BGP Job Trends in the East Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring BGP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 171 112
Rank change year-on-year +21 -59 +74
Permanent jobs citing BGP 1 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.043% 0.22% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 2.25% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £55,508 - £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,246 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £58,983 - £67,500
90th Percentile - £56,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 421 400 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.96% 9.69% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 174 293 205
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,850 £25,250
25th Percentile £28,373 £31,863 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £56,500
90th Percentile £58,913 £58,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% -3.85% -0.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing BGP

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper