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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 262 340
Rank change year-on-year +158 +78 +206
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 410 172 197
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.50% 1.12% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.31% 8.84% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58 41 155
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% -26.15%
75th Percentile £34,094 £31,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £42,200 £71,250 -
UK median annual salary £25,087 £25,250 £26,500
% change year-on-year -0.65% -4.72% -53.71%

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 1,620 1,946 3,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.89% 12.69% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,153 3,241
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -2.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 22 February 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 7 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.98%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) CMS
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) UserZoom
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.34%) Azure
2 63 (15.37%) Entra ID
3 58 (14.15%) Google Workspace
4 54 (13.17%) AWS
5 53 (12.93%) Adobe Analytics
6 48 (11.71%) Figma
7 33 (8.05%) GCP
8 19 (4.63%) Pulumi
9 6 (1.46%) Cloud Composer
9 6 (1.46%) Dagster
9 6 (1.46%) dbt
10 5 (1.22%) Contentsquare
10 5 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.22%) Serverless
11 3 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.73%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.73%) Slack
11 3 (0.73%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.37%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (3.66%) Ethernet
3 14 (3.41%) 4G
4 12 (2.93%) MPLS
5 11 (2.68%) BGP
5 11 (2.68%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (2.68%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.68%) IOS XR
6 5 (1.22%) DHCP
7 4 (0.98%) 5G
7 4 (0.98%) Internet
7 4 (0.98%) VoIP
7 4 (0.98%) WAN
8 3 (0.73%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.73%) DSL
8 3 (0.73%) IPv4
8 3 (0.73%) IPv6
8 3 (0.73%) PPP
8 3 (0.73%) RTP
8 3 (0.73%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.61%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.63%) RDBMS
2 19 (4.63%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.90%) Metadata
4 7 (1.71%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.22%) Big Data
6 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 52 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.07%) GitLab
3 28 (6.83%) SonarQube
4 23 (5.61%) TeamCity
5 19 (4.63%) Jaeger
6 14 (3.41%) Git
7 7 (1.71%) JIRA
8 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.49%) Mocha
9 2 (0.49%) Postman
9 2 (0.49%) webpack
10 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) Jasmine
General
1 184 (44.88%) Games
2 123 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (16.59%) Organisational Skills
5 59 (14.39%) Telecoms
6 42 (10.24%) Marketing
7 40 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (8.29%) Banking
9 28 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Law
11 4 (0.98%) Advertising
11 4 (0.98%) Finance
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.49%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.49%) Retail
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (26.59%) Lead
2 88 (21.46%) Senior
3 60 (14.63%) Architect
4 43 (10.49%) Developer
5 38 (9.27%) Designer
6 31 (7.56%) Lead Designer
7 28 (6.83%) Customer Service Advisor
8 27 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
9 26 (6.34%) Salesforce Architect
10 25 (6.10%) Development Manager
10 25 (6.10%) Senior Developer
11 24 (5.85%) Scala Engineer
12 23 (5.61%) IAM Developer
13 21 (5.12%) Business Development Manager
13 21 (5.12%) Digital Designer
14 20 (4.88%) Business Manager
15 14 (3.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 14 (3.41%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (3.41%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (21.46%) REST
1 88 (21.46%) SOAP
2 62 (15.12%) GraphQL
3 58 (14.15%) LDAP
3 58 (14.15%) OAuth
3 58 (14.15%) OpenID
3 58 (14.15%) SAML
4 28 (6.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 28 (6.83%) Visualforce
5 23 (5.61%) Akka
6 19 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (4.39%) gRPC
8 14 (3.41%) TensorFlow
9 11 (2.68%) Jinja
9 11 (2.68%) NETCONF
9 11 (2.68%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.68%) YANG
10 8 (1.95%) Kafka
11 5 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 108 (26.34%) Social Media
2 66 (16.10%) Cyber Threat
2 66 (16.10%) Cyberattack
3 55 (13.41%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (10.98%) Over-the-Top Content
5 37 (9.02%) Mobile App
6 33 (8.05%) Product Ownership
7 20 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (4.15%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.46%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.49%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.49%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.49%) IoT
11 2 (0.49%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.49%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.34%) Linux
2 21 (5.12%) Unix
3 15 (3.66%) Android
4 14 (3.41%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.22%) Windows
6 3 (0.73%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (52.20%) Roadmaps
2 184 (44.88%) Agile
3 136 (33.17%) Mentoring
4 104 (25.37%) Customer Experience
5 96 (23.41%) Analytics
6 95 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (22.44%) AI
8 78 (19.02%) CI/CD
9 73 (17.80%) User Research
10 70 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
11 68 (16.59%) Software Engineering
12 66 (16.10%) Programme Delivery
13 58 (14.15%) Identity Access Management
13 58 (14.15%) Regulatory Compliance
14 56 (13.66%) Scrum
15 55 (13.41%) Storytelling
16 53 (12.93%) Digital Customer Experience
16 53 (12.93%) Product Roadmap
16 53 (12.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 50 (12.20%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.76%) Bash
2 80 (19.51%) Python
3 60 (14.63%) PowerShell
4 58 (14.15%) T-SQL
5 48 (11.71%) Scala
6 38 (9.27%) Go
6 38 (9.27%) SQL
7 30 (7.32%) Java
8 28 (6.83%) Apex Code
8 28 (6.83%) SOQL
8 28 (6.83%) SOSL
9 24 (5.85%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.20%) C++
11 4 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.73%) C
13 2 (0.49%) R
14 1 (0.24%) C#
14 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (5.37%) AWS Certification
2 4 (0.98%) Degree
3 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.24%) CCA
4 1 (0.24%) City & Guilds
4 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (16.59%) Accessibility
2 60 (14.63%) NCSC
2 60 (14.63%) NIST
3 25 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.46%) QA
4 6 (1.46%) WCAG
5 3 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (15.12%) Docker
2 61 (14.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Firmware
4 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.12%) Terraform
3 20 (4.88%) Ansible
3 20 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 19 (4.63%) Argo
4 19 (4.63%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.73%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Icinga
6 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 77 (18.78%) Adobe
2 37 (9.02%) Salesforce
3 34 (8.29%) BT
4 28 (6.83%) Splunk
5 25 (6.10%) Google
6 18 (4.39%) Typelevel
7 11 (2.68%) Cisco
8 9 (2.20%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.46%) Checkmarx
10 3 (0.73%) Foundry
10 3 (0.73%) VMware
11 2 (0.49%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.49%) Datto
11 2 (0.49%) Dell
11 2 (0.49%) Facebook
11 2 (0.49%) HP
11 2 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.49%) Veeam
12 1 (0.24%) Apple