Hybrid/Remote Structured Cabling Job Trends

Structured Cabling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Structured Cabling skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 482 497
Rank change year-on-year +64 +15 +345
Permanent jobs citing Structured Cabling 3 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.018% 0.055% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.35% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 25
10th Percentile £45,500 £60,850 £31,950
25th Percentile £46,250 £67,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £95,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +100.00% +11.76%
75th Percentile £48,750 £102,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £49,500 - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £35,750 £41,000
% change year-on-year +25.87% -12.80% +7.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Structured Cabling 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 1,807 3,729 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.09% 15.91% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,618 2,743
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
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 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

Structured Cabling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Structured Cabling trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Structured Cabling
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Structured Cabling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Structured Cabling

Structured Cabling
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 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) ISDN
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) PSTN
1 1 (33.33%) RTP
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Operations Technician
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Technician
1 2 (66.67%) Data Technician
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VoIP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds