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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 237 374
Rank change year-on-year +50 +137 +138
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 184 230 83
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.33% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.59% 10.13% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 62 18 48
10th Percentile - £20,500 -
25th Percentile - £30,156 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £41,250 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% +83.33% -67.27%
75th Percentile £26,498 £52,188 £38,125
90th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £25,087 £39,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year -35.67% +56.00% -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 1,354 2,271 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.84% 13.14% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,316 2,360
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,147 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -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 25 December 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 (1.09%) CMS
1 2 (1.09%) Confluence
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.96%) AWS
1 22 (11.96%) Azure
2 19 (10.33%) Entra ID
3 14 (7.61%) Google Workspace
4 8 (4.35%) Serverless
5 7 (3.80%) Pulumi
6 6 (3.26%) Adobe Analytics
6 6 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.26%) Figma
6 6 (3.26%) GCP
7 5 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.63%) npm
10 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.54%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.54%) GitHub
10 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (9.24%) Ethernet
3 5 (2.72%) DHCP
4 3 (1.63%) DOCSIS
4 3 (1.63%) DSL
4 3 (1.63%) GPON
4 3 (1.63%) Internet
4 3 (1.63%) IPv4
4 3 (1.63%) IPv6
4 3 (1.63%) PPP
4 3 (1.63%) RTP
4 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.63%) VoIP
4 3 (1.63%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) DNS
5 2 (1.09%) NAS
5 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.54%) 5G
6 1 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.54%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.80%) RDBMS
2 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.72%) Big Data
3 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.63%) MySQL
5 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.09%) Metadata
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (9.78%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.70%) GitLab
3 15 (8.15%) SonarQube
4 7 (3.80%) Jaeger
5 6 (3.26%) JIRA
6 5 (2.72%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.17%) Git
8 3 (1.63%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.63%) Mocha
8 3 (1.63%) webpack
9 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.54%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (46.20%) Games
2 59 (32.07%) Social Skills
3 55 (29.89%) Banking
4 30 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (16.30%) Telecoms
5 23 (12.50%) Marketing
6 22 (11.96%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (11.41%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.80%) Billing
10 3 (1.63%) Advertising
10 3 (1.63%) Finance
10 3 (1.63%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.09%) Retail
12 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (21.74%) Customer Service Advisor
2 36 (19.57%) Senior
3 27 (14.67%) Development Manager
4 25 (13.59%) Business Development Manager
5 24 (13.04%) Business Manager
6 23 (12.50%) Architect
7 21 (11.41%) Developer
8 16 (8.70%) Lead
9 15 (8.15%) Senior Developer
10 14 (7.61%) Salesforce Architect
11 11 (5.98%) Senior Business Development Manager
11 11 (5.98%) Senior Business Manager
11 11 (5.98%) Senior Development Manager
11 11 (5.98%) Senior Manager
12 8 (4.35%) IAM Developer
12 8 (4.35%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 8 (4.35%) Technical Architect
13 7 (3.80%) Designer
14 5 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.72%) Technical Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) REST
1 31 (16.85%) SOAP
2 22 (11.96%) GraphQL
3 15 (8.15%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (8.15%) Visualforce
4 14 (7.61%) LDAP
4 14 (7.61%) OAuth
4 14 (7.61%) OpenID
4 14 (7.61%) SAML
5 9 (4.89%) React
6 7 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.72%) Node.js
7 5 (2.72%) Serverless Framework
8 4 (2.17%) Redux
9 3 (1.63%) D3.js
9 3 (1.63%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.54%) Akka
10 1 (0.54%) Kafka
10 1 (0.54%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.37%) Social Media
2 18 (9.78%) Product Ownership
3 17 (9.24%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (9.24%) Cyberattack
4 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.17%) IoT
5 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.17%) Smart Home
6 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.63%) Over-the-Top Content
6 3 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.54%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.54%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.61%) Linux
2 10 (5.43%) Unix
3 4 (2.17%) Windows
4 3 (1.63%) OpenWrt
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.98%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (28.26%) Roadmaps
3 49 (26.63%) Customer Service
4 47 (25.54%) Agile
5 35 (19.02%) Mentoring
6 33 (17.93%) Business Development
7 28 (15.22%) CI/CD
7 28 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (14.13%) DevOps
9 25 (13.59%) CRM
10 23 (12.50%) B2B
11 21 (11.41%) Contract Negotiation
12 20 (10.87%) AI
12 20 (10.87%) Customer Experience
13 19 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (9.78%) Business Strategy
14 18 (9.78%) Event-Driven
14 18 (9.78%) Scrum
14 18 (9.78%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.04%) Bash
2 23 (12.50%) Python
3 16 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 16 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.15%) Apex Code
4 15 (8.15%) SOQL
4 15 (8.15%) SOSL
5 14 (7.61%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.43%) Java
7 8 (4.35%) Go
7 8 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.26%) SQL
9 3 (1.63%) C
9 3 (1.63%) C++
9 3 (1.63%) R
10 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.09%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) Groovy
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (7.07%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.54%) CISM
3 1 (0.54%) CISSP
3 1 (0.54%) City & Guilds
3 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (0.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) NIST
2 16 (8.70%) NCSC
3 7 (3.80%) QA
4 5 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.63%) WCAG
6 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.09%) SLA
7 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.52%) Docker
3 3 (1.63%) Firmware
3 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.35%) Ansible
2 8 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 8 (4.35%) Terraform
3 7 (3.80%) Argo
3 7 (3.80%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Icinga
4 1 (0.54%) Nagios
4 1 (0.54%) Nmap
Vendors
1 55 (29.89%) BT
2 24 (13.04%) Salesforce
3 15 (8.15%) Splunk
4 12 (6.52%) Google
5 8 (4.35%) Adobe
5 8 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.63%) VMware
7 2 (1.09%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.09%) Datto
7 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.09%) Veeam
8 1 (0.54%) Apple
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco
8 1 (0.54%) Dell
8 1 (0.54%) HP
8 1 (0.54%) Tenable