Teachers and lecturers
Networks & Connectivity
Digital Highways & Comms
Everything for teaching or advising on Networks & Connectivity careers in one place: the classroom pack, the career guide and, as employers add them, their articles, videos and resources. The career family has 8 areas of work.
Classroom pack
The Networks & Connectivity classroom pack is in development. A pack is published only once it has been built and its sources checked. Until then, the career guide is ready.
See which packs are openCareer guide
Every area of work, how people get in, pay and hiring, skills and where to find out more, built from the TechSkills Career Matrix with sources and dates shown.
Hands-on routes in Networks & Connectivity
Some careers in this family are practical and on site rather than desk based. From the Career Matrix, with roles and pay in the career guide.
Area 03: Digital Infrastructure (Fibre)
Telecoms & Fibre Field Engineering
Building and maintaining the UK's physical fibre and mobile network, on-site rather than at a desk.
Network Cable Installer, Telecoms Field Operative, Fibre Jointer, Cellular Network Field Engineer
Area 04: IoT & Wireless Tech
Smart Buildings
Installing and commissioning the connected systems that make a building intelligent.
Fire & Security Systems Technician, BEMS Controls Engineer, Building Automation Installer
From the industry
Resources and articles from employers working in Networks & Connectivity. Nothing is published until the TechSkills team has read it, and everything names the organisation that shared it.
Resources shared by employers
The first employer resources are on their way. If you work for an employer with a TechSkills portal account, you can share a resource from your portal and it will appear here once it has been reviewed.
Articles and stories
Industry Insights
Beyond the Silos: Why the UK's 2035 Economic Ambitions Require an Open Infrastructure
techUK argues the UK's digital infrastructure is at a genuine turning point: keep building isolated, incompatible platforms and risk 'platform sprawl', or commit to open, standardised architecture that keeps skills and systems portable across cloud, government and industry.
Industry Insights
Welcome to techUK's 2026 Tech & Innovation Focus Week
techUK's 2026 Tech & Innovation Focus Week brought together member organisations across robotics, agentic AI, photonics, quantum and tech convergence, alongside a new photonics report and upcoming events including November's Tech and Innovation Summit.
Industry Insights
Event Round-Up: Future Careers in Emerging Tech
A round-up of techUK's Future Careers in Emerging Tech event, where panellists made the case that routes into AI, quantum, cybersecurity and semiconductors run through far more than traditional STEM degrees - and that soft skills matter just as much as technical ones.
Over the coming months this is where employers will add their own articles, videos, lesson ideas and day-in-the-life stories for teachers. Nothing appears here until the TechSkills team has read it and published it, and every piece names the organisation that shared it.