Communications Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Communications Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Communications Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 598 625 887
Rank change year-on-year +27 +262 -286
Permanent jobs requiring a Communications Engineer 4 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.011% 0.021% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.022% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - - £33,200
25th Percentile £72,500 - £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £31,931 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +134.88% -10.05% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £33,323 £36,750
90th Percentile - £35,829 £36,975
UK median annual salary £30,500 £35,000 £36,750
% change year-on-year -12.86% -4.76% -10.91%

All Permanent 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Communications Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Communications Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Communications Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Communications Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Communications Engineer.

Communications Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Communications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Communications Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SAP
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (50.00%) AWS IoT
2 2 (50.00%) Flask
2 2 (50.00%) IoT
2 2 (50.00%) MQTT
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) LTE
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded C++
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Linux

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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 2 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (50.00%) LTE
1 2 (50.00%) MQTT
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA
2 1 (25.00%) GNSS
2 1 (25.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) FPGA Design
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded C
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded C++
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP