Broadband Jobs

Broadband
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Broadband skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Broadband over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 191 685
Rank change year-on-year +160 +494 -278
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 3,914 1,543 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 1.46% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.73% 11.37% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 977 247 146
10th Percentile - £23,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £25,267 £65,390 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,087 £47,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -47.19% +46.15% -35.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Broadband 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 requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,106 13,566 15,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 12.87% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,457 9,380 7,721
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,419
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,250 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.16% -2.22% -5.26%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Broadband.

Salary trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the UK over the 6 months to 4 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +68 3,556 £25,087 -56.37% 453
England +132 3,118 £25,087 -49.83% 557
UK excluding London +217 2,463 £25,087 -47.19% 483
North of England +259 912 £25,087 -56.37% 100
London +44 662 £33,225 -33.55% 207
Wales +123 533 £25,087 -40.97% 22
North West +186 377 £23,504 -59.12% 46
North East +111 358 £25,087 -56.37% 18
South East -4 282 £45,000 +12.50% 185
Scotland +217 238 £23,504 -59.12% 40
East of England +144 217 £42,500 -26.09% 51
South West +210 204 £25,087 -49.83% 40
Yorkshire +136 177 £25,087 -47.19% 40
Midlands +67 58 £25,267 -22.22% 51
East Midlands +20 32 £25,267 -25.08% 29
West Midlands +75 26 £26,968 -34.62% 20
Northern Ireland - 19 £23,504 - 2

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 76 (1.94%) Confluence
2 3 (0.077%) CMS
3 2 (0.051%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.026%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.026%) Strapi
4 1 (0.026%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (2.12%) AutoCAD
2 77 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.077%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.026%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 586 (14.97%) AWS
2 369 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
2 369 (9.43%) Serverless
3 221 (5.65%) GCP
4 216 (5.52%) Azure
5 215 (5.49%) Pulumi
6 73 (1.87%) Asana
7 72 (1.84%) Amazon S3
7 72 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
7 72 (1.84%) Miro
8 6 (0.15%) GitHub
9 5 (0.13%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.051%) Akamai
10 2 (0.051%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.026%) Canva
11 1 (0.026%) ClickUp
11 1 (0.026%) Figma
11 1 (0.026%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (2.15%) SSL
2 83 (2.12%) DVB
3 82 (2.10%) SSH
4 14 (0.36%) VoIP
5 13 (0.33%) Internet
6 12 (0.31%) DNS
6 12 (0.31%) VPN
7 10 (0.26%) Firewall
8 9 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.13%) 5G
9 5 (0.13%) IP Telephony
10 4 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.077%) DHCP
11 3 (0.077%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.077%) IPv4
11 3 (0.077%) IPv6
11 3 (0.077%) LAN
11 3 (0.077%) MPLS
11 3 (0.077%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.077%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (5.54%) NoSQL
2 215 (5.49%) RDBMS
2 215 (5.49%) Relational Database
3 73 (1.87%) DynamoDB
4 72 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.051%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.051%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.051%) Power BI
5 2 (0.051%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.026%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.026%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.026%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 291 (7.43%) JIRA
2 215 (5.49%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.051%) Git
3 2 (0.051%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.051%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.051%) Spock
3 2 (0.051%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.026%) GitLab
General
1 1,513 (38.66%) Banking
2 1,205 (30.79%) Games
3 959 (24.50%) Social Skills
4 219 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 217 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (2.12%) Finance
6 83 (2.12%) Multimedia
7 73 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (1.00%) Telecoms
9 37 (0.95%) Billing
10 30 (0.77%) Retail
11 11 (0.28%) Legal
12 9 (0.23%) Marketing
13 4 (0.10%) Back Office
14 2 (0.051%) Law
14 2 (0.051%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.026%) Advertising
15 1 (0.026%) French Language
15 1 (0.026%) German Language
15 1 (0.026%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 993 (25.37%) Customer Service Advisor
2 601 (15.36%) Senior
3 454 (11.60%) Lead
4 288 (7.36%) Team Leader
5 216 (5.52%) Support Engineer
6 215 (5.49%) Embedded Engineer
6 215 (5.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 215 (5.49%) Release Engineer
7 174 (4.45%) Engineering Manager
8 151 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
9 94 (2.40%) Analyst
10 90 (2.30%) Customer Service Representative
11 85 (2.17%) Sales Representative
12 83 (2.12%) Project Engineer
13 82 (2.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 82 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
14 80 (2.04%) Developer
14 80 (2.04%) Senior Manager
15 79 (2.02%) ServiceNow Manager
16 78 (1.99%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (7.36%) GraphQL
2 217 (5.54%) Middleware
3 215 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
3 215 (5.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 215 (5.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 215 (5.49%) WebGL
4 82 (2.10%) RESTful
4 82 (2.10%) Web Services
5 76 (1.94%) React
6 72 (1.84%) Serverless Framework
7 3 (0.077%) .NET
7 3 (0.077%) Node.js
8 2 (0.051%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.051%) CSS
8 2 (0.051%) HTML
8 2 (0.051%) Jinja
8 2 (0.051%) Kafka
8 2 (0.051%) pytest
8 2 (0.051%) REST
8 2 (0.051%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 296 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
2 215 (5.49%) Animation
2 215 (5.49%) Embedded Systems
3 163 (4.16%) Management Information System
4 153 (3.91%) Video\Live Streaming
5 151 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 90 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 83 (2.12%) MPEG
8 82 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
8 82 (2.10%) Cyberattack
8 82 (2.10%) PKI
9 74 (1.89%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (0.69%) Driving Licence
11 14 (0.36%) Social Media
12 10 (0.26%) Learning Management System
13 4 (0.10%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.077%) Handset
14 3 (0.077%) NHS
14 3 (0.077%) Smartphone
15 2 (0.051%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 228 (5.83%) Windows
2 215 (5.49%) Linux
2 215 (5.49%) Unix
2 215 (5.49%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.026%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,927 (49.23%) Problem-Solving
2 1,225 (31.30%) Roadmaps
3 1,202 (30.71%) Customer Service
4 1,062 (27.13%) Mentoring
5 844 (21.56%) Product Management
6 798 (20.39%) Agile
7 773 (19.75%) High Availability
8 772 (19.72%) Broadcast Engineering
9 637 (16.27%) Computer Science
10 506 (12.93%) CI/CD
11 503 (12.85%) Artificial Intelligence
12 299 (7.64%) DevOps
13 298 (7.61%) Post-Production
13 298 (7.61%) Procure-to-Pay
14 294 (7.51%) Software Delivery
15 288 (7.36%) Clean Code
16 287 (7.33%) Continuous Integration
17 221 (5.65%) Performance Metrics
18 218 (5.57%) Coaching
19 216 (5.52%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 593 (15.15%) Python
2 292 (7.46%) JavaScript
3 288 (7.36%) TypeScript
4 219 (5.60%) Bash
5 217 (5.54%) Java
6 215 (5.49%) Go
6 215 (5.49%) HLSL
7 8 (0.20%) SQL
8 3 (0.077%) C#
9 2 (0.051%) Groovy
10 1 (0.026%) C++
Qualifications
1 1,071 (27.36%) Degree
2 637 (16.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 287 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 215 (5.49%) PhD
5 3 (0.077%) JNCIS
6 2 (0.051%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.051%) CCNA
6 2 (0.051%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.051%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.026%) CIPD
7 1 (0.026%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.026%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.026%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.026%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.026%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (2.10%) NIST
3 4 (0.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.026%) ISAE 3402
4 1 (0.026%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.026%) QA
System Software
1 298 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 224 (5.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 302 (7.72%) Terraform
2 221 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 218 (5.57%) Ansible
4 217 (5.54%) Prometheus
5 215 (5.49%) Argo
5 215 (5.49%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.051%) Grafana
7 1 (0.026%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,776 (45.38%) BT
2 298 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 242 (6.18%) Sun
4 216 (5.52%) Google
5 82 (2.10%) Thales
6 79 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 74 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.26%) Virgin Media
9 4 (0.10%) Juniper
10 3 (0.077%) Cisco
11 2 (0.051%) Nokia
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle
12 1 (0.026%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.026%) F5
12 1 (0.026%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.026%) Sage
12 1 (0.026%) Xero