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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 280 358
Rank change year-on-year +174 +78 +184
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 400 163 197
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.46% 1.05% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.09% 8.20% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 60 28 155
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile - - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -59.12% -23.33%
75th Percentile £32,281 £43,438 £61,250
90th Percentile £39,400 £76,250 -
UK median annual salary £25,087 £31,000 £26,500
% change year-on-year -19.07% +16.98% -53.71%

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 1,594 1,988 3,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.78% 12.79% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 930 1,147 3,247
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.75% +4.55% -0.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £88,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%

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 February 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 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.75%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) CMS
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) UserZoom
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (16.00%) Azure
2 63 (15.75%) Entra ID
3 58 (14.50%) Google Workspace
4 53 (13.25%) AWS
5 46 (11.50%) Adobe Analytics
6 40 (10.00%) Figma
7 29 (7.25%) GCP
8 19 (4.75%) Pulumi
9 5 (1.25%) Cloud Composer
9 5 (1.25%) Contentsquare
9 5 (1.25%) Dagster
9 5 (1.25%) dbt
9 5 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.25%) Serverless
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (0.75%) Slack
11 2 (0.50%) npm
12 1 (0.25%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (3.75%) Ethernet
3 14 (3.50%) 4G
4 12 (3.00%) MPLS
5 11 (2.75%) BGP
5 11 (2.75%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (2.75%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.75%) IOS XR
6 5 (1.25%) DHCP
7 4 (1.00%) 5G
7 4 (1.00%) Internet
7 4 (1.00%) VoIP
7 4 (1.00%) WAN
8 3 (0.75%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.75%) DSL
8 3 (0.75%) IPv4
8 3 (0.75%) IPv6
8 3 (0.75%) PPP
8 3 (0.75%) RTP
8 3 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.75%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.75%) RDBMS
2 19 (4.75%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.75%) Metadata
4 6 (1.50%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.25%) Big Data
6 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (13.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.25%) GitLab
3 28 (7.00%) SonarQube
4 23 (5.75%) TeamCity
5 19 (4.75%) Jaeger
6 14 (3.50%) Git
7 6 (1.50%) JIRA
8 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.50%) Mocha
9 2 (0.50%) webpack
10 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.25%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 180 (45.00%) Games
2 122 (30.50%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (16.25%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (14.50%) Telecoms
6 41 (10.25%) Marketing
7 40 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (9.25%) Banking
9 25 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.25%) Law
11 4 (1.00%) Advertising
11 4 (1.00%) Finance
12 3 (0.75%) Billing
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.50%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (25.75%) Lead
2 84 (21.00%) Senior
3 60 (15.00%) Architect
4 44 (11.00%) Developer
5 34 (8.50%) Designer
6 31 (7.75%) Customer Service Advisor
7 27 (6.75%) Lead Designer
8 26 (6.50%) Salesforce Architect
8 26 (6.50%) Senior Developer
9 25 (6.25%) Development Manager
10 24 (6.00%) Scala Engineer
10 24 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (5.75%) IAM Developer
12 21 (5.25%) Business Development Manager
13 20 (5.00%) Business Manager
14 19 (4.75%) Digital Designer
15 14 (3.50%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (3.50%) Systems Architect
15 14 (3.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.00%) REST
1 88 (22.00%) SOAP
2 63 (15.75%) GraphQL
3 58 (14.50%) LDAP
3 58 (14.50%) OAuth
3 58 (14.50%) OpenID
3 58 (14.50%) SAML
4 28 (7.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 28 (7.00%) Visualforce
5 23 (5.75%) Akka
6 19 (4.75%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (4.75%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (4.50%) gRPC
8 14 (3.50%) TensorFlow
9 11 (2.75%) Jinja
9 11 (2.75%) NETCONF
9 11 (2.75%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.75%) YANG
10 7 (1.75%) Kafka
11 6 (1.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (24.75%) Social Media
2 67 (16.75%) Cyber Threat
2 67 (16.75%) Cyberattack
3 55 (13.75%) Video\Live Streaming
4 44 (11.00%) Over-the-Top Content
5 37 (9.25%) Mobile App
6 32 (8.00%) Product Ownership
7 20 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (4.25%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.25%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.50%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.50%) IoT
12 2 (0.50%) Smart Home
13 1 (0.25%) Data Centre
13 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.50%) Linux
2 21 (5.25%) Unix
3 15 (3.75%) Android
4 14 (3.50%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.25%) Windows
6 3 (0.75%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (50.75%) Roadmaps
2 173 (43.25%) Agile
3 133 (33.25%) Mentoring
4 93 (23.25%) Customer Experience
4 93 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (21.50%) Analytics
6 82 (20.50%) AI
7 79 (19.75%) CI/CD
8 71 (17.75%) Cybersecurity
9 68 (17.00%) Software Engineering
10 67 (16.75%) Programme Delivery
11 66 (16.50%) User Research
12 58 (14.50%) Identity Access Management
12 58 (14.50%) Regulatory Compliance
13 54 (13.50%) Scrum
14 51 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
15 50 (12.50%) DevOps
16 49 (12.25%) Data Science
17 48 (12.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.25%) Bash
2 76 (19.00%) Python
3 60 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 58 (14.50%) T-SQL
5 47 (11.75%) Scala
6 38 (9.50%) Go
7 36 (9.00%) SQL
8 28 (7.00%) Apex Code
8 28 (7.00%) SOQL
8 28 (7.00%) SOSL
9 26 (6.50%) Java
10 25 (6.25%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.00%) C++
12 5 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.75%) C
14 2 (0.50%) R
15 1 (0.25%) C#
15 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (5.75%) AWS Certification
2 3 (0.75%) Degree
3 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.25%) CISM
4 1 (0.25%) CISSP
4 1 (0.25%) City & Guilds
4 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (15.25%) Accessibility
1 61 (15.25%) NIST
2 60 (15.00%) NCSC
3 26 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.50%) QA
4 6 (1.50%) WCAG
5 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 62 (15.50%) Docker
2 61 (15.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) Firmware
4 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.25%) Terraform
3 20 (5.00%) Ansible
3 20 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 19 (4.75%) Argo
4 19 (4.75%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.75%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Icinga
6 1 (0.25%) Nagios
6 1 (0.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 69 (17.25%) Adobe
2 37 (9.25%) BT
2 37 (9.25%) Salesforce
3 28 (7.00%) Splunk
4 22 (5.50%) Google
5 18 (4.50%) Typelevel
6 11 (2.75%) Cisco
7 6 (1.50%) Checkmarx
7 6 (1.50%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.75%) VMware
9 2 (0.50%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.50%) Datto
9 2 (0.50%) Dell
9 2 (0.50%) Facebook
9 2 (0.50%) HP
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.50%) Veeam
10 1 (0.25%) Apple
10 1 (0.25%) Tenable