BGP Jobs in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 465 533
Rank change year-on-year +13 +68 +77
Permanent jobs citing BGP 246 474 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.60% 3.82% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 194 327 317
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,450 12,411 13,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.05% 12.75% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,133 8,534 6,878
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -6.86% -2.86%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in England

BGP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for BGP in England

BGP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in England

BGP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the England region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
London +74 101 £65,000 -7.14% 413
South East +34 76 £53,000 +3.92% 181
Midlands +60 25 £65,000 +34.02% 39
West Midlands +34 25 £65,000 +34.02% 27
North of England -24 23 £70,000 +60.00% 68
Yorkshire +46 18 £75,000 +9.09% 24
East of England +40 8 £50,000 -20.00% 27
South West +97 7 £51,729 -1.47% 32
North West -55 5 £57,500 +43.75% 34
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (6.50%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.41%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.41%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.49%) Azure
2 69 (28.05%) AWS
3 22 (8.94%) GCP
4 13 (5.28%) AWS Direct Connect
5 8 (3.25%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.85%) OCI
6 7 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.22%) Akamai
8 3 (1.22%) Cloudflare
8 3 (1.22%) SaaS
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.41%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.41%) Fastly
9 1 (0.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 197 (80.08%) OSPF
2 165 (67.07%) Firewall
3 121 (49.19%) WAN
4 101 (41.06%) MPLS
5 98 (39.84%) VPN
6 91 (36.99%) LAN
7 82 (33.33%) TCP/IP
8 75 (30.49%) Network Security
9 66 (26.83%) IPsec
10 65 (26.42%) EIGRP
11 51 (20.73%) SD-WAN
12 45 (18.29%) VLAN
13 40 (16.26%) Cisco ASA
14 33 (13.41%) Wireless
15 31 (12.60%) WLAN
16 29 (11.79%) Cisco Firepower
17 27 (10.98%) Cisco IOS
17 27 (10.98%) Wi-Fi
18 23 (9.35%) DNS
19 22 (8.94%) Junos
Development Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Git
2 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
General
1 55 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.29%) Finance
3 24 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (8.94%) Banking
5 15 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.28%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.66%) Retail
8 8 (3.25%) Automotive
8 8 (3.25%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (2.44%) Advertising
9 6 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.44%) Local Government
9 6 (2.44%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.22%) Police
12 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Games
13 1 (0.41%) Law
13 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (60.57%) Network Engineer
2 28 (11.38%) Architect
3 26 (10.57%) Network Architect
3 26 (10.57%) Senior
4 23 (9.35%) Senior Network Engineer
5 21 (8.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 21 (8.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 18 (7.32%) Network Security Engineer
6 18 (7.32%) Security Engineer
7 15 (6.10%) Lead
8 14 (5.69%) IT Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) NOC Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 10 (4.07%) 1st Line Engineer
13 9 (3.66%) Junior
13 9 (3.66%) Operations Engineer
14 8 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.32%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.03%) YAML
3 4 (1.63%) Jinja
3 4 (1.63%) REST
4 3 (1.22%) JSON
4 3 (1.22%) Middleware
5 2 (0.81%) YANG
6 1 (0.41%) Django
6 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.41%) Flask
6 1 (0.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (27.64%) Data Centre
2 31 (12.60%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.47%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.66%) PMI
5 8 (3.25%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.44%) IPTV
7 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.63%) PKI
8 3 (1.22%) IoT
8 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.41%) SCADA
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.28%) Linux
2 11 (4.47%) Windows
3 10 (4.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.25%) Mac OS X
4 8 (3.25%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.25%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (19.51%) Network Design
2 42 (17.07%) Network Monitoring
3 30 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
4 29 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (11.38%) Network Management
6 25 (10.16%) Change Management
7 23 (9.35%) High Availability
7 23 (9.35%) ITIL
8 21 (8.54%) Computer Science
8 21 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (8.13%) Network Architecture
9 20 (8.13%) Project Delivery
10 18 (7.32%) Incident Management
11 17 (6.91%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (6.50%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (6.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 15 (6.10%) Cloud Security
13 15 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (6.10%) Network Segmentation
14 14 (5.69%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.85%) Python
2 13 (5.28%) Bash
2 13 (5.28%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.28%) SQL
3 2 (0.81%) Go
4 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.41%) R
4 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (47.56%) Cisco Certification
2 83 (33.74%) CCNA
3 82 (33.33%) CCNP
4 79 (32.11%) Security Cleared
5 63 (25.61%) SC Cleared
6 49 (19.92%) Degree
7 43 (17.48%) DV Cleared
8 20 (8.13%) JNCIS
9 18 (7.32%) CCIE
10 14 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.66%) PMI Certification
12 8 (3.25%) HNC
12 8 (3.25%) HND
12 8 (3.25%) MCSE
12 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (2.03%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.63%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.22%) CCSA
15 3 (1.22%) CCSE
16 2 (0.81%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.32%) SLA
2 9 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.81%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.47%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.25%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.85%) Firmware
6 6 (2.44%) Docker
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (17.48%) FortiGate
2 28 (11.38%) Ansible
3 13 (5.28%) Nagios
4 12 (4.88%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.25%) Terraform
6 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.03%) WSUS
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 196 (79.67%) Cisco
2 93 (37.80%) Fortinet
3 92 (37.40%) Juniper
4 43 (17.48%) SolarWinds
5 39 (15.85%) CheckPoint
6 31 (12.60%) Palo Alto
7 26 (10.57%) Meraki
7 26 (10.57%) VMware
8 21 (8.54%) F5
8 21 (8.54%) Microsoft
9 18 (7.32%) Arista
10 13 (5.28%) Dynatrace
10 13 (5.28%) Ubiquiti
11 12 (4.88%) Citrix
12 10 (4.07%) Infoblox
13 9 (3.66%) Dell
14 8 (3.25%) Apple
14 8 (3.25%) Google
15 7 (2.85%) McAfee
16 6 (2.44%) Bloomberg