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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 365 320
Rank change year-on-year +1 -45 +328
Permanent jobs citing BGP 57 133 212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.57% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.15% 3.57% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 37 70 205
10th Percentile £46,333 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +11.36% -10.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% +1.82% -7.54%

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 1,807 3,729 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.09% 15.91% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,618 2,743
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

BGP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BGP
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing BGP

BGP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BGP over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

BGP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
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 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) AWS
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Direct Connect
3 10 (17.54%) GCP
4 9 (15.79%) OCI
5 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Akamai
6 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 47 (82.46%) Firewall
2 43 (75.44%) OSPF
3 36 (63.16%) VPN
4 31 (54.39%) WAN
5 25 (43.86%) SD-WAN
6 21 (36.84%) MPLS
7 19 (33.33%) LAN
8 18 (31.58%) IPsec
9 17 (29.82%) TCP/IP
10 16 (28.07%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (28.07%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (28.07%) WLAN
11 15 (26.32%) Cisco Firepower
12 14 (24.56%) Wireless
13 13 (22.81%) VLAN
14 11 (19.30%) Network Security
14 11 (19.30%) NX-OS
15 10 (17.54%) Cisco IOS
15 10 (17.54%) EIGRP
15 10 (17.54%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) JMeter
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Local Government
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
7 1 (1.75%) Games
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Network Engineer
2 15 (26.32%) Senior
3 12 (21.05%) Lead
3 12 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infoblox Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Network Operations Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Design Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Network Design Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Design Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Network Design Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Lead Network Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) Jinja
1 1 (1.75%) YAML
1 1 (1.75%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.54%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.51%) PKI
6 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (24.56%) Load Balancing
3 13 (22.81%) Cloud Security
3 13 (22.81%) Network Design
3 13 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (19.30%) High Availability
5 10 (17.54%) Change Management
5 10 (17.54%) Process Improvement
6 8 (14.04%) Incident Response
6 8 (14.04%) Task Automation
7 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.53%) DevOps
8 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (10.53%) ITIL
8 6 (10.53%) Network Architecture
8 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.77%) Data Centre Operations
9 5 (8.77%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) Python
2 2 (3.51%) Bash
3 1 (1.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (24.56%) CCNP
3 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) CCNA
5 3 (5.26%) CCIE
5 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.26%) JNCIS
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.75%) Degree
7 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.51%) QA
1 2 (3.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Firmware
2 2 (3.51%) pfSense
2 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Docker
3 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Ansible
2 6 (10.53%) FortiGate
3 5 (8.77%) Terraform
4 2 (3.51%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (3.51%) Iperf
5 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (75.44%) Cisco
2 22 (38.60%) SolarWinds
3 16 (28.07%) Palo Alto
4 13 (22.81%) Fortinet
5 12 (21.05%) Meraki
6 11 (19.30%) CheckPoint
7 10 (17.54%) Aruba
7 10 (17.54%) Dynatrace
7 10 (17.54%) Infoblox
8 8 (14.04%) Juniper
9 7 (12.28%) F5
10 6 (10.53%) VMware
11 3 (5.26%) Oracle
11 3 (5.26%) Zscaler
12 2 (3.51%) Dell
12 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
13 1 (1.75%) HP
13 1 (1.75%) Nokia
13 1 (1.75%) SAP
13 1 (1.75%) SonicWALL