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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 332 410
Rank change year-on-year +3 +78 +48
Permanent jobs citing BGP 67 67 167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.51% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.48% 4.07% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 24 55 143
10th Percentile £49,825 £44,279 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,644 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% +23.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £94,750 £85,000 £78,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% +6.80% -14.17%

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 1,925 1,648 5,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.86% 12.47% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 953 1,194 3,476
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,914 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -1.12% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.00% +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 18 April 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 (35.82%) AWS
2 21 (31.34%) Azure
3 17 (25.37%) AWS Direct Connect
4 15 (22.39%) SaaS
4 15 (22.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.96%) Route 53
6 3 (4.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.99%) OCI
8 1 (1.49%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 39 (58.21%) Firewall
2 38 (56.72%) MPLS
3 37 (55.22%) VPN
4 34 (50.75%) WAN
5 30 (44.78%) OSPF
6 27 (40.30%) SD-WAN
7 23 (34.33%) Cisco ASA
8 22 (32.84%) LAN
9 19 (28.36%) Cisco ISE
9 19 (28.36%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (26.87%) Cisco Firepower
11 16 (23.88%) VXLAN
12 15 (22.39%) WLAN
13 14 (20.90%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (20.90%) Network Security
14 13 (19.40%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (19.40%) NX-OS
14 13 (19.40%) TCP/IP
14 13 (19.40%) VLAN
15 12 (17.91%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Git
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (31.34%) Finance
3 18 (26.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (26.87%) Telecoms
4 12 (17.91%) Banking
4 12 (17.91%) Retail
5 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
6 8 (11.94%) Law
7 6 (8.96%) Back Office
7 6 (8.96%) Financial Institution
7 6 (8.96%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (65.67%) Network Engineer
2 25 (37.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (31.34%) Senior
4 13 (19.40%) Cisco Engineer
4 13 (19.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (19.40%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (17.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (16.42%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (14.93%) Firewall Engineer
8 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 9 (13.43%) Network Operations Engineer
8 9 (13.43%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (11.94%) Associate Engineer
9 8 (11.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) Architect
11 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) Network Engineering Manager
12 2 (2.99%) Network Manager
12 2 (2.99%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) Jinja
1 11 (16.42%) NETCONF
1 11 (16.42%) YANG
2 6 (8.96%) RESTful
3 3 (4.48%) 802.1X
3 3 (4.48%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 26 (38.81%) Data Centre
2 11 (16.42%) Social Media
3 9 (13.43%) Management Information System
3 9 (13.43%) PKI
4 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
5 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (7.46%) Security Posture
7 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (4.48%) Blog
8 3 (4.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (4.48%) Driving Licence
9 2 (2.99%) e-Learning
10 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
1 5 (7.46%) Windows
1 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
2 4 (5.97%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (23.88%) Network Design
4 15 (22.39%) Zero Trust
5 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (16.42%) Agile
6 11 (16.42%) Cloud Security
6 11 (16.42%) Data Science
6 11 (16.42%) Network Segmentation
6 11 (16.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (13.43%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (13.43%) Runbook
8 8 (11.94%) Computer Science
8 8 (11.94%) Load Balancing
8 8 (11.94%) Network Architecture
9 7 (10.45%) Observability
10 6 (8.96%) API Management
10 6 (8.96%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.96%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) Python
2 6 (8.96%) Go
2 6 (8.96%) Java
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) Bicep
5 2 (2.99%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) SC Cleared
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) DV Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (11.94%) CCNP
4 8 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (11.94%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.48%) CCIE
5 3 (4.48%) CCNA
6 2 (2.99%) CCSA
6 2 (2.99%) CCSE
6 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) PCI DSS
1 6 (8.96%) SOC 2
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.43%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.97%) vSphere
4 1 (1.49%) Firmware
4 1 (1.49%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Terraform
2 6 (8.96%) Ansible
2 6 (8.96%) FortiGate
3 5 (7.46%) Endace
4 4 (5.97%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.49%) Check_MK
5 1 (1.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (85.07%) Cisco
2 19 (28.36%) CheckPoint
2 19 (28.36%) Fortinet
3 17 (25.37%) SolarWinds
4 16 (23.88%) Meraki
5 11 (16.42%) Dynatrace
5 11 (16.42%) Palo Alto
6 10 (14.93%) VMware
7 9 (13.43%) F5
7 9 (13.43%) ServiceNow
8 6 (8.96%) Juniper
9 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
9 4 (5.97%) Splunk
10 2 (2.99%) Arista
11 1 (1.49%) Huawei
11 1 (1.49%) Polycom
11 1 (1.49%) Sophos