BGP Job Trends in the Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 230 248
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -39
Permanent jobs citing BGP 28 5 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.087% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.80% 0.57% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 28 5 38
10th Percentile £53,875 £37,500 £25,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +34.02% -19.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £73,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% +4.55% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 736 872 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.11% 15.17% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 586 527 825
10th Percentile £27,722 £26,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.63%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

BGP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

BGP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BGP

BGP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for BGP in the Midlands

BGP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
West Midlands -1 25 £75,000 +15.38% 10
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 2
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 26 (92.86%) OSPF
1 26 (92.86%) VPN
2 23 (82.14%) EIGRP
2 23 (82.14%) Firewall
3 20 (71.43%) WAN
4 18 (64.29%) LAN
5 17 (60.71%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
8 3 (10.71%) VLAN
8 3 (10.71%) Wireless
9 2 (7.14%) Wireshark
10 1 (3.57%) IPFIX
10 1 (3.57%) MPLS
10 1 (3.57%) Network Security
10 1 (3.57%) SNMP
10 1 (3.57%) VXLAN
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Law
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Senior
2 13 (46.43%) Senior Network Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.71%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (7.14%) High Availability
3 1 (3.57%) AI
3 1 (3.57%) Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (3.57%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (3.57%) ITSM
3 1 (3.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Migration
3 1 (3.57%) Observability
3 1 (3.57%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (3.57%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.57%) Project Delivery
3 1 (3.57%) Runbook
3 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) CCNP
1 16 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Nagios
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (89.29%) Cisco
2 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.71%) Meraki
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow