BGP Job Trends in Manchester

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 118 132
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +101
Permanent jobs citing BGP 2 38 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.069% 1.42% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.34% 15.70% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 19
10th Percentile £46,400 £29,500 -
25th Percentile £46,625 £30,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £49,125 £49,375 £48,125
90th Percentile £49,200 £55,100 £60,250
North West median annual salary £50,750 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% +5.56% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 585 242 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.05% 9.07% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 142 140 236
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.62% +8.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £69,850
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £79,375
North West median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Manchester

BGP
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing BGP

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HSRP
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto