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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 335 318
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +207
Permanent jobs citing BGP 54 107 174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.91% 4.93% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 28 55 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £54,388 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,644 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +14.16% -1.82%
75th Percentile £78,219 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% +2.80%

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 1,381 2,171 2,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.19% 13.27% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,216 2,494
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -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 13 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 (31.48%) Azure
2 14 (25.93%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Direct Connect
4 7 (12.96%) SaaS
4 7 (12.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (7.41%) OCI
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) Route 53
7 2 (3.70%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (62.96%) Firewall
2 27 (50.00%) VPN
3 25 (46.30%) MPLS
3 25 (46.30%) OSPF
4 22 (40.74%) WAN
5 20 (37.04%) SD-WAN
6 16 (29.63%) Cisco IOS
7 15 (27.78%) IPsec
8 14 (25.93%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (25.93%) LAN
9 12 (22.22%) Network Security
10 11 (20.37%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (18.52%) 4G
11 10 (18.52%) Broadband
11 10 (18.52%) IOS XR
11 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
11 10 (18.52%) VLAN
11 10 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (14.81%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (14.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) Git
General
1 27 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (24.07%) Telecoms
3 7 (12.96%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Law
4 6 (11.11%) Finance
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
5 5 (9.26%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Back Office
6 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Police
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (77.78%) Network Engineer
2 19 (35.19%) Senior
3 16 (29.63%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Associate Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Design Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Network Design Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Network Operations Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior Design Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior Network Design Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Network Engineering Manager
9 2 (3.70%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) Jinja
1 10 (18.52%) NETCONF
1 10 (18.52%) YANG
2 3 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 10 (18.52%) Social Media
3 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
4 6 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (9.26%) Driving Licence
6 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
7 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (5.56%) Private Cloud
7 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.70%) e-Learning
8 2 (3.70%) PKI
8 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Network Design
2 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (22.22%) Agile
3 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (18.52%) Data Science
4 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 8 (14.81%) Cloud Security
6 8 (14.81%) High Availability
6 8 (14.81%) Load Balancing
7 7 (12.96%) ITIL
7 7 (12.96%) Zero Trust
8 6 (11.11%) Migration
8 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 6 (11.11%) Project Management
8 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.26%) Incident Response
9 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) Bash
2 3 (5.56%) Go
2 3 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (29.63%) CCNP
3 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) CCNA
4 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.41%) JNCIS
6 3 (5.56%) Degree
7 2 (3.70%) CCIE
7 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.56%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.56%) Firmware
2 3 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.70%) pfSense
4 1 (1.85%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) FortiGate
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.85%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (87.04%) Cisco
2 13 (24.07%) Fortinet
2 13 (24.07%) Palo Alto
3 12 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 11 (20.37%) Meraki
5 9 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 8 (14.81%) Juniper
7 7 (12.96%) VMware
8 5 (9.26%) Aruba
9 4 (7.41%) Dynatrace
9 4 (7.41%) F5
9 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
10 3 (5.56%) Dell
10 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
11 2 (3.70%) Arista
11 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
11 2 (3.70%) Oracle
12 1 (1.85%) Huawei
12 1 (1.85%) Polycom
12 1 (1.85%) Sophos