BGP Job Trends in Bristol

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 101 124
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +35
Permanent jobs citing BGP 3 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.15% 0.41% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.86% 4.00% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,500 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 - £52,500
75th Percentile £54,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £54,560 £60,822 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +21.64% +11.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 161 150 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.05% 10.37% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 124 96 158
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,750 £38,148
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -7.27% +5.94%
75th Percentile £52,500 £74,375 £66,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £77,715
South West median annual salary £34,000 £52,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -34.62% +6.12% +3.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BGP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

BGP job vacancy trend in Bristol

BGP
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing BGP

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) HSRP
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 3 (100.00%) VMware