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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 357 364
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 -47
Permanent jobs citing BGP 78 60 134
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.37% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.48% 3.36% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 49 40 67
10th Percentile £51,500 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,250 £58,194
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +17.28% +5.81%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% +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 2,239 1,784 3,508
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.09% 10.91% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 1,018 1,559
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% -2.91%

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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 24 September 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 20 (25.64%) Azure
2 15 (19.23%) AWS
3 8 (10.26%) GCP
4 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.85%) SaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.56%) GitHub
8 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.56%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.28%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.28%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 53 (67.95%) OSPF
2 50 (64.10%) WAN
3 49 (62.82%) Firewall
4 42 (53.85%) VPN
5 35 (44.87%) LAN
6 34 (43.59%) DNS
6 34 (43.59%) Network Security
7 32 (41.03%) MPLS
8 30 (38.46%) VXLAN
9 28 (35.90%) VLAN
10 25 (32.05%) SD-WAN
11 22 (28.21%) TCP/IP
12 21 (26.92%) DHCP
13 20 (25.64%) Cisco Nexus
13 20 (25.64%) Ethernet VPN
14 14 (17.95%) HTTP
14 14 (17.95%) SSL
15 13 (16.67%) Wireless
16 12 (15.38%) IPsec
17 11 (14.10%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.97%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.38%) Banking
3 12 (15.38%) Retail
4 11 (14.10%) Finance
4 11 (14.10%) Telecoms
5 10 (12.82%) Marketing
6 3 (3.85%) Back Office
6 3 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.56%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (60.26%) Network Engineer
2 30 (38.46%) Senior
3 14 (17.95%) Architect
3 14 (17.95%) Network Architect
3 14 (17.95%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Network Security Architect
4 10 (12.82%) Security Architect
5 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Network Specialist
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Network Specialist
7 6 (7.69%) Data Centre Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Network Security Specialist
7 6 (7.69%) Security Specialist
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Network Security Specialist
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Security Specialist
8 4 (5.13%) Data Network Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.38%) Terraform
2 11 (14.10%) SAML
3 10 (12.82%) OAuth
4 7 (8.97%) 802.1X
5 4 (5.13%) YAML
6 2 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.56%) RESTful
7 1 (1.28%) Jinja
7 1 (1.28%) LDAP
7 1 (1.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 7 (8.97%) PKI
4 6 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.41%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.85%) Blog
7 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.28%) ASIC
9 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.10%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
2 4 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (21.79%) Network Segmentation
4 16 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 14 (17.95%) Load Balancing
7 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (15.38%) Change Management
9 11 (14.10%) Migration
9 11 (14.10%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 11 (14.10%) Zero Trust
10 10 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (12.82%) Data Management
10 10 (12.82%) Network Design
10 10 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (12.82%) Validation
11 8 (10.26%) Performance Management
11 8 (10.26%) Project Delivery
12 7 (8.97%) Inventory Management
12 7 (8.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.64%) Python
2 3 (3.85%) Bash
2 3 (3.85%) Go
2 3 (3.85%) Java
2 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.85%) SQL
3 2 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (16.67%) CCNP
3 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.41%) CCNA
7 4 (5.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.13%) CCIE
8 3 (3.85%) CCDP
8 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.85%) Degree
9 2 (2.56%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.28%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (1.28%) CCSP
10 1 (1.28%) CISM
10 1 (1.28%) CISSP
10 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (14.10%) NIST
3 3 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.85%) SLA
3 3 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) VMware NSX
2 6 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.85%) vSphere
4 1 (1.28%) Firmware
4 1 (1.28%) iptables
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 16 (20.51%) Ansible
3 11 (14.10%) CASB
3 11 (14.10%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.85%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.28%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.28%) Cilium
6 1 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (69.23%) Cisco
2 40 (51.28%) Palo Alto
3 15 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 14 (17.95%) Fortinet
5 13 (16.67%) Arista
6 12 (15.38%) F5
7 9 (11.54%) Juniper
7 9 (11.54%) VMware
8 7 (8.97%) Aruba
9 6 (7.69%) Meraki
9 6 (7.69%) Zscaler
10 5 (6.41%) CheckPoint
10 5 (6.41%) SolarWinds
11 4 (5.13%) Google
11 4 (5.13%) SonicWALL
12 3 (3.85%) Citrix
12 3 (3.85%) Forcepoint
12 3 (3.85%) Splunk
13 2 (2.56%) Dell