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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 357 407
Rank change year-on-year +25 +50 -6
Permanent jobs citing BGP 88 66 168
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 3.45% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 50 48 135
10th Percentile £46,325 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £81,875 £85,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £95,500 £85,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.82% +4.76% -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 2,178 1,914 5,134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.03% 12.56% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,111 1,146 3,327
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 13 June 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 (27.27%) Azure
2 20 (22.73%) AWS
3 12 (13.64%) AWS Direct Connect
3 12 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (11.36%) SaaS
5 5 (5.68%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.41%) GCP
7 3 (3.41%) Route 53
8 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.14%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 55 (62.50%) Firewall
2 50 (56.82%) MPLS
3 48 (54.55%) OSPF
4 47 (53.41%) VPN
4 47 (53.41%) WAN
5 33 (37.50%) SD-WAN
6 30 (34.09%) Network Security
7 27 (30.68%) LAN
7 27 (30.68%) VXLAN
8 24 (27.27%) DNS
9 22 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
10 21 (23.86%) VLAN
11 20 (22.73%) Ethernet VPN
12 19 (21.59%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (20.45%) IPsec
14 17 (19.32%) WLAN
15 16 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (17.05%) Cisco Firepower
16 15 (17.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 33 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.73%) Finance
2 20 (22.73%) Telecoms
3 15 (17.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.36%) Banking
5 10 (11.36%) Retail
6 7 (7.95%) Marketing
7 3 (3.41%) Back Office
7 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.41%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Senior
3 20 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (17.05%) Architect
4 15 (17.05%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Network Architect
6 10 (11.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Associate Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Network Security Architect
8 7 (7.95%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Security Architect
9 6 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) Jinja
1 11 (12.50%) NETCONF
1 11 (12.50%) YANG
2 8 (9.09%) SAML
3 7 (7.95%) 802.1X
3 7 (7.95%) OAuth
4 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.41%) RESTful
5 1 (1.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.68%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.64%) PKI
3 11 (12.50%) Social Media
4 9 (10.23%) Security Posture
5 7 (7.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.41%) Blog
7 3 (3.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.55%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (23.86%) Network Segmentation
4 19 (21.59%) Zero Trust
5 17 (19.32%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (19.32%) Network Design
5 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (17.05%) Load Balancing
7 12 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (12.50%) Agile
8 11 (12.50%) Data Science
8 11 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
9 9 (10.23%) Network Architecture
10 7 (7.95%) High Availability
10 7 (7.95%) Kalman Filter
10 7 (7.95%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 7 (7.95%) Observability
10 7 (7.95%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) Python
2 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.41%) Bicep
3 3 (3.41%) Go
3 3 (3.41%) Java
4 1 (1.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (7.95%) CCNP
6 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.82%) Degree
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.68%) CCNA
8 2 (2.27%) CCIE
8 2 (2.27%) CCSA
8 2 (2.27%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (7.95%) NIST
2 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) VMware NSX
2 9 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Firmware
4 1 (1.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 20 (22.73%) FortiGate
2 8 (9.09%) CASB
3 7 (7.95%) Terraform
4 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.68%) Ansible
5 5 (5.68%) Endace
6 4 (4.55%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.14%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.14%) Nagios
7 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (78.41%) Cisco
2 34 (38.64%) Palo Alto
3 21 (23.86%) Fortinet
4 20 (22.73%) CheckPoint
5 16 (18.18%) F5
5 16 (18.18%) Meraki
5 16 (18.18%) SolarWinds
6 12 (13.64%) Juniper
6 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
7 10 (11.36%) VMware
8 9 (10.23%) Arista
8 9 (10.23%) Dynatrace
9 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
10 5 (5.68%) Zscaler
11 4 (4.55%) Splunk
12 3 (3.41%) Aruba
13 1 (1.14%) Citrix
13 1 (1.14%) Huawei
13 1 (1.14%) Polycom