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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 261 358
Rank change year-on-year +168 +97 +198
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 474 162 199
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.88% 1.09% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.21% 8.65% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 60 45 157
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile - - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £35,000 £31,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £52,300 £74,250 -
UK median annual salary £25,087 £26,000 £28,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% -7.14% -51.30%

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 1,680 1,872 3,817
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.22% 12.65% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 938 1,153 3,322
10th Percentile £28,175 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,750 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,222 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £70,125 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,250 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -26.82% +12.24% -6.67%

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 1 March 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 9 (1.90%) Confluence
2 7 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.48%) CMS
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (2.74%) UserZoom
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 82 (17.30%) Adobe Analytics
2 67 (14.14%) Azure
3 63 (13.29%) Entra ID
4 61 (12.87%) AWS
5 58 (12.24%) Google Workspace
6 53 (11.18%) Figma
7 41 (8.65%) GCP
8 19 (4.01%) Pulumi
9 18 (3.80%) Contentsquare
10 6 (1.27%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (1.27%) Dagster
10 6 (1.27%) dbt
11 5 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.84%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.84%) Serverless
12 4 (0.84%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.64%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (3.16%) Ethernet
3 14 (2.95%) 4G
4 12 (2.53%) MPLS
5 11 (2.32%) BGP
5 11 (2.32%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (2.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.32%) IOS XR
6 5 (1.05%) DHCP
7 4 (0.84%) 5G
7 4 (0.84%) Internet
7 4 (0.84%) VoIP
7 4 (0.84%) WAN
8 3 (0.63%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.63%) DSL
8 3 (0.63%) IPv4
8 3 (0.63%) IPv6
8 3 (0.63%) PPP
8 3 (0.63%) RTP
8 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.64%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.01%) RDBMS
2 19 (4.01%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.59%) Metadata
4 7 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.84%) Big Data
6 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (12.03%) Jenkins
2 34 (7.17%) GitLab
3 33 (6.96%) SonarQube
4 23 (4.85%) TeamCity
5 19 (4.01%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.74%) Git
7 6 (1.27%) JIRA
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.21%) Mocha
9 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 231 (48.73%) Games
2 129 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 76 (16.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 69 (14.56%) Organisational Skills
5 59 (12.45%) Telecoms
6 55 (11.60%) Marketing
7 40 (8.44%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (7.38%) Banking
9 30 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.48%) Legal
11 6 (1.27%) Law
12 4 (0.84%) Advertising
12 4 (0.84%) Finance
13 2 (0.42%) Billing
13 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.42%) Retail
14 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 124 (26.16%) Lead
2 96 (20.25%) Senior
3 65 (13.71%) Architect
4 46 (9.70%) Developer
5 39 (8.23%) Designer
6 31 (6.54%) Lead Designer
6 31 (6.54%) Salesforce Architect
7 30 (6.33%) Scala Engineer
8 29 (6.12%) Customer Service Advisor
9 28 (5.91%) Systems Engineer
10 27 (5.70%) Development Manager
11 26 (5.49%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.85%) IAM Developer
13 22 (4.64%) Digital Designer
14 21 (4.43%) Business Development Manager
15 20 (4.22%) Business Manager
16 18 (3.80%) Software Engineer
17 17 (3.59%) Scala Developer
17 17 (3.59%) Scala Software Engineer
18 16 (3.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (19.62%) REST
1 93 (19.62%) SOAP
2 62 (13.08%) GraphQL
3 58 (12.24%) LDAP
3 58 (12.24%) OAuth
3 58 (12.24%) OpenID
3 58 (12.24%) SAML
4 33 (6.96%) Lightning Web Components
4 33 (6.96%) Visualforce
5 27 (5.70%) gRPC
6 23 (4.85%) Akka
7 19 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
8 14 (2.95%) TensorFlow
9 11 (2.32%) Jinja
9 11 (2.32%) NETCONF
9 11 (2.32%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.32%) YANG
10 8 (1.69%) Kafka
11 4 (0.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 138 (29.11%) Social Media
2 69 (14.56%) Cyber Threat
2 69 (14.56%) Cyberattack
3 64 (13.50%) Video\Live Streaming
4 60 (12.66%) Over-the-Top Content
5 46 (9.70%) Mobile App
6 44 (9.28%) Product Ownership
7 29 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (5.70%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.27%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.63%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.42%) Driving Licence
14 1 (0.21%) Data Centre
14 1 (0.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.27%) Linux
2 24 (5.06%) Android
3 23 (4.85%) Apple iOS
4 20 (4.22%) Unix
5 5 (1.05%) Windows
6 3 (0.63%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (55.70%) Roadmaps
2 229 (48.31%) Agile
3 155 (32.70%) Mentoring
4 140 (29.54%) Customer Experience
5 131 (27.64%) AI
6 130 (27.43%) Analytics
7 108 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (21.31%) CI/CD
9 97 (20.46%) User Research
10 83 (17.51%) Storytelling
11 82 (17.30%) Digital Customer Experience
11 82 (17.30%) Product Roadmap
11 82 (17.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 78 (16.46%) Software Engineering
13 73 (15.40%) Cybersecurity
14 69 (14.56%) Programme Delivery
15 61 (12.87%) Continuous Delivery
15 61 (12.87%) Scrum
16 60 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (12.45%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 91 (19.20%) Python
2 81 (17.09%) Bash
3 60 (12.66%) PowerShell
4 58 (12.24%) T-SQL
5 57 (12.03%) Scala
6 47 (9.92%) Go
7 38 (8.02%) SQL
8 33 (6.96%) Apex Code
8 33 (6.96%) SOQL
8 33 (6.96%) SOSL
9 31 (6.54%) Java
10 26 (5.49%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.90%) C++
12 4 (0.84%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.63%) C
14 2 (0.42%) C#
15 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (4.64%) AWS Certification
2 4 (0.84%) Degree
3 3 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.21%) CCA
5 1 (0.21%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (22.36%) Accessibility
2 60 (12.66%) NCSC
2 60 (12.66%) NIST
3 27 (5.70%) WCAG
4 25 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.27%) QA
6 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 72 (15.19%) Docker
2 61 (12.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.43%) Terraform
3 20 (4.22%) Ansible
3 20 (4.22%) Prometheus
4 19 (4.01%) Argo
4 19 (4.01%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.42%) Grafana
7 1 (0.21%) Icinga
7 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 112 (23.63%) Adobe
2 42 (8.86%) Salesforce
3 35 (7.38%) BT
4 33 (6.96%) Splunk
5 27 (5.70%) Typelevel
6 24 (5.06%) Google
7 11 (2.32%) Cisco
8 10 (2.11%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.27%) Checkmarx
10 5 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.84%) Foundry
12 3 (0.63%) VMware
13 2 (0.42%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.42%) Datto
13 2 (0.42%) Dell
13 2 (0.42%) Facebook
13 2 (0.42%) HP
13 2 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.42%) Veeam
14 1 (0.21%) Apple