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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 179 69
Rank change year-on-year +127 -110 +443
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 809 303 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.05% 1.97% 3.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.62% 15.81% 26.15%
Number of salaries quoted 41 146 146
10th Percentile - - £40,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £45,313
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 £80,000 £31,738 -
UK median annual salary £28,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.61% -49.83% -0.99%

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 2,209 1,917 5,129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.06% 12.49% 14.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,149 3,308
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,921 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -7.50%

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 17 June 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 29 (3.58%) Confluence
2 25 (3.09%) CMS
3 14 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.74%) SAS
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
Applications
1 54 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 45 (5.56%) UserZoom
3 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (4.82%) Workfront
2 34 (4.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 189 (23.36%) Adobe Analytics
2 141 (17.43%) AWS
3 100 (12.36%) GCP
4 99 (12.24%) Figma
5 70 (8.65%) Contentsquare
6 63 (7.79%) Azure
7 53 (6.55%) iPaaS
8 48 (5.93%) Entra ID
8 48 (5.93%) Google Workspace
9 20 (2.47%) Pulumi
10 13 (1.61%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.48%) Cloud Functions
11 12 (1.48%) Cloud Run
12 9 (1.11%) SaaS
12 9 (1.11%) Slack
13 7 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (0.87%) Vertex AI
14 6 (0.74%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (0.74%) Dagster
14 6 (0.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.73%) 4G
2 13 (1.61%) MPLS
3 11 (1.36%) BGP
3 11 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
3 11 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (1.36%) IOS XR
3 11 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.24%) 5G
5 7 (0.87%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.62%) NGN
7 4 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.49%) SSH
7 4 (0.49%) SSL
7 4 (0.49%) WAN
8 2 (0.25%) DNS
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) VoIP
9 1 (0.12%) VPN
9 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.14%) Metadata
2 50 (6.18%) MongoDB
3 34 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.83%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.84%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.22%) RDBMS
8 15 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
9 14 (1.73%) Tableau
10 13 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 13 (1.61%) Power BI
11 12 (1.48%) MySQL
11 12 (1.48%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.12%) Big Data
14 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 75 (9.27%) Jenkins
2 44 (5.44%) GitLab
3 34 (4.20%) SonarQube
4 23 (2.84%) Git
5 22 (2.72%) TeamCity
6 18 (2.22%) Jaeger
7 12 (1.48%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.87%) JIRA
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 362 (44.75%) Games
2 182 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.93%) Marketing
4 89 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (6.55%) Telecoms
7 52 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.96%) Legal
9 27 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.72%) Banking
11 21 (2.60%) Finance
12 6 (0.74%) Advertising
12 6 (0.74%) Law
13 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.12%) Back Office
14 1 (0.12%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (27.44%) Lead
2 148 (18.29%) Senior
3 87 (10.75%) Architect
4 71 (8.78%) Developer
5 61 (7.54%) Designer
6 49 (6.06%) Lead Designer
7 46 (5.69%) Product Owner
8 42 (5.19%) Scala Engineer
9 38 (4.70%) Digital Designer
10 36 (4.45%) Product Manager
11 35 (4.33%) Software Engineer
12 34 (4.20%) Campaign Manager
12 34 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
13 33 (4.08%) Salesforce Architect
14 29 (3.58%) Analyst
15 27 (3.34%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.09%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.84%) Scala Software Engineer
18 22 (2.72%) Scala Developer
19 21 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (11.00%) REST
2 82 (10.14%) SOAP
3 48 (5.93%) GraphQL
3 48 (5.93%) LDAP
3 48 (5.93%) OAuth
3 48 (5.93%) OpenID
3 48 (5.93%) SAML
4 45 (5.56%) gRPC
5 34 (4.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (4.20%) Visualforce
6 32 (3.96%) RESTful
7 29 (3.58%) PyTorch
8 27 (3.34%) Node.js
9 25 (3.09%) TensorFlow
10 22 (2.72%) Akka
11 20 (2.47%) React
12 18 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (1.48%) Leaflet
13 12 (1.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 328 (40.54%) Social Media
2 166 (20.52%) Over-the-Top Content
3 142 (17.55%) Product Ownership
4 125 (15.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 90 (11.12%) Marketing Technology
6 85 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
7 81 (10.01%) Cyber Threat
7 81 (10.01%) Cyberattack
8 55 (6.80%) Cloud Native
9 44 (5.44%) Mobile App
10 31 (3.83%) Low-Code
11 30 (3.71%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.84%) Algorithms
13 18 (2.22%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.74%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (0.74%) Clustering
15 6 (0.74%) Public Cloud
16 4 (0.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.21%) Linux
2 23 (2.84%) Android
2 23 (2.84%) Apple iOS
3 18 (2.22%) Unix
4 2 (0.25%) Windows
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (58.47%) Roadmaps
2 430 (53.15%) Agile
3 342 (42.27%) Customer Experience
4 338 (41.78%) AI
5 269 (33.25%) Analytics
6 207 (25.59%) Mentoring
7 196 (24.23%) CI/CD
8 193 (23.86%) Product Roadmap
9 189 (23.36%) Storytelling
10 188 (23.24%) Digital Customer Experience
10 188 (23.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 184 (22.74%) User Research
12 177 (21.88%) Decision-Making
13 160 (19.78%) Personalization
14 158 (19.53%) Software Engineering
15 143 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
16 139 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (16.69%) Machine Learning
18 98 (12.11%) Data Science
19 94 (11.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 202 (24.97%) Python
2 97 (11.99%) Go
3 74 (9.15%) Scala
4 67 (8.28%) Bash
5 60 (7.42%) SQL
6 48 (5.93%) PowerShell
6 48 (5.93%) T-SQL
7 43 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 40 (4.94%) Java
9 34 (4.20%) Apex Code
9 34 (4.20%) SOQL
9 34 (4.20%) SOSL
10 16 (1.98%) C#
11 6 (0.74%) C++
12 4 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (2.22%) AWS Certification
2 13 (1.61%) Degree
3 11 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (0.87%) PhD
5 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.25%) CCA
8 1 (0.12%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (26.33%) Accessibility
2 56 (6.92%) WCAG
3 52 (6.43%) NIST
4 48 (5.93%) NCSC
5 28 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.84%) QA
7 18 (2.22%) GDPR
8 17 (2.10%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.74%) PERC
10 4 (0.49%) SLA
11 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 108 (13.35%) Docker
2 48 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.72%) Terraform
3 19 (2.35%) Ansible
4 18 (2.22%) Argo
4 18 (2.22%) Kustomize
4 18 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.48%) Podman
6 9 (1.11%) Grafana
6 9 (1.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 300 (37.08%) Adobe
2 45 (5.56%) Typelevel
3 43 (5.32%) Google
4 40 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.20%) Splunk
6 22 (2.72%) BT
7 13 (1.61%) SAP
7 13 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.48%) Oracle
9 11 (1.36%) Cisco
10 8 (0.99%) Microsoft
11 7 (0.87%) Foundry
12 6 (0.74%) Checkmarx
12 6 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.49%) Thales
14 3 (0.37%) Databricks
15 2 (0.25%) Dell
15 2 (0.25%) Facebook
15 2 (0.25%) HP
16 1 (0.12%) Ariba