BGP Jobs with Work from Home Options

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 457 597
Rank change year-on-year +54 +140 -148
Permanent jobs citing BGP 199 213 261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.84% 4.68% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 130 198 198
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,920 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +27.27%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,187 4,554 7,741
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.35% 11.21% 11.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,334 3,388 4,971
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing BGP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (23.12%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 46 (23.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.71%) Azure
2 64 (32.16%) AWS
3 46 (23.12%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (23.12%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (4.02%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.02%) IaaS
6 5 (2.51%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (2.01%) GCP
8 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.51%) PaaS
8 3 (1.51%) SaaS
9 2 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.50%) Route 53
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 111 (55.78%) OSPF
2 108 (54.27%) MPLS
3 106 (53.27%) WAN
4 90 (45.23%) TCP/IP
5 82 (41.21%) LAN
6 78 (39.20%) Firewall
7 75 (37.69%) SD-WAN
8 62 (31.16%) DNS
9 57 (28.64%) SSL
10 49 (24.62%) VPN
11 32 (16.08%) WLAN
12 31 (15.58%) VLAN
13 30 (15.08%) Wireless
14 22 (11.06%) Network Security
15 20 (10.05%) Ethernet
15 20 (10.05%) IPsec
16 17 (8.54%) VPLS
17 15 (7.54%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (6.53%) EIGRP
18 13 (6.53%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.12%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (23.12%) Oracle Database
1 46 (23.12%) RDBMS
1 46 (23.12%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Git
1 1 (0.50%) GitLab
1 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 83 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.04%) Law
3 12 (6.03%) Finance
4 10 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.02%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.51%) Legal
6 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.01%) Publishing
8 3 (1.51%) Military
9 2 (1.01%) Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Billing
9 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Front Office
9 2 (1.01%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (37.69%) Network Engineer
2 49 (24.62%) Lead
3 46 (23.12%) Architect
3 46 (23.12%) Lead Architect
3 46 (23.12%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 46 (23.12%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (15.58%) Analyst
4 31 (15.58%) Network Analyst
5 29 (14.57%) Network Operations Analyst
5 29 (14.57%) Operations Analyst
6 27 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (13.57%) Senior
7 18 (9.05%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) IT Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Consultant
9 8 (4.02%) Core Network Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Senior Core Network Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (3.52%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.12%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (23.12%) Spring Boot
2 7 (3.52%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.51%) XMPP
4 3 (1.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (24.12%) Enterprise Software
1 48 (24.12%) Public Cloud
2 36 (18.09%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.02%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (3.02%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.51%) PKI
7 4 (2.01%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.01%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.51%) Smart City
9 2 (1.01%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.01%) Clustering
9 2 (1.01%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.16%) Linux
2 46 (23.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (7.54%) Windows
4 7 (3.52%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.51%) Android
5 5 (2.51%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.01%) VMS
7 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.63%) Project Management
2 50 (25.13%) Load Balancing
3 49 (24.62%) Collaborative Working
3 49 (24.62%) Migration
4 46 (23.12%) Actionable Insight
4 46 (23.12%) Agile
4 46 (23.12%) ArchiMate
4 46 (23.12%) Cloud Operations
4 46 (23.12%) Data Migration
4 46 (23.12%) Kanban
4 46 (23.12%) Open Source
4 46 (23.12%) Re-Platforming
4 46 (23.12%) Scrum
4 46 (23.12%) SDLC
4 46 (23.12%) Systems Engineering
4 46 (23.12%) TOGAF
5 33 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (14.07%) Mentoring
7 19 (9.55%) Network Design
7 19 (9.55%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.02%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.02%) Python
3 4 (2.01%) SQL
4 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 74 (37.19%) Cisco Certification
2 61 (30.65%) Security Cleared
3 56 (28.14%) CCNP
4 52 (26.13%) CCNA
5 48 (24.12%) SC Cleared
6 47 (23.62%) AWS Certification
6 47 (23.62%) Azure Certification
7 46 (23.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (19.10%) CCIE
9 36 (18.09%) CCDP
10 16 (8.04%) Degree
11 10 (5.03%) JNCIP
12 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.51%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.51%) MCT
14 2 (1.01%) CCIP
15 1 (0.50%) CCNP Voice
15 1 (0.50%) CCSP
15 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.50%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.52%) SLA
2 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.03%) Hyper-V
3 9 (4.52%) Docker
4 6 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.01%) vCloud
6 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (8.54%) FortiGate
2 16 (8.04%) Ansible
3 8 (4.02%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.01%) BMC PATROL
4 4 (2.01%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (2.01%) WSUS
5 3 (1.51%) Grafana
5 3 (1.51%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.01%) Nessus
6 2 (1.01%) Puppet
6 2 (1.01%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (42.21%) Cisco
2 46 (23.12%) Oracle
2 46 (23.12%) Sparx
3 38 (19.10%) Juniper
4 19 (9.55%) Meraki
4 19 (9.55%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.54%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.54%) SolarWinds
6 16 (8.04%) Fortinet
7 14 (7.04%) VMware
8 9 (4.52%) CheckPoint
9 8 (4.02%) Draytek
9 8 (4.02%) F5
10 7 (3.52%) Extreme Networks
11 6 (3.02%) Aruba
11 6 (3.02%) Infoblox
11 6 (3.02%) Nokia
12 4 (2.01%) Citrix
12 4 (2.01%) Dell
12 4 (2.01%) NetApp