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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 159 45
Rank change year-on-year +66 -114 +442
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 628 339 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.87% 2.06% 4.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.17% 17.19% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 35 164 85
10th Percentile £25,087 - £41,500
25th Percentile £27,389 £23,504 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £25,087 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +119.24% -56.37% -23.33%
75th Percentile £63,625 - £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £31,516 -
UK median annual salary £32,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.56% -49.83% -

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 2,311 1,972 4,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.56% 11.98% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,205 2,284
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -10.80% -7.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -4.99%

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 29 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 (4.78%) Confluence
2 25 (3.98%) CMS
3 14 (2.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.96%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 55 (8.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 44 (7.01%) UserZoom
3 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Houdini
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) NUKE
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (6.21%) Workfront
2 34 (5.41%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 170 (27.07%) Adobe Analytics
2 114 (18.15%) AWS
3 89 (14.17%) GCP
4 71 (11.31%) Figma
5 69 (10.99%) Contentsquare
6 53 (8.44%) iPaaS
7 31 (4.94%) Azure
8 15 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.07%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.91%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (1.91%) Cloud Run
10 12 (1.91%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.59%) SaaS
12 7 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.11%) Vertex AI
13 6 (0.96%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (0.96%) Dagster
13 6 (0.96%) dbt
13 6 (0.96%) Slack
14 5 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.43%) 5G
2 6 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.80%) NGN
3 5 (0.80%) SSL
4 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.64%) SSH
4 4 (0.64%) WAN
5 3 (0.48%) DNS
5 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.32%) 4G
6 2 (0.32%) MPLS
6 2 (0.32%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) LAN
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) MVNO
7 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.26%) Metadata
2 50 (7.96%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.50%) BigQuery
5 15 (2.39%) Semantic Layer
6 14 (2.23%) Tableau
7 13 (2.07%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.07%) MySQL
7 13 (2.07%) Power BI
8 12 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.91%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.11%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.64%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (7.17%) Jenkins
2 37 (5.89%) GitLab
3 26 (4.14%) SonarQube
4 12 (1.91%) CircleCI
4 12 (1.91%) Cypress.io
4 12 (1.91%) Git
5 9 (1.43%) JIRA
6 3 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 293 (46.66%) Games
2 130 (20.70%) Marketing
3 123 (19.59%) Social Skills
4 60 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.10%) Legal
7 25 (3.98%) Banking
8 22 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.34%) Finance
10 16 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.96%) Law
12 5 (0.80%) Advertising
13 2 (0.32%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.16%) Back Office
14 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (24.36%) Lead
2 103 (16.40%) Senior
3 56 (8.92%) Architect
4 50 (7.96%) Developer
5 46 (7.32%) Product Owner
6 44 (7.01%) Designer
7 36 (5.73%) Lead Designer
7 36 (5.73%) Product Manager
8 34 (5.41%) Campaign Manager
9 30 (4.78%) Digital Designer
10 26 (4.14%) Analyst
10 26 (4.14%) Salesforce Architect
11 25 (3.98%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.82%) Scala Engineer
13 20 (3.18%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.03%) User Researcher
15 18 (2.87%) Senior Manager
16 17 (2.71%) Customer Service Advisor
17 16 (2.55%) Senior Campaign Manager
18 15 (2.39%) Digital User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.48%) REST
2 40 (6.37%) SOAP
3 36 (5.73%) gRPC
4 34 (5.41%) RESTful
5 27 (4.30%) Node.js
6 26 (4.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 26 (4.14%) Visualforce
7 22 (3.50%) PyTorch
8 19 (3.03%) React
9 18 (2.87%) TensorFlow
10 14 (2.23%) GraphQL
11 12 (1.91%) LDAP
11 12 (1.91%) Leaflet
11 12 (1.91%) OAuth
11 12 (1.91%) OpenID
11 12 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (1.91%) Playwright
11 12 (1.91%) SAML
12 7 (1.11%) LangChain
13 6 (0.96%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 293 (46.66%) Social Media
2 134 (21.34%) Product Ownership
3 132 (21.02%) Over-the-Top Content
4 90 (14.33%) Marketing Technology
5 86 (13.69%) Video\Live Streaming
6 76 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (8.92%) Cloud Native
8 39 (6.21%) Cyber Threat
8 39 (6.21%) Cyberattack
9 31 (4.94%) Low-Code
10 25 (3.98%) Onboarding
11 20 (3.18%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.87%) Data Structures
13 16 (2.55%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.91%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.96%) Anti-Piracy
16 6 (0.96%) Clustering
17 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.55%) Android
1 16 (2.55%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.43%) Linux
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (57.32%) Roadmaps
2 327 (52.07%) Agile
3 306 (48.73%) AI
4 287 (45.70%) Customer Experience
5 225 (35.83%) Analytics
6 174 (27.71%) Product Roadmap
7 170 (27.07%) Storytelling
8 169 (26.91%) CI/CD
8 169 (26.91%) Digital Customer Experience
8 169 (26.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 167 (26.59%) Decision-Making
10 144 (22.93%) Personalization
10 144 (22.93%) User Research
11 121 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (19.11%) Mentoring
13 119 (18.95%) Machine Learning
14 108 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (16.88%) Software Engineering
16 94 (14.97%) Sprint Planning
17 93 (14.81%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.16%) Python
2 70 (11.15%) Go
3 42 (6.69%) Scala
3 42 (6.69%) SQL
4 26 (4.14%) Apex Code
4 26 (4.14%) JavaScript
4 26 (4.14%) SOQL
4 26 (4.14%) SOSL
5 22 (3.50%) Java
6 17 (2.71%) C#
7 15 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.23%) Bash
9 12 (1.91%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.96%) C++
11 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (2.07%) Degree
2 11 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.11%) PhD
4 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.32%) CCA
7 1 (0.16%) MCT
7 1 (0.16%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (29.46%) Accessibility
2 55 (8.76%) WCAG
3 24 (3.82%) QA
4 18 (2.87%) GDPR
4 18 (2.87%) NIST
5 16 (2.55%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.23%) NCSC
7 12 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.96%) PERC
9 4 (0.64%) SLA
10 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 60 (9.55%) Docker
2 14 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.91%) Podman
3 9 (1.43%) Grafana
4 6 (0.96%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.48%) Terraform
6 1 (0.16%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 261 (41.56%) Adobe
2 36 (5.73%) Typelevel
3 33 (5.25%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.14%) Splunk
5 25 (3.98%) BT
5 25 (3.98%) Google
6 13 (2.07%) SAP
7 12 (1.91%) Oracle
8 11 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.27%) Foundry
9 8 (1.27%) Microsoft
10 6 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.64%) Databricks
11 4 (0.64%) Thales
12 2 (0.32%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.32%) Facebook
13 1 (0.16%) Ariba
13 1 (0.16%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.16%) Meraki
13 1 (0.16%) Veeam