Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 569 619
Rank change year-on-year +95 +50 -98
Permanent jobs citing BGP 491 434 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.63% 2.80% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 347 349 572
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £46,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,004 £82,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +0.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP.

Salary trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 452 £51,000 -11.30% 106
UK excluding London +98 345 £48,500 -3.00% 77
Work from Home +50 202 £50,000 -27.54% 58
South East +58 138 £51,000 +2.77% 29
London +95 127 £70,000 - 44
North of England +82 94 £42,500 -5.56% 17
North West +63 71 £40,000 -42.86% 11
Midlands +34 71 £48,500 -22.40% 9
West Midlands +48 62 £48,500 -20.82% 8
Yorkshire +72 29 £62,500 +38.89% 6
South West -16 25 £51,250 +2.50% 5
Scotland -50 16 £75,000 +25.00% 12
East of England -9 15 £62,500 -3.85% 3
East Midlands -14 9 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Wales +8 6 £41,067 - 1
Northern Ireland +19 4 - - 2
North East -17 3 £62,500 +66.67% 1

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.37%) WebLogic
2 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.63%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (9.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (28.11%) Azure
2 102 (20.77%) AWS
3 46 (9.37%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (9.37%) Amazon SQS
4 22 (4.48%) IaaS
5 18 (3.67%) PaaS
5 18 (3.67%) SaaS
6 16 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 14 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (2.85%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.65%) GCP
9 12 (2.44%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.20%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.20%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 286 (58.25%) OSPF
2 252 (51.32%) MPLS
3 228 (46.44%) WAN
4 194 (39.51%) Firewall
5 162 (32.99%) LAN
6 144 (29.33%) TCP/IP
7 133 (27.09%) SD-WAN
8 127 (25.87%) VPN
9 99 (20.16%) Wireless
10 98 (19.96%) DNS
11 87 (17.72%) SSL
12 78 (15.89%) VLAN
13 72 (14.66%) EIGRP
14 71 (14.46%) IPsec
15 64 (13.03%) Wi-Fi
16 62 (12.63%) Network Security
17 54 (11.00%) DHCP
18 51 (10.39%) Ethernet
18 51 (10.39%) Internet
19 46 (9.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.37%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (9.37%) Oracle Database
1 46 (9.37%) RDBMS
1 46 (9.37%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.26%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.81%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (2.65%) GitLab
2 12 (2.44%) JIRA
3 5 (1.02%) Git
4 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 113 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 36 (7.33%) Finance
3 32 (6.52%) Telecoms
4 24 (4.89%) Law
5 23 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.04%) Retail
7 6 (1.22%) Legal
7 6 (1.22%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.81%) Billing
9 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.81%) Military
9 4 (0.81%) Publishing
10 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.61%) Games
10 3 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.41%) Banking
11 2 (0.41%) Electronics
11 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.41%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 243 (49.49%) Network Engineer
2 90 (18.33%) Senior
3 71 (14.46%) Architect
4 63 (12.83%) Senior Network Engineer
5 52 (10.59%) Lead
6 47 (9.57%) Lead Architect
7 46 (9.37%) Analyst
7 46 (9.37%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 46 (9.37%) Network Analyst
7 46 (9.37%) Solutions Architect
8 42 (8.55%) IP Engineer
9 38 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (6.92%) Network Operations Analyst
10 34 (6.92%) Operations Analyst
11 32 (6.52%) IP Network Engineer
12 27 (5.50%) Juniper Engineer
13 26 (5.30%) Network Support
14 23 (4.68%) Cisco Engineer
15 22 (4.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 22 (4.48%) Senior Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.37%) 802.1X
1 46 (9.37%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (9.37%) Spring Boot
2 18 (3.67%) XML
3 12 (2.44%) NETCONF
3 12 (2.44%) RESTCONF
4 11 (2.24%) JSON
4 11 (2.24%) REST
4 11 (2.24%) SOAP
4 11 (2.24%) YAML
4 11 (2.24%) YANG
5 8 (1.63%) SAML
6 7 (1.43%) HTML
7 5 (1.02%) XMPP
8 4 (0.81%) .NET
8 4 (0.81%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.81%) ADO
9 3 (0.61%) CSS
10 1 (0.20%) EDI
10 1 (0.20%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.13%) Data Centre
2 61 (12.42%) Public Cloud
3 52 (10.59%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.26%) PKI
6 15 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.65%) Clustering
7 13 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.04%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.04%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.43%) FMCG
11 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.81%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.81%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 95 (19.35%) Linux
2 46 (9.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (5.70%) Windows
4 19 (3.87%) Unix
5 18 (3.67%) VyOS
6 16 (3.26%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.44%) CentOS
8 7 (1.43%) Android
8 7 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.61%) Debian
11 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (16.50%) Load Balancing
2 69 (14.05%) Agile
3 64 (13.03%) Network Design
4 63 (12.83%) Open Source
5 58 (11.81%) Scrum
6 55 (11.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 54 (11.00%) Migration
7 54 (11.00%) Project Management
8 51 (10.39%) Project Delivery
9 49 (9.98%) Collaborative Working
9 49 (9.98%) Systems Engineering
10 46 (9.37%) Actionable Insight
10 46 (9.37%) ArchiMate
10 46 (9.37%) Cloud Operations
10 46 (9.37%) Data Migration
10 46 (9.37%) Kanban
10 46 (9.37%) Network Management
10 46 (9.37%) Re-Platforming
10 46 (9.37%) SDLC
10 46 (9.37%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.74%) Python
2 27 (5.50%) PowerShell
3 15 (3.05%) SQL
4 5 (1.02%) Bash
5 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 201 (40.94%) Cisco Certification
2 152 (30.96%) Security Cleared
3 144 (29.33%) CCNP
4 100 (20.37%) CCNA
5 77 (15.68%) SC Cleared
6 55 (11.20%) CCIE
7 47 (9.57%) AWS Certification
7 47 (9.57%) Azure Certification
8 46 (9.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 41 (8.35%) CCDP
10 37 (7.54%) JNCIA
11 31 (6.31%) JNCIP
12 30 (6.11%) Degree
13 19 (3.87%) JNCIE
14 10 (2.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 9 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.63%) JNCIS
17 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
18 3 (0.61%) CCSA
18 3 (0.61%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.46%) SLA
2 8 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.22%) NCSC
4 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.41%) NIST
5 2 (0.41%) QA
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.48%) Hyper-V
3 20 (4.07%) Docker
4 12 (2.44%) Firmware
5 11 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.81%) vCloud
6 4 (0.81%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.20%) NFS
9 1 (0.20%) pfSense
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (12.02%) FortiGate
2 25 (5.09%) Ansible
3 21 (4.28%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.04%) Puppet
5 9 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.63%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.63%) Terraform
7 7 (1.43%) WSUS
8 6 (1.22%) Endace
8 6 (1.22%) Nessus
9 5 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.81%) BMC PATROL
10 4 (0.81%) Nagios
10 4 (0.81%) SCOM
10 4 (0.81%) SCOrch
10 4 (0.81%) vMotion
11 3 (0.61%) Grafana
11 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 283 (57.64%) Cisco
2 208 (42.36%) Juniper
3 86 (17.52%) Fortinet
4 60 (12.22%) Nokia
5 50 (10.18%) Microsoft
6 46 (9.37%) Oracle
6 46 (9.37%) Sparx
7 41 (8.35%) Palo Alto
8 38 (7.74%) Meraki
9 36 (7.33%) CheckPoint
9 36 (7.33%) F5
9 36 (7.33%) SolarWinds
10 28 (5.70%) VMware
11 27 (5.50%) Ruckus Wireless
12 18 (3.67%) Vyatta
13 16 (3.26%) McAfee
14 15 (3.05%) Aruba
15 13 (2.65%) Draytek
16 11 (2.24%) Arista
16 11 (2.24%) Citrix