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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 368 427
Rank change year-on-year +42 +59 -36
Permanent jobs citing BGP 86 66 167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.99% 3.44% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 48 49 135
10th Percentile £45,475 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,190 £52,500 £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 £80,000 £85,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £88,875 £88,500 £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 2,156 1,921 5,112
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.08% 12.71% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 1,150 3,323
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 £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,377 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.94%

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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 10 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 25 (29.07%) Azure
2 20 (23.26%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) AWS Direct Connect
3 13 (15.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (12.79%) SaaS
5 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.49%) GCP
6 3 (3.49%) Route 53
7 1 (1.16%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.16%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (62.79%) Firewall
2 48 (55.81%) MPLS
3 47 (54.65%) OSPF
3 47 (54.65%) WAN
4 45 (52.33%) VPN
5 33 (38.37%) SD-WAN
6 28 (32.56%) LAN
6 28 (32.56%) Network Security
7 27 (31.40%) VXLAN
8 23 (26.74%) Cisco ISE
9 22 (25.58%) DNS
10 20 (23.26%) Ethernet VPN
11 19 (22.09%) Cisco ASA
11 19 (22.09%) WLAN
12 18 (20.93%) IPsec
12 18 (20.93%) VLAN
12 18 (20.93%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (18.60%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (17.44%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (16.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 32 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.09%) Finance
2 19 (22.09%) Telecoms
3 15 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.47%) Banking
5 9 (10.47%) Retail
6 6 (6.98%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Back Office
7 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.49%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (63.95%) Network Engineer
2 27 (31.40%) Senior
3 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (17.44%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (16.28%) Architect
6 12 (13.95%) Cisco Engineer
6 12 (13.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (12.79%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (10.47%) Firewall Engineer
8 9 (10.47%) Network Architect
9 8 (9.30%) Associate Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Network Operations Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.98%) Network Security Architect
11 6 (6.98%) Security Architect
12 5 (5.81%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) Jinja
1 11 (12.79%) NETCONF
1 11 (12.79%) YANG
2 7 (8.14%) 802.1X
2 7 (8.14%) SAML
3 6 (6.98%) OAuth
4 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.49%) RESTful
5 1 (1.16%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.40%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.95%) PKI
3 11 (12.79%) Social Media
4 9 (10.47%) Security Posture
5 8 (9.30%) Management Information System
6 7 (8.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (6.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
9 3 (3.49%) Blog
9 3 (3.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) Windows
2 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.65%) Unix
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (23.26%) Network Segmentation
4 19 (22.09%) Zero Trust
5 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (18.60%) Network Design
7 15 (17.44%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (16.28%) Load Balancing
9 12 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (12.79%) Agile
10 11 (12.79%) Data Science
10 11 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (11.63%) Cloud Security
12 9 (10.47%) CI/CD
12 9 (10.47%) Network Architecture
13 8 (9.30%) Kalman Filter
13 8 (9.30%) Runbook
14 7 (8.14%) Observability
15 6 (6.98%) Customer Requirements
15 6 (6.98%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) Python
2 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.49%) Bicep
3 3 (3.49%) Go
3 3 (3.49%) Java
4 1 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.98%) CCNP
5 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.98%) Degree
6 5 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.65%) CCNA
8 2 (2.33%) CCIE
8 2 (2.33%) CCSA
8 2 (2.33%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.98%) NIST
2 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (10.47%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.65%) vSphere
3 1 (1.16%) Firmware
3 1 (1.16%) iptables
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) FortiGate
2 7 (8.14%) CASB
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.81%) Endace
3 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.65%) Ansible
4 4 (4.65%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.16%) Check_MK
5 1 (1.16%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.16%) Nagios
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (79.07%) Cisco
2 31 (36.05%) Palo Alto
3 21 (24.42%) Fortinet
4 19 (22.09%) CheckPoint
5 17 (19.77%) SolarWinds
6 16 (18.60%) Meraki
7 14 (16.28%) F5
8 12 (13.95%) Juniper
9 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
10 10 (11.63%) Dynatrace
11 9 (10.47%) Arista
11 9 (10.47%) VMware
12 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
13 4 (4.65%) Splunk
13 4 (4.65%) Zscaler
14 3 (3.49%) Aruba
15 1 (1.16%) Huawei
15 1 (1.16%) Polycom