BGP Job Trends in the North East

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Permanent jobs citing BGP 9 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.42% - 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.41% - 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47,884
25th Percentile £61,761 - £56,476
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £69,390 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £53,688 £51,000
% change year-on-year +35.04% +5.27% -11.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 107 76 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.98% 13.17% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 77 53 228
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,087 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,599 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% +1.96%
75th Percentile £48,750 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,000 £82,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

BGP job vacancy trend in the North East

BGP
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BGP

BGP
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Durham - 8 - -
Tyne and Wear - 1 £65,576 - 4
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 8 (88.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) OSPF
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Wireless
2 8 (88.89%) EIGRP
2 8 (88.89%) LAN
2 8 (88.89%) Network Security
2 8 (88.89%) SNMP
2 8 (88.89%) VLAN
2 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 8 (88.89%) WAAS
2 8 (88.89%) WAN
2 8 (88.89%) Wireless
2 8 (88.89%) Wireless Security
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (11.11%) NGFW
3 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 8 (88.89%) Analytical Thinking
2 8 (88.89%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 8 (88.89%) Kalman Filter
2 8 (88.89%) Project Delivery
2 8 (88.89%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (88.89%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CCIE
1 8 (88.89%) CCNP
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) F5
2 8 (88.89%) Blue Coat
2 8 (88.89%) CheckPoint
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Infoblox
2 8 (88.89%) Motorola
2 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 8 (88.89%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto