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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 328 342
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +174
Permanent jobs citing BGP 59 113 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.69% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.90% 5.22% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25 59 181
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,184 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,644 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +17.42% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,625 £75,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -

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 1,512 2,166 3,473
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.59% 13.27% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 898 1,219 2,982
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% - -
75th Percentile £71,438 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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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 29 January 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 19 (32.20%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Azure
3 14 (23.73%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (20.34%) SaaS
4 12 (20.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.17%) Route 53
6 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.08%) OCI
7 1 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (57.63%) Firewall
2 32 (54.24%) MPLS
3 30 (50.85%) VPN
4 24 (40.68%) OSPF
4 24 (40.68%) WAN
5 21 (35.59%) SD-WAN
6 19 (32.20%) Cisco ASA
7 16 (27.12%) Cisco IOS
8 15 (25.42%) IPsec
8 15 (25.42%) LAN
8 15 (25.42%) VLAN
9 14 (23.73%) Network Security
10 13 (22.03%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (20.34%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (18.64%) 4G
12 11 (18.64%) Broadband
12 11 (18.64%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (18.64%) IOS XR
13 10 (16.95%) TCP/IP
13 10 (16.95%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
General
1 30 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (28.81%) Telecoms
3 11 (18.64%) Banking
3 11 (18.64%) Retail
4 10 (16.95%) Finance
4 10 (16.95%) Law
5 7 (11.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (10.17%) Back Office
6 6 (10.17%) Financial Institution
7 5 (8.47%) Marketing
7 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (79.66%) Network Engineer
2 17 (28.81%) Senior
3 16 (27.12%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (22.03%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (22.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (18.64%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (18.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (13.56%) Associate Engineer
7 8 (13.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Firewall Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Network Operations Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Design Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Network Design Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Design Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Network Design Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) Jinja
1 11 (18.64%) NETCONF
1 11 (18.64%) YANG
2 6 (10.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (45.76%) Data Centre
2 11 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.64%) Social Media
3 6 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
4 5 (8.47%) Driving Licence
4 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.78%) Security Posture
6 3 (5.08%) Blog
6 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.39%) e-Learning
7 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 16 (27.12%) Network Design
1 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (20.34%) Agile
3 12 (20.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (18.64%) Data Science
4 11 (18.64%) Zero Trust
5 9 (15.25%) Cloud Security
6 8 (13.56%) Load Balancing
6 8 (13.56%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (11.86%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (11.86%) Observability
7 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
8 6 (10.17%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (10.17%) Immutable Infrastructure
8 6 (10.17%) Runbook
8 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 6 (10.17%) Go
2 6 (10.17%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (25.42%) CCNP
3 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.17%) CCNA
4 6 (10.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Degree
5 4 (6.78%) JNCIS
6 3 (5.08%) CCIE
6 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.69%) CCSA
8 1 (1.69%) CCSE
8 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
1 6 (10.17%) SOC 2
2 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.47%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.08%) Firmware
4 1 (1.69%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Terraform
2 7 (11.86%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.69%) Endace
4 1 (1.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (86.44%) Cisco
2 16 (27.12%) Fortinet
3 15 (25.42%) Meraki
4 14 (23.73%) CheckPoint
5 13 (22.03%) SolarWinds
6 11 (18.64%) Palo Alto
7 9 (15.25%) Juniper
7 9 (15.25%) VMware
8 7 (11.86%) Dynatrace
9 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
10 5 (8.47%) F5
11 3 (5.08%) Aruba
11 3 (5.08%) Dell
11 3 (5.08%) Zscaler
12 2 (3.39%) Arista
12 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
13 1 (1.69%) Huawei
13 1 (1.69%) Oracle
13 1 (1.69%) Polycom
13 1 (1.69%) Sophos