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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 328 300
Rank change year-on-year +12 -28 +232
Permanent jobs citing BGP 49 114 173
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.67% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.53% 5.08% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 32 60 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,125 £41,000
25th Percentile £56,546 £53,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,072 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +12.86% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% -

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 1,388 2,244 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.18% 13.17% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,281 2,383
10th Percentile £27,780 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,875 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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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 1 January 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 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 14 (28.57%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 7 (14.29%) SaaS
4 7 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.16%) OCI
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) Route 53
7 2 (4.08%) GCP
8 1 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 37 (75.51%) Firewall
2 30 (61.22%) VPN
3 29 (59.18%) OSPF
4 26 (53.06%) WAN
5 23 (46.94%) SD-WAN
6 17 (34.69%) LAN
7 16 (32.65%) MPLS
8 15 (30.61%) IPsec
9 14 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (24.49%) Network Security
11 11 (22.45%) TCP/IP
11 11 (22.45%) Wireshark
12 10 (20.41%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (20.41%) VLAN
12 10 (20.41%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (20.41%) Wireless
12 10 (20.41%) WLAN
13 9 (18.37%) EIGRP
14 8 (16.33%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Law
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Retail
5 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.12%) Back Office
6 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.08%) Marketing
7 2 (4.08%) Police
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (73.47%) Network Engineer
2 20 (40.82%) Senior
3 17 (34.69%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Design Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Firewall Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Network Design Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Design Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Network Design Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Network Engineering Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) RESTful
2 1 (2.04%) Jinja
2 1 (2.04%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.04%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (10.20%) Driving Licence
5 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
6 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
6 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) e-Learning
7 2 (4.08%) PKI
7 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.45%) Load Balancing
3 10 (20.41%) High Availability
3 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (18.37%) Mentoring
5 8 (16.33%) Cloud Security
5 8 (16.33%) Incident Response
5 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (14.29%) ITIL
6 7 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 6 (12.24%) Migration
7 6 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (12.24%) Project Delivery
7 6 (12.24%) Project Management
7 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.20%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (10.20%) DevOps
8 5 (10.20%) Network Optimisation
8 5 (10.20%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) Python
2 4 (8.16%) Bash
3 3 (6.12%) Go
3 3 (6.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (32.65%) CCNP
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) CCNA
4 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.16%) JNCIS
6 3 (6.12%) Degree
7 2 (4.08%) CCIE
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.12%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.12%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.08%) SLA
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.12%) Firmware
2 3 (6.12%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.08%) pfSense
4 1 (2.04%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Terraform
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.12%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (83.67%) Cisco
2 16 (32.65%) Palo Alto
3 15 (30.61%) SolarWinds
4 13 (26.53%) Fortinet
5 11 (22.45%) Meraki
6 9 (18.37%) CheckPoint
7 8 (16.33%) Aruba
7 8 (16.33%) Juniper
8 7 (14.29%) F5
8 7 (14.29%) VMware
9 4 (8.16%) Dynatrace
9 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
10 3 (6.12%) Dell
10 3 (6.12%) Zscaler
11 2 (4.08%) Arista
11 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
11 2 (4.08%) Oracle
12 1 (2.04%) Huawei
12 1 (2.04%) Polycom
12 1 (2.04%) Sophos