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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 234 383
Rank change year-on-year +98 +149 +165
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 308 222 141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 1.36% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.87% 10.23% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 56 12 102
10th Percentile - £30,063 £21,250
25th Percentile - £30,625 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% -17.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £29,625 £57,188 £61,250
90th Percentile £35,000 £75,750 -
UK median annual salary £25,087 £40,000 £26,500
% change year-on-year -37.28% +50.94% -53.91%

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 1,476 2,170 3,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.40% 13.32% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 896 1,213 2,995
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 28 January 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 2 (0.65%) CMS
1 2 (0.65%) Confluence
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.32%) Apache
2 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) UserZoom
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (17.21%) Azure
2 51 (16.56%) Entra ID
3 46 (14.94%) Google Workspace
4 33 (10.71%) AWS
5 26 (8.44%) Figma
6 19 (6.17%) Pulumi
7 18 (5.84%) Adobe Analytics
8 8 (2.60%) GCP
9 6 (1.95%) Serverless
10 5 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (0.97%) Contentsquare
12 3 (0.97%) Slack
13 2 (0.65%) npm
14 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 1 (0.32%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.32%) GitHub
14 1 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (4.87%) Ethernet
3 12 (3.90%) 4G
4 11 (3.57%) BGP
4 11 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (3.57%) IOS XR
4 11 (3.57%) MPLS
5 5 (1.62%) DHCP
6 3 (0.97%) DOCSIS
6 3 (0.97%) DSL
6 3 (0.97%) GPON
6 3 (0.97%) Internet
6 3 (0.97%) IPv4
6 3 (0.97%) IPv6
6 3 (0.97%) PPP
6 3 (0.97%) RTP
6 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.97%) VoIP
6 3 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.47%) NoSQL
2 19 (6.17%) RDBMS
2 19 (6.17%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.95%) Big Data
4 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.65%) Metadata
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 46 (14.94%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.47%) GitLab
2 23 (7.47%) TeamCity
3 22 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 19 (6.17%) Jaeger
5 14 (4.55%) Git
6 5 (1.62%) JIRA
7 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.65%) Mocha
8 2 (0.65%) webpack
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) Jasmine
General
1 128 (41.56%) Games
2 95 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 61 (19.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (17.21%) Organisational Skills
4 53 (17.21%) Telecoms
5 46 (14.94%) Banking
6 39 (12.66%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (10.06%) Marketing
8 13 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Advertising
9 4 (1.30%) Finance
10 3 (0.97%) Billing
11 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.65%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 75 (24.35%) Senior
2 62 (20.13%) Lead
3 52 (16.88%) Architect
4 36 (11.69%) Developer
5 34 (11.04%) Customer Service Advisor
6 25 (8.12%) Senior Developer
7 23 (7.47%) Development Manager
8 21 (6.82%) Business Development Manager
9 20 (6.49%) Business Manager
9 20 (6.49%) Salesforce Architect
10 19 (6.17%) IAM Developer
11 18 (5.84%) Designer
11 18 (5.84%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (4.22%) Systems Architect
13 12 (3.90%) Scala Engineer
14 11 (3.57%) Lead Designer
14 11 (3.57%) Network Engineer
14 11 (3.57%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 11 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.57%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (22.73%) REST
1 70 (22.73%) SOAP
2 52 (16.88%) GraphQL
3 46 (14.94%) LDAP
3 46 (14.94%) OAuth
3 46 (14.94%) OpenID
3 46 (14.94%) SAML
4 23 (7.47%) Akka
5 22 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
5 22 (7.14%) Visualforce
6 19 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.17%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (3.57%) Jinja
7 11 (3.57%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.57%) YANG
8 7 (2.27%) React
9 6 (1.95%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.30%) Serverless Framework
11 3 (0.97%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.97%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.45%) Social Media
2 50 (16.23%) Cyber Threat
2 50 (16.23%) Cyberattack
3 30 (9.74%) Video\Live Streaming
4 27 (8.77%) Over-the-Top Content
5 25 (8.12%) Product Ownership
6 24 (7.79%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.97%) IoT
10 3 (0.97%) Smart Home
11 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.65%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.32%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.44%) Linux
2 21 (6.82%) Unix
3 5 (1.62%) Windows
4 3 (0.97%) OpenWrt
5 2 (0.65%) Android
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 124 (40.26%) Agile
3 102 (33.12%) Mentoring
4 77 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (21.75%) Customer Experience
6 52 (16.88%) Analytics
6 52 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (16.56%) Software Engineering
8 50 (16.23%) Programme Delivery
9 47 (15.26%) Scrum
10 46 (14.94%) Identity Access Management
10 46 (14.94%) Regulatory Compliance
11 45 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
12 44 (14.29%) DevOps
13 43 (13.96%) Customer Service
14 39 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (12.66%) Technology Roadmap
15 38 (12.34%) CRM
15 38 (12.34%) User Research
16 36 (11.69%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 69 (22.40%) Bash
2 48 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 47 (15.26%) Python
4 46 (14.94%) T-SQL
5 26 (8.44%) JavaScript
6 25 (8.12%) Scala
7 24 (7.79%) SQL
8 22 (7.14%) Apex Code
8 22 (7.14%) SOQL
8 22 (7.14%) SOSL
9 21 (6.82%) Go
9 21 (6.82%) Java
10 6 (1.95%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.97%) C
11 3 (0.97%) C++
12 2 (0.65%) R
13 1 (0.32%) C#
13 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (7.79%) AWS Certification
2 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
2 2 (0.65%) Degree
3 1 (0.32%) CISM
3 1 (0.32%) CISSP
3 1 (0.32%) City & Guilds
3 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.91%) NIST
2 48 (15.58%) NCSC
3 20 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.95%) QA
5 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.30%) WCAG
6 2 (0.65%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 45 (14.61%) Docker
3 3 (0.97%) Firmware
3 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (13.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.82%) Terraform
3 20 (6.49%) Ansible
3 20 (6.49%) Prometheus
4 19 (6.17%) Argo
4 19 (6.17%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.97%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.32%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Icinga
6 1 (0.32%) Nagios
6 1 (0.32%) Nmap
Vendors
1 46 (14.94%) BT
2 41 (13.31%) Adobe
3 29 (9.42%) Salesforce
4 23 (7.47%) Google
5 22 (7.14%) Splunk
6 11 (3.57%) Cisco
7 6 (1.95%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.97%) VMware
9 2 (0.65%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.65%) Datto
9 2 (0.65%) Dell
9 2 (0.65%) HP
9 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.65%) Veeam
10 1 (0.32%) Apple
10 1 (0.32%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.32%) Tenable
10 1 (0.32%) Typelevel