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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 334 317
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 +197
Permanent jobs citing BGP 47 106 173
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.64% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.47% 4.85% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 30 54 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,375 £41,000
25th Percentile £55,638 £52,813 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,072 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +12.86% -
75th Percentile £79,406 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% +0.46%

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 1,354 2,186 2,871
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.97% 13.27% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 882 1,226 2,430
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,125
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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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 9 January 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 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) AWS
3 8 (17.02%) AWS Direct Connect
4 7 (14.89%) SaaS
4 7 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.51%) OCI
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) Route 53
7 2 (4.26%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 35 (74.47%) Firewall
2 28 (59.57%) VPN
3 27 (57.45%) OSPF
4 24 (51.06%) WAN
5 21 (44.68%) SD-WAN
6 16 (34.04%) MPLS
7 15 (31.91%) IPsec
7 15 (31.91%) LAN
8 14 (29.79%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (25.53%) Network Security
10 11 (23.40%) TCP/IP
11 10 (21.28%) VLAN
11 10 (21.28%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (19.15%) Wireshark
13 8 (17.02%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (17.02%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (17.02%) Wireless
13 8 (17.02%) WLAN
14 7 (14.89%) Cisco ISE
14 7 (14.89%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
2 7 (14.89%) Law
3 5 (10.64%) Banking
3 5 (10.64%) Retail
4 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.38%) Back Office
5 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Police
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (72.34%) Network Engineer
2 19 (40.43%) Senior
3 16 (34.04%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Design Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Firewall Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Network Design Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Design Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Network Design Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Network Engineering Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) RESTful
2 1 (2.13%) Jinja
2 1 (2.13%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (10.64%) Driving Licence
5 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
6 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
6 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.26%) e-Learning
7 2 (4.26%) PKI
7 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (19.15%) High Availability
3 9 (19.15%) Load Balancing
3 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
4 8 (17.02%) Cloud Security
4 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (14.89%) ITIL
5 7 (14.89%) Zero Trust
6 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
6 6 (12.77%) Migration
6 6 (12.77%) Project Delivery
6 6 (12.77%) Project Management
6 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.64%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (10.64%) DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) Network Design
7 5 (10.64%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) Python
2 4 (8.51%) Bash
3 3 (6.38%) Go
3 3 (6.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (36.17%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (34.04%) CCNP
3 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) CCNA
4 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.51%) JNCIS
6 3 (6.38%) Degree
7 2 (4.26%) CCIE
7 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.38%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.38%) Firmware
2 3 (6.38%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.26%) pfSense
4 1 (2.13%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
2 7 (14.89%) FortiGate
3 6 (12.77%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (82.98%) Cisco
2 14 (29.79%) Palo Alto
3 13 (27.66%) Fortinet
3 13 (27.66%) SolarWinds
4 11 (23.40%) Meraki
5 9 (19.15%) CheckPoint
6 8 (17.02%) Juniper
7 7 (14.89%) VMware
8 6 (12.77%) Aruba
9 5 (10.64%) F5
10 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
10 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
11 3 (6.38%) Dell
11 3 (6.38%) Zscaler
12 2 (4.26%) Arista
12 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
12 2 (4.26%) Oracle
13 1 (2.13%) Huawei
13 1 (2.13%) Polycom
13 1 (2.13%) Sophos