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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 360 427
Rank change year-on-year +26 +67 -24
Permanent jobs citing BGP 86 65 166
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 3.40% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 48 48 136
10th Percentile £45,475 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £52,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +26.21% -20.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £88,875 £89,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.82% +4.76% -12.50%

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 2,128 1,913 5,094
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.96% 12.77% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 1,151 3,319
10th Percentile £30,000 £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 £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -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 7 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 26 (30.23%) Azure
2 21 (24.42%) 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 55 (63.95%) Firewall
2 48 (55.81%) OSPF
3 47 (54.65%) MPLS
4 46 (53.49%) WAN
5 44 (51.16%) VPN
6 32 (37.21%) SD-WAN
7 28 (32.56%) LAN
7 28 (32.56%) Network Security
8 27 (31.40%) VXLAN
9 24 (27.91%) Cisco ISE
10 21 (24.42%) DNS
11 20 (23.26%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (23.26%) Ethernet VPN
12 19 (22.09%) WLAN
13 18 (20.93%) IPsec
13 18 (20.93%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (19.77%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (19.77%) VLAN
15 15 (17.44%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (16.28%) Cisco Nexus
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 56 (65.12%) Network Engineer
2 28 (32.56%) Senior
3 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (18.60%) Senior Network Engineer
5 13 (15.12%) 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
9 8 (9.30%) Associate Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Network Architect
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 5 (5.81%) Network Security Architect
11 5 (5.81%) Network Specialist
11 5 (5.81%) Security Architect
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
3 6 (6.98%) SAML
4 5 (5.81%) OAuth
5 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.49%) RESTful
6 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 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (3.49%) Blog
8 3 (3.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 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 19 (22.09%) Network Segmentation
3 19 (22.09%) Zero Trust
4 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.60%) Network Design
6 14 (16.28%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (16.28%) Load Balancing
7 12 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (12.79%) Agile
8 11 (12.79%) Data Science
8 11 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (11.63%) Cloud Security
10 9 (10.47%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.47%) Network Architecture
11 8 (9.30%) Kalman Filter
11 8 (9.30%) Runbook
12 7 (8.14%) Observability
13 6 (6.98%) Customer Requirements
13 6 (6.98%) DevOps
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 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) 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 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.81%) NIST
2 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.47%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.65%) vSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Firmware
4 1 (1.16%) iptables
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) FortiGate
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 6 (6.98%) CASB
4 5 (5.81%) Endace
4 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.65%) Ansible
5 4 (4.65%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.16%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.16%) Nagios
6 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 15 (17.44%) F5
8 12 (13.95%) Juniper
9 10 (11.63%) Dynatrace
9 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
9 10 (11.63%) VMware
10 9 (10.47%) Arista
11 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.65%) Splunk
12 4 (4.65%) Zscaler
13 3 (3.49%) Aruba
14 1 (1.16%) Huawei
14 1 (1.16%) Polycom