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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 167 38
Rank change year-on-year +48 -129 +457
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 518 303 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 1.83% 5.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.39% 15.91% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 34 135 32
10th Percentile £13,929 - £31,313
25th Percentile £24,647 £23,504 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £25,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +109.27% -49.83% -0.99%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £60,426
90th Percentile £87,500 £29,830 £72,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £25,087 £40,000
% change year-on-year +29.55% -37.28% +50.94%

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 2,314 1,905 3,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.92% 11.53% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 1,137 1,825
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -12.04% -6.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,461 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -3.85%

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 31 August 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 23 (4.44%) Confluence
2 20 (3.86%) CMS
3 14 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (10.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 33 (6.37%) UserZoom
3 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) Houdini
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) NUKE
5 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 38 (7.34%) Workfront
2 28 (5.41%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (2.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.01%) Adobe Analytics
2 91 (17.57%) AWS
3 62 (11.97%) GCP
4 53 (10.23%) Contentsquare
5 52 (10.04%) iPaaS
6 50 (9.65%) Figma
7 18 (3.47%) Azure
8 13 (2.51%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.32%) Cloud Functions
9 12 (2.32%) Cloud Run
10 10 (1.93%) SaaS
11 6 (1.16%) Slack
12 5 (0.97%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (0.77%) Serverless
14 3 (0.58%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.58%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (0.58%) Vertex AI
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.35%) 5G
2 5 (0.97%) SSL
3 4 (0.77%) NGN
3 4 (0.77%) SSH
3 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.58%) DNS
4 3 (0.58%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.58%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) LTE
5 1 (0.19%) MPLS
5 1 (0.19%) MVNO
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VoIP
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.74%) Metadata
2 50 (9.65%) MongoDB
3 35 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.09%) BigQuery
5 15 (2.90%) Semantic Layer
6 14 (2.70%) Tableau
7 13 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.51%) MySQL
7 13 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.51%) Power BI
8 12 (2.32%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.77%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.19%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 33 (6.37%) Jenkins
2 25 (4.83%) GitLab
3 14 (2.70%) SonarQube
4 12 (2.32%) CircleCI
4 12 (2.32%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.32%) Git
5 7 (1.35%) JIRA
6 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 196 (37.84%) Games
2 106 (20.46%) Marketing
3 103 (19.88%) Social Skills
4 56 (10.81%) Banking
5 49 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.02%) Legal
8 22 (4.25%) Telecoms
9 21 (4.05%) Finance
10 5 (0.97%) Advertising
11 3 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.19%) Back Office
13 1 (0.19%) Electronics
13 1 (0.19%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 108 (20.85%) Lead
2 79 (15.25%) Senior
3 43 (8.30%) Product Owner
4 41 (7.92%) Architect
4 41 (7.92%) Developer
5 28 (5.41%) Campaign Manager
5 28 (5.41%) Designer
5 28 (5.41%) Product Manager
6 26 (5.02%) Analyst
7 22 (4.25%) Lead Designer
8 20 (3.86%) Customer Service Advisor
8 20 (3.86%) Digital Designer
9 18 (3.47%) Software Engineer
10 15 (2.90%) Python Developer
10 15 (2.90%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.70%) Salesforce Architect
12 13 (2.51%) Senior Campaign Manager
12 13 (2.51%) Senior Developer
12 13 (2.51%) User Researcher
13 12 (2.32%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.56%) RESTful
2 27 (5.21%) Node.js
3 25 (4.83%) REST
4 19 (3.67%) React
5 18 (3.47%) gRPC
5 18 (3.47%) PyTorch
6 17 (3.28%) SOAP
7 15 (2.90%) Lightning Web Components
8 14 (2.70%) TensorFlow
8 14 (2.70%) Visualforce
9 12 (2.32%) Leaflet
9 12 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (2.32%) Playwright
10 6 (1.16%) Streamlit
10 6 (1.16%) TFX
11 5 (0.97%) .NET
12 4 (0.77%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.77%) Django
12 4 (0.77%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.77%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 229 (44.21%) Social Media
2 113 (21.81%) Product Ownership
3 107 (20.66%) Over-the-Top Content
4 83 (16.02%) Marketing Technology
5 64 (12.36%) Video\Live Streaming
6 60 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (10.62%) Cloud Native
8 31 (5.98%) Low-Code
9 24 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
9 24 (4.63%) Cyberattack
10 20 (3.86%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (2.51%) AI Agents
13 12 (2.32%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.74%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.16%) Clustering
16 4 (0.77%) PKI
16 4 (0.77%) Replication
16 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
17 3 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.74%) Linux
2 3 (0.58%) Windows
3 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (48.46%) Roadmaps
2 235 (45.37%) Agile
3 226 (43.63%) AI
4 223 (43.05%) Customer Experience
5 155 (29.92%) Analytics
6 139 (26.83%) Decision-Making
7 121 (23.36%) CI/CD
8 117 (22.59%) Product Roadmap
9 115 (22.20%) Personalization
10 113 (21.81%) Storytelling
11 112 (21.62%) Digital Customer Experience
11 112 (21.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 105 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (18.15%) Machine Learning
14 92 (17.76%) User Research
15 88 (16.99%) Software Engineering
16 87 (16.80%) Sprint Planning
17 86 (16.60%) Product Vision
18 83 (16.02%) User Stories
19 82 (15.83%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 124 (23.94%) Python
2 52 (10.04%) Go
3 29 (5.60%) SQL
4 23 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.47%) Scala
6 17 (3.28%) C#
7 15 (2.90%) Apex Code
7 15 (2.90%) SOQL
8 14 (2.70%) SOSL
9 13 (2.51%) Java
10 5 (0.97%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.58%) Bash
11 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (2.12%) Degree
2 8 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (1.16%) PhD
4 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.77%) CCA
6 2 (0.39%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.39%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.19%) HNC
7 1 (0.19%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (21.62%) Accessibility
2 32 (6.18%) WCAG
3 26 (5.02%) QA
4 18 (3.47%) GDPR
5 17 (3.28%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.35%) NIST
7 6 (1.16%) PERC
8 4 (0.77%) SLA
9 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (8.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.32%) Podman
3 8 (1.54%) Grafana
4 6 (1.16%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 198 (38.22%) Adobe
2 56 (10.81%) BT
3 23 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.25%) Google
5 18 (3.47%) Typelevel
6 14 (2.70%) Splunk
7 13 (2.51%) Oracle
7 13 (2.51%) SAP
8 8 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.97%) Microsoft
10 4 (0.77%) Databricks
10 4 (0.77%) Foundry
10 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.77%) Thales
11 3 (0.58%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.39%) Cisco
12 2 (0.39%) Meraki
12 2 (0.39%) Veeam
13 1 (0.19%) Ariba
13 1 (0.19%) DoubleClick