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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 179 37
Rank change year-on-year +25 -142 +445
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 400 283 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 1.73% 5.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.71% 15.70% 36.42%
Number of salaries quoted 33 125 30
10th Percentile £13,929 £23,504 £29,050
25th Percentile £24,500 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £25,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +99.31% -49.83% +2.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £56,401
90th Percentile £87,500 £26,968 £73,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £25,087 £40,000
% change year-on-year +29.55% -37.28% +60.00%

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 2,259 1,802 3,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.28% 11.05% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,342 1,037 1,613
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,445 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.11% -20.00% -0.99%

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 18 September 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 18 (4.50%) Confluence
2 15 (3.75%) CMS
3 7 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.50%) SAS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (9.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 25 (6.25%) UserZoom
3 14 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Houdini
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) NUKE
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 29 (7.25%) Workfront
2 20 (5.00%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (3.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (19.25%) Adobe Analytics
2 63 (15.75%) AWS
3 42 (10.50%) GCP
4 41 (10.25%) Contentsquare
5 38 (9.50%) Figma
6 36 (9.00%) iPaaS
7 14 (3.50%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.50%) Azure
8 10 (2.50%) SaaS
9 6 (1.50%) Cloud Functions
9 6 (1.50%) Cloud Run
10 5 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.25%) Slack
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.50%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (0.50%) Serverless
13 1 (0.25%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.25%) 5G
2 5 (1.25%) SSL
3 4 (1.00%) SSH
3 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.75%) DNS
4 3 (0.75%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.50%) NGN
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) HTTP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) MPLS
6 1 (0.25%) MVNO
6 1 (0.25%) SMS
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) VoIP
6 1 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.50%) Metadata
2 38 (9.50%) MongoDB
3 29 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 15 (3.75%) Semantic Layer
5 15 (3.75%) Tableau
6 14 (3.50%) Power BI
7 13 (3.25%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.25%) MySQL
8 12 (3.00%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.25%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 21 (5.25%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.25%) GitLab
3 12 (3.00%) Git
4 7 (1.75%) JIRA
5 6 (1.50%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.50%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 141 (35.25%) Games
2 92 (23.00%) Social Skills
3 72 (18.00%) Marketing
4 58 (14.50%) Banking
5 42 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (6.00%) Finance
7 24 (6.00%) Telecoms
8 21 (5.25%) Legal
9 5 (1.25%) Advertising
10 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Back Office
12 1 (0.25%) Electronics
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (20.00%) Lead
2 60 (15.00%) Senior
3 31 (7.75%) Developer
3 31 (7.75%) Product Owner
4 30 (7.50%) Architect
5 26 (6.50%) Analyst
6 21 (5.25%) Customer Service Advisor
7 20 (5.00%) Campaign Manager
7 20 (5.00%) Product Manager
8 19 (4.75%) Designer
9 15 (3.75%) Lead Designer
10 13 (3.25%) Digital Designer
10 13 (3.25%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.00%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.75%) Senior Developer
12 11 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.50%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (2.50%) User Researcher
14 9 (2.25%) Senior Campaign Manager
14 9 (2.25%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.50%) RESTful
2 21 (5.25%) Node.js
3 13 (3.25%) PyTorch
3 13 (3.25%) TensorFlow
4 12 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.75%) REST
6 9 (2.25%) gRPC
6 9 (2.25%) React
6 9 (2.25%) SOAP
7 7 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (1.50%) Leaflet
8 6 (1.50%) Playwright
8 6 (1.50%) Streamlit
8 6 (1.50%) Visualforce
9 5 (1.25%) .NET
9 5 (1.25%) TFX
10 4 (1.00%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.00%) PySpark
11 3 (0.75%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 171 (42.75%) Social Media
2 75 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 73 (18.25%) Over-the-Top Content
4 59 (14.75%) Marketing Technology
5 52 (13.00%) Cloud Native
6 48 (12.00%) Video\Live Streaming
7 47 (11.75%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (6.25%) Low-Code
9 20 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
9 20 (5.00%) Cyberattack
10 13 (3.25%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.25%) Algorithms
10 13 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.00%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.25%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.50%) Clustering
14 4 (1.00%) PKI
14 4 (1.00%) Replication
14 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.25%) Linux
2 3 (0.75%) Windows
3 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (44.00%) Roadmaps
2 166 (41.50%) AI
3 155 (38.75%) Agile
4 154 (38.50%) Customer Experience
5 110 (27.50%) Analytics
6 96 (24.00%) Decision-Making
7 94 (23.50%) CI/CD
8 81 (20.25%) Personalization
9 78 (19.50%) Product Roadmap
10 76 (19.00%) Storytelling
11 75 (18.75%) Digital Customer Experience
11 75 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 70 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (16.00%) Machine Learning
14 63 (15.75%) Sprint Planning
15 60 (15.00%) Product Vision
15 60 (15.00%) User Research
15 60 (15.00%) User Stories
16 59 (14.75%) Software Engineering
17 58 (14.50%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.75%) Python
2 37 (9.25%) Go
3 30 (7.50%) SQL
4 13 (3.25%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.25%) C#
5 9 (2.25%) Scala
6 7 (1.75%) Apex Code
6 7 (1.75%) SOQL
7 6 (1.50%) SOSL
8 5 (1.25%) Java
8 5 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.75%) Bash
9 3 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (1.50%) Degree
2 5 (1.25%) CCA
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.25%) HNC
5 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.25%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (19.25%) Accessibility
2 19 (4.75%) WCAG
3 18 (4.50%) QA
4 17 (4.25%) Data Quality
5 16 (4.00%) GDPR
6 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.75%) NIST
7 4 (1.00%) PERC
7 4 (1.00%) SLA
8 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (6.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) Podman
3 5 (1.25%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 138 (34.50%) Adobe
2 58 (14.50%) BT
3 14 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.25%) Oracle
4 13 (3.25%) SAP
5 9 (2.25%) Google
5 9 (2.25%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.50%) Splunk
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.00%) Databricks
8 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.00%) Thales
9 3 (0.75%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco
10 2 (0.50%) Meraki
10 2 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.50%) Veeam
11 1 (0.25%) Ariba
11 1 (0.25%) DoubleClick
11 1 (0.25%) Foundry