Hybrid/Remote BGP Job Trends

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 332 383
Rank change year-on-year +8 +51 +65
Permanent jobs citing BGP 62 74 175
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.42% 4.39% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 22 59 156
10th Percentile £55,365 £44,760 £40,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,644 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% +23.29% -31.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £98,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.69% +10.48% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

BGP 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 1,813 1,684 3,976
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.72% 12.60% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,187 3,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,650 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,438 £37,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £53,050 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +1.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.25% -7.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BGP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

BGP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BGP

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BGP over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

BGP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 22 (35.48%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
3 18 (29.03%) AWS Direct Connect
4 15 (24.19%) SaaS
4 15 (24.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.68%) Route 53
6 2 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.23%) OCI
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (56.45%) Firewall
1 35 (56.45%) MPLS
2 32 (51.61%) VPN
3 31 (50.00%) WAN
4 28 (45.16%) OSPF
5 24 (38.71%) SD-WAN
6 22 (35.48%) Cisco ASA
7 19 (30.65%) LAN
8 17 (27.42%) Cisco Firepower
8 17 (27.42%) Cisco ISE
9 16 (25.81%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (24.19%) Cisco IOS
10 15 (24.19%) VXLAN
11 14 (22.58%) Network Security
11 14 (22.58%) WLAN
12 13 (20.97%) Ethernet VPN
12 13 (20.97%) IPsec
12 13 (20.97%) NX-OS
12 13 (20.97%) VLAN
13 11 (17.74%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Git
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (29.03%) Telecoms
3 17 (27.42%) Finance
4 12 (19.35%) Banking
4 12 (19.35%) Retail
5 9 (14.52%) Law
6 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
7 6 (9.68%) Back Office
7 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
7 6 (9.68%) Marketing
8 2 (3.23%) Police
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (70.97%) Network Engineer
2 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (25.81%) Senior
4 14 (22.58%) Cisco Engineer
4 14 (22.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 13 (20.97%) Senior Network Engineer
6 11 (17.74%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (17.74%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (17.74%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (16.13%) Firewall Engineer
8 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 9 (14.52%) Network Operations Engineer
8 9 (14.52%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (12.90%) Associate Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) Architect
11 2 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
11 2 (3.23%) Network Manager
11 2 (3.23%) Network Security Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Jinja
1 11 (17.74%) NETCONF
1 11 (17.74%) YANG
2 6 (9.68%) RESTful
3 1 (1.61%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.71%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.74%) Social Media
3 9 (14.52%) Management Information System
4 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
5 6 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (9.68%) PKI
6 5 (8.06%) Security Posture
7 4 (6.45%) Driving Licence
7 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (4.84%) Blog
9 2 (3.23%) e-Learning
10 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (27.42%) Network Design
2 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (24.19%) Zero Trust
4 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (17.74%) Agile
5 11 (17.74%) Cloud Security
5 11 (17.74%) Data Science
5 11 (17.74%) Network Segmentation
5 11 (17.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (14.52%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (14.52%) Runbook
7 8 (12.90%) Network Architecture
8 7 (11.29%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (11.29%) Load Balancing
8 7 (11.29%) Observability
9 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
9 6 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) Python
2 6 (9.68%) Go
2 6 (9.68%) Java
3 2 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) Bicep
4 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (14.52%) CCNP
4 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 6 (9.68%) Degree
6 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (6.45%) CCIE
7 4 (6.45%) CCNA
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.23%) CCSA
9 2 (3.23%) CCSE
9 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.61%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) PCI DSS
1 6 (9.68%) SOC 2
2 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.68%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) iptables
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Terraform
2 5 (8.06%) Endace
2 5 (8.06%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Nagios
4 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (88.71%) Cisco
2 20 (32.26%) CheckPoint
3 18 (29.03%) Fortinet
4 16 (25.81%) Meraki
5 15 (24.19%) SolarWinds
6 11 (17.74%) Dynatrace
7 10 (16.13%) Palo Alto
8 9 (14.52%) F5
8 9 (14.52%) ServiceNow
9 7 (11.29%) Juniper
9 7 (11.29%) VMware
10 2 (3.23%) Arista
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.61%) Huawei
11 1 (1.61%) Polycom
11 1 (1.61%) Sophos
11 1 (1.61%) Splunk