BGP Job Trends in Leicestershire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.11% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 - -
75th Percentile £50,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 46 63 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.17% 19.15% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 46 29 70
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £25,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £52,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% +38.67% +0.49%
75th Percentile £45,000 £57,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £49,375 £59,850 £56,575
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% - -5.88%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

BGP
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing BGP

BGP
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
Leicester - 1 £48,500 - 1
BGP
East Midlands

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet