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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 317 401
Rank change year-on-year -5 +84 +50
Permanent jobs citing BGP 63 71 167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.55% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.35% 4.40% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 58 147
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,640 £40,450
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% -32.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 1,883 1,615 4,299
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.16% 12.59% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,195 3,472
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £30,513
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -8.53%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,625
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.24% -7.52%

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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 3 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 22 (34.92%) AWS
2 19 (30.16%) Azure
3 17 (26.98%) AWS Direct Connect
4 15 (23.81%) SaaS
4 15 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.52%) Route 53
6 2 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (58.73%) Firewall
2 36 (57.14%) MPLS
3 33 (52.38%) VPN
4 31 (49.21%) WAN
5 28 (44.44%) OSPF
6 25 (39.68%) SD-WAN
7 23 (36.51%) Cisco ASA
8 20 (31.75%) LAN
9 18 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
9 18 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (26.98%) Cisco Firepower
11 16 (25.40%) VXLAN
12 15 (23.81%) WLAN
13 14 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (22.22%) Network Security
14 13 (20.63%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (20.63%) NX-OS
14 13 (20.63%) VLAN
15 12 (19.05%) IPsec
15 12 (19.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (17.46%) Git
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.57%) Finance
2 18 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 12 (19.05%) Banking
3 12 (19.05%) Retail
4 8 (12.70%) Law
4 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.52%) Back Office
5 6 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 6 (9.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (68.25%) Network Engineer
2 22 (34.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (28.57%) Senior
4 13 (20.63%) Cisco Engineer
4 13 (20.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (20.63%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (19.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (17.46%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (17.46%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (15.87%) Firewall Engineer
8 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 9 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
8 9 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (12.70%) Associate Engineer
10 5 (7.94%) Architect
10 5 (7.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
11 2 (3.17%) Network Manager
11 2 (3.17%) Network Security Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) Jinja
1 11 (17.46%) NETCONF
1 11 (17.46%) YANG
2 6 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 25 (39.68%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.46%) Social Media
3 9 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
5 7 (11.11%) PKI
6 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (7.94%) Security Posture
8 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (4.76%) Blog
9 3 (4.76%) Driving Licence
10 2 (3.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (3.17%) e-Learning
11 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
1 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.40%) Network Design
4 15 (23.81%) Zero Trust
5 13 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (17.46%) Agile
6 11 (17.46%) Cloud Security
6 11 (17.46%) Data Science
6 11 (17.46%) Network Segmentation
6 11 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (14.29%) Runbook
8 8 (12.70%) Network Architecture
9 7 (11.11%) Load Balancing
9 7 (11.11%) Observability
10 6 (9.52%) API Management
10 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 6 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.52%) Data Management
10 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) Python
2 6 (9.52%) Go
2 6 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (3.17%) Bash
3 2 (3.17%) Bicep
3 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (12.70%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) CCNP
4 6 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (9.52%) Degree
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) CCIE
5 3 (4.76%) CCNA
6 2 (3.17%) CCSA
6 2 (3.17%) CCSE
6 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) PCI DSS
1 6 (9.52%) SOC 2
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.59%) Firmware
4 1 (1.59%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Terraform
2 6 (9.52%) FortiGate
3 5 (7.94%) Endace
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
5 2 (3.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 55 (87.30%) Cisco
2 19 (30.16%) CheckPoint
2 19 (30.16%) Fortinet
3 16 (25.40%) Meraki
4 15 (23.81%) SolarWinds
5 11 (17.46%) Dynatrace
6 10 (15.87%) Palo Alto
7 9 (14.29%) F5
7 9 (14.29%) ServiceNow
8 8 (12.70%) VMware
9 6 (9.52%) Juniper
10 2 (3.17%) Arista
10 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.17%) Splunk
11 1 (1.59%) Huawei
11 1 (1.59%) Polycom
11 1 (1.59%) Sophos