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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 199 67
Rank change year-on-year +148 -132 +455
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 764 267 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.06% 1.83% 4.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.43% 14.16% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39 129 145
10th Percentile £24,970 - £40,000
25th Percentile £25,087 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £23,504 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -59.12% -28.13%
75th Percentile £56,250 £25,267 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,950 £32,140 -
UK median annual salary £28,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.61% -49.83% -9.09%

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 2,041 1,885 5,029
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.86% 12.90% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,126 3,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.94%

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 22 May 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 29 (3.80%) Confluence
2 26 (3.40%) CMS
3 14 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.79%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
Applications
1 54 (7.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (3.93%) UserZoom
3 13 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (5.10%) Workfront
2 34 (4.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 177 (23.17%) Adobe Analytics
2 127 (16.62%) AWS
3 101 (13.22%) Figma
4 92 (12.04%) GCP
5 66 (8.64%) Azure
6 55 (7.20%) Contentsquare
7 53 (6.94%) Entra ID
7 53 (6.94%) iPaaS
8 52 (6.81%) Google Workspace
9 18 (2.36%) Pulumi
10 12 (1.57%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (1.57%) Cloud Run
10 12 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.92%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (0.92%) Slack
11 7 (0.92%) Vertex AI
12 6 (0.79%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (0.79%) Dagster
12 6 (0.79%) dbt
12 6 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.83%) 4G
1 14 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (1.57%) MPLS
3 11 (1.44%) BGP
3 11 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
3 11 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (1.44%) IOS XR
4 10 (1.31%) Ethernet
5 9 (1.18%) 5G
6 4 (0.52%) NGN
6 4 (0.52%) SSH
6 4 (0.52%) SSL
7 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) MVNO
8 1 (0.13%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (10.34%) Metadata
2 41 (5.37%) MongoDB
3 31 (4.06%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.36%) RDBMS
7 16 (2.09%) BigQuery
8 13 (1.70%) Tableau
9 12 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.57%) Power BI
9 12 (1.57%) SAP BW
10 8 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (0.92%) MySQL
12 2 (0.26%) Big Data
13 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 68 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 41 (5.37%) GitLab
3 34 (4.45%) SonarQube
4 22 (2.88%) TeamCity
5 20 (2.62%) Git
6 18 (2.36%) Jaeger
7 12 (1.57%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.39%) JIRA
8 3 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 342 (44.76%) Games
2 177 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 137 (17.93%) Marketing
4 82 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 62 (8.12%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (6.94%) Telecoms
8 33 (4.32%) Legal
9 31 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.75%) Finance
11 19 (2.49%) Banking
12 6 (0.79%) Advertising
12 6 (0.79%) Law
13 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 203 (26.57%) Lead
2 132 (17.28%) Senior
3 82 (10.73%) Architect
4 65 (8.51%) Designer
5 64 (8.38%) Developer
6 52 (6.81%) Lead Designer
7 45 (5.89%) Product Owner
8 42 (5.50%) Scala Engineer
9 41 (5.37%) Digital Designer
10 36 (4.71%) Product Manager
11 34 (4.45%) Campaign Manager
11 34 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
12 33 (4.32%) Salesforce Architect
13 29 (3.80%) Software Engineer
14 25 (3.27%) Analyst
14 25 (3.27%) Senior Developer
15 23 (3.01%) Scala Software Engineer
16 22 (2.88%) Scala Developer
17 21 (2.75%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.62%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (12.30%) REST
2 87 (11.39%) SOAP
3 53 (6.94%) GraphQL
4 52 (6.81%) LDAP
4 52 (6.81%) OAuth
4 52 (6.81%) OpenID
4 52 (6.81%) SAML
5 45 (5.89%) gRPC
6 34 (4.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 34 (4.45%) Visualforce
7 23 (3.01%) PyTorch
8 22 (2.88%) Akka
9 20 (2.62%) Node.js
9 20 (2.62%) TensorFlow
10 19 (2.49%) RESTful
11 18 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (2.23%) React
13 12 (1.57%) Leaflet
13 12 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 313 (40.97%) Social Media
2 164 (21.47%) Over-the-Top Content
3 142 (18.59%) Product Ownership
4 110 (14.40%) Video\Live Streaming
5 90 (11.78%) Marketing Technology
6 76 (9.95%) Cyber Threat
6 76 (9.95%) Cyberattack
7 71 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
8 44 (5.76%) Mobile App
9 38 (4.97%) Cloud Native
10 30 (3.93%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.88%) Algorithms
11 22 (2.88%) Low-Code
12 18 (2.36%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.79%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.79%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (0.79%) Clustering
15 4 (0.52%) Learning Management System
15 4 (0.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.01%) Android
1 23 (3.01%) Apple iOS
1 23 (3.01%) Linux
2 18 (2.36%) Unix
3 2 (0.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (59.29%) Roadmaps
2 411 (53.80%) Agile
3 330 (43.19%) Customer Experience
4 296 (38.74%) AI
5 258 (33.77%) Analytics
6 190 (24.87%) Mentoring
7 181 (23.69%) Product Roadmap
8 178 (23.30%) Storytelling
9 177 (23.17%) Digital Customer Experience
9 177 (23.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 172 (22.51%) User Research
11 170 (22.25%) Decision-Making
12 167 (21.86%) CI/CD
13 154 (20.16%) Personalization
14 141 (18.46%) Software Engineering
15 136 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
16 125 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 121 (15.84%) Machine Learning
18 95 (12.43%) Workshop Facilitation
19 94 (12.30%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 175 (22.91%) Python
2 85 (11.13%) Go
3 74 (9.69%) Scala
4 72 (9.42%) Bash
5 53 (6.94%) PowerShell
6 52 (6.81%) T-SQL
7 50 (6.54%) SQL
8 40 (5.24%) Java
9 38 (4.97%) JavaScript
10 34 (4.45%) Apex Code
10 34 (4.45%) SOQL
10 34 (4.45%) SOSL
11 13 (1.70%) C#
12 6 (0.79%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (2.36%) AWS Certification
2 11 (1.44%) Degree
3 7 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (0.92%) PhD
4 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.26%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (26.44%) Accessibility
2 58 (7.59%) WCAG
3 57 (7.46%) NIST
4 53 (6.94%) NCSC
5 28 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (3.66%) QA
6 12 (1.57%) GDPR
7 10 (1.31%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.65%) PERC
9 4 (0.52%) SLA
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 105 (13.74%) Docker
2 52 (6.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.49%) Terraform
3 18 (2.36%) Ansible
3 18 (2.36%) Argo
3 18 (2.36%) Kustomize
3 18 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.57%) Podman
5 9 (1.18%) Grafana
6 7 (0.92%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 289 (37.83%) Adobe
2 45 (5.89%) Typelevel
3 43 (5.63%) Google
4 40 (5.24%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.45%) Splunk
6 19 (2.49%) BT
7 13 (1.70%) SAP
8 12 (1.57%) Oracle
9 11 (1.44%) Cisco
10 9 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.92%) Foundry
12 6 (0.79%) Checkmarx
13 5 (0.65%) Microsoft
13 5 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 4 (0.52%) Thales
15 2 (0.26%) Dell
15 2 (0.26%) Facebook
15 2 (0.26%) HP
16 1 (0.13%) Apple
16 1 (0.13%) Ariba