Sky to Cut Around 600 UK Jobs Amid Major Restructuring as Focus Shifts to Digital-First Services
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Sky to Cut Around 600 UK Jobs Amid Major Restructuring as Focus Shifts to Digital-First Services

Sky, the UK pay-TV and broadband group owned by Comcast, has announced plans to eliminate approximately 600 jobs in its UK operations as part of a sweeping reorganisation designed to reprioritise its strategy towards digital streaming and product performance. Overall, some 900 roles are expected to be impacted, with about 300 positions subject to redeployment rather than redundancies.

The move comes as Sky draws a line under a three-year phase of intense investment in its products and platforms, including Sky Glass and Sky Stream, which have seen strong uptake. The company now aims to shift its resources toward improving reliability, accelerating innovation, and simplifying user experience across its digital offerings.

With a workforce of approximately 23,000 employees in the UK, Sky says the 600 job cuts represent roughly 2.5 % of its UK headcount. The job losses will be concentrated mainly in technology, product, and corporate teams. Areas affected include its sites in west London.

Sky has indicated that many of the affected roles may be redeployed within the business where possible. An internal consultation process has begun, during which the exact numbers and timing of cuts and redeployments will be clarified. The company emphasises that performance is not the issue: instead, these cuts are part of a broader streamlining of operations to align with changing customer behaviour and competitive pressures in the streaming landscape.

More than 90 % of Sky’s new TV subscriptions are now coming via internet-based platforms rather than the traditional satellite model — a trend that underpins this shift in business focus. The satellite service, once core to Sky’s offerings, is becoming less central to future growth.

This restructuring marks another chapter in Sky’s ongoing transformation. In recent years the broadcaster has already made thousands of job reductions, especially in roles tied to satellite hardware, installer functions, and call-centre operations, while expanding its streaming and broadband services.

Sky’s leadership stresses that this reorganisation is essential not only for efficiency, but to deliver a “next-generation customer experience” amid competition from global streaming providers. The company also aims to sharpen its content offerings, product stability, and speed of service. Stakeholders—including employees, unions and regulators—will be watching closely as the consultation proceeds.

For now, Sky is preparing for potential turbulence: affected staff will face uncertainty, but the company says it will provide support in redeployment where feasible and assistance with external job search where necessary. With the digital era redefining how consumers access media content, this restructuring may foreshadow similar moves across legacy media and telecom firms.

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