BGP Jobs in the North of England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 366 384
Rank change year-on-year +79 +18 -98
Permanent jobs citing BGP 92 67 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.53% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.25% 2.12% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 70 50 49
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £37,500 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £53,875 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.17% -4.17% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,164 3,165 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 18.38% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 1,256 1,676
10th Percentile £25,975 £26,000 £26,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £60,625 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,573 £73,675
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the North of England.

Salary trend for BGP in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +67 71 £40,000 -42.86% 5
Yorkshire +78 26 £62,500 +38.89% 5
North East -17 4 £62,500 +66.67% 2
BGP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (13.04%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.78%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) AWS
3 12 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.35%) GCP
6 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.26%) IaaS
6 3 (3.26%) PaaS
6 3 (3.26%) SaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 70 (76.09%) OSPF
2 62 (67.39%) MPLS
3 56 (60.87%) TCP/IP
4 50 (54.35%) WAN
5 36 (39.13%) LAN
6 32 (34.78%) Firewall
6 32 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
6 32 (34.78%) Wireless
7 30 (32.61%) Ethernet
8 26 (28.26%) Internet
9 24 (26.09%) DHCP
9 24 (26.09%) DSL
10 22 (23.91%) SSL
11 20 (21.74%) VPN
12 19 (20.65%) DNS
12 19 (20.65%) SD-WAN
13 10 (10.87%) IPsec
14 9 (9.78%) EIGRP
14 9 (9.78%) Network Security
15 8 (8.70%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (13.04%) Oracle Database
1 12 (13.04%) RDBMS
1 12 (13.04%) Relational Database
General
1 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (57.61%) Network Engineer
2 25 (27.17%) IP Engineer
3 18 (19.57%) IP Network Engineer
4 17 (18.48%) Juniper Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Lead
6 12 (13.04%) Architect
6 12 (13.04%) Lead Architect
6 12 (13.04%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 12 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (11.96%) Network Support
8 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Senior
10 5 (5.43%) Network Support Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Support Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Design Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (4.35%) Project Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (13.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Software
1 14 (15.22%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.61%) Clustering
3 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.26%) PKI
5 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.57%) VyOS
2 13 (14.13%) Linux
3 12 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.35%) Windows
4 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.13%) Customer Service
2 13 (14.13%) Collaborative Working
3 12 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
3 12 (13.04%) Agile
3 12 (13.04%) ArchiMate
3 12 (13.04%) Cloud Operations
3 12 (13.04%) Data Migration
3 12 (13.04%) Kanban
3 12 (13.04%) Load Balancing
3 12 (13.04%) Migration
3 12 (13.04%) Open Source
3 12 (13.04%) Project Management
3 12 (13.04%) Re-Platforming
3 12 (13.04%) Scrum
3 12 (13.04%) SDLC
3 12 (13.04%) Systems Engineering
3 12 (13.04%) TOGAF
4 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (7.61%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (43.48%) CCNA
3 26 (28.26%) JNCIA
4 20 (21.74%) CCNP
5 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
6 13 (14.13%) JNCIP
7 12 (13.04%) AWS Certification
7 12 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (13.04%) Azure Certification
7 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
8 7 (7.61%) JNCIE
9 6 (6.52%) CCDP
10 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.17%) Degree
11 1 (1.09%) CCIE
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.61%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.52%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 7 (7.61%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (5.43%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.17%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.17%) WSUS
4 1 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Icinga
4 1 (1.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (64.13%) Cisco
2 47 (51.09%) Juniper
3 37 (40.22%) Nokia
4 36 (39.13%) Fortinet
5 24 (26.09%) Ruckus Wireless
6 18 (19.57%) Vyatta
7 14 (15.22%) VMware
8 12 (13.04%) Oracle
8 12 (13.04%) Sparx
9 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
10 6 (6.52%) Meraki
11 5 (5.43%) SolarWinds
11 5 (5.43%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (4.35%) Google
12 4 (4.35%) Huawei
12 4 (4.35%) Palo Alto
13 3 (3.26%) Draytek
14 2 (2.17%) Aruba
14 2 (2.17%) Barracuda Networks
14 2 (2.17%) NETGEAR