BGP Jobs in the East of England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 210 204
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 +61
Permanent jobs citing BGP 10 15 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.30% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 1.41% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 19
10th Percentile £40,000 - £57,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £80,000 - £84,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -11.30% -4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 843 1,062 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.38% 16.55% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 231 806 391
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,517 £29,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for BGP in the East of England

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +34 5 £42,000 -47.50% 28
Suffolk -28 4 £50,000 -20.00% 9
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 18
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) WAN
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) OSPF
2 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 4 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
3 4 (40.00%) VoIP
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
3 4 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
4 3 (30.00%) MPLS
4 3 (30.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (30.00%) VLAN
4 3 (30.00%) Wireshark
5 2 (20.00%) 802.11
5 2 (20.00%) Multicast
5 2 (20.00%) Wireless
6 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
6 1 (10.00%) HSRP
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Local Government
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Network Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Network Management
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Presales
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) Arista
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) Avaya
5 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (10.00%) F5
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Mitel
5 1 (10.00%) Nokia
5 1 (10.00%) Red Box
5 1 (10.00%) Riverbed