BGP Jobs in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 369 437
Rank change year-on-year +67 +68 +127
Permanent jobs citing BGP 95 132 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.02% 4.06% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 69 105 153
10th Percentile £33,200 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £58,641 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +2.96%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £93,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £54,750 £51,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.35% -11.30% -4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,892 3,252 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.80% 13.53% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 912 1,985 2,641
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in London

BGP
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for BGP in London

BGP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in London

BGP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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 London +2 3 £50,000 -23.08%
Central London +14 1 £65,000 -29.73% 14
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.37%) AWS
1 45 (47.37%) Azure
2 14 (14.74%) GCP
3 13 (13.68%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Akamai
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.05%) CloudFront
5 1 (1.05%) Fastly
5 1 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (86.32%) OSPF
2 79 (83.16%) Firewall
3 58 (61.05%) WAN
4 54 (56.84%) VPN
5 53 (55.79%) MPLS
6 40 (42.11%) LAN
7 30 (31.58%) SD-WAN
8 27 (28.42%) IPsec
9 25 (26.32%) TCP/IP
10 24 (25.26%) Network Security
11 22 (23.16%) WLAN
12 19 (20.00%) NX-OS
12 19 (20.00%) Wireless
13 18 (18.95%) Cisco ISE
13 18 (18.95%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (14.74%) VXLAN
15 13 (13.68%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (13.68%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (13.68%) EIGRP
16 11 (11.58%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 25 (26.32%) Finance
2 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 22 (23.16%) Banking
4 15 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (11.58%) Telecoms
6 7 (7.37%) Mandarin Language
7 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Games
10 1 (1.05%) Law
10 1 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (1.05%) Military
10 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (67.37%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Senior
2 12 (12.63%) Senior Network Engineer
3 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (10.53%) NOC Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Junior
4 9 (9.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Network Operations Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Lead
7 5 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Data Network Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Infoblox Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.16%) Jinja
3 2 (2.11%) Middleware
4 1 (1.05%) Django
4 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.05%) Flask
4 1 (1.05%) XMPP
4 1 (1.05%) YAML
4 1 (1.05%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 21 (22.11%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.32%) IPTV
4 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.16%) IoT
4 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.16%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) PKI
5 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.26%) Network Monitoring
2 20 (21.05%) Network Management
3 19 (20.00%) Change Management
3 19 (20.00%) High Availability
4 14 (14.74%) Cloud Security
4 14 (14.74%) ITIL
4 14 (14.74%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (13.68%) Incident Management
6 12 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (11.58%) Cost Optimisation
7 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (11.58%) Low Latency
7 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
9 9 (9.47%) Network Segmentation
9 9 (9.47%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (8.42%) Network Design
10 8 (8.42%) Penetration Testing
10 8 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) Python
2 12 (12.63%) Bash
3 2 (2.11%) Go
4 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (58.95%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (42.11%) CCNA
3 38 (40.00%) CCNP
4 19 (20.00%) Degree
5 14 (14.74%) CCIE
6 4 (4.21%) JNCIA
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.16%) CCSA
7 3 (3.16%) CCSE
8 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.11%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.05%) CCDP
9 1 (1.05%) CEH
9 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.05%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.05%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Firmware
2 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.05%) Docker
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Ansible
2 11 (11.58%) Nagios
3 9 (9.47%) FortiGate
3 9 (9.47%) Terraform
4 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.05%) Istio
Vendors
1 73 (76.84%) Cisco
2 37 (38.95%) SolarWinds
3 25 (26.32%) Fortinet
4 24 (25.26%) CheckPoint
5 22 (23.16%) Juniper
5 22 (23.16%) Meraki
6 18 (18.95%) Palo Alto
7 17 (17.89%) Arista
8 13 (13.68%) Dynatrace
9 11 (11.58%) F5
10 10 (10.53%) Infoblox
11 7 (7.37%) Citrix
12 6 (6.32%) Bloomberg
12 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
12 6 (6.32%) Refinitiv
12 6 (6.32%) Riverbed
13 3 (3.16%) Avaya
13 3 (3.16%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
13 3 (3.16%) SevOne