BGP Jobs in the Thames Valley

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 242 187
Rank change year-on-year +38 -55 +17
Permanent jobs citing BGP 36 18 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.29% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.73% 1.84% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 87
10th Percentile £43,125 £38,835 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,250 £78,750
South East median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +2.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 966 976 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.32% 15.95% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 686 552 763
10th Percentile £28,375 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £79,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Berkshire +42 28 £53,000 -31.61% 2
Oxfordshire +9 4 £42,500 -29.17%
Buckinghamshire -13 4 £65,000 +62.50% 1
BGP
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.56%) IaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (66.67%) OSPF
2 20 (55.56%) VPN
3 18 (50.00%) Firewall
4 15 (41.67%) DNS
5 14 (38.89%) MPLS
6 13 (36.11%) IPsec
7 11 (30.56%) SSL
8 8 (22.22%) Wireless
9 7 (19.44%) SD-WAN
9 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
10 6 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (16.67%) HSRP
10 6 (16.67%) LAN
10 6 (16.67%) Network Security
10 6 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (16.67%) VLAN
10 6 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.78%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Electronics
2 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Military
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (19.44%) Network Support
4 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Professional Services Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Design Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) IP Design Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) IP Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Lead Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) Presales Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) 802.1X
2 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 8 (22.22%) PKI
2 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (5.56%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.56%) Android
4 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.56%) VMS
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) CentOS
5 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (13.89%) Agile
3 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
3 5 (13.89%) Network Design
3 5 (13.89%) Project Management
4 4 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (11.11%) ArchiMate
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Kanban
4 4 (11.11%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Open Source
4 4 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
4 4 (11.11%) Scrum
4 4 (11.11%) SDLC
4 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
5 3 (8.33%) Presales
5 3 (8.33%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (22.22%) CCNP
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 4 (11.11%) JNCIE
5 4 (11.11%) JNCIP
6 3 (8.33%) CCNA
6 3 (8.33%) Degree
6 3 (8.33%) JNCIA
7 2 (5.56%) CCIE
8 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Nessus
4 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (5.56%) WSUS
5 1 (2.78%) Icinga
5 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Juniper
2 17 (47.22%) Cisco
3 7 (19.44%) Aruba
3 7 (19.44%) VMware
4 6 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
4 6 (16.67%) F5
4 6 (16.67%) Infoblox
4 6 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 5 (13.89%) Fortinet
6 4 (11.11%) Nokia
6 4 (11.11%) Oracle
6 4 (11.11%) Sparx
7 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.56%) Dell
9 1 (2.78%) Meraki
9 1 (2.78%) Microsoft