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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 388 456
Rank change year-on-year +88 +68 +80
Permanent jobs citing BGP 95 122 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.52% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.22% 3.74% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 73 99 149
10th Percentile £33,200 £50,850 £46,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,446 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +3.32%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £90,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £51,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.92% -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 1,819 3,262 3,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.06% 13.79% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 946 2,004 2,706
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,250 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 18 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 18 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 +6 5 £61,644 -5.16% 3
Central London +16 1 £65,000 +4.00% 27
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:

Cloud Services
1 49 (51.58%) Azure
2 46 (48.42%) AWS
3 13 (13.68%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (12.63%) GCP
5 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.05%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.05%) Fastly
6 1 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (89.47%) Firewall
2 82 (86.32%) OSPF
3 54 (56.84%) VPN
3 54 (56.84%) WAN
4 49 (51.58%) MPLS
5 42 (44.21%) LAN
6 27 (28.42%) IPsec
6 27 (28.42%) SD-WAN
7 26 (27.37%) WLAN
8 25 (26.32%) Network Security
9 22 (23.16%) Cisco ISE
9 22 (23.16%) TCP/IP
9 22 (23.16%) Wireless
10 21 (22.11%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (15.79%) NX-OS
12 14 (14.74%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (14.74%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (13.68%) EIGRP
13 13 (13.68%) VLAN
13 13 (13.68%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.05%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) GitLab
2 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.05%) Banking
2 20 (21.05%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.37%) Mandarin Language
6 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) Games
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (66.32%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Cisco Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.63%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.63%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Network Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) NOC Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Junior
6 9 (9.47%) Lead
7 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Network Operations Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Infoblox Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Head of Networks
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.05%) cloud-init
2 1 (1.05%) Django
2 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.05%) Flask
2 1 (1.05%) Jinja
2 1 (1.05%) JSON
2 1 (1.05%) RESTful
2 1 (1.05%) XMPP
2 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.42%) Data Centre
2 21 (22.11%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.32%) IPTV
4 5 (5.26%) Reinsurance
5 4 (4.21%) IoT
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.05%) PKI
8 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) 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 27 (28.42%) Network Monitoring
2 22 (23.16%) Network Management
3 21 (22.11%) High Availability
4 20 (21.05%) Change Management
5 14 (14.74%) Cloud Security
6 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (12.63%) ITIL
6 12 (12.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (11.58%) Incident Management
7 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
8 10 (10.53%) Network Design
9 9 (9.47%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (9.47%) Network Segmentation
9 9 (9.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (8.42%) Low Latency
10 8 (8.42%) Process Improvement
10 8 (8.42%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.16%) Python
2 11 (11.58%) Bash
3 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (41.05%) CCNP
3 37 (38.95%) CCNA
4 18 (18.95%) Degree
5 14 (14.74%) CCIE
6 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.21%) JNCIA
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.16%) CCSA
8 3 (3.16%) CCSE
8 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.05%) CCDP
10 1 (1.05%) CEH
10 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.05%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.05%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.21%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Firmware
2 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) Ansible
1 11 (11.58%) FortiGate
2 10 (10.53%) Terraform
3 9 (9.47%) Nagios
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.05%) Istio
4 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (73.68%) Cisco
2 40 (42.11%) SolarWinds
3 25 (26.32%) CheckPoint
3 25 (26.32%) Fortinet
4 24 (25.26%) Meraki
5 23 (24.21%) Juniper
6 22 (23.16%) Palo Alto
7 15 (15.79%) Arista
8 13 (13.68%) Dynatrace
9 11 (11.58%) F5
10 10 (10.53%) Infoblox
11 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
12 7 (7.37%) Citrix
12 7 (7.37%) Riverbed
13 6 (6.32%) Bloomberg
13 6 (6.32%) Refinitiv
14 5 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
15 3 (3.16%) AlgoSec
15 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
15 3 (3.16%) VMware