BGP Job Trends in Edinburgh

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 74 90
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +11
Permanent jobs citing BGP 2 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% 0.65% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.99% 7.69% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.36%
75th Percentile - - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £50,500 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +36.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 65 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.83% 8.40% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40 32 89
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,684 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -15.00% +22.95%
75th Percentile £55,938 £54,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,426 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £39,500 £26,968 £50,000
% change year-on-year +46.47% -46.06% +42.86%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

BGP
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing BGP

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki