Hybrid/Remote Senior Communications Engineer Job Trends

Senior Communications Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Communications Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Communications Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.006% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £80,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 - -

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 15,149 23,310 25,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 96.33% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,239 15,981 20,810
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,965 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -7.26% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Communications Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Communications Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Communications Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Communications Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 September 2025, Senior Communications Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Communications Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GNSS
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation

Senior Communications Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) GNSS
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared