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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 329 392
Rank change year-on-year -1 +63 +67
Permanent jobs citing BGP 59 69 170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.19% 4.29% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 19 58 151
10th Percentile £53,850 £44,640 £41,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,644 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% +22.07% -30.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £101,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.69% +10.48% -8.70%

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 1,848 1,610 4,306
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.98% 12.55% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,190 3,473
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,938 £67,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +9.38% -7.69%

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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 27 March 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 21 (35.59%) AWS
2 17 (28.81%) AWS Direct Connect
2 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 15 (25.42%) SaaS
3 15 (25.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.17%) Route 53
5 2 (3.39%) OCI
6 1 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 34 (57.63%) Firewall
1 34 (57.63%) MPLS
2 30 (50.85%) VPN
3 29 (49.15%) WAN
4 26 (44.07%) OSPF
5 23 (38.98%) SD-WAN
6 22 (37.29%) Cisco ASA
7 18 (30.51%) LAN
8 17 (28.81%) Cisco Firepower
8 17 (28.81%) Cisco ISE
9 16 (27.12%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (25.42%) VXLAN
11 14 (23.73%) Cisco IOS
11 14 (23.73%) WLAN
12 13 (22.03%) Ethernet VPN
12 13 (22.03%) Network Security
12 13 (22.03%) NX-OS
12 13 (22.03%) VLAN
13 12 (20.34%) IPsec
14 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
General
1 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (30.51%) Telecoms
3 17 (28.81%) Finance
4 12 (20.34%) Banking
4 12 (20.34%) Retail
5 8 (13.56%) Law
6 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (10.17%) Back Office
7 6 (10.17%) Financial Institution
7 6 (10.17%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (69.49%) Network Engineer
2 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (23.73%) Senior
4 13 (22.03%) Cisco Engineer
4 13 (22.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (16.95%) Firewall Engineer
7 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 9 (15.25%) Network Operations Engineer
7 9 (15.25%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (13.56%) Associate Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Network Engineering Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Network Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Network Security Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) Jinja
1 11 (18.64%) NETCONF
1 11 (18.64%) YANG
2 6 (10.17%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.68%) Data Centre
2 11 (18.64%) Social Media
3 9 (15.25%) Management Information System
4 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
5 6 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (10.17%) PKI
6 5 (8.47%) Security Posture
7 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (5.08%) Blog
8 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
9 2 (3.39%) e-Learning
10 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
1 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (27.12%) Network Design
4 15 (25.42%) Zero Trust
5 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (18.64%) Agile
6 11 (18.64%) Cloud Security
6 11 (18.64%) Data Science
6 11 (18.64%) Network Segmentation
6 11 (18.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (15.25%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (15.25%) Runbook
8 8 (13.56%) Network Architecture
9 7 (11.86%) Load Balancing
9 7 (11.86%) Observability
10 6 (10.17%) API Management
10 6 (10.17%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.17%) Data Management
10 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.17%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 6 (10.17%) Go
2 6 (10.17%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) Bicep
4 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (11.86%) CCNP
3 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) CCIE
5 3 (5.08%) CCNA
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.39%) CCSA
6 2 (3.39%) CCSE
6 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
1 6 (10.17%) SOC 2
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.17%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) iptables
3 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Terraform
2 5 (8.47%) Endace
2 5 (8.47%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Nagios
4 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (88.14%) Cisco
2 19 (32.20%) CheckPoint
3 18 (30.51%) Fortinet
4 16 (27.12%) Meraki
5 14 (23.73%) SolarWinds
6 11 (18.64%) Dynatrace
7 9 (15.25%) F5
7 9 (15.25%) Palo Alto
7 9 (15.25%) ServiceNow
8 7 (11.86%) VMware
9 6 (10.17%) Juniper
10 2 (3.39%) Arista
11 1 (1.69%) Huawei
11 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.69%) Polycom
11 1 (1.69%) Sophos
11 1 (1.69%) Splunk