BGP Job Trends in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 288 386
Rank change year-on-year -38 +98 +62
Permanent jobs citing BGP 87 95 117
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.77% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.64% 7.25% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 49 73 98
10th Percentile £62,500 £33,200 £50,650
25th Percentile £67,500 £46,250 £58,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £96,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £53,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +32.08% +3.92% -11.30%

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 1,877 1,310 3,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.12% 10.57% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 991 942 2,004
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,775 £32,825
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £46,330 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +5.26% -5.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

BGP job vacancy trend in London

BGP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing BGP

BGP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

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 17 May 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
Central London -1 11 £75,000 +15.38% 10
West London - 3 - -
South London +12 1 - -
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.93%) AWS
2 32 (36.78%) Azure
3 18 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 15 (17.24%) AWS Direct Connect
5 14 (16.09%) SaaS
6 9 (10.34%) GCP
7 7 (8.05%) Datadog
8 6 (6.90%) Route 53
9 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.45%) ChatGPT
10 3 (3.45%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 67 (77.01%) Firewall
1 67 (77.01%) OSPF
2 51 (58.62%) WAN
3 46 (52.87%) SD-WAN
4 44 (50.57%) VPN
5 39 (44.83%) Cisco ISE
6 35 (40.23%) LAN
7 33 (37.93%) MPLS
7 33 (37.93%) Network Security
8 24 (27.59%) VXLAN
9 21 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (24.14%) Wireless
9 21 (24.14%) WLAN
10 20 (22.99%) Cisco Firepower
10 20 (22.99%) Ethernet VPN
10 20 (22.99%) VLAN
11 18 (20.69%) TCP/IP
12 17 (19.54%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (16.09%) NX-OS
14 13 (14.94%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.15%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
2 2 (2.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) GitLab
General
1 29 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.59%) Finance
3 13 (14.94%) Telecoms
4 11 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.20%) Banking
5 8 (9.20%) Retail Banking
6 7 (8.05%) Law
7 5 (5.75%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.75%) Retail
8 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.45%) Back Office
10 2 (2.30%) Marketing
10 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (74.71%) Network Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) Senior
3 19 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Cisco Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (16.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Firewall Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) Network Operations Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Associate Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Network Specialist
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Network Security Specialist
11 3 (3.45%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) 802.1X
2 8 (9.20%) Jinja
2 8 (9.20%) NETCONF
2 8 (9.20%) YANG
3 3 (3.45%) gRPC
3 3 (3.45%) RESTful
4 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.30%) OpenID
5 1 (1.15%) Kafka
5 1 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.15%) pytest
5 1 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.38%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.64%) PKI
2 11 (12.64%) Security Posture
3 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.20%) Social Media
5 7 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 6 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.45%) Blog
8 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.30%) Replication
10 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.15%) IPTV
10 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (24.14%) Load Balancing
3 21 (24.14%) Zero Trust
4 18 (20.69%) Network Design
5 16 (18.39%) High Availability
5 16 (18.39%) Network Segmentation
6 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (17.24%) Observability
7 13 (14.94%) Cloud Security
7 13 (14.94%) Network Monitoring
8 12 (13.79%) Runbook
9 9 (10.34%) Agile
9 9 (10.34%) ITIL
9 9 (10.34%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (10.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 9 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (9.20%) Analytics
10 8 (9.20%) Data Science
10 8 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) Python
2 4 (4.60%) Bicep
2 4 (4.60%) Go
3 3 (3.45%) Java
3 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.30%) Bash
4 2 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (29.89%) CCNP
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 6 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.75%) CCIE
5 5 (5.75%) CCNA
6 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.30%) CCSA
8 2 (2.30%) CCSE
9 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) PCI DSS
2 6 (6.90%) SOC 2
3 5 (5.75%) NIST
4 4 (4.60%) SLA
5 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) FortiGate
2 11 (12.64%) Terraform
3 9 (10.34%) Check_MK
4 8 (9.20%) Ansible
5 6 (6.90%) Nagios
6 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.45%) Grafana
7 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.15%) Cilium
9 1 (1.15%) Istio
9 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (75.86%) Cisco
2 39 (44.83%) Palo Alto
3 35 (40.23%) SolarWinds
4 23 (26.44%) Fortinet
4 23 (26.44%) Meraki
5 17 (19.54%) CheckPoint
6 14 (16.09%) Arista
7 11 (12.64%) Dynatrace
8 9 (10.34%) F5
8 9 (10.34%) ServiceNow
9 6 (6.90%) Infoblox
9 6 (6.90%) Zscaler
10 5 (5.75%) ForeScout
10 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
10 5 (5.75%) SevOne
10 5 (5.75%) Splunk
11 4 (4.60%) Aruba
11 4 (4.60%) Juniper
11 4 (4.60%) VMware
12 2 (2.30%) Aerohive Networks