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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 372 414
Rank change year-on-year +16 +42 -32
Permanent jobs citing BGP 85 64 168
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% 3.31% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 51 46 134
10th Percentile £61,761 £43,799 £40,225
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +20.93% -17.31%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.09% +9.52% -12.13%

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 2,299 1,934 4,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.04% 11.96% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 1,178 3,142
10th Percentile £29,738 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%

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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 4 July 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 24 (28.24%) Azure
2 20 (23.53%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) AWS Direct Connect
3 10 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (9.41%) SaaS
5 6 (7.06%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.53%) GCP
7 3 (3.53%) Route 53
8 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.18%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 52 (61.18%) Firewall
2 50 (58.82%) MPLS
3 48 (56.47%) OSPF
3 48 (56.47%) VPN
3 48 (56.47%) WAN
4 33 (38.82%) Network Security
4 33 (38.82%) SD-WAN
5 29 (34.12%) DNS
6 28 (32.94%) LAN
7 25 (29.41%) VXLAN
8 24 (28.24%) VLAN
9 20 (23.53%) Cisco ISE
10 18 (21.18%) DHCP
10 18 (21.18%) Ethernet VPN
10 18 (21.18%) IPsec
11 17 (20.00%) HTTP
11 17 (20.00%) TCP/IP
12 15 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
12 15 (17.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 31 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.35%) Finance
3 17 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 14 (16.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 9 (10.59%) Banking
6 9 (10.59%) Retail
7 6 (7.06%) Marketing
8 3 (3.53%) Back Office
8 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.53%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (58.82%) Network Engineer
2 27 (31.76%) Senior
3 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (20.00%) Architect
5 12 (14.12%) Network Architect
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) Network Security Architect
6 9 (10.59%) Security Architect
7 8 (9.41%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Network Specialist
7 8 (9.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Associate Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 7 (8.24%) Senior Network Specialist
9 6 (7.06%) Firewall Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Network Security Specialist
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Network Security Specialist
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) Jinja
1 10 (11.76%) NETCONF
1 10 (11.76%) SAML
1 10 (11.76%) YANG
2 9 (10.59%) OAuth
3 7 (8.24%) 802.1X
4 3 (3.53%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.53%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.06%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.29%) PKI
3 10 (11.76%) Social Media
4 9 (10.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (8.24%) Security Posture
6 6 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.88%) Management Information System
8 3 (3.53%) Blog
8 3 (3.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Windows
2 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (25.88%) Network Segmentation
3 21 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (21.18%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (20.00%) Network Design
5 17 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 16 (18.82%) Load Balancing
7 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (11.76%) Agile
9 10 (11.76%) Data Science
10 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.59%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 7 (8.24%) Cloud Security
11 7 (8.24%) High Availability
11 7 (8.24%) Network Architecture
11 7 (8.24%) Project Delivery
12 6 (7.06%) Computer Science
12 6 (7.06%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.53%) Bicep
3 3 (3.53%) Go
3 3 (3.53%) Java
4 1 (1.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) CCNP
4 7 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.06%) Degree
6 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.88%) CCNA
7 2 (2.35%) CCIE
7 2 (2.35%) CCSA
7 2 (2.35%) CCSE
8 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (10.59%) NIST
2 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) VMware NSX
2 7 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.71%) vSphere
4 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) FortiGate
2 10 (11.76%) CASB
3 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) Terraform
4 6 (7.06%) Ansible
5 5 (5.88%) Endace
6 4 (4.71%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.18%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (75.29%) Cisco
2 38 (44.71%) Palo Alto
3 21 (24.71%) Fortinet
4 17 (20.00%) F5
5 16 (18.82%) CheckPoint
6 15 (17.65%) Meraki
6 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 13 (15.29%) SolarWinds
8 11 (12.94%) Juniper
9 9 (10.59%) VMware
10 7 (8.24%) Arista
10 7 (8.24%) Dynatrace
11 6 (7.06%) Zscaler
12 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
13 4 (4.71%) Splunk
14 3 (3.53%) Aruba
15 2 (2.35%) Citrix
16 1 (1.18%) SonicWALL