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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 373 427
Rank change year-on-year +45 +54 -19
Permanent jobs citing BGP 84 66 160
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.97% 3.43% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 49 133
10th Percentile £44,625 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,625 £88,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.82% +4.76% -12.50%

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 2,114 1,925 5,072
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.01% 12.85% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 1,157 3,322
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.21% - -5.94%

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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 1 June 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 26 (30.95%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) AWS
3 14 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
3 14 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (14.29%) SaaS
5 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.57%) Route 53
7 2 (2.38%) GCP
8 1 (1.19%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 55 (65.48%) Firewall
2 48 (57.14%) OSPF
3 46 (54.76%) MPLS
4 44 (52.38%) WAN
5 42 (50.00%) VPN
6 31 (36.90%) SD-WAN
7 28 (33.33%) LAN
7 28 (33.33%) VXLAN
8 27 (32.14%) Network Security
9 25 (29.76%) Cisco ISE
10 21 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (23.81%) DNS
11 20 (23.81%) Ethernet VPN
11 20 (23.81%) WLAN
12 19 (22.62%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (21.43%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (21.43%) IPsec
14 16 (19.05%) VLAN
15 15 (17.86%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (16.67%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
General
1 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Telecoms
3 15 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.71%) Banking
5 9 (10.71%) Retail
6 6 (7.14%) Marketing
7 3 (3.57%) Back Office
7 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.57%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 27 (32.14%) Senior
3 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Senior Network Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 12 (14.29%) Architect
6 12 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (11.90%) Firewall Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Network Operations Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Associate Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Network Architect
11 5 (5.95%) Network Specialist
12 4 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
12 4 (4.76%) Network Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) Jinja
1 11 (13.10%) NETCONF
1 11 (13.10%) YANG
2 7 (8.33%) 802.1X
3 5 (5.95%) SAML
4 4 (4.76%) OAuth
5 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.57%) RESTful
6 1 (1.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.29%) PKI
3 11 (13.10%) Social Media
4 9 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 9 (10.71%) Security Posture
5 7 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (3.57%) Blog
8 3 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
2 5 (5.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (23.81%) Zero Trust
3 19 (22.62%) Network Segmentation
3 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.05%) Network Design
5 14 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 13 (15.48%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (13.10%) Agile
7 11 (13.10%) Data Science
7 11 (13.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (11.90%) Cloud Security
8 10 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (10.71%) Network Architecture
9 9 (10.71%) Runbook
10 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 6 (7.14%) DevOps
11 6 (7.14%) High Availability
11 6 (7.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.05%) Python
2 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.57%) Bicep
3 3 (3.57%) Go
3 3 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (1.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.14%) Degree
5 5 (5.95%) CCNP
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.76%) CCNA
7 2 (2.38%) CCIE
7 2 (2.38%) CCSA
7 2 (2.38%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.76%) NIST
2 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.71%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.76%) vSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Firmware
4 1 (1.19%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.95%) CASB
3 5 (5.95%) Endace
4 4 (4.76%) Ansible
4 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.19%) Check_MK
5 1 (1.19%) Nagios
5 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (79.76%) Cisco
2 29 (34.52%) Palo Alto
3 21 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 20 (23.81%) CheckPoint
5 17 (20.24%) Meraki
5 17 (20.24%) SolarWinds
6 15 (17.86%) F5
7 12 (14.29%) Juniper
8 11 (13.10%) Dynatrace
9 10 (11.90%) VMware
10 9 (10.71%) Arista
10 9 (10.71%) ServiceNow
11 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
12 4 (4.76%) Splunk
12 4 (4.76%) Zscaler
13 2 (2.38%) Aruba
14 1 (1.19%) Huawei
14 1 (1.19%) Polycom