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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 365 421
Rank change year-on-year +40 +56 +15
Permanent jobs citing BGP 79 60 156
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.89% 3.12% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 40 46 130
10th Percentile £46,200 £44,399 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £51,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,644 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% +23.29% -28.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,625 £88,750 £80,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +7.84% -18.40%

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 2,033 1,923 5,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.92% 12.98% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,179 3,338
10th Percentile £29,850 £25,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%

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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 16 May 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 26 (32.91%) Azure
2 22 (27.85%) AWS
3 14 (17.72%) AWS Direct Connect
3 14 (17.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (15.19%) SaaS
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.80%) Route 53
6 2 (2.53%) GCP
6 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.27%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (67.09%) Firewall
2 44 (55.70%) OSPF
3 43 (54.43%) MPLS
4 41 (51.90%) WAN
5 37 (46.84%) VPN
6 30 (37.97%) SD-WAN
7 26 (32.91%) LAN
8 25 (31.65%) VXLAN
9 24 (30.38%) Cisco ISE
10 23 (29.11%) Network Security
11 22 (27.85%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (25.32%) Ethernet VPN
13 19 (24.05%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (24.05%) WLAN
14 18 (22.78%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (18.99%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (18.99%) DNS
16 14 (17.72%) IPsec
16 14 (17.72%) NX-OS
17 12 (15.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Git
General
1 31 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Finance
3 18 (22.78%) Telecoms
4 15 (18.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (12.66%) Public Sector
6 9 (11.39%) Banking
6 9 (11.39%) Retail
7 6 (7.59%) Marketing
8 5 (6.33%) Law
9 3 (3.80%) Back Office
9 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (70.89%) Network Engineer
2 27 (34.18%) Senior
3 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (22.78%) Senior Network Engineer
5 13 (16.46%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (16.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 12 (15.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (12.66%) Firewall Engineer
8 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 9 (11.39%) Network Operations Engineer
8 9 (11.39%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (10.13%) Architect
9 8 (10.13%) Associate Engineer
9 8 (10.13%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (10.13%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (10.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Network Architect
11 3 (3.80%) Network Security Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) Jinja
1 11 (13.92%) NETCONF
1 11 (13.92%) YANG
2 6 (7.59%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.80%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.80%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) SAML
5 1 (1.27%) LDAP
5 1 (1.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (36.71%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.19%) PKI
3 11 (13.92%) Social Media
4 9 (11.39%) Management Information System
5 8 (10.13%) Security Posture
6 6 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.80%) Blog
8 3 (3.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.80%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.27%) e-Learning
9 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 5 (6.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (22.78%) Zero Trust
3 16 (20.25%) Network Design
4 14 (17.72%) Network Segmentation
5 12 (15.19%) Load Balancing
6 11 (13.92%) Agile
6 11 (13.92%) Cloud Security
6 11 (13.92%) Data Science
6 11 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (11.39%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (11.39%) Network Architecture
8 9 (11.39%) Runbook
9 8 (10.13%) CI/CD
9 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.86%) Computer Science
11 6 (7.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Python
2 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.80%) Bicep
3 3 (3.80%) Go
3 3 (3.80%) Java
4 2 (2.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.66%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.86%) Degree
5 6 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.33%) CCNP
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.80%) CCNA
9 2 (2.53%) CCIE
9 2 (2.53%) CCSA
9 2 (2.53%) CCSE
10 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (11.39%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.06%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) Firmware
4 1 (1.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 13 (16.46%) FortiGate
2 7 (8.86%) Terraform
3 5 (6.33%) Ansible
3 5 (6.33%) Endace
4 4 (5.06%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.53%) CASB
5 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.27%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.27%) Nagios
6 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (81.01%) Cisco
2 24 (30.38%) Palo Alto
3 20 (25.32%) CheckPoint
4 19 (24.05%) Fortinet
4 19 (24.05%) Meraki
5 17 (21.52%) SolarWinds
6 15 (18.99%) F5
7 11 (13.92%) Dynatrace
8 10 (12.66%) Juniper
8 10 (12.66%) VMware
9 9 (11.39%) Arista
9 9 (11.39%) ServiceNow
10 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
11 4 (5.06%) Splunk
12 2 (2.53%) Aruba
12 2 (2.53%) Zscaler
13 1 (1.27%) Huawei
13 1 (1.27%) Polycom