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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 332 306
Rank change year-on-year +8 -26 +265
Permanent jobs citing BGP 48 142 178
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.71% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.48% 5.77% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 34 75 173
10th Percentile £45,667 £45,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £61,644 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% +12.08% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +4.76%

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 1,380 2,460 2,942
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.02% 12.36% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,426 2,501
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.30% +6.00% -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 27 November 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) OCI
4 6 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) Route 53
6 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.08%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 35 (72.92%) Firewall
2 29 (60.42%) OSPF
3 27 (56.25%) VPN
4 26 (54.17%) WAN
5 21 (43.75%) SD-WAN
6 17 (35.42%) LAN
7 14 (29.17%) TCP/IP
8 13 (27.08%) MPLS
8 13 (27.08%) VLAN
9 12 (25.00%) EIGRP
9 12 (25.00%) Network Security
10 11 (22.92%) Wireless
10 11 (22.92%) Wireshark
11 10 (20.83%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (20.83%) IPsec
12 8 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (14.58%) DNS
13 7 (14.58%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (10.42%) Junos
14 5 (10.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Law
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Back Office
5 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.25%) Retail
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.17%) Local Government
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Electronics
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (2.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 18 (37.50%) Senior
3 15 (31.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Design Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Network Design Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Design Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Network Design Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Architect
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Network Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Data Centre
2 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.17%) e-Learning
6 2 (4.17%) PKI
7 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Load Balancing
1 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.83%) High Availability
2 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
3 9 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 7 (14.58%) ITIL
5 7 (14.58%) Migration
5 7 (14.58%) Project Delivery
5 7 (14.58%) Project Management
6 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (12.50%) DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) Network Design
6 6 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (10.42%) Cloud Security
7 5 (10.42%) Network Optimisation
7 5 (10.42%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) Bash
2 4 (8.33%) Go
3 3 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) CCNP
1 20 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.33%) CCNA
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) JNCIS
4 3 (6.25%) CCIE
5 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.25%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.17%) NIST
4 2 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Firmware
1 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.17%) pfSense
3 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Ansible
2 11 (22.92%) Terraform
3 8 (16.67%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (77.08%) Cisco
2 17 (35.42%) Palo Alto
3 11 (22.92%) Fortinet
3 11 (22.92%) SolarWinds
4 10 (20.83%) Aruba
5 9 (18.75%) Juniper
6 8 (16.67%) Meraki
7 6 (12.50%) F5
8 5 (10.42%) VMware
9 4 (8.33%) Zscaler
10 3 (6.25%) Dell
10 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
10 3 (6.25%) Oracle
11 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
12 1 (2.08%) Arista
12 1 (2.08%) HP
12 1 (2.08%) SAP
12 1 (2.08%) SonicWALL
12 1 (2.08%) Sophos