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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 174 60
Rank change year-on-year +102 -114 +436
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 729 330 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 2.00% 4.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.90% 16.73% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 38 165 128
10th Percentile £25,087 - £40,000
25th Percentile £26,278 £23,504 £47,500
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 £30,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.58% -49.83% -0.50%

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 2,359 1,972 4,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.05% 11.92% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 1,208 2,990
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,499 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.77%

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 13 July 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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 25 (3.43%) CMS
3 14 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.82%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
Applications
1 55 (7.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 46 (6.31%) UserZoom
3 13 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Houdini
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) NUKE
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (5.35%) Workfront
2 34 (4.66%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 190 (26.06%) Adobe Analytics
2 131 (17.97%) AWS
3 100 (13.72%) GCP
4 92 (12.62%) Figma
5 71 (9.74%) Contentsquare
6 53 (7.27%) iPaaS
7 42 (5.76%) Azure
8 26 (3.57%) Entra ID
8 26 (3.57%) Google Workspace
9 13 (1.78%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.65%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (1.65%) Cloud Run
11 10 (1.37%) SaaS
12 8 (1.10%) Pulumi
12 8 (1.10%) Slack
13 7 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (0.96%) Vertex AI
14 6 (0.82%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (0.82%) Dagster
14 6 (0.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.37%) 5G
2 7 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.69%) NGN
3 5 (0.69%) SSL
4 4 (0.55%) 4G
4 4 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.55%) SSH
4 4 (0.55%) WAN
5 3 (0.41%) DNS
5 3 (0.41%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.41%) MPLS
6 2 (0.27%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) BGP
7 1 (0.14%) DHCP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) VoIP
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.25%) Metadata
2 50 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.16%) BigQuery
5 19 (2.61%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
7 14 (1.92%) Tableau
8 13 (1.78%) Data Lake
8 13 (1.78%) MySQL
8 13 (1.78%) Power BI
8 13 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.65%) SAP BW
10 6 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.82%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.55%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.14%) Big Data
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 45 (6.17%) GitLab
3 34 (4.66%) SonarQube
4 14 (1.92%) Git
5 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
5 12 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.23%) JIRA
7 6 (0.82%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 343 (47.05%) Games
2 148 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 137 (18.79%) Marketing
4 68 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.39%) Legal
7 30 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 25 (3.43%) Banking
9 20 (2.74%) Finance
10 15 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Law
12 5 (0.69%) Advertising
13 2 (0.27%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.14%) Back Office
14 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (27.85%) Lead
2 119 (16.32%) Senior
3 74 (10.15%) Architect
4 59 (8.09%) Designer
5 58 (7.96%) Developer
6 48 (6.58%) Lead Designer
7 46 (6.31%) Product Owner
8 38 (5.21%) Digital Designer
9 36 (4.94%) Product Manager
10 34 (4.66%) Campaign Manager
11 33 (4.53%) Salesforce Architect
12 31 (4.25%) Scala Engineer
13 28 (3.84%) Analyst
13 28 (3.84%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.29%) Data Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) User Researcher
16 18 (2.47%) Senior Manager
16 18 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (9.19%) REST
2 60 (8.23%) SOAP
3 45 (6.17%) gRPC
4 34 (4.66%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (4.66%) RESTful
4 34 (4.66%) Visualforce
5 28 (3.84%) PyTorch
6 27 (3.70%) Node.js
7 26 (3.57%) GraphQL
7 26 (3.57%) LDAP
7 26 (3.57%) OAuth
7 26 (3.57%) OpenID
7 26 (3.57%) SAML
8 24 (3.29%) TensorFlow
9 20 (2.74%) React
10 12 (1.65%) Leaflet
10 12 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (1.65%) Playwright
11 8 (1.10%) TFX
12 7 (0.96%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 317 (43.48%) Social Media
2 144 (19.75%) Over-the-Top Content
3 142 (19.48%) Product Ownership
4 103 (14.13%) Video\Live Streaming
5 90 (12.35%) Marketing Technology
6 85 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
7 59 (8.09%) Cyber Threat
7 59 (8.09%) Cyberattack
8 56 (7.68%) Cloud Native
9 37 (5.08%) Mobile App
10 31 (4.25%) Low-Code
10 31 (4.25%) Onboarding
11 22 (3.02%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.47%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.65%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.96%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.82%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (0.82%) Clustering
16 5 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.16%) Android
1 23 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 16 (2.19%) Linux
3 6 (0.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) Windows
5 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (59.26%) Roadmaps
2 379 (51.99%) Agile
3 339 (46.50%) AI
4 327 (44.86%) Customer Experience
5 249 (34.16%) Analytics
6 199 (27.30%) CI/CD
7 194 (26.61%) Product Roadmap
8 190 (26.06%) Storytelling
9 189 (25.93%) Digital Customer Experience
9 189 (25.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 178 (24.42%) Decision-Making
10 178 (24.42%) User Research
11 165 (22.63%) Mentoring
12 159 (21.81%) Personalization
13 139 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 137 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
15 135 (18.52%) Software Engineering
16 134 (18.38%) Machine Learning
17 94 (12.89%) Sprint Planning
17 94 (12.89%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 181 (24.83%) Python
2 85 (11.66%) Go
3 53 (7.27%) Scala
4 50 (6.86%) SQL
5 34 (4.66%) Apex Code
5 34 (4.66%) SOQL
5 34 (4.66%) SOSL
6 33 (4.53%) Bash
7 32 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 28 (3.84%) Java
9 26 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.57%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.33%) C#
11 6 (0.82%) C++
12 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (1.92%) Degree
2 11 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (0.96%) PhD
4 6 (0.82%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.27%) CCA
8 1 (0.14%) MCT
8 1 (0.14%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (29.36%) Accessibility
2 56 (7.68%) WCAG
3 30 (4.12%) NIST
4 26 (3.57%) NCSC
5 24 (3.29%) QA
6 18 (2.47%) GDPR
7 17 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 17 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.82%) PERC
9 4 (0.55%) SLA
10 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 76 (10.43%) Docker
2 26 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.65%) Podman
3 10 (1.37%) Terraform
4 9 (1.23%) Grafana
5 8 (1.10%) Kubeflow
6 7 (0.96%) Ansible
7 6 (0.82%) Argo
7 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 295 (40.47%) Adobe
2 45 (6.17%) Typelevel
3 41 (5.62%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.66%) Splunk
5 31 (4.25%) Google
6 25 (3.43%) BT
7 13 (1.78%) SAP
8 12 (1.65%) Oracle
8 12 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.10%) Foundry
9 8 (1.10%) Microsoft
10 6 (0.82%) Checkmarx
10 6 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.55%) Databricks
11 4 (0.55%) Thales
12 2 (0.27%) Facebook
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco
13 1 (0.14%) DoubleClick
13 1 (0.14%) HP
13 1 (0.14%) VMware