BGP Jobs in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 604 579
Rank change year-on-year +169 -25 -93
Permanent jobs citing BGP 458 379 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.41% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 2.63% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 345 292 529
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £34,143
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,134 14,414 17,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.31% 15.46% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,588 7,484 10,465
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
South East +79 134 £50,500 +1.51% 21
London +88 123 £70,000 - 26
North of England +63 92 £42,500 -5.56% 11
Midlands +52 73 £48,500 -20.82% 14
North West +62 71 £40,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands +68 65 £48,500 -19.17% 11
South West +18 33 £51,036 +2.07% 8
Yorkshire +73 26 £62,500 +38.89% 4
East of England +8 17 £63,750 -1.92% 3
East Midlands -12 8 £50,000 -28.57% 3
North East -17 4 £62,500 +52.44% 2
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 28 (6.11%) WebLogic
2 8 (1.75%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.66%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) uWSGI
Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 28 (6.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (24.24%) Azure
2 79 (17.25%) AWS
3 28 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
3 28 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
4 17 (3.71%) IaaS
5 15 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (2.84%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.84%) PaaS
6 13 (2.84%) SaaS
7 12 (2.62%) AWS Direct Connect
7 12 (2.62%) GCP
8 11 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.66%) Route 53
11 2 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 283 (61.79%) OSPF
2 235 (51.31%) MPLS
3 227 (49.56%) WAN
4 190 (41.48%) Firewall
5 166 (36.24%) LAN
6 128 (27.95%) SD-WAN
7 125 (27.29%) TCP/IP
8 122 (26.64%) VPN
9 98 (21.40%) Wireless
10 88 (19.21%) DNS
11 79 (17.25%) VLAN
12 69 (15.07%) SSL
13 64 (13.97%) IPsec
14 63 (13.76%) EIGRP
15 59 (12.88%) DHCP
16 57 (12.45%) Network Security
16 57 (12.45%) Wi-Fi
17 48 (10.48%) Internet
18 47 (10.26%) Ethernet
18 47 (10.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
1 28 (6.11%) Oracle Database
1 28 (6.11%) RDBMS
1 28 (6.11%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.40%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.87%) MySQL
5 4 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.66%) Redis
7 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (2.40%) GitLab
1 11 (2.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.22%) Git
2 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 98 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 34 (7.42%) Telecoms
3 30 (6.55%) Finance
4 23 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.02%) Law
5 9 (1.97%) Public Sector
5 9 (1.97%) Retail
6 8 (1.75%) Military
7 7 (1.53%) Legal
8 5 (1.09%) Games
8 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.09%) Police
9 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.87%) Publishing
10 3 (0.66%) Banking
11 2 (0.44%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Electronics
11 2 (0.44%) Front Office
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 235 (51.31%) Network Engineer
2 87 (19.00%) Senior
3 60 (13.10%) Senior Network Engineer
4 53 (11.57%) Architect
5 49 (10.70%) Analyst
5 49 (10.70%) Network Analyst
6 37 (8.08%) IP Engineer
6 37 (8.08%) Lead
7 36 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 36 (7.86%) Network Operations Analyst
7 36 (7.86%) Operations Analyst
8 30 (6.55%) Lead Architect
9 29 (6.33%) IP Network Engineer
9 29 (6.33%) Network Support
10 28 (6.11%) Juniper Engineer
10 28 (6.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 28 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
11 24 (5.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 22 (4.80%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 22 (4.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.48%) 802.1X
2 28 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
2 28 (6.11%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.93%) XML
4 11 (2.40%) JSON
4 11 (2.40%) NETCONF
4 11 (2.40%) REST
4 11 (2.40%) RESTCONF
4 11 (2.40%) SOAP
4 11 (2.40%) YAML
4 11 (2.40%) YANG
5 8 (1.75%) SAML
6 7 (1.53%) HTML
7 5 (1.09%) XMPP
8 3 (0.66%) .NET
8 3 (0.66%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.66%) CSS
9 2 (0.44%) LDAP
10 1 (0.22%) EDI
10 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 87 (19.00%) Data Centre
2 40 (8.73%) Public Cloud
3 34 (7.42%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.49%) PKI
6 14 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.18%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.18%) Clustering
8 10 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.18%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (1.53%) FMCG
10 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.87%) Fat Client
11 4 (0.87%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.66%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.66%) Smart City
13 2 (0.44%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 82 (17.90%) Linux
2 31 (6.77%) Windows
3 30 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.15%) Unix
4 19 (4.15%) VyOS
5 15 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.62%) CentOS
7 8 (1.75%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.53%) Android
9 6 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.87%) Debian
10 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.66%) VMS
11 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (13.76%) Load Balancing
2 61 (13.32%) Network Design
3 51 (11.14%) Project Delivery
4 49 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 48 (10.48%) Agile
6 42 (9.17%) Customer Service
6 42 (9.17%) Open Source
7 39 (8.52%) Scrum
8 38 (8.30%) Network Management
9 36 (7.86%) Mentoring
9 36 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (7.64%) Project Management
11 34 (7.42%) Migration
11 34 (7.42%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (7.21%) ITIL
13 32 (6.99%) Collaborative Working
14 31 (6.77%) Network Monitoring
14 31 (6.77%) Systems Engineering
15 28 (6.11%) ArchiMate
15 28 (6.11%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.42%) Python
2 24 (5.24%) PowerShell
3 18 (3.93%) SQL
4 8 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 201 (43.89%) Cisco Certification
2 142 (31.00%) CCNP
3 135 (29.48%) Security Cleared
4 101 (22.05%) CCNA
5 60 (13.10%) CCIE
6 58 (12.66%) SC Cleared
7 44 (9.61%) CCDP
8 40 (8.73%) JNCIA
9 28 (6.11%) AWS Certification
9 28 (6.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (6.11%) Azure Certification
10 24 (5.24%) Degree
11 22 (4.80%) JNCIP
12 12 (2.62%) JNCIE
13 10 (2.18%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 9 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (1.53%) JNCIS
16 6 (1.31%) DV Cleared
17 3 (0.66%) MCT
18 2 (0.44%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.49%) SLA
2 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (8.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.24%) Docker
3 23 (5.02%) Hyper-V
4 14 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.62%) Firmware
6 6 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.87%) vCloud
7 4 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.66%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (11.57%) FortiGate
2 23 (5.02%) Ansible
2 23 (5.02%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.40%) Progress Chef
3 11 (2.40%) Terraform
4 9 (1.97%) Puppet
5 8 (1.75%) Nagios
5 8 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (1.53%) Icinga
6 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.31%) Endace
7 6 (1.31%) Nessus
7 6 (1.31%) SolarWinds Orion
7 6 (1.31%) WSUS
8 4 (0.87%) BMC PATROL
8 4 (0.87%) Grafana
9 3 (0.66%) Salt
9 3 (0.66%) SCOrch
9 3 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 277 (60.48%) Cisco
2 206 (44.98%) Juniper
3 79 (17.25%) Fortinet
4 55 (12.01%) Nokia
5 45 (9.83%) Microsoft
6 36 (7.86%) Meraki
6 36 (7.86%) Palo Alto
7 34 (7.42%) F5
7 34 (7.42%) VMware
8 33 (7.21%) CheckPoint
9 30 (6.55%) SolarWinds
10 28 (6.11%) Oracle
10 28 (6.11%) Ruckus Wireless
10 28 (6.11%) Sparx
11 19 (4.15%) Vyatta
12 16 (3.49%) Aruba
13 13 (2.84%) Draytek
14 12 (2.62%) Arista
15 11 (2.40%) McAfee
16 10 (2.18%) Google