspace
6 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (2.50%) Figma
6 5 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.50%) npm
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.50%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.50%) Canva
8 1 (0.50%) GitHub
8 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Ethernet
2 11 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (4.00%) VoIP
4 5 (2.50%) ADSL
4 5 (2.50%) ADSL2+
4 5 (2.50%) DHCP
4 5 (2.50%) G.fast
4 5 (2.50%) PSTN
5 4 (2.00%) Internet
6 3 (1.50%) DOCSIS
6 3 (1.50%) DSL
6 3 (1.50%) GPON
6 3 (1.50%) IPv4
6 3 (1.50%) IPv6
6 3 (1.50%) PPP
6 3 (1.50%) RTP
6 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.50%) WAN
7 2 (1.00%) NAS
7 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.00%) Big Data
4 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.50%) MySQL
5 2 (1.00%) Tableau
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (9.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.00%) GitLab
3 15 (7.50%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.00%) JIRA
5 5 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.50%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.50%) Git
6 3 (1.50%) Mocha
6 3 (1.50%) webpack
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 106 (53.00%) Banking
2 95 (47.50%) Games
3 33 (16.50%) Social Skills
4 23 (11.50%) Telecoms
5 22 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (11.00%) Marketing
6 13 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.50%) Billing
8 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Advertising
9 3 (1.50%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.00%) Finance
10 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.00%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (36.50%) Customer Service Advisor
2 28 (14.00%) Senior
3 21 (10.50%) Architect
4 20 (10.00%) Development Manager
5 19 (9.50%) Business Development Manager
5 19 (9.50%) Developer
6 18 (9.00%) Business Manager
7 14 (7.00%) Salesforce Architect
8 13 (6.50%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Business Development Manager
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Business Manager
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Development Manager
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.00%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.50%) Lead
11 5 (2.50%) AWS Developer
11 5 (2.50%) Customer Service Representative
11 5 (2.50%) IAM Developer
11 5 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.00%) REST
1 22 (11.00%) SOAP
2 15 (7.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 15 (7.50%) Visualforce
3 13 (6.50%) GraphQL
4 9 (4.50%) React
5 6 (3.00%) LDAP
5 6 (3.00%) OAuth
5 6 (3.00%) OpenID
5 6 (3.00%) SAML
6 5 (2.50%) Node.js
6 5 (2.50%) Serverless Framework
7 4 (2.00%) Redux
8 3 (1.50%) D3.js
9 2 (1.00%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.50%) Jest
10 1 (0.50%) Next.js
10 1 (0.50%) Playwright
10 1 (0.50%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.50%) Social Media
2 17 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (4.00%) Cyberattack
5 4 (2.00%) IoT
5 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.00%) Smart Home
6 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.50%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.50%) Over-the-Top Content
6 3 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.50%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.00%) Linux
2 4 (2.00%) Unix
3 3 (1.50%) OpenWrt
3 3 (1.50%) Windows
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (44.50%) Customer Service
3 32 (16.00%) Agile
4 29 (14.50%) Roadmaps
5 28 (14.00%) CI/CD
6 27 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (11.00%) Business Development
7 22 (11.00%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (10.50%) Mentoring
9 19 (9.50%) DevOps
10 18 (9.00%) Event-Driven
11 17 (8.50%) OO
11 17 (8.50%) Scrum
12 16 (8.00%) Continuous Delivery
12 16 (8.00%) Design Patterns
12 16 (8.00%) Technology Roadmap
13 15 (7.50%) Community of Practice
13 15 (7.50%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
13 15 (7.50%) Static Code Analysis
13 15 (7.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.50%) Apex Code
1 15 (7.50%) Python
1 15 (7.50%) SOQL
1 15 (7.50%) SOSL
2 10 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (4.50%) Bash
4 8 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 7 (3.50%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.00%) SQL
6 6 (3.00%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.00%) Java
8 3 (1.50%) C
8 3 (1.50%) C++
8 3 (1.50%) R
9 2 (1.00%) Go
9 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.00%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) Groovy
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.50%) CISM
3 1 (0.50%) CISSP
3 1 (0.50%) City & Guilds
3 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.50%) Degree
3 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.00%) NIST
2 7 (3.50%) NCSC
3 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.00%) SLA
4 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.50%) QA
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.00%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) Firmware
3 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.00%) Ansible
2 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Argo
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) Icinga
3 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.50%) Nagios
3 1 (0.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 106 (53.00%) BT
2 23 (11.50%) Salesforce
3 15 (7.50%) Splunk
4 9 (4.50%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.00%) Google
6 3 (1.50%) VMware
7 2 (1.00%) Adobe
7 2 (1.00%) Datto
7 2 (1.00%) Veeam
8 1 (0.50%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Tenable