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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 330 361
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 +109
Permanent jobs citing BGP 65 96 181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.64% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.89% 5.06% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 27 60 164
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,880 £40,225
25th Percentile £57,312 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £61,644 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% +17.42% -22.22%
75th Percentile £78,813 £81,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -6.67%

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 1,671 1,897 3,751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.16% 12.68% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 941 1,161 3,266
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,750 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%

BGP
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

BGP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BGP over the 6 months to 28 February 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 21 (32.31%) AWS
2 19 (29.23%) Azure
3 18 (27.69%) AWS Direct Connect
4 15 (23.08%) SaaS
4 15 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.23%) Route 53
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) OCI
7 1 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 39 (60.00%) MPLS
2 37 (56.92%) VPN
3 36 (55.38%) Firewall
4 32 (49.23%) WAN
5 28 (43.08%) OSPF
6 25 (38.46%) SD-WAN
7 22 (33.85%) Cisco ASA
8 20 (30.77%) LAN
9 18 (27.69%) IPsec
10 17 (26.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 17 (26.15%) Cisco IOS
11 16 (24.62%) Cisco ISE
11 16 (24.62%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (23.08%) VXLAN
13 14 (21.54%) Network Security
13 14 (21.54%) VLAN
14 13 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (20.00%) WLAN
15 12 (18.46%) NX-OS
16 11 (16.92%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Git
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (26.15%) Telecoms
4 15 (23.08%) Finance
5 11 (16.92%) Banking
5 11 (16.92%) Retail
6 9 (13.85%) Law
7 6 (9.23%) Back Office
7 6 (9.23%) Financial Institution
8 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (7.69%) Marketing
8 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (75.38%) Network Engineer
2 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (24.62%) Senior
4 15 (23.08%) Cisco Engineer
4 15 (23.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 15 (23.08%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Firewall Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Network Operations Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Associate Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Design Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Network Design Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Design Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Network Design Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Network Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) Jinja
1 11 (16.92%) NETCONF
1 11 (16.92%) YANG
2 6 (9.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (41.54%) Data Centre
2 11 (16.92%) Social Media
3 10 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 9 (13.85%) Management Information System
5 6 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (7.69%) PKI
7 4 (6.15%) Driving Licence
7 4 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
8 3 (4.62%) Blog
9 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
10 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Network Design
2 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.54%) Zero Trust
5 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (16.92%) Agile
6 11 (16.92%) Cloud Security
6 11 (16.92%) Data Science
6 11 (16.92%) Network Segmentation
6 11 (16.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (13.85%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (13.85%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (13.85%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (13.85%) Runbook
8 8 (12.31%) Load Balancing
9 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (10.77%) Incident Response
9 7 (10.77%) Network Architecture
9 7 (10.77%) Observability
9 7 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) Python
2 6 (9.23%) Go
2 6 (9.23%) Java
3 2 (3.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (23.08%) CCNP
2 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) CCNA
5 5 (7.69%) Degree
6 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.15%) CCIE
6 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.15%) JNCIS
7 2 (3.08%) CCSA
7 2 (3.08%) CCSE
7 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) PCI DSS
1 6 (9.23%) SOC 2
2 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.08%) Firmware
4 1 (1.54%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Terraform
2 6 (9.23%) FortiGate
3 5 (7.69%) Endace
4 3 (4.62%) Ansible
5 2 (3.08%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (90.77%) Cisco
2 20 (30.77%) Fortinet
3 18 (27.69%) CheckPoint
4 17 (26.15%) Meraki
5 16 (24.62%) SolarWinds
6 12 (18.46%) Juniper
7 11 (16.92%) Dynatrace
7 11 (16.92%) Palo Alto
8 9 (13.85%) F5
8 9 (13.85%) ServiceNow
9 8 (12.31%) VMware
10 2 (3.08%) Arista
10 2 (3.08%) Aruba
10 2 (3.08%) Dell
10 2 (3.08%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.54%) Huawei
11 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.54%) Polycom
11 1 (1.54%) Sophos