Broadband Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Broadband
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Broadband skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Broadband over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 70 525
Rank change year-on-year +62 +455 -107
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 2,868 1,339 137
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.91% 3.98% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 62.96% 25.76% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 613 146 96
10th Percentile - £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile - £45,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -59.12% -28.13% +33.33%
75th Percentile £25,087 £61,250 £83,125
90th Percentile - - £85,000
UK median annual salary £23,504 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -52.99% -9.09% -8.33%

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 4,555 5,198 4,576
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.27% 15.44% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 3,344 3,412
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £76,612
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Broadband
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Broadband trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Broadband
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Broadband.

Broadband salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Broadband
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Broadband over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Broadband salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.14%) Confluence
2 2 (0.070%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 432 (15.06%) AWS
2 221 (7.71%) GCP
3 216 (7.53%) Azure
4 215 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
4 215 (7.50%) Pulumi
4 215 (7.50%) Serverless
5 6 (0.21%) GitHub
6 2 (0.070%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.035%) Asana
7 1 (0.035%) ClickUp
7 1 (0.035%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.24%) Internet
2 4 (0.14%) 5G
3 2 (0.070%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.035%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.035%) Converged Networks
4 1 (0.035%) DVB
4 1 (0.035%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.035%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.035%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.035%) Firewall
4 1 (0.035%) LAN
4 1 (0.035%) Network Security
4 1 (0.035%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.035%) VoIP
4 1 (0.035%) VPN
4 1 (0.035%) WAN
4 1 (0.035%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.035%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.57%) NoSQL
2 215 (7.50%) RDBMS
2 215 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.070%) Couchbase
3 2 (0.070%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.070%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.035%) GIS
4 1 (0.035%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 219 (7.64%) JIRA
2 215 (7.50%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.070%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.070%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.070%) Spock
3 2 (0.070%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.035%) GitLab
General
1 1,206 (42.05%) Banking
2 922 (32.15%) Games
3 783 (27.30%) Social Skills
4 215 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (2.89%) Multimedia
6 15 (0.52%) Billing
7 14 (0.49%) Telecoms
8 10 (0.35%) Finance
9 4 (0.14%) Back Office
10 3 (0.10%) Marketing
11 2 (0.070%) Legal
12 1 (0.035%) Advertising
12 1 (0.035%) Law
12 1 (0.035%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.035%) Retail
Job Titles
1 735 (25.63%) Customer Service Advisor
2 453 (15.79%) Lead
3 430 (14.99%) Senior
4 287 (10.01%) Team Leader
5 215 (7.50%) Embedded Engineer
5 215 (7.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 215 (7.50%) Release Engineer
5 215 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 151 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
7 94 (3.28%) Engineering Manager
8 54 (1.88%) Customer Service Representative
9 49 (1.71%) Sales Representative
10 7 (0.24%) Account Manager
11 6 (0.21%) Client Account Manager
12 5 (0.17%) Developer
13 4 (0.14%) Applications Developer
13 4 (0.14%) Technical Advisor
14 3 (0.10%) Software Engineer
15 2 (0.070%) Java Engineer
15 2 (0.070%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (7.57%) Middleware
2 215 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (7.50%) GraphQL
2 215 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 215 (7.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 215 (7.50%) WebGL
3 3 (0.10%) .NET
4 2 (0.070%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (0.070%) Kafka
4 2 (0.070%) Node.js
4 2 (0.070%) pytest
4 2 (0.070%) React
4 2 (0.070%) Redux
4 2 (0.070%) REST
5 1 (0.035%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.035%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.035%) JSON
5 1 (0.035%) Spring
5 1 (0.035%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.035%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 219 (7.64%) Self-Motivation
2 215 (7.50%) Animation
2 215 (7.50%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (0.10%) Driving Licence
3 3 (0.10%) Social Media
4 2 (0.070%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.035%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.035%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.035%) MPEG
5 1 (0.035%) NHS
5 1 (0.035%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.035%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.035%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.035%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 216 (7.53%) Linux
2 215 (7.50%) Unix
2 215 (7.50%) Windows
2 215 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,696 (59.14%) Problem-Solving
2 989 (34.48%) Mentoring
3 988 (34.45%) Roadmaps
4 794 (27.68%) Customer Service
5 772 (26.92%) Broadcast Engineering
5 772 (26.92%) High Availability
5 772 (26.92%) Product Management
6 653 (22.77%) Agile
7 558 (19.46%) Computer Science
8 432 (15.06%) CI/CD
9 431 (15.03%) Artificial Intelligence
10 221 (7.71%) Performance Metrics
11 216 (7.53%) Clean Code
11 216 (7.53%) Coaching
11 216 (7.53%) Containerisation
11 216 (7.53%) DevOps
11 216 (7.53%) Post-Production
11 216 (7.53%) Procure-to-Pay
11 216 (7.53%) Software Delivery
12 215 (7.50%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 437 (15.24%) Python
2 219 (7.64%) Bash
3 217 (7.57%) Java
3 217 (7.57%) JavaScript
4 216 (7.53%) TypeScript
5 215 (7.50%) Go
5 215 (7.50%) HLSL
6 7 (0.24%) SQL
7 3 (0.10%) C#
8 2 (0.070%) Groovy
9 1 (0.035%) C++
9 1 (0.035%) Rust
Qualifications
1 989 (34.48%) Degree
2 558 (19.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 215 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 215 (7.50%) PhD
4 1 (0.035%) CCNA
4 1 (0.035%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.035%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.035%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.035%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.070%) GDPR
System Software
1 223 (7.78%) Docker
2 215 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 220 (7.67%) Terraform
2 219 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 217 (7.57%) Prometheus
4 216 (7.53%) Ansible
5 215 (7.50%) Argo
5 215 (7.50%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.070%) Grafana
7 1 (0.035%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,206 (42.05%) BT
2 241 (8.40%) Sun
3 218 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 216 (7.53%) Google
5 2 (0.070%) Oracle
6 1 (0.035%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.035%) Cisco
6 1 (0.035%) F5
6 1 (0.035%) Juniper
6 1 (0.035%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.035%) Sage
6 1 (0.035%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.035%) Xero