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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 174 41
Rank change year-on-year +75 -133 +429
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 621 323 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.74% 1.96% 5.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.05% 16.40% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 34 151 36
10th Percentile £24,676 - £35,000
25th Percentile £26,278 £23,504 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £25,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +119.24% -49.83% -14.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £56,401
90th Percentile £87,500 £31,738 £72,500
UK median annual salary £32,000 £25,087 £40,000
% change year-on-year +27.56% -37.28% +23.08%

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 2,384 1,970 3,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.50% 11.92% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,317 1,207 2,022
10th Percentile £29,625 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,796
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -16.00% -3.85%

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 10 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 (4.83%) Confluence
2 25 (4.03%) CMS
3 14 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.97%) SAS
5 5 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 55 (8.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 43 (6.92%) UserZoom
3 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.48%) 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 (6.28%) Workfront
2 34 (5.48%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (25.93%) Adobe Analytics
2 115 (18.52%) AWS
3 89 (14.33%) GCP
4 71 (11.43%) Figma
5 68 (10.95%) Contentsquare
6 53 (8.53%) iPaaS
7 23 (3.70%) Azure
8 13 (2.09%) Power Platform
9 12 (1.93%) Cloud Functions
9 12 (1.93%) Cloud Run
10 10 (1.61%) SaaS
11 7 (1.13%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (1.13%) Vertex AI
12 6 (0.97%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.97%) Slack
13 5 (0.81%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (0.81%) Dagster
13 5 (0.81%) dbt
13 5 (0.81%) Serverless
14 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.13%) 5G
2 5 (0.81%) SSL
2 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (0.64%) NGN
3 4 (0.64%) SSH
4 3 (0.48%) DNS
4 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.48%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) DHCP
5 1 (0.16%) HTTP
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) LTE
5 1 (0.16%) MPLS
5 1 (0.16%) MVNO
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VoIP
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) VSAT
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.24%) Metadata
2 50 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.38%) BigQuery
5 15 (2.42%) Semantic Layer
6 14 (2.25%) Tableau
7 13 (2.09%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.09%) MySQL
7 13 (2.09%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.09%) Power BI
8 12 (1.93%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.64%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.16%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 39 (6.28%) Jenkins
2 31 (4.99%) GitLab
3 20 (3.22%) SonarQube
4 12 (1.93%) CircleCI
4 12 (1.93%) Cypress.io
4 12 (1.93%) Git
5 9 (1.45%) JIRA
6 3 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 272 (43.80%) Games
2 124 (19.97%) Marketing
3 119 (19.16%) Social Skills
4 61 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.44%) Banking
7 31 (4.99%) Legal
8 23 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.38%) Finance
10 7 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.81%) Advertising
11 5 (0.81%) Law
12 2 (0.32%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.16%) Back Office
13 1 (0.16%) Electronics
13 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (23.35%) Lead
2 99 (15.94%) Senior
3 50 (8.05%) Architect
4 48 (7.73%) Developer
5 46 (7.41%) Product Owner
6 40 (6.44%) Designer
7 36 (5.80%) Product Manager
8 34 (5.48%) Campaign Manager
9 33 (5.31%) Lead Designer
10 27 (4.35%) Analyst
10 27 (4.35%) Digital Designer
11 25 (4.03%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.86%) Scala Engineer
13 20 (3.22%) Salesforce Architect
14 19 (3.06%) Customer Service Advisor
14 19 (3.06%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.90%) Senior Manager
15 18 (2.90%) User Researcher
16 16 (2.58%) Senior Campaign Manager
17 15 (2.42%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.80%) gRPC
2 34 (5.48%) RESTful
3 32 (5.15%) REST
4 27 (4.35%) Node.js
5 24 (3.86%) SOAP
6 22 (3.54%) PyTorch
7 21 (3.38%) Lightning Web Components
8 20 (3.22%) Visualforce
9 19 (3.06%) React
10 18 (2.90%) TensorFlow
11 12 (1.93%) Leaflet
11 12 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (1.93%) Playwright
12 7 (1.13%) LangChain
13 6 (0.97%) Kafka
13 6 (0.97%) Streamlit
13 6 (0.97%) TFX
14 5 (0.81%) .NET
15 4 (0.64%) ASP.NET
15 4 (0.64%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 285 (45.89%) Social Media
2 132 (21.26%) Over-the-Top Content
3 128 (20.61%) Product Ownership
4 90 (14.49%) Marketing Technology
5 86 (13.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 78 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (9.02%) Cloud Native
8 31 (4.99%) Low-Code
9 29 (4.67%) Cyber Threat
9 29 (4.67%) Cyberattack
10 26 (4.19%) Onboarding
11 20 (3.22%) Algorithms
12 17 (2.74%) Data Structures
13 16 (2.58%) Mobile App
14 13 (2.09%) AI Agents
14 13 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.97%) Clustering
17 5 (0.81%) Anti-Piracy
18 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.58%) Android
1 16 (2.58%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.45%) Linux
3 3 (0.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (54.27%) Roadmaps
2 313 (50.40%) Agile
3 298 (47.99%) AI
4 279 (44.93%) Customer Experience
5 216 (34.78%) Analytics
6 170 (27.38%) Decision-Making
7 166 (26.73%) CI/CD
8 164 (26.41%) Product Roadmap
9 160 (25.76%) Storytelling
10 159 (25.60%) Digital Customer Experience
10 159 (25.60%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 144 (23.19%) Personalization
12 134 (21.58%) User Research
13 121 (19.48%) Machine Learning
14 117 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 111 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
16 110 (17.71%) Mentoring
17 107 (17.23%) Software Engineering
18 94 (15.14%) Sprint Planning
19 93 (14.98%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.44%) Python
2 70 (11.27%) Go
3 41 (6.60%) Scala
4 37 (5.96%) SQL
5 26 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.54%) Java
7 21 (3.38%) Apex Code
7 21 (3.38%) SOQL
8 20 (3.22%) SOSL
9 18 (2.90%) C#
10 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.81%) C++
12 4 (0.64%) Bash
13 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.32%) PHP
14 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (2.09%) Degree
2 11 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.13%) PhD
4 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.48%) CCA
6 2 (0.32%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.32%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.16%) HNC
7 1 (0.16%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (28.18%) Accessibility
2 54 (8.70%) WCAG
3 26 (4.19%) QA
4 18 (2.90%) GDPR
5 17 (2.74%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.29%) NIST
7 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.97%) PERC
9 4 (0.64%) NCSC
9 4 (0.64%) SLA
10 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 61 (9.82%) Docker
2 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.93%) Podman
3 9 (1.45%) Grafana
4 6 (0.97%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.48%) Terraform
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 252 (40.58%) Adobe
2 40 (6.44%) BT
3 36 (5.80%) Typelevel
4 29 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.19%) Google
6 20 (3.22%) Splunk
7 13 (2.09%) Oracle
7 13 (2.09%) SAP
8 11 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.45%) Microsoft
10 8 (1.29%) Foundry
11 6 (0.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.64%) Databricks
12 4 (0.64%) Thales
13 2 (0.32%) Cisco
13 2 (0.32%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.32%) Facebook
13 2 (0.32%) Meraki
13 2 (0.32%) Veeam
14 1 (0.16%) DoubleClick