BGP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 380 392
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +260
Permanent jobs citing BGP 65 210 229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 4.15% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 46 132 216
10th Percentile £43,799 £40,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -11.02% -1.67%

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 5,547 5,056 4,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 14.82% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,983 3,127 3,239
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £54,213 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,258 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% -6.86% -2.86%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BGP.

BGP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BGP over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

BGP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.92%) AWS
1 24 (36.92%) Azure
2 10 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
3 8 (12.31%) GCP
4 7 (10.77%) OCI
5 2 (3.08%) Akamai
5 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.08%) SaaS
5 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (78.46%) OSPF
2 44 (67.69%) Firewall
3 35 (53.85%) WAN
4 33 (50.77%) VPN
5 28 (43.08%) MPLS
6 25 (38.46%) IPsec
6 25 (38.46%) LAN
7 23 (35.38%) SD-WAN
8 19 (29.23%) TCP/IP
9 18 (27.69%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (27.69%) WLAN
10 17 (26.15%) Wireless
11 16 (24.62%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (21.54%) VLAN
14 11 (16.92%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (16.92%) DNS
14 11 (16.92%) Network Security
14 11 (16.92%) NX-OS
15 9 (13.85%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) JMeter
2 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (18.46%) Finance
2 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.15%) Local Government
6 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.62%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.08%) Police
8 1 (1.54%) Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Electronics
8 1 (1.54%) Games
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (55.38%) Network Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) Senior
3 11 (16.92%) Lead
4 10 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Infoblox Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Network Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) 802.1X
1 4 (6.15%) YAML
2 2 (3.08%) Jinja
2 2 (3.08%) JSON
2 2 (3.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 27 (41.54%) Data Centre
2 10 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
1 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (24.62%) Network Design
3 15 (23.08%) Change Management
3 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 11 (16.92%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (13.85%) Load Balancing
7 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (10.77%) Process Improvement
7 7 (10.77%) Task Automation
8 6 (9.23%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (9.23%) Network Architecture
8 6 (9.23%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
9 5 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
9 5 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (7.69%) Product Requirements
9 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
9 5 (7.69%) Runbook
9 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) Python
2 3 (4.62%) C++
3 1 (1.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 14 (21.54%) CCNP
4 13 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (12.31%) CCNA
6 4 (6.15%) CCIE
6 4 (6.15%) JNCIS
7 3 (4.62%) Degree
7 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Firmware
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) Ansible
2 5 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.62%) Terraform
4 2 (3.08%) Iperf
4 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (73.85%) Cisco
2 19 (29.23%) SolarWinds
3 18 (27.69%) CheckPoint
4 16 (24.62%) Palo Alto
5 14 (21.54%) Fortinet
5 14 (21.54%) Juniper
6 10 (15.38%) Dynatrace
6 10 (15.38%) Infoblox
6 10 (15.38%) Meraki
7 6 (9.23%) Aruba
7 6 (9.23%) F5
7 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
8 4 (6.15%) VMware
9 3 (4.62%) Arista
9 3 (4.62%) McAfee
9 3 (4.62%) Riverbed
10 2 (3.08%) HP
10 2 (3.08%) Nokia
11 1 (1.54%) Dell
11 1 (1.54%) Oracle