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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Permanent jobs citing BGP 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.66% - 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.94% - 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.43%
75th Percentile £77,750 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £74,500 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

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 72 116 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.45% 9.32% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 32 61 118
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £63,500 £45,552
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% +39.40% -13.24%
75th Percentile £54,000 £80,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £73,082 - £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £30,000 £52,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% +87.50% -41.30%

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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) NX-OS
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) 802.11
4 1 (20.00%) HSRP
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk