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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 326 309
Rank change year-on-year -28 -17 +264
Permanent jobs citing BGP 51 135 191
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.68% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.01% 5.65% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 37 73 184
10th Percentile £46,333 £45,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £61,644 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% +12.08% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,750 £86,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 1,697 2,388 3,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.70% 12.03% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,378 2,533
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -4.76%

BGP
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

BGP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BGP over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

BGP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BGP
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) GCP
4 9 (17.65%) OCI
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.92%) Route 53
7 2 (3.92%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.96%) Akamai
8 1 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 38 (74.51%) Firewall
2 34 (66.67%) OSPF
3 30 (58.82%) VPN
4 25 (49.02%) WAN
5 20 (39.22%) SD-WAN
6 16 (31.37%) LAN
6 16 (31.37%) TCP/IP
7 14 (27.45%) VLAN
8 13 (25.49%) MPLS
9 12 (23.53%) EIGRP
9 12 (23.53%) IPsec
9 12 (23.53%) Network Security
10 11 (21.57%) Wireless
10 11 (21.57%) Wireshark
11 10 (19.61%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (15.69%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (15.69%) DNS
14 7 (13.73%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (13.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 7 (13.73%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.84%) Law
5 4 (7.84%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Back Office
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Local Government
7 2 (3.92%) Retail
8 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Electronics
8 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
8 1 (1.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (68.63%) Network Engineer
2 17 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (27.45%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Lead
5 5 (9.80%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Design Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Network Design Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Design Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Network Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) Jinja
2 1 (1.96%) YAML
2 1 (1.96%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.69%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.92%) PKI
7 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Windows
2 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Load Balancing
1 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.49%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (21.57%) Network Design
4 10 (19.61%) High Availability
4 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (15.69%) Incident Response
5 8 (15.69%) Task Automation
6 7 (13.73%) DevOps
6 7 (13.73%) ITIL
6 7 (13.73%) Project Delivery
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.76%) Process Improvement
8 5 (9.80%) Cloud Security
8 5 (9.80%) Network Optimisation
8 5 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (9.80%) Project Management
8 5 (9.80%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) Python
2 3 (5.88%) Go
3 2 (3.92%) Bash
3 2 (3.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) CCNP
1 18 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.84%) CCNA
3 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) JNCIS
4 3 (5.88%) CCIE
5 2 (3.92%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.92%) NIST
3 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 2 (3.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Firmware
2 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.92%) pfSense
4 1 (1.96%) Docker
4 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Ansible
2 8 (15.69%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (72.55%) Cisco
2 16 (31.37%) Palo Alto
3 13 (25.49%) SolarWinds
4 10 (19.61%) Aruba
4 10 (19.61%) Fortinet
5 9 (17.65%) Juniper
6 7 (13.73%) Meraki
7 6 (11.76%) F5
8 5 (9.80%) VMware
9 4 (7.84%) CheckPoint
9 4 (7.84%) Zscaler
10 3 (5.88%) Dell
10 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
10 3 (5.88%) Oracle
11 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
11 2 (3.92%) Infoblox
12 1 (1.96%) Arista
12 1 (1.96%) HP
12 1 (1.96%) SAP
12 1 (1.96%) SonicWALL