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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 228 148
Rank change year-on-year +171 -80 +409
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 646 187 690
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.75% 1.45% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.00% 11.47% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 46 92 168
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,087 - £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,664 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.70% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £35,000 £25,267 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £47,425 -
UK median annual salary £25,448 £23,504 £40,000
% change year-on-year +8.27% -41.24% -27.27%

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 1,900 1,630 4,509
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.03% 12.61% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,194 3,478
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,087 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.53%
75th Percentile £71,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £51,887 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.09% +9.23% -6.86%

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 9 April 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 20 (3.10%) Confluence
2 18 (2.79%) CMS
3 14 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (5.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (4.64%) UserZoom
3 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (3.25%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (3.10%) Workfront
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 159 (24.61%) Adobe Analytics
2 100 (15.48%) AWS
3 83 (12.85%) Figma
4 73 (11.30%) Azure
5 72 (11.15%) GCP
6 60 (9.29%) Entra ID
7 56 (8.67%) Google Workspace
8 46 (7.12%) Contentsquare
9 34 (5.26%) iPaaS
10 19 (2.94%) Pulumi
11 8 (1.24%) Cloud Functions
11 8 (1.24%) Cloud Run
12 7 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.08%) Vertex AI
13 6 (0.93%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (0.93%) Dagster
13 6 (0.93%) dbt
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.77%) Serverless
14 5 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (2.17%) 4G
3 12 (1.86%) 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 4 (0.62%) 5G
6 4 (0.62%) NGN
7 3 (0.46%) DHCP
7 3 (0.46%) Internet
7 3 (0.46%) VoIP
7 3 (0.46%) WAN
8 2 (0.31%) DOCSIS
8 2 (0.31%) DSL
8 2 (0.31%) IPv4
8 2 (0.31%) IPv6
8 2 (0.31%) PPP
8 2 (0.31%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.89%) Metadata
2 29 (4.49%) NoSQL
3 19 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 19 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.32%) 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
Development Applications
1 63 (9.75%) Jenkins
2 36 (5.57%) GitLab
3 35 (5.42%) SonarQube
4 23 (3.56%) TeamCity
5 19 (2.94%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.01%) Git
7 9 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.24%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.62%) JIRA
10 2 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
General
1 309 (47.83%) Games
2 144 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 106 (16.41%) Marketing
4 76 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (10.37%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (8.20%) Telecoms
7 39 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.25%) Legal
10 20 (3.10%) Banking
11 6 (0.93%) Law
12 4 (0.62%) Advertising
12 4 (0.62%) Finance
13 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 182 (28.17%) Lead
2 113 (17.49%) Senior
3 70 (10.84%) Architect
4 59 (9.13%) Designer
4 59 (9.13%) Developer
5 47 (7.28%) Lead Designer
6 42 (6.50%) Scala Engineer
7 36 (5.57%) Digital Designer
8 34 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (5.11%) Salesforce Architect
10 29 (4.49%) Product Owner
11 27 (4.18%) Development Manager
11 27 (4.18%) Senior Developer
11 27 (4.18%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.72%) Product Manager
13 23 (3.56%) Scala Developer
13 23 (3.56%) Scala Software Engineer
14 21 (3.25%) Campaign Manager
14 21 (3.25%) IAM Developer
15 19 (2.94%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (15.48%) REST
2 93 (14.40%) SOAP
3 60 (9.29%) GraphQL
4 56 (8.67%) LDAP
4 56 (8.67%) OAuth
4 56 (8.67%) OpenID
4 56 (8.67%) SAML
5 45 (6.97%) gRPC
6 35 (5.42%) Lightning Web Components
6 35 (5.42%) Visualforce
7 23 (3.56%) Akka
8 19 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (2.63%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.48%) TensorFlow
11 15 (2.32%) React
12 11 (1.70%) Jinja
12 11 (1.70%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.70%) YANG
13 9 (1.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 251 (38.85%) Social Media
2 129 (19.97%) Over-the-Top Content
3 102 (15.79%) Product Ownership
4 91 (14.09%) Video\Live Streaming
5 71 (10.99%) Cyber Threat
5 71 (10.99%) Cyberattack
6 57 (8.82%) Marketing Technology
7 51 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (7.12%) Mobile App
9 26 (4.02%) 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%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.18%) Linux
2 24 (3.72%) Android
3 23 (3.56%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.94%) Unix
5 4 (0.62%) Windows
6 2 (0.31%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (61.30%) Roadmaps
2 363 (56.19%) Agile
3 276 (42.72%) Customer Experience
4 234 (36.22%) AI
5 225 (34.83%) Analytics
6 179 (27.71%) Mentoring
7 163 (25.23%) User Research
8 162 (25.08%) Product Roadmap
9 160 (24.77%) Storytelling
10 159 (24.61%) Digital Customer Experience
10 159 (24.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 143 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (20.28%) CI/CD
13 122 (18.89%) Decision-Making
14 117 (18.11%) Software Engineering
15 115 (17.80%) Personalization
16 99 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (13.47%) Machine Learning
18 84 (13.00%) Prototyping
19 82 (12.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 142 (21.98%) Python
2 79 (12.23%) Bash
3 75 (11.61%) Scala
4 72 (11.15%) Go
5 58 (8.98%) PowerShell
6 56 (8.67%) T-SQL
7 39 (6.04%) Java
8 38 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 38 (5.88%) SQL
9 35 (5.42%) Apex Code
9 35 (5.42%) SOQL
9 35 (5.42%) SOSL
10 10 (1.55%) C#
11 8 (1.24%) C++
12 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.31%) C
14 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (3.25%) AWS Certification
2 11 (1.70%) Degree
3 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.08%) PhD
4 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.31%) CCA
6 1 (0.15%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (28.33%) Accessibility
2 58 (8.98%) NCSC
2 58 (8.98%) NIST
3 50 (7.74%) WCAG
4 25 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.63%) QA
6 4 (0.62%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) PERC
8 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (15.02%) Docker
2 58 (8.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.25%) Terraform
3 20 (3.10%) Ansible
3 20 (3.10%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.94%) Argo
4 19 (2.94%) Kustomize
5 10 (1.55%) Grafana
6 8 (1.24%) Podman
7 5 (0.77%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.15%) Icinga
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 239 (37.00%) Adobe
2 45 (6.97%) Typelevel
3 42 (6.50%) Salesforce
4 40 (6.19%) Google
5 35 (5.42%) Splunk
6 20 (3.10%) BT
7 11 (1.70%) Cisco
8 9 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.24%) Microsoft
10 7 (1.08%) Foundry
11 6 (0.93%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.31%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.31%) Dell
13 2 (0.31%) Facebook
13 2 (0.31%) HP
13 2 (0.31%) VMware
14 1 (0.15%) Apple
14 1 (0.15%) DoubleClick
14 1 (0.15%) Veeam