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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 329 316
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 +241
Permanent jobs citing BGP 41 136 175
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.70% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.08% 5.65% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 30 71 170
10th Percentile £47,000 £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 £80,000 £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 1,332 2,407 2,926
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.81% 12.47% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,386 2,496
10th Percentile £26,987 £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 £87,500 £84,357 £86,250
UK median annual salary £37,500 £53,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.31% +6.10% -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 1 December 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) OCI
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) GCP
5 3 (7.32%) Route 53
5 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 29 (70.73%) Firewall
2 24 (58.54%) OSPF
3 23 (56.10%) VPN
4 22 (53.66%) WAN
5 20 (48.78%) SD-WAN
6 15 (36.59%) LAN
7 11 (26.83%) EIGRP
7 11 (26.83%) MPLS
7 11 (26.83%) Wireshark
8 10 (24.39%) IPsec
8 10 (24.39%) Network Security
8 10 (24.39%) TCP/IP
8 10 (24.39%) VLAN
8 10 (24.39%) Wireless
9 9 (21.95%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (19.51%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (17.07%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (14.63%) DNS
13 5 (12.20%) BIG-IP
13 5 (12.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Law
4 6 (14.63%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Back Office
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.32%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Local Government
6 1 (2.44%) Police
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Network Engineer
2 16 (39.02%) Senior
3 13 (31.71%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Design Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Network Design Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Design Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Network Design Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Network Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (4.88%) ICT Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Data Centre
2 9 (21.95%) Cloud Native
3 6 (14.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (9.76%) Driving Licence
4 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
5 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) e-Learning
6 2 (4.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Load Balancing
1 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (24.39%) High Availability
2 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
3 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.51%) Incident Response
5 7 (17.07%) Migration
5 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
6 6 (14.63%) DevOps
6 6 (14.63%) ITIL
6 6 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
6 6 (14.63%) Project Management
6 6 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
7 5 (12.20%) Network Optimisation
7 5 (12.20%) Process Improvement
8 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.76%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) Bash
3 3 (7.32%) Go
3 3 (7.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (43.90%) CCNP
1 18 (43.90%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.76%) CCNA
3 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) JNCIS
4 3 (7.32%) CCIE
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (7.32%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 2 (4.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Firmware
1 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.88%) pfSense
3 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Terraform
2 9 (21.95%) Ansible
3 7 (17.07%) FortiGate
4 3 (7.32%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 32 (78.05%) Cisco
2 16 (39.02%) Palo Alto
3 10 (24.39%) Aruba
3 10 (24.39%) SolarWinds
4 9 (21.95%) Fortinet
5 8 (19.51%) Juniper
5 8 (19.51%) Meraki
6 6 (14.63%) F5
7 4 (9.76%) VMware
7 4 (9.76%) Zscaler
8 3 (7.32%) Dell
8 3 (7.32%) Oracle
9 2 (4.88%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.44%) Sophos