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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 355 352
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -50
Permanent jobs citing BGP 81 61 132
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.66% 3.47% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 49 41 64
10th Percentile £51,500 £47,222 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £55,184 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £59,097
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +14.22% +7.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £80,875
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% +9.09% -

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 2,216 1,759 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.88% 10.46% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 991 1,520
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,294 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -0.97%

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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 October 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 21 (25.93%) Azure
2 18 (22.22%) AWS
3 11 (13.58%) GCP
4 7 (8.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.41%) SaaS
6 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (6.17%) Google Compute Engine
6 5 (6.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (4.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.70%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.23%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (65.43%) OSPF
2 50 (61.73%) Firewall
3 49 (60.49%) WAN
4 43 (53.09%) VPN
5 36 (44.44%) Network Security
6 35 (43.21%) LAN
7 33 (40.74%) DNS
8 32 (39.51%) MPLS
9 31 (38.27%) VXLAN
10 29 (35.80%) VLAN
11 24 (29.63%) SD-WAN
11 24 (29.63%) TCP/IP
12 21 (25.93%) Ethernet VPN
13 20 (24.69%) DHCP
14 19 (23.46%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (17.28%) HTTP
15 14 (17.28%) SSL
16 13 (16.05%) Wireless
17 12 (14.81%) EIGRP
17 12 (14.81%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (7.41%) Git
3 5 (6.17%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Banking
3 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 13 (16.05%) Retail
4 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.58%) Telecoms
6 10 (12.35%) Marketing
7 5 (6.17%) Back Office
7 5 (6.17%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.70%) Law
8 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.23%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (58.02%) Network Engineer
2 30 (37.04%) Senior
3 15 (18.52%) Architect
3 15 (18.52%) Network Architect
4 14 (17.28%) Senior Network Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Network Security Architect
5 10 (12.35%) Security Architect
6 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Network Specialist
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Network Specialist
8 6 (7.41%) Data Centre Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Network Security Specialist
8 6 (7.41%) Security Specialist
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Network Security Specialist
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Security Specialist
9 5 (6.17%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Data Network Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) Terraform
2 11 (13.58%) SAML
3 10 (12.35%) OAuth
4 7 (8.64%) 802.1X
5 4 (4.94%) YAML
6 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (3.70%) RESTful
7 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.23%) Jinja
8 1 (1.23%) LDAP
8 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (34.57%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.41%) PKI
3 6 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.17%) Blog
4 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.35%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
2 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (23.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (20.99%) CI/CD
4 17 (20.99%) Network Segmentation
5 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.28%) Load Balancing
7 13 (16.05%) Change Management
7 13 (16.05%) Zero Trust
8 12 (14.81%) Migration
8 12 (14.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 12 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (13.58%) Network Design
10 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (12.35%) Data Management
10 10 (12.35%) Validation
11 9 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 8 (9.88%) Information Security
12 8 (9.88%) Performance Management
12 8 (9.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.40%) Python
2 5 (6.17%) Go
2 5 (6.17%) Java
2 5 (6.17%) SQL
3 4 (4.94%) Bash
4 2 (2.47%) Bicep
4 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (17.28%) CCNP
3 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) CCNA
4 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.94%) CCIE
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.70%) CCDP
8 2 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.47%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (2.47%) CCSP
8 2 (2.47%) CISM
8 2 (2.47%) CISSP
8 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.47%) Degree
9 1 (1.23%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (14.81%) NIST
3 5 (6.17%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.17%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) VMware NSX
2 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.47%) vSphere
4 1 (1.23%) Firmware
4 1 (1.23%) iptables
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (32.10%) FortiGate
2 16 (19.75%) Ansible
3 13 (16.05%) Kubernetes
4 11 (13.58%) CASB
5 5 (6.17%) Grafana
6 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.47%) Cilium
8 2 (2.47%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.23%) Check_MK
9 1 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (1.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 56 (69.14%) Cisco
2 39 (48.15%) Palo Alto
3 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 14 (17.28%) Arista
4 14 (17.28%) Fortinet
5 12 (14.81%) F5
6 9 (11.11%) Juniper
7 8 (9.88%) VMware
8 7 (8.64%) Aruba
9 6 (7.41%) Google
9 6 (7.41%) Meraki
9 6 (7.41%) Zscaler
10 5 (6.17%) CheckPoint
10 5 (6.17%) SolarWinds
11 4 (4.94%) SonicWALL
12 3 (3.70%) Citrix
12 3 (3.70%) Forcepoint
13 2 (2.47%) Dell
13 2 (2.47%) Splunk
14 1 (1.23%) Oracle