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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 169 54
Rank change year-on-year +88 -115 +441
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 694 334 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 2.03% 4.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.44% 17.01% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38 164 103
10th Percentile £25,087 - £40,000
25th Percentile £26,278 £23,504 £47,500
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 £87,500 £31,738 -
UK median annual salary £30,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.58% -49.83% -

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 2,357 1,964 4,303
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.87% 11.91% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,198 2,565
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -6.73%

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 23 July 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 30 (4.32%) Confluence
2 25 (3.60%) CMS
3 14 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 55 (7.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 44 (6.34%) UserZoom
3 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Houdini
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) NUKE
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (5.62%) Workfront
2 34 (4.90%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 186 (26.80%) Adobe Analytics
2 123 (17.72%) AWS
3 98 (14.12%) GCP
4 85 (12.25%) Figma
5 69 (9.94%) Contentsquare
6 53 (7.64%) iPaaS
7 36 (5.19%) Azure
8 20 (2.88%) Entra ID
9 18 (2.59%) Google Workspace
10 13 (1.87%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.73%) Cloud Functions
11 12 (1.73%) Cloud Run
12 10 (1.44%) SaaS
13 7 (1.01%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (1.01%) Slack
13 7 (1.01%) Vertex AI
14 6 (0.86%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (0.86%) Dagster
14 6 (0.86%) dbt
15 5 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.44%) 5G
2 6 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.72%) NGN
3 5 (0.72%) SSL
4 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.58%) SSH
4 4 (0.58%) WAN
5 3 (0.43%) 4G
5 3 (0.43%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.29%) MPLS
6 2 (0.29%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) DHCP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.14%) MVNO
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.67%) Metadata
2 50 (7.20%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.17%) BigQuery
5 15 (2.16%) Semantic Layer
6 14 (2.02%) Tableau
7 13 (1.87%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.87%) MySQL
7 13 (1.87%) Power BI
8 12 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.73%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.58%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (7.64%) Jenkins
2 45 (6.48%) GitLab
3 34 (4.90%) SonarQube
4 12 (1.73%) CircleCI
4 12 (1.73%) Cypress.io
4 12 (1.73%) Git
5 9 (1.30%) JIRA
6 3 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 328 (47.26%) Games
2 138 (19.88%) Marketing
3 136 (19.60%) Social Skills
4 66 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.61%) Legal
7 26 (3.75%) Banking
8 23 (3.31%) Telecoms
9 22 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.03%) Finance
11 8 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.86%) Law
13 5 (0.72%) Advertising
14 2 (0.29%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Back Office
15 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (26.66%) Lead
2 110 (15.85%) Senior
3 66 (9.51%) Architect
4 55 (7.93%) Designer
4 55 (7.93%) Developer
5 46 (6.63%) Product Owner
6 45 (6.48%) Lead Designer
7 37 (5.33%) Digital Designer
8 36 (5.19%) Product Manager
9 34 (4.90%) Campaign Manager
10 33 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (4.32%) Scala Engineer
12 28 (4.03%) Software Engineer
13 27 (3.89%) Analyst
14 22 (3.17%) Data Engineer
15 19 (2.74%) User Researcher
16 18 (2.59%) Customer Service Advisor
16 18 (2.59%) Salesforce Technical Architect
16 18 (2.59%) Senior Manager
16 18 (2.59%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.79%) REST
2 54 (7.78%) SOAP
3 45 (6.48%) gRPC
4 34 (4.90%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (4.90%) RESTful
4 34 (4.90%) Visualforce
5 27 (3.89%) Node.js
5 27 (3.89%) PyTorch
6 23 (3.31%) TensorFlow
7 20 (2.88%) GraphQL
8 19 (2.74%) React
9 18 (2.59%) LDAP
9 18 (2.59%) OAuth
9 18 (2.59%) OpenID
9 18 (2.59%) SAML
10 12 (1.73%) Leaflet
10 12 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (1.73%) Playwright
11 7 (1.01%) LangChain
11 7 (1.01%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 310 (44.67%) Social Media
2 142 (20.46%) Over-the-Top Content
2 142 (20.46%) Product Ownership
3 100 (14.41%) Video\Live Streaming
4 90 (12.97%) Marketing Technology
5 85 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (8.07%) Cloud Native
7 51 (7.35%) Cyber Threat
7 51 (7.35%) Cyberattack
8 31 (4.47%) Low-Code
8 31 (4.47%) Onboarding
9 30 (4.32%) Mobile App
10 21 (3.03%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.59%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.01%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.86%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (0.86%) Clustering
15 4 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.31%) Android
1 23 (3.31%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (58.65%) Roadmaps
2 359 (51.73%) Agile
3 334 (48.13%) AI
4 310 (44.67%) Customer Experience
5 242 (34.87%) Analytics
6 197 (28.39%) CI/CD
7 190 (27.38%) Product Roadmap
8 186 (26.80%) Storytelling
9 185 (26.66%) Digital Customer Experience
9 185 (26.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 175 (25.22%) Decision-Making
11 167 (24.06%) User Research
12 158 (22.77%) Personalization
13 145 (20.89%) Mentoring
14 137 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 133 (19.16%) Machine Learning
16 127 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
17 122 (17.58%) Software Engineering
18 94 (13.54%) Sprint Planning
19 93 (13.40%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 172 (24.78%) Python
2 79 (11.38%) Go
3 51 (7.35%) Scala
4 46 (6.63%) SQL
5 34 (4.90%) Apex Code
5 34 (4.90%) SOQL
5 34 (4.90%) SOSL
6 26 (3.75%) JavaScript
7 22 (3.17%) Java
8 20 (2.88%) Bash
8 20 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.59%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.45%) C#
11 6 (0.86%) C++
12 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (1.87%) Degree
2 11 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.01%) PhD
4 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.29%) CCA
7 1 (0.14%) MCT
7 1 (0.14%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (29.97%) Accessibility
2 55 (7.93%) WCAG
3 24 (3.46%) NIST
3 24 (3.46%) QA
4 20 (2.88%) NCSC
5 18 (2.59%) GDPR
6 16 (2.31%) Data Quality
6 16 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.86%) PERC
8 4 (0.58%) SLA
9 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 69 (9.94%) Docker
2 20 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.73%) Podman
3 9 (1.30%) Grafana
4 7 (1.01%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.43%) Terraform
6 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 284 (40.92%) Adobe
2 45 (6.48%) Typelevel
3 41 (5.91%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.90%) Splunk
5 26 (3.75%) BT
6 25 (3.60%) Google
7 13 (1.87%) SAP
8 12 (1.73%) Oracle
9 11 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.15%) Foundry
11 7 (1.01%) Microsoft
12 6 (0.86%) Checkmarx
12 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.58%) Databricks
13 4 (0.58%) Thales
14 2 (0.29%) CyberArk
14 2 (0.29%) Facebook
15 1 (0.14%) Ariba
15 1 (0.14%) HubSpot
15 1 (0.14%) VMware