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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 340 415
Rank change year-on-year +14 +75 +38
Permanent jobs citing BGP 66 68 164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.38% 4.11% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25 54 139
10th Percentile £43,450 £44,159 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,644 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% +23.29% -31.03%
75th Percentile £77,625 £77,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +7.84% -15.00%

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 1,952 1,656 5,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.90% 12.37% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,211 3,455
10th Percentile £29,175 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,200 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 23 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 23 (34.85%) AWS
2 22 (33.33%) Azure
3 15 (22.73%) AWS Direct Connect
4 14 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (19.70%) SaaS
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.06%) Route 53
7 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.03%) OCI
9 1 (1.52%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (60.61%) Firewall
2 39 (59.09%) MPLS
3 36 (54.55%) VPN
4 35 (53.03%) WAN
5 31 (46.97%) OSPF
6 27 (40.91%) SD-WAN
7 22 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
8 21 (31.82%) LAN
9 19 (28.79%) Cisco ISE
9 19 (28.79%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
11 16 (24.24%) VXLAN
12 15 (22.73%) WLAN
13 14 (21.21%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (21.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 14 (21.21%) Network Security
14 13 (19.70%) IPsec
14 13 (19.70%) NX-OS
15 11 (16.67%) Broadband
15 11 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Git
General
1 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.79%) Finance
3 18 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 16 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (15.15%) Banking
5 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 10 (15.15%) Retail
6 6 (9.09%) Law
6 6 (9.09%) Marketing
7 4 (6.06%) Back Office
7 4 (6.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (69.70%) Network Engineer
2 23 (34.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (30.30%) Senior
4 13 (19.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 13 (19.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (19.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (15.15%) Firewall Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Network Operations Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Associate Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Architect
10 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Network Engineering Manager
11 2 (3.03%) Network Manager
11 2 (3.03%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) Jinja
1 11 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 11 (16.67%) YANG
2 4 (6.06%) RESTful
3 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
3 3 (4.55%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.52%) LDAP
4 1 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 11 (16.67%) PKI
2 11 (16.67%) Social Media
3 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
4 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 5 (7.58%) Security Posture
6 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.55%) Blog
7 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
7 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (3.03%) e-Learning
9 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Windows
2 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (24.24%) Network Design
3 16 (24.24%) Zero Trust
4 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (16.67%) Agile
5 11 (16.67%) Data Science
5 11 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 11 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (13.64%) Runbook
7 8 (12.12%) Computer Science
7 8 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (12.12%) Network Architecture
8 6 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (9.09%) Data Management
8 6 (9.09%) Load Balancing
8 6 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) Python
2 4 (6.06%) Go
2 4 (6.06%) Java
2 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.55%) Bash
3 3 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (12.12%) Degree
5 7 (10.61%) CCNP
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.55%) CCIE
6 3 (4.55%) CCNA
7 2 (3.03%) CCSA
7 2 (3.03%) CCSE
7 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
1 4 (6.06%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.64%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (6.06%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Firmware
4 1 (1.52%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Terraform
2 6 (9.09%) Ansible
2 6 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 5 (7.58%) Endace
4 4 (6.06%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.52%) CASB
5 1 (1.52%) Check_MK
5 1 (1.52%) Nagios
5 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (86.36%) Cisco
2 19 (28.79%) CheckPoint
3 18 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 17 (25.76%) Meraki
4 17 (25.76%) SolarWinds
5 12 (18.18%) Palo Alto
6 11 (16.67%) Dynatrace
7 10 (15.15%) VMware
8 9 (13.64%) F5
8 9 (13.64%) ServiceNow
9 7 (10.61%) Juniper
10 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
10 4 (6.06%) Splunk
11 3 (4.55%) Arista
12 1 (1.52%) Aruba
12 1 (1.52%) Huawei
12 1 (1.52%) Polycom
12 1 (1.52%) Sophos