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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 439 587
Rank change year-on-year +3 +148 -14
Permanent jobs citing BGP 273 449 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.29% 3.72% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 230 334 294
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £51,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -11.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £78,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -18.40% +4.17%

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 8,302 12,055 13,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.79% 13.97% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,742 8,533 7,173
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

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 17 May 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 17 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
South East +53 103 £53,000 +3.92% 56
London +85 95 £65,000 -7.14% 106
West Midlands +23 31 £53,688 +10.70% 9
Midlands +20 31 £53,688 +10.70% 14
North of England -29 22 £55,000 +29.41% 28
Yorkshire +49 14 £44,700 -28.48% 13
East of England +44 12 £50,000 -20.00% 5
North West -64 8 £56,250 +40.63% 14
South West +86 7 £51,729 +3.46% 12
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 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 77 (28.21%) Azure
2 68 (24.91%) AWS
3 15 (5.49%) GCP
4 13 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
4 13 (4.76%) Google Workspace
5 8 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.20%) SaaS
8 5 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.10%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.73%) OCI
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.37%) CloudFront
11 1 (0.37%) Fastly
11 1 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (82.05%) OSPF
2 196 (71.79%) Firewall
3 124 (45.42%) WAN
4 99 (36.26%) MPLS
5 95 (34.80%) Network Security
5 95 (34.80%) VPN
6 93 (34.07%) LAN
7 91 (33.33%) EIGRP
8 78 (28.57%) TCP/IP
9 71 (26.01%) IPsec
10 52 (19.05%) SD-WAN
11 50 (18.32%) VLAN
12 47 (17.22%) Cisco ASA
13 43 (15.75%) WLAN
14 37 (13.55%) Wireless
15 32 (11.72%) Wi-Fi
16 30 (10.99%) Cisco ISE
17 28 (10.26%) Cisco Firepower
17 28 (10.26%) DNS
18 27 (9.89%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 7 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.65%) Finance
3 21 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.33%) Banking
5 19 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (5.13%) Retail
7 13 (4.76%) Automotive
8 9 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.56%) Advertising
9 7 (2.56%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.20%) Local Government
11 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.10%) Police
13 2 (0.73%) Front Office
13 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.37%) Games
14 1 (0.37%) Law
14 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 169 (61.90%) Network Engineer
2 30 (10.99%) Network Security Engineer
2 30 (10.99%) Security Engineer
3 29 (10.62%) Senior
4 27 (9.89%) Architect
5 26 (9.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 26 (9.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 26 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 26 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
6 19 (6.96%) IT Engineer
7 18 (6.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 18 (6.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 17 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (5.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.49%) Lead
11 14 (5.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (4.40%) NOC Engineer
13 12 (4.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 10 (3.66%) 1st Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.83%) JSON
2 5 (1.83%) YAML
3 4 (1.47%) REST
4 1 (0.37%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.37%) Django
4 1 (0.37%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.37%) Flask
4 1 (0.37%) Jinja
4 1 (0.37%) RESTful
4 1 (0.37%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 35 (12.82%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.76%) Smartphone
4 9 (3.30%) PMI
4 9 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.20%) IPTV
6 5 (1.83%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.47%) IoT
7 4 (1.47%) PKI
7 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.37%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.37%) SCADA
10 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.96%) Linux
2 16 (5.86%) Windows
3 15 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.76%) Mac OS X
4 13 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 13 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 13 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (17.95%) Network Design
2 43 (15.75%) Network Monitoring
3 33 (12.09%) Network Management
4 30 (10.99%) Technical Leadership
5 28 (10.26%) Change Management
6 27 (9.89%) Computer Science
6 27 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (8.42%) High Availability
8 21 (7.69%) ITIL
8 21 (7.69%) Network Architecture
9 20 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (6.59%) Project Delivery
11 16 (5.86%) Incident Management
11 16 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (5.49%) Cloud Security
12 15 (5.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (5.49%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (5.49%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 14 (5.13%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (5.13%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.72%) Python
2 19 (6.96%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.59%) SQL
4 12 (4.40%) Bash
5 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.37%) R
5 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 126 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (41.39%) Security Cleared
3 92 (33.70%) SC Cleared
4 85 (31.14%) CCNP
5 83 (30.40%) CCNA
6 69 (25.27%) DV Cleared
7 52 (19.05%) Degree
8 21 (7.69%) JNCIS
9 20 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (6.96%) CCIE
11 13 (4.76%) HNC
11 13 (4.76%) HND
11 13 (4.76%) MCSE
11 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (3.30%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.83%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.47%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (1.10%) CCSA
15 3 (1.10%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.33%) SLA
2 9 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.47%) QA
4 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (7.33%) Active Directory
1 20 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.03%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.56%) Firmware
3 7 (2.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.47%) Docker
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (17.22%) FortiGate
2 23 (8.42%) Ansible
3 13 (4.76%) Terraform
4 10 (3.66%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.30%) Nagios
6 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.83%) WSUS
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.37%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 225 (82.42%) Cisco
2 121 (44.32%) Fortinet
3 99 (36.26%) Juniper
4 47 (17.22%) SolarWinds
5 40 (14.65%) CheckPoint
6 39 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 29 (10.62%) Microsoft
8 27 (9.89%) Meraki
9 26 (9.52%) VMware
10 20 (7.33%) F5
11 18 (6.59%) Ubiquiti
12 17 (6.23%) Arista
13 15 (5.49%) Dell
14 13 (4.76%) Apple
14 13 (4.76%) Citrix
14 13 (4.76%) Dynatrace
14 13 (4.76%) Google
15 10 (3.66%) Infoblox
16 8 (2.93%) Riverbed
17 7 (2.56%) McAfee