Ethernet Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ethernet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Ethernet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 481 579
Rank change year-on-year +104 +98 +181
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 20 111 94
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 2.10% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17 96 76
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -31.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.50% -9.09% +10.00%

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 2,513 5,294 4,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 15.65% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 3,435 3,553
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

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 a WFH Option

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

Ethernet salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ethernet
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ethernet over the 6 months to 1 May 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) Acrobat
2 2 (10.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
1 5 (25.00%) RS-232
1 5 (25.00%) WAN
2 3 (15.00%) LAN
2 3 (15.00%) Modbus
2 3 (15.00%) Profibus
3 2 (10.00%) BGP
3 2 (10.00%) DWDM
3 2 (10.00%) GPON
3 2 (10.00%) MPLS
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) OSPF
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (10.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) ADSL
4 1 (5.00%) Broadband
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (5.00%) RS-485
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) CMake
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
1 1 (5.00%) WiX
General
1 6 (30.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (25.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Design Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) FPGA Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Yocto
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Qt
2 1 (5.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Device Driver
1 3 (15.00%) FPGA
1 3 (15.00%) VHDL
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (10.00%) FPGA Design
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (10.00%) OO
3 2 (10.00%) OOP
3 2 (10.00%) Supply Chain Planning
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) C
2 4 (20.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) IEC 61131
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) EMC
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
2 2 (10.00%) Dell
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (5.00%) Altera
3 1 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (5.00%) Datto
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Freescale
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Renesas
3 1 (5.00%) Xilinx