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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 235 195
Rank change year-on-year +178 -40 +348
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 647 171 507
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.88% 1.33% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.23% 10.61% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 49 81 164
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,087 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £35,000 £25,267 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 -
UK median annual salary £25,087 £23,504 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -41.24% -29.82%

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 1,890 1,611 4,294
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.33% 12.56% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,196 3,460
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £30,613
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £66,741
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £48,392
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.49% -6.04%

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 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 19 (2.94%) Confluence
2 17 (2.63%) CMS
3 14 (2.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
Applications
1 33 (5.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (4.64%) UserZoom
3 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (3.25%) Adobe Campaign
2 19 (2.94%) Workfront
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (23.80%) Adobe Analytics
2 98 (15.15%) AWS
3 77 (11.90%) Figma
4 73 (11.28%) Azure
5 70 (10.82%) GCP
6 61 (9.43%) Entra ID
7 56 (8.66%) Google Workspace
8 45 (6.96%) Contentsquare
9 33 (5.10%) iPaaS
10 19 (2.94%) Pulumi
11 7 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (1.08%) Vertex AI
12 6 (0.93%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (0.93%) Cloud Functions
12 6 (0.93%) Cloud Run
12 6 (0.93%) Dagster
12 6 (0.93%) dbt
12 6 (0.93%) Serverless
13 5 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (2.16%) 4G
3 12 (1.85%) MPLS
4 11 (1.70%) BGP
4 11 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (1.70%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (1.70%) IOS XR
5 10 (1.55%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.77%) DHCP
7 4 (0.62%) 5G
7 4 (0.62%) Internet
7 4 (0.62%) NGN
7 4 (0.62%) VoIP
7 4 (0.62%) WAN
8 3 (0.46%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.46%) DSL
8 3 (0.46%) GPON
8 3 (0.46%) IPv4
8 3 (0.46%) IPv6
8 3 (0.46%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.57%) Metadata
2 28 (4.33%) NoSQL
3 19 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 19 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.62%) Big Data
7 2 (0.31%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 69 (10.66%) Jenkins
2 42 (6.49%) GitLab
3 41 (6.34%) SonarQube
4 23 (3.55%) TeamCity
5 19 (2.94%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.01%) Git
7 8 (1.24%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.93%) JIRA
10 2 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.15%) Mocha
11 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 313 (48.38%) Games
2 143 (22.10%) Social Skills
3 111 (17.16%) Marketing
4 82 (12.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (10.36%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (8.19%) Telecoms
7 40 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (5.72%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.55%) Banking
10 19 (2.94%) Legal
11 6 (0.93%) Law
12 5 (0.77%) Advertising
13 4 (0.62%) Finance
14 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.31%) Retail
15 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 177 (27.36%) Lead
2 113 (17.47%) Senior
3 77 (11.90%) Architect
4 58 (8.96%) Developer
5 57 (8.81%) Designer
6 45 (6.96%) Lead Designer
7 42 (6.49%) Scala Engineer
8 39 (6.03%) Salesforce Architect
9 36 (5.56%) Digital Designer
10 34 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
11 28 (4.33%) Product Owner
12 27 (4.17%) Development Manager
12 27 (4.17%) Senior Developer
12 27 (4.17%) Software Engineer
13 23 (3.55%) Product Manager
13 23 (3.55%) Scala Developer
13 23 (3.55%) Scala Software Engineer
14 22 (3.40%) Customer Service Advisor
15 21 (3.25%) IAM Developer
15 21 (3.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.38%) REST
2 99 (15.30%) SOAP
3 60 (9.27%) GraphQL
4 56 (8.66%) LDAP
4 56 (8.66%) OAuth
4 56 (8.66%) OpenID
4 56 (8.66%) SAML
5 45 (6.96%) gRPC
6 41 (6.34%) Lightning Web Components
6 41 (6.34%) Visualforce
7 23 (3.55%) Akka
8 19 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (2.63%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.47%) TensorFlow
11 14 (2.16%) React
12 11 (1.70%) Jinja
12 11 (1.70%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.70%) YANG
13 8 (1.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 244 (37.71%) Social Media
2 128 (19.78%) Over-the-Top Content
3 107 (16.54%) Product Ownership
4 91 (14.06%) Video\Live Streaming
5 71 (10.97%) Cyber Threat
5 71 (10.97%) Cyberattack
6 56 (8.66%) Marketing Technology
7 51 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (7.11%) Mobile App
9 27 (4.17%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.32%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.93%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.77%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.62%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
15 3 (0.46%) Management Information System
16 2 (0.31%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.48%) Linux
2 24 (3.71%) Android
3 23 (3.55%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.09%) Unix
5 5 (0.77%) Windows
6 3 (0.46%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (61.21%) Roadmaps
2 361 (55.80%) Agile
3 270 (41.73%) Customer Experience
4 229 (35.39%) AI
5 220 (34.00%) Analytics
6 178 (27.51%) Mentoring
7 159 (24.57%) User Research
8 157 (24.27%) Product Roadmap
9 155 (23.96%) Storytelling
10 154 (23.80%) Digital Customer Experience
10 154 (23.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 147 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
12 136 (21.02%) CI/CD
13 120 (18.55%) Decision-Making
14 117 (18.08%) Software Engineering
15 114 (17.62%) Personalization
16 102 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (13.45%) Continuous Delivery
17 87 (13.45%) Machine Learning
18 82 (12.67%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 143 (22.10%) Python
2 79 (12.21%) Bash
3 75 (11.59%) Scala
4 72 (11.13%) Go
5 58 (8.96%) PowerShell
6 56 (8.66%) T-SQL
7 41 (6.34%) Apex Code
7 41 (6.34%) SOQL
7 41 (6.34%) SOSL
8 39 (6.03%) Java
9 38 (5.87%) SQL
10 36 (5.56%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.55%) C#
12 9 (1.39%) C++
13 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.46%) C
15 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (3.25%) AWS Certification
2 10 (1.55%) Degree
3 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.08%) PhD
4 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.15%) CCA
6 1 (0.15%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (27.51%) Accessibility
2 58 (8.96%) NCSC
2 58 (8.96%) NIST
3 49 (7.57%) WCAG
4 25 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.47%) QA
6 4 (0.62%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) PERC
8 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.31%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 95 (14.68%) Docker
2 59 (9.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.25%) Terraform
3 20 (3.09%) Ansible
3 20 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.94%) Argo
4 19 (2.94%) Kustomize
5 10 (1.55%) Grafana
6 6 (0.93%) Podman
7 5 (0.77%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.15%) Icinga
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 232 (35.86%) Adobe
2 48 (7.42%) Salesforce
3 45 (6.96%) Typelevel
4 41 (6.34%) Splunk
5 39 (6.03%) Google
6 23 (3.55%) BT
7 11 (1.70%) Cisco
8 9 (1.39%) Microsoft
8 9 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.08%) Foundry
10 6 (0.93%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.46%) VMware
13 2 (0.31%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.31%) Datto
13 2 (0.31%) Dell
13 2 (0.31%) Facebook
13 2 (0.31%) HP
13 2 (0.31%) Veeam
14 1 (0.15%) Apple