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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 221 65
Rank change year-on-year +167 -156 +473
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 698 197 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.91% 1.47% 4.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.70% 11.92% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 42 100 162
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,087 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,328 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £35,000 £25,132 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £46,825 -
UK median annual salary £26,000 £23,504 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.62% -52.99% -9.09%

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 1,955 1,652 5,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.94% 12.36% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 959 1,206 3,440
10th Percentile £29,100 £25,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 22 April 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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 27 (3.87%) CMS
3 14 (2.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
Applications
1 35 (5.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (4.30%) UserZoom
3 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (4.01%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (2.87%) Workfront
3 12 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (25.50%) Adobe Analytics
2 112 (16.05%) AWS
3 103 (14.76%) Figma
4 84 (12.03%) GCP
5 72 (10.32%) Azure
6 59 (8.45%) Entra ID
7 56 (8.02%) Google Workspace
8 55 (7.88%) Contentsquare
9 34 (4.87%) iPaaS
10 19 (2.72%) Pulumi
11 12 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
11 12 (1.72%) Cloud Run
11 12 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.00%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.00%) Vertex AI
13 6 (0.86%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (0.86%) Dagster
13 6 (0.86%) dbt
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (2.01%) 4G
3 12 (1.72%) MPLS
4 11 (1.58%) BGP
4 11 (1.58%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (1.58%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (1.58%) IOS XR
5 10 (1.43%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.57%) 5G
6 4 (0.57%) NGN
6 4 (0.57%) SSH
6 4 (0.57%) SSL
7 3 (0.43%) VoIP
7 3 (0.43%) WAN
8 2 (0.29%) DHCP
8 2 (0.29%) DOCSIS
8 2 (0.29%) DSL
8 2 (0.29%) GPON
8 2 (0.29%) IPv4
8 2 (0.29%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.45%) Metadata
2 33 (4.73%) NoSQL
3 19 (2.72%) MongoDB
3 19 (2.72%) RDBMS
3 19 (2.72%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.72%) Power BI
4 12 (1.72%) SAP BW
4 12 (1.72%) Tableau
5 7 (1.00%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.43%) Big Data
7 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 62 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 35 (5.01%) GitLab
3 34 (4.87%) SonarQube
4 23 (3.30%) TeamCity
5 19 (2.72%) Jaeger
6 13 (1.86%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.86%) Git
7 12 (1.72%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.72%) JIRA
9 3 (0.43%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
General
1 327 (46.85%) Games
2 169 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 112 (16.05%) Marketing
4 76 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (9.60%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 39 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (4.30%) Legal
10 19 (2.72%) Banking
11 15 (2.15%) Finance
12 6 (0.86%) Advertising
12 6 (0.86%) Law
13 2 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (27.36%) Lead
2 118 (16.91%) Senior
3 72 (10.32%) Architect
4 67 (9.60%) Designer
5 61 (8.74%) Developer
6 53 (7.59%) Lead Designer
7 42 (6.02%) Digital Designer
7 42 (6.02%) Scala Engineer
8 34 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (4.73%) Salesforce Architect
10 31 (4.44%) Product Manager
11 30 (4.30%) Product Owner
12 29 (4.15%) Software Engineer
13 28 (4.01%) Campaign Manager
13 28 (4.01%) Development Manager
14 27 (3.87%) Senior Developer
15 23 (3.30%) Scala Developer
15 23 (3.30%) Scala Software Engineer
16 21 (3.01%) IAM Developer
17 19 (2.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.18%) REST
2 92 (13.18%) SOAP
3 60 (8.60%) GraphQL
4 56 (8.02%) LDAP
4 56 (8.02%) OAuth
4 56 (8.02%) OpenID
4 56 (8.02%) SAML
5 45 (6.45%) gRPC
6 34 (4.87%) Lightning Web Components
6 34 (4.87%) Visualforce
7 23 (3.30%) Akka
8 19 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 19 (2.72%) React
9 17 (2.44%) PyTorch
10 15 (2.15%) TensorFlow
11 13 (1.86%) Playwright
12 12 (1.72%) Leaflet
12 12 (1.72%) Node.js
12 12 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 289 (41.40%) Social Media
2 137 (19.63%) Over-the-Top Content
3 111 (15.90%) Product Ownership
4 91 (13.04%) Video\Live Streaming
5 75 (10.74%) Cyber Threat
5 75 (10.74%) Cyberattack
6 65 (9.31%) Marketing Technology
7 52 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (6.59%) Mobile App
9 30 (4.30%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.58%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.01%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.86%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.72%) Cloud Native
15 4 (0.57%) PKI
15 4 (0.57%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
16 3 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.87%) Linux
2 24 (3.44%) Android
3 23 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.72%) Unix
5 3 (0.43%) Windows
6 2 (0.29%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (60.46%) Roadmaps
2 386 (55.30%) Agile
3 303 (43.41%) Customer Experience
4 260 (37.25%) AI
5 250 (35.82%) Analytics
6 187 (26.79%) Mentoring
7 181 (25.93%) Product Roadmap
8 179 (25.64%) Storytelling
9 178 (25.50%) Digital Customer Experience
9 178 (25.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 173 (24.79%) User Research
11 143 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (19.77%) Decision-Making
13 134 (19.20%) CI/CD
14 123 (17.62%) Personalization
15 119 (17.05%) Software Engineering
16 111 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (13.47%) Machine Learning
17 94 (13.47%) Prototyping
18 89 (12.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 141 (20.20%) Python
2 79 (11.32%) Bash
3 75 (10.74%) Scala
4 72 (10.32%) Go
5 58 (8.31%) PowerShell
6 56 (8.02%) T-SQL
7 42 (6.02%) JavaScript
8 39 (5.59%) Java
9 38 (5.44%) SQL
10 34 (4.87%) Apex Code
10 34 (4.87%) SOQL
10 34 (4.87%) SOSL
11 10 (1.43%) C#
12 8 (1.15%) C++
13 4 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) C
15 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (3.01%) AWS Certification
2 11 (1.58%) Degree
3 7 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.00%) PhD
4 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.29%) CCA
6 1 (0.14%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (28.94%) Accessibility
2 62 (8.88%) NIST
3 59 (8.45%) WCAG
4 58 (8.31%) NCSC
5 29 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.44%) QA
7 6 (0.86%) GDPR
8 5 (0.72%) PERC
9 4 (0.57%) SLA
10 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 101 (14.47%) Docker
2 57 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.01%) Terraform
3 20 (2.87%) Ansible
3 20 (2.87%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.72%) Argo
4 19 (2.72%) Kustomize
5 12 (1.72%) Podman
6 10 (1.43%) Grafana
7 5 (0.72%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.14%) Icinga
8 1 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 265 (37.97%) Adobe
2 45 (6.45%) Typelevel
3 44 (6.30%) Google
4 41 (5.87%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.87%) Splunk
6 19 (2.72%) BT
7 12 (1.72%) Oracle
7 12 (1.72%) SAP
8 11 (1.58%) Cisco
9 9 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.00%) Foundry
10 7 (1.00%) Microsoft
11 6 (0.86%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.57%) Thales
14 2 (0.29%) CyberArk
14 2 (0.29%) Dell
14 2 (0.29%) Facebook
14 2 (0.29%) HP
15 1 (0.14%) Apple