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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 206 78
Rank change year-on-year +146 -128 +451
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 667 201 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.80% 1.52% 3.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.56% 12.20% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 43 96 169
10th Percentile - - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,087 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,328 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £35,000 £25,267 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £47,125 -
UK median annual salary £25,500 £23,504 £40,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -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 1,930 1,647 5,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.00% 12.48% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,192 3,490
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,914 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -1.12% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -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 16 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 25 (3.75%) Confluence
2 22 (3.30%) CMS
3 14 (2.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
Applications
1 35 (5.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (4.50%) UserZoom
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (4.20%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (3.00%) Workfront
3 6 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (24.89%) Adobe Analytics
2 105 (15.74%) AWS
3 91 (13.64%) Figma
4 77 (11.54%) GCP
5 72 (10.79%) Azure
6 59 (8.85%) Entra ID
7 56 (8.40%) Google Workspace
8 50 (7.50%) Contentsquare
9 34 (5.10%) iPaaS
10 19 (2.85%) Pulumi
11 12 (1.80%) Cloud Functions
11 12 (1.80%) Cloud Run
12 7 (1.05%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.05%) Vertex AI
13 6 (0.90%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (0.90%) Dagster
13 6 (0.90%) dbt
13 6 (0.90%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (2.10%) 4G
3 12 (1.80%) MPLS
4 11 (1.65%) BGP
4 11 (1.65%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (1.65%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (1.65%) IOS XR
5 10 (1.50%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.60%) 5G
6 4 (0.60%) NGN
7 3 (0.45%) VoIP
7 3 (0.45%) WAN
8 2 (0.30%) DHCP
8 2 (0.30%) DOCSIS
8 2 (0.30%) DSL
8 2 (0.30%) IPv4
8 2 (0.30%) IPv6
8 2 (0.30%) PPP
8 2 (0.30%) RTP
8 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.65%) Metadata
2 33 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 19 (2.85%) MongoDB
3 19 (2.85%) RDBMS
3 19 (2.85%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
4 7 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.90%) Power BI
5 6 (0.90%) SAP BW
5 6 (0.90%) Tableau
6 3 (0.45%) Big Data
7 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 62 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 35 (5.25%) GitLab
3 34 (5.10%) SonarQube
4 23 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 19 (2.85%) Jaeger
6 13 (1.95%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.95%) Git
7 12 (1.80%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.75%) JIRA
9 3 (0.45%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
General
1 315 (47.23%) Games
2 154 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 111 (16.64%) Marketing
4 76 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (10.04%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (7.80%) Telecoms
7 38 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (5.55%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (3.75%) Legal
10 20 (3.00%) Banking
11 9 (1.35%) Finance
12 6 (0.90%) Law
13 3 (0.45%) Advertising
14 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (27.59%) Lead
2 117 (17.54%) Senior
3 70 (10.49%) Architect
4 62 (9.30%) Designer
5 60 (9.00%) Developer
6 49 (7.35%) Lead Designer
7 42 (6.30%) Scala Engineer
8 39 (5.85%) Digital Designer
9 34 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
10 33 (4.95%) Salesforce Architect
11 29 (4.35%) Product Manager
11 29 (4.35%) Product Owner
11 29 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 28 (4.20%) Campaign Manager
12 28 (4.20%) Development Manager
13 27 (4.05%) Senior Developer
14 23 (3.45%) Scala Developer
14 23 (3.45%) Scala Software Engineer
15 21 (3.15%) IAM Developer
16 19 (2.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.84%) REST
2 92 (13.79%) SOAP
3 60 (9.00%) GraphQL
4 56 (8.40%) LDAP
4 56 (8.40%) OAuth
4 56 (8.40%) OpenID
4 56 (8.40%) SAML
5 45 (6.75%) gRPC
6 34 (5.10%) Lightning Web Components
6 34 (5.10%) Visualforce
7 23 (3.45%) Akka
8 19 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
8 19 (2.85%) React
9 17 (2.55%) PyTorch
10 15 (2.25%) TensorFlow
11 13 (1.95%) Playwright
12 12 (1.80%) Leaflet
12 12 (1.80%) Node.js
13 11 (1.65%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 268 (40.18%) Social Media
2 136 (20.39%) Over-the-Top Content
3 109 (16.34%) Product Ownership
4 91 (13.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 71 (10.64%) Cyber Threat
5 71 (10.64%) Cyberattack
6 64 (9.60%) Marketing Technology
7 51 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (6.90%) Mobile App
9 25 (3.75%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.10%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.90%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.75%) Cloud Native
15 4 (0.60%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
16 3 (0.45%) Management Information System
17 2 (0.30%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.05%) Linux
2 24 (3.60%) Android
3 23 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.85%) Unix
5 3 (0.45%) Windows
6 2 (0.30%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (61.17%) Roadmaps
2 374 (56.07%) Agile
3 289 (43.33%) Customer Experience
4 241 (36.13%) AI
5 238 (35.68%) Analytics
6 182 (27.29%) Mentoring
7 169 (25.34%) Product Roadmap
8 167 (25.04%) Storytelling
9 166 (24.89%) Digital Customer Experience
9 166 (24.89%) User Research
9 166 (24.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 143 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (20.09%) CI/CD
12 132 (19.79%) Decision-Making
13 122 (18.29%) Personalization
14 119 (17.84%) Software Engineering
15 106 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 87 (13.04%) Machine Learning
16 87 (13.04%) Prototyping
17 82 (12.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.14%) Python
2 79 (11.84%) Bash
3 75 (11.24%) Scala
4 72 (10.79%) Go
5 58 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 56 (8.40%) T-SQL
7 42 (6.30%) JavaScript
8 39 (5.85%) Java
9 38 (5.70%) SQL
10 34 (5.10%) Apex Code
10 34 (5.10%) SOQL
10 34 (5.10%) SOSL
11 10 (1.50%) C#
12 8 (1.20%) C++
13 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.30%) C
15 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (3.15%) AWS Certification
2 11 (1.65%) Degree
3 7 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (1.05%) PhD
4 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.30%) CCA
6 1 (0.15%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (28.49%) Accessibility
2 58 (8.70%) NCSC
2 58 (8.70%) NIST
3 54 (8.10%) WCAG
4 25 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.55%) QA
6 4 (0.60%) GDPR
7 3 (0.45%) PERC
8 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 101 (15.14%) Docker
2 57 (8.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.15%) Terraform
3 20 (3.00%) Ansible
3 20 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.85%) Argo
4 19 (2.85%) Kustomize
5 12 (1.80%) Podman
6 10 (1.50%) Grafana
7 5 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.15%) Icinga
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 253 (37.93%) Adobe
2 45 (6.75%) Typelevel
3 44 (6.60%) Google
4 41 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.10%) Splunk
6 20 (3.00%) BT
7 11 (1.65%) Cisco
8 9 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.05%) Foundry
9 7 (1.05%) Microsoft
10 6 (0.90%) Checkmarx
10 6 (0.90%) Oracle
10 6 (0.90%) SAP
11 5 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.30%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.30%) Dell
12 2 (0.30%) Facebook
12 2 (0.30%) HP
13 1 (0.15%) Apple
13 1 (0.15%) VMware