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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 359 402
Rank change year-on-year -10 +43 -42
Permanent jobs citing BGP 75 61 126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.16% 3.10% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 55 43 94
10th Percentile £61,761 £44,039 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +16.07% -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.40% +6.82% -8.33%

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 2,370 1,965 4,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.85% 11.92% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 1,202 2,390
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -5.96%

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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 26 July 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 24 (32.00%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) AWS
3 7 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.67%) SaaS
6 4 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.33%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.33%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (66.67%) Firewall
1 50 (66.67%) WAN
2 49 (65.33%) OSPF
3 47 (62.67%) VPN
4 39 (52.00%) MPLS
5 33 (44.00%) SD-WAN
6 32 (42.67%) DNS
6 32 (42.67%) Network Security
7 30 (40.00%) LAN
8 25 (33.33%) VXLAN
9 21 (28.00%) VLAN
10 20 (26.67%) HTTP
11 19 (25.33%) DHCP
12 18 (24.00%) TCP/IP
13 17 (22.67%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (22.67%) IPsec
14 15 (20.00%) SNMP
15 14 (18.67%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (18.67%) SSL
16 13 (17.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Git
1 1 (1.33%) GitLab
1 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Finance
3 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Banking
4 5 (6.67%) Retail
4 5 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Back Office
7 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Network Engineer
2 26 (34.67%) Senior
3 18 (24.00%) Architect
4 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (17.33%) Network Architect
5 11 (14.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Network Security Architect
6 10 (13.33%) Security Architect
7 8 (10.67%) Network Specialist
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Network Specialist
9 6 (8.00%) Network Security Specialist
9 6 (8.00%) Security Specialist
9 6 (8.00%) Senior Network Security Specialist
9 6 (8.00%) Senior Security Specialist
10 5 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
10 5 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) SAML
2 10 (13.33%) OAuth
3 7 (9.33%) 802.1X
4 3 (4.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.33%) Jinja
5 1 (1.33%) LDAP
5 1 (1.33%) REST
5 1 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (17.33%) PKI
3 10 (13.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.67%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.33%) Blog
9 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Windows
2 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.00%) Network Segmentation
2 19 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (25.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 14 (18.67%) Zero Trust
6 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 9 (12.00%) Network Design
10 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
10 8 (10.67%) Project Delivery
11 6 (8.00%) Analytics
11 6 (8.00%) Cloud Security
11 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (8.00%) DevOps
11 6 (8.00%) High Availability
11 6 (8.00%) Information Security
11 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
12 5 (6.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) Python
2 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.00%) Bicep
4 1 (1.33%) Bash
4 1 (1.33%) Go
4 1 (1.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) DV Cleared
4 10 (13.33%) CCNP
4 10 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.67%) CCNA
5 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.67%) Degree
6 3 (4.00%) CCIE
7 1 (1.33%) CCDP
7 1 (1.33%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.33%) CCSA
7 1 (1.33%) CCSE
7 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) VMware NSX
2 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 11 (14.67%) Ansible
2 11 (14.67%) CASB
3 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.67%) Endace
4 5 (6.67%) Terraform
5 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.33%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (74.67%) Cisco
2 40 (53.33%) Palo Alto
3 20 (26.67%) Fortinet
4 18 (24.00%) F5
5 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
6 12 (16.00%) CheckPoint
6 12 (16.00%) Juniper
6 12 (16.00%) Meraki
7 11 (14.67%) Arista
7 11 (14.67%) SolarWinds
8 9 (12.00%) VMware
9 6 (8.00%) Zscaler
10 5 (6.67%) Dynatrace
11 4 (5.33%) Aruba
11 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
11 4 (5.33%) Splunk
12 3 (4.00%) Citrix
13 2 (2.67%) SonicWALL
14 1 (1.33%) Forcepoint