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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 171 42
Rank change year-on-year +78 -129 +445
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 637 341 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.87% 2.06% 4.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.21% 17.17% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 35 165 41
10th Percentile £25,087 - £32,500
25th Percentile £26,889 £23,504 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £25,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +119.24% -49.83% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63,625 - £55,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £31,443 £72,500
UK median annual salary £32,000 £25,087 £40,000
% change year-on-year +27.56% -37.28% -18.37%

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 2,341 1,986 3,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.54% 12.01% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 1,215 2,180
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
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 £68,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -5.77%

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 1 August 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 (4.71%) Confluence
2 25 (3.92%) CMS
3 14 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.94%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 55 (8.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 44 (6.91%) UserZoom
3 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Houdini
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) NUKE
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (6.12%) Workfront
2 34 (5.34%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 170 (26.69%) Adobe Analytics
2 115 (18.05%) AWS
3 90 (14.13%) GCP
4 71 (11.15%) Figma
5 69 (10.83%) Contentsquare
6 53 (8.32%) iPaaS
7 32 (5.02%) Azure
8 15 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.88%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (1.88%) Cloud Run
10 12 (1.88%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.57%) SaaS
12 7 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.10%) Vertex AI
13 6 (0.94%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (0.94%) Dagster
13 6 (0.94%) dbt
13 6 (0.94%) Slack
14 5 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.26%) 5G
2 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.78%) NGN
3 5 (0.78%) SSL
4 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.63%) SSH
4 4 (0.63%) WAN
5 3 (0.47%) DNS
5 3 (0.47%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.31%) MPLS
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) LAN
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.16%) VoIP
7 1 (0.16%) VSAT
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.09%) Metadata
2 50 (7.85%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 15 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
6 14 (2.20%) Tableau
7 13 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.04%) MySQL
7 13 (2.04%) Power BI
8 12 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.88%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.63%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (7.06%) Jenkins
2 37 (5.81%) GitLab
3 26 (4.08%) SonarQube
4 12 (1.88%) CircleCI
4 12 (1.88%) Cypress.io
4 12 (1.88%) Git
5 9 (1.41%) JIRA
6 3 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 294 (46.15%) Games
2 130 (20.41%) Marketing
3 124 (19.47%) Social Skills
4 60 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.02%) Banking
6 32 (5.02%) Legal
7 23 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 21 (3.30%) Finance
9 16 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.94%) Law
11 5 (0.78%) Advertising
12 2 (0.31%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.16%) Back Office
13 1 (0.16%) Electronics
13 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (24.02%) Lead
2 104 (16.33%) Senior
3 57 (8.95%) Architect
4 51 (8.01%) Developer
5 46 (7.22%) Product Owner
6 44 (6.91%) Designer
7 36 (5.65%) Lead Designer
7 36 (5.65%) Product Manager
8 34 (5.34%) Campaign Manager
9 30 (4.71%) Digital Designer
10 26 (4.08%) Analyst
10 26 (4.08%) Salesforce Architect
11 25 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.77%) Scala Engineer
13 20 (3.14%) Data Engineer
14 19 (2.98%) User Researcher
15 18 (2.83%) Customer Service Advisor
15 18 (2.83%) Senior Manager
16 16 (2.51%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.38%) REST
2 40 (6.28%) SOAP
3 36 (5.65%) gRPC
4 34 (5.34%) RESTful
5 27 (4.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 27 (4.24%) Node.js
6 26 (4.08%) Visualforce
7 22 (3.45%) PyTorch
8 19 (2.98%) React
9 18 (2.83%) TensorFlow
10 14 (2.20%) GraphQL
11 12 (1.88%) LDAP
11 12 (1.88%) Leaflet
11 12 (1.88%) OAuth
11 12 (1.88%) OpenID
11 12 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (1.88%) Playwright
11 12 (1.88%) SAML
12 7 (1.10%) LangChain
13 6 (0.94%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 294 (46.15%) Social Media
2 134 (21.04%) Product Ownership
3 132 (20.72%) Over-the-Top Content
4 90 (14.13%) Marketing Technology
5 86 (13.50%) Video\Live Streaming
6 76 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (8.79%) Cloud Native
8 39 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
8 39 (6.12%) Cyberattack
9 31 (4.87%) Low-Code
10 25 (3.92%) Onboarding
11 20 (3.14%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.83%) Data Structures
13 16 (2.51%) Mobile App
14 13 (2.04%) AI Agents
15 12 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.10%) Public Cloud
17 6 (0.94%) Anti-Piracy
17 6 (0.94%) Clustering
18 4 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.51%) Android
1 16 (2.51%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.31%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (56.67%) Roadmaps
2 328 (51.49%) Agile
3 307 (48.19%) AI
4 287 (45.05%) Customer Experience
5 225 (35.32%) Analytics
6 174 (27.32%) Product Roadmap
7 170 (26.69%) Storytelling
8 169 (26.53%) CI/CD
8 169 (26.53%) Digital Customer Experience
8 169 (26.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 168 (26.37%) Decision-Making
10 144 (22.61%) Personalization
10 144 (22.61%) User Research
11 121 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (18.84%) Machine Learning
12 120 (18.84%) Mentoring
13 110 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (16.64%) Software Engineering
15 94 (14.76%) Sprint Planning
16 93 (14.60%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 158 (24.80%) Python
2 70 (10.99%) Go
3 42 (6.59%) Scala
3 42 (6.59%) SQL
4 27 (4.24%) Apex Code
4 27 (4.24%) SOQL
5 26 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.08%) SOSL
6 22 (3.45%) Java
7 17 (2.67%) C#
8 15 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.20%) Bash
10 12 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.94%) C++
12 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (2.04%) Degree
2 11 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.10%) PhD
4 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.31%) CCA
6 2 (0.31%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.31%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.16%) HNC
7 1 (0.16%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (29.04%) Accessibility
2 55 (8.63%) WCAG
3 25 (3.92%) QA
4 18 (2.83%) GDPR
4 18 (2.83%) NIST
5 16 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.20%) NCSC
7 12 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.94%) PERC
9 4 (0.63%) SLA
10 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 60 (9.42%) Docker
2 14 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.88%) Podman
3 9 (1.41%) Grafana
4 6 (0.94%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.16%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 261 (40.97%) Adobe
2 36 (5.65%) Typelevel
3 34 (5.34%) Salesforce
4 32 (5.02%) BT
5 26 (4.08%) Splunk
6 25 (3.92%) Google
7 13 (2.04%) SAP
8 12 (1.88%) Oracle
9 11 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.26%) Foundry
10 8 (1.26%) Microsoft
11 6 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.63%) Databricks
12 4 (0.63%) Thales
13 2 (0.31%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.31%) Facebook
14 1 (0.16%) Ariba
14 1 (0.16%) Cisco
14 1 (0.16%) HubSpot
14 1 (0.16%) Meraki