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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 395 449
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 +156
Permanent jobs citing BGP 62 200 216
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.34% 3.85% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47 131 201
10th Percentile £44,519 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.29% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -18.40% +4.17%

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 4,640 5,189 4,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.92% 15.33% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,709 3,332 3,376
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £76,316
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

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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 19 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) AWS
1 28 (45.16%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (6.45%) SaaS
3 4 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) GCP
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.23%) OCI
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (79.03%) OSPF
2 44 (70.97%) Firewall
3 34 (54.84%) WAN
4 32 (51.61%) VPN
5 30 (48.39%) MPLS
6 29 (46.77%) IPsec
7 25 (40.32%) LAN
8 23 (37.10%) SD-WAN
9 20 (32.26%) WLAN
10 18 (29.03%) Wireless
11 17 (27.42%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (25.81%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (24.19%) TCP/IP
13 15 (24.19%) VLAN
13 15 (24.19%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (20.97%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (16.13%) DHCP
15 10 (16.13%) DNS
15 10 (16.13%) Network Security
15 10 (16.13%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.23%) JMeter
General
1 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (16.13%) Finance
2 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.23%) Local Government
3 2 (3.23%) Police
4 1 (1.61%) Banking
4 1 (1.61%) Games
4 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (54.84%) Network Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Cisco Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Senior
3 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Lead
5 9 (14.52%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Infoblox Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Architect
8 4 (6.45%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.45%) JSON
2 4 (6.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (54.84%) Data Centre
2 10 (16.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.23%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
1 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) Change Management
2 15 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (22.58%) Network Design
4 13 (20.97%) Cloud Security
4 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (12.90%) Network Architecture
8 7 (11.29%) Kalman Filter
9 6 (9.68%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.06%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (8.06%) Data Centre Operations
10 5 (8.06%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.06%) Network Management
10 5 (8.06%) Network Segmentation
10 5 (8.06%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (8.06%) Process Improvement
10 5 (8.06%) Product Management
10 5 (8.06%) Product Requirements
10 5 (8.06%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) Python
2 3 (4.84%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (37.10%) Cisco Certification
1 23 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) CCNP
3 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
4 10 (16.13%) CCNA
5 6 (9.68%) CCIE
6 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.45%) JNCIS
7 2 (3.23%) Degree
8 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Firmware
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Ansible
2 5 (8.06%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.23%) Iperf
Vendors
1 43 (69.35%) Cisco
2 19 (30.65%) CheckPoint
3 18 (29.03%) SolarWinds
4 17 (27.42%) Palo Alto
5 14 (22.58%) Juniper
6 10 (16.13%) Dynatrace
6 10 (16.13%) Fortinet
6 10 (16.13%) Infoblox
7 9 (14.52%) F5
8 8 (12.90%) Meraki
9 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
10 4 (6.45%) Riverbed
11 3 (4.84%) Arista
11 3 (4.84%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (4.84%) McAfee
11 3 (4.84%) VMware
12 2 (3.23%) Avaya
12 2 (3.23%) Dell
12 2 (3.23%) ForeScout
12 2 (3.23%) SevOne