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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 444 457
Rank change year-on-year +56 +13 +309
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 37 51 57
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.06% 1.38% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 21 41 45
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £32,300
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 1,797 3,703 3,324
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.10% 15.91% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,599 2,784
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,548
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year -20.00% -1.93% -2.89%

Ethernet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ethernet trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ethernet
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Ethernet

Ethernet
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ethernet over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Ethernet salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ethernet
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 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Simulink
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) GCP
3 1 (2.70%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.70%) Figma
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
3 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Broadband
2 9 (24.32%) RS-232
3 6 (16.22%) ADSL
3 6 (16.22%) Modbus
4 5 (13.51%) ADSL2+
4 5 (13.51%) Firewall
4 5 (13.51%) G.fast
4 5 (13.51%) Profibus
4 5 (13.51%) PSTN
4 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
4 5 (13.51%) VoIP
4 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (10.81%) LAN
5 4 (10.81%) SD-WAN
5 4 (10.81%) WAN
6 3 (8.11%) Internet
7 2 (5.41%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (5.41%) Network Security
7 2 (5.41%) RS-485
7 2 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) CMake
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
1 1 (2.70%) Subversion
1 1 (2.70%) WiX
General
1 15 (40.54%) Telecoms
2 11 (29.73%) Electronics
3 5 (13.51%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.51%) Marketing
3 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Aerospace
4 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Military
6 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) FPGA Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Electronics Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Business Development Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Business Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Development Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Control Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Field Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Design Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) FPGA Design Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) JSON
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) Material Design
2 1 (2.70%) Qt
2 1 (2.70%) WPF
2 1 (2.70%) XML
2 1 (2.70%) XSL
2 1 (2.70%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) FPGA
1 10 (27.03%) VHDL
2 6 (16.22%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.81%) SCADA
3 4 (10.81%) Social Media
4 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.70%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.70%) FMCG
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (24.32%) FPGA Design
3 8 (21.62%) Schematic Capture
4 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
4 5 (13.51%) Incident Management
5 4 (10.81%) B2B
5 4 (10.81%) Business Development
5 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.81%) High Availability
6 3 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (8.11%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Generation
6 3 (8.11%) Programme Management
6 3 (8.11%) SDLC
6 3 (8.11%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (8.11%) Validation
7 2 (5.41%) B2B Sales
7 2 (5.41%) Due Diligence
7 2 (5.41%) Supply Chain Planning
7 2 (5.41%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) C
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) MATLAB
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) Bash
3 1 (2.70%) C++
3 1 (2.70%) Embedded C
3 1 (2.70%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) PHP
3 1 (2.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) HNC
3 3 (8.11%) HND
3 3 (8.11%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.41%) CCNA
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) IEC 61131
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
1 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Server
2 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) FortiGate
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.70%) Functional Safety
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) EMC
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.81%) Siemens
4 3 (8.11%) CheckPoint
4 3 (8.11%) F5
4 3 (8.11%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) VMware
5 2 (5.41%) Blue Coat
5 2 (5.41%) Freescale
6 1 (2.70%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (2.70%) Altera
6 1 (2.70%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.70%) Datto
6 1 (2.70%) Juniper
6 1 (2.70%) Meraki
6 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.70%) Xilinx