Hybrid/Remote Ethernet Job Trends

Ethernet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Ethernet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 403 470
Rank change year-on-year +8 +67 +58
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 30 29 121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 1.52% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 21 21 100
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -31.25%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Ethernet 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 2,251 1,910 5,114
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.14% 12.33% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,147 3,294
10th Percentile £29,738 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,461 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -7.14%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ethernet and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Ethernet job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ethernet
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ethernet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ethernet

Ethernet
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ethernet over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Ethernet salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ethernet
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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Lightworks
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Magento
1 2 (6.67%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) RS-232
2 7 (23.33%) Broadband
2 7 (23.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.00%) WAN
3 3 (10.00%) Wireless
4 2 (6.67%) Firewall
4 2 (6.67%) MQTT
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (3.33%) DNS
5 1 (3.33%) LAN
5 1 (3.33%) VLAN
5 1 (3.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) PetaLinux
General
1 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Advertising
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 17 (56.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 17 (56.67%) Senior
1 17 (56.67%) Software Engineer
2 15 (50.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 15 (50.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 15 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Business Development Manager
3 5 (16.67%) Business Manager
3 5 (16.67%) Development Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Development Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Development Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) Yocto
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 7 (23.33%) Social Media
3 2 (6.67%) Blog
3 2 (6.67%) CMDB
3 2 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.67%) FPGA
3 2 (6.67%) IoT
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.67%) Verilog
3 2 (6.67%) VHDL
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 15 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Software Engineering
2 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) Scrum
3 7 (23.33%) B2B
3 7 (23.33%) Business Development
3 7 (23.33%) CRM
4 5 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 5 (16.67%) Contract Negotiation
5 2 (6.67%) Antivirus Management
5 2 (6.67%) B2B Sales
5 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.67%) Customer Experience
5 2 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (6.67%) Data Development
5 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.67%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Product Analysis
5 2 (6.67%) Ticket Management
5 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) C
1 17 (56.67%) C++
2 15 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ECSS
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Apple
3 2 (6.67%) Bloomberg
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Symantec
3 2 (6.67%) Tenable
3 2 (6.67%) Veeam
3 2 (6.67%) Xilinx
4 1 (3.33%) Blue Coat
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Google