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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 359 363
Rank change year-on-year -29 +4 -40
Permanent jobs citing BGP 75 58 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.33% 3.25% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 49 38 69
10th Percentile £51,500 £46,556 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,250 £58,194
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +13.84% +5.81%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £82,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% +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 2,250 1,782 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.22% 11.00% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,344 1,020 1,593
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% -1.19%

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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 21 September 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 20 (26.67%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) AWS
3 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.67%) GCP
5 4 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 53 (70.67%) OSPF
2 50 (66.67%) WAN
3 48 (64.00%) Firewall
4 39 (52.00%) VPN
5 35 (46.67%) LAN
6 34 (45.33%) DNS
7 33 (44.00%) Network Security
8 32 (42.67%) MPLS
9 30 (40.00%) VXLAN
10 26 (34.67%) VLAN
11 25 (33.33%) SD-WAN
12 21 (28.00%) DHCP
13 20 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 20 (26.67%) Ethernet VPN
14 19 (25.33%) TCP/IP
15 14 (18.67%) HTTP
15 14 (18.67%) SSL
16 13 (17.33%) Wireless
17 12 (16.00%) IPsec
18 11 (14.67%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) GitLab
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.67%) Telecoms
4 10 (13.33%) Banking
4 10 (13.33%) Marketing
4 10 (13.33%) Retail
5 8 (10.67%) Finance
6 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (62.67%) Network Engineer
2 28 (37.33%) Senior
3 14 (18.67%) Architect
3 14 (18.67%) Network Architect
3 14 (18.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Network Security Architect
4 10 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Network Specialist
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Network Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Network Security Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Security Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Network Security Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Security Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) SAML
2 10 (13.33%) OAuth
3 9 (12.00%) Terraform
4 7 (9.33%) 802.1X
5 4 (5.33%) YAML
6 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.33%) Jinja
7 1 (1.33%) LDAP
7 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 7 (9.33%) PKI
4 6 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) ASIC
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (22.67%) Network Segmentation
4 14 (18.67%) Load Balancing
5 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (16.00%) Change Management
6 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.67%) Migration
8 10 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (13.33%) Data Management
8 10 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 10 (13.33%) Network Design
8 10 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (13.33%) Validation
9 9 (12.00%) Zero Trust
10 8 (10.67%) Performance Management
10 8 (10.67%) Project Delivery
11 7 (9.33%) Inventory Management
11 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.67%) Python
2 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.67%) Bicep
4 1 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.33%) CCNP
3 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.67%) CCNA
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.33%) CCIE
8 3 (4.00%) CCDP
8 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.00%) Degree
9 2 (2.67%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (13.33%) NIST
2 3 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) VMware NSX
2 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.00%) vSphere
4 1 (1.33%) Firmware
4 1 (1.33%) iptables
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (34.67%) FortiGate
2 16 (21.33%) Ansible
3 11 (14.67%) CASB
4 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.33%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.33%) Packer
6 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (72.00%) Cisco
2 40 (53.33%) Palo Alto
3 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (18.67%) Fortinet
5 13 (17.33%) Arista
6 12 (16.00%) F5
7 9 (12.00%) Juniper
7 9 (12.00%) VMware
8 7 (9.33%) Aruba
9 6 (8.00%) Meraki
9 6 (8.00%) Zscaler
10 5 (6.67%) CheckPoint
10 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
11 4 (5.33%) SonicWALL
12 3 (4.00%) Citrix
12 3 (4.00%) Forcepoint
12 3 (4.00%) Splunk
13 2 (2.67%) Dell
14 1 (1.33%) Google