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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 172 64
Rank change year-on-year +105 -108 +426
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 765 318 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.69% 2.00% 3.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.70% 16.58% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 40 159 139
10th Percentile - - £40,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £23,504 £46,612
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £25,087 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +119.24% -56.37% -28.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £31,738 -
UK median annual salary £29,000 £25,087 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.60% -49.83% -0.99%

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 2,270 1,918 4,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.95% 12.07% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 1,161 3,178
10th Percentile £29,663 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,114 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 1 July 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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 25 (3.27%) CMS
3 14 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.78%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
Applications
1 55 (7.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 46 (6.01%) UserZoom
3 13 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Houdini
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) NUKE
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (5.10%) Workfront
2 34 (4.44%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 190 (24.84%) Adobe Analytics
2 137 (17.91%) AWS
3 100 (13.07%) GCP
4 92 (12.03%) Figma
5 71 (9.28%) Contentsquare
6 53 (6.93%) iPaaS
7 52 (6.80%) Azure
8 36 (4.71%) Entra ID
8 36 (4.71%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.83%) Pulumi
10 13 (1.70%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.57%) Cloud Functions
11 12 (1.57%) Cloud Run
12 10 (1.31%) SaaS
13 8 (1.05%) Slack
14 7 (0.92%) Azure Machine Learning
14 7 (0.92%) Vertex AI
15 6 (0.78%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (0.78%) Dagster
15 6 (0.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.70%) 4G
2 12 (1.57%) MPLS
3 10 (1.31%) 5G
3 10 (1.31%) BGP
3 10 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (1.31%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (1.31%) IOS XR
4 7 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.65%) NGN
5 5 (0.65%) SSL
6 4 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.52%) SSH
6 4 (0.52%) WAN
7 3 (0.39%) DNS
7 3 (0.39%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.26%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) DHCP
9 1 (0.13%) HTTP
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.72%) Metadata
2 50 (6.54%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.01%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
8 14 (1.83%) Tableau
9 13 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.70%) MySQL
9 13 (1.70%) Power BI
10 12 (1.57%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.57%) SAP BW
11 6 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.52%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.13%) Big Data
13 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 45 (5.88%) GitLab
3 34 (4.44%) SonarQube
4 23 (3.01%) Git
5 12 (1.57%) CircleCI
5 12 (1.57%) Cypress.io
5 12 (1.57%) Jaeger
6 11 (1.44%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.18%) JIRA
8 3 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 348 (45.49%) Games
2 163 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 138 (18.04%) Marketing
4 81 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
6 40 (5.23%) Telecoms
7 32 (4.18%) Legal
8 24 (3.14%) Banking
9 21 (2.75%) Finance
10 15 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.78%) Advertising
11 6 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.26%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.13%) Back Office
13 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (27.45%) Lead
2 130 (16.99%) Senior
3 76 (9.93%) Architect
4 65 (8.50%) Developer
5 59 (7.71%) Designer
6 48 (6.27%) Lead Designer
7 46 (6.01%) Product Owner
8 38 (4.97%) Digital Designer
9 36 (4.71%) Product Manager
9 36 (4.71%) Scala Engineer
10 34 (4.44%) Campaign Manager
11 33 (4.31%) Salesforce Architect
12 32 (4.18%) Software Engineer
13 28 (3.66%) Analyst
13 28 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
14 24 (3.14%) Data Engineer
15 22 (2.88%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.75%) User Researcher
17 19 (2.48%) Scala Developer
17 19 (2.48%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (10.07%) REST
2 70 (9.15%) SOAP
3 45 (5.88%) gRPC
4 36 (4.71%) GraphQL
4 36 (4.71%) LDAP
4 36 (4.71%) OAuth
4 36 (4.71%) OpenID
4 36 (4.71%) SAML
5 34 (4.44%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (4.44%) RESTful
5 34 (4.44%) Visualforce
6 28 (3.66%) PyTorch
7 27 (3.53%) Node.js
8 24 (3.14%) TensorFlow
9 20 (2.61%) React
10 12 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (1.57%) Leaflet
10 12 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (1.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 327 (42.75%) Social Media
2 154 (20.13%) Over-the-Top Content
3 142 (18.56%) Product Ownership
4 113 (14.77%) Video\Live Streaming
5 90 (11.76%) Marketing Technology
6 86 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (9.02%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (9.02%) Cyberattack
8 56 (7.32%) Cloud Native
9 37 (4.84%) Mobile App
10 31 (4.05%) Low-Code
10 31 (4.05%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.88%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.35%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.57%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.78%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (0.78%) Clustering
16 5 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.01%) Android
1 23 (3.01%) Apple iOS
2 22 (2.88%) Linux
3 12 (1.57%) Unix
4 2 (0.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (58.69%) Roadmaps
2 405 (52.94%) Agile
3 339 (44.31%) AI
4 328 (42.88%) Customer Experience
5 259 (33.86%) Analytics
6 199 (26.01%) CI/CD
7 194 (25.36%) Product Roadmap
8 190 (24.84%) Storytelling
9 189 (24.71%) Digital Customer Experience
9 189 (24.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 181 (23.66%) Mentoring
11 178 (23.27%) Decision-Making
11 178 (23.27%) User Research
12 159 (20.78%) Personalization
13 140 (18.30%) Software Engineering
14 139 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
16 134 (17.52%) Machine Learning
17 96 (12.55%) Data Science
18 94 (12.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 196 (25.62%) Python
2 91 (11.90%) Go
3 63 (8.24%) Scala
4 55 (7.19%) SQL
5 49 (6.41%) Bash
6 38 (4.97%) JavaScript
7 36 (4.71%) PowerShell
7 36 (4.71%) T-SQL
8 34 (4.44%) Apex Code
8 34 (4.44%) Java
8 34 (4.44%) SOQL
8 34 (4.44%) SOSL
9 17 (2.22%) C#
10 6 (0.78%) C++
11 4 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (1.83%) Degree
2 12 (1.57%) AWS Certification
3 11 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (0.92%) PhD
5 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.26%) CCA
8 1 (0.13%) MCT
8 1 (0.13%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (27.97%) Accessibility
2 56 (7.32%) WCAG
3 40 (5.23%) NIST
4 36 (4.71%) NCSC
5 24 (3.14%) QA
6 22 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (2.35%) GDPR
8 17 (2.22%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.78%) PERC
10 4 (0.52%) SLA
11 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 92 (12.03%) Docker
2 36 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.09%) Terraform
3 13 (1.70%) Ansible
4 12 (1.57%) Argo
4 12 (1.57%) Kustomize
4 12 (1.57%) Podman
4 12 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.18%) Grafana
6 8 (1.05%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 295 (38.56%) Adobe
2 45 (5.88%) Typelevel
3 41 (5.36%) Salesforce
4 37 (4.84%) Google
5 34 (4.44%) Splunk
6 24 (3.14%) BT
7 13 (1.70%) SAP
8 12 (1.57%) Oracle
8 12 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.31%) Cisco
10 8 (1.05%) Foundry
10 8 (1.05%) Microsoft
11 6 (0.78%) Checkmarx
11 6 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.52%) Databricks
12 4 (0.52%) Thales
13 2 (0.26%) Facebook
14 1 (0.13%) Ariba
14 1 (0.13%) Dell
14 1 (0.13%) HP