BGP Jobs with Work from Home Options

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 360 663
Rank change year-on-year -14 +303 -206
Permanent jobs citing BGP 166 235 253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.72% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.96% 6.05% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 91 224 210
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +9.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £103,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +9.09%

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 4,190 3,882 9,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.00% 11.83% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 3,097 5,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.85% +2.65%
75th Percentile £67,968 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP.

BGP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BGP over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

BGP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (27.71%) WebLogic
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 46 (27.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.57%) AWS
2 68 (40.96%) Azure
3 46 (27.71%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (27.71%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (3.61%) SaaS
5 4 (2.41%) Cloudflare
5 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.41%) Mimecast
6 3 (1.81%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.81%) GCP
6 3 (1.81%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (1.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.81%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.60%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (54.82%) OSPF
2 89 (53.61%) TCP/IP
3 79 (47.59%) Firewall
4 59 (35.54%) WAN
5 57 (34.34%) DNS
6 55 (33.13%) SSL
7 52 (31.33%) VPN
8 51 (30.72%) MPLS
9 47 (28.31%) LAN
10 36 (21.69%) SD-WAN
11 35 (21.08%) Network Security
12 26 (15.66%) IPsec
12 26 (15.66%) VLAN
13 21 (12.65%) EIGRP
14 18 (10.84%) Wireless
15 17 (10.24%) Ethernet
16 13 (7.83%) HSRP
17 11 (6.63%) RIP
17 11 (6.63%) VPLS
17 11 (6.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.71%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (27.71%) Oracle Database
1 46 (27.71%) RDBMS
1 46 (27.71%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.41%) MariaDB
2 4 (2.41%) MySQL
2 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) GitLab
1 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.05%) Finance
3 12 (7.23%) Law
4 8 (4.82%) Mandarin Language
4 8 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Banking
6 4 (2.41%) Legal
6 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.81%) Back Office
7 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.81%) Publishing
7 3 (1.81%) Retail
8 2 (1.20%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Military
9 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 69 (41.57%) Network Engineer
2 51 (30.72%) Architect
3 50 (30.12%) Lead
4 47 (28.31%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (27.71%) Lead Architect
5 46 (27.71%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 32 (19.28%) Senior
7 23 (13.86%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (8.43%) Analyst
9 14 (8.43%) Network Analyst
10 13 (7.83%) Network Operations Analyst
10 13 (7.83%) Operations Analyst
11 10 (6.02%) Consultant
12 9 (5.42%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Network Security Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Security Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Cisco Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.71%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (27.71%) Spring Boot
2 11 (6.63%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.81%) RESTful
3 3 (1.81%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.71%) Enterprise Software
1 46 (27.71%) Public Cloud
2 22 (13.25%) Data Centre
3 12 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.41%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.81%) Blog
6 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.81%) PKI
7 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 55 (33.13%) Linux
2 46 (27.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.22%) Windows
4 6 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.41%) Android
5 4 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.41%) Debian
5 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (31.33%) Project Management
2 49 (29.52%) Migration
3 48 (28.92%) Agile
3 48 (28.92%) Load Balancing
4 47 (28.31%) Collaborative Working
5 46 (27.71%) Actionable Insight
5 46 (27.71%) ArchiMate
5 46 (27.71%) Cloud Operations
5 46 (27.71%) Data Migration
5 46 (27.71%) Kanban
5 46 (27.71%) Open Source
5 46 (27.71%) Re-Platforming
5 46 (27.71%) Scrum
5 46 (27.71%) SDLC
5 46 (27.71%) Systems Engineering
5 46 (27.71%) TOGAF
6 20 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (9.04%) Roadmaps
8 14 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.83%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.82%) Python
2 3 (1.81%) Go
2 3 (1.81%) Java
Qualifications
1 65 (39.16%) Security Cleared
2 63 (37.95%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (32.53%) SC Cleared
4 49 (29.52%) AWS Certification
5 46 (27.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 46 (27.71%) Azure Certification
6 45 (27.11%) CCNP
7 29 (17.47%) CCNA
8 24 (14.46%) CCIE
9 13 (7.83%) Degree
10 8 (4.82%) CCDP
11 6 (3.61%) CISSP
12 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.41%) JNCIE
12 4 (2.41%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.20%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 1 (0.60%) CCSA
14 1 (0.60%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.22%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.61%) NIST
3 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.60%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) Firmware
2 4 (2.41%) NFS
2 4 (2.41%) pfSense
2 4 (2.41%) vCloud
2 4 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.41%) vSphere
3 3 (1.81%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.63%) Ansible
2 5 (3.01%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.41%) SCCM
4 3 (1.81%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.81%) Terraform
5 2 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.20%) Puppet
5 2 (1.20%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 78 (46.99%) Cisco
2 46 (27.71%) Oracle
2 46 (27.71%) Sparx
3 23 (13.86%) Juniper
4 19 (11.45%) Fortinet
5 17 (10.24%) Palo Alto
6 14 (8.43%) Meraki
7 12 (7.23%) CheckPoint
8 11 (6.63%) SolarWinds
9 10 (6.02%) Aruba
10 9 (5.42%) Microsoft
11 8 (4.82%) F5
11 8 (4.82%) HP
11 8 (4.82%) VMware
12 6 (3.61%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (2.41%) Citrix
13 4 (2.41%) NetApp
13 4 (2.41%) QNAP
13 4 (2.41%) Synology
14 3 (1.81%) Dell