BGP Job Trends in the North of England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 286 303
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 +38
Permanent jobs citing BGP 34 28 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.30% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.74% 1.53% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23 18 65
10th Percentile £25,625 £29,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,661 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +33.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.83% +14.29% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,242 1,836 1,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.96% 19.49% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 867 836 1,549
10th Percentile £27,097 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,461
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.22% -8.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £49,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

BGP job vacancy trend in the North of England

BGP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BGP

BGP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for BGP in the North of England

BGP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
North West +5 15 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Yorkshire -39 14 £50,000 -16.46% 5
North East - 5 £65,576 -
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (73.53%) OSPF
2 24 (70.59%) Firewall
3 21 (61.76%) WAN
4 17 (50.00%) VPN
5 16 (47.06%) LAN
5 16 (47.06%) SD-WAN
6 12 (35.29%) MPLS
7 9 (26.47%) DNS
8 8 (23.53%) Network Security
8 8 (23.53%) Wireless
9 7 (20.59%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (20.59%) VLAN
9 7 (20.59%) VoIP
9 7 (20.59%) VXLAN
10 6 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (17.65%) SNMP
11 5 (14.71%) DHCP
11 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
12 4 (11.76%) ADSL
12 4 (11.76%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Law
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Network Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Senior
3 8 (23.53%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Network Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Consultant
5 5 (14.71%) Juniper Consultant
5 5 (14.71%) Network Consultant
6 4 (11.76%) Junior
6 4 (11.76%) Junior Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Junior Network Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Junior Network Support
6 4 (11.76%) Junior Support Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Network Support
6 4 (11.76%) Network Support Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Support Analyst
7 3 (8.82%) IT Support
7 3 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Network Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (8.82%) gRPC
3 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) PKI
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (23.53%) Load Balancing
2 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.59%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (17.65%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Observability
4 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 5 (14.71%) AI
5 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (14.71%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Coaching
6 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.76%) DevOps
6 4 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 4 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.76%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (26.47%) CCNA
3 8 (23.53%) Degree
4 6 (17.65%) CCIE
4 6 (17.65%) CCNP
5 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (11.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) PMO
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) ProxySG
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
2 3 (8.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (8.82%) Grafana
2 3 (8.82%) Nagios
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) WSUS
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Cisco
2 10 (29.41%) F5
3 8 (23.53%) Juniper
4 6 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 5 (14.71%) Splunk
6 4 (11.76%) Arista
6 4 (11.76%) Blue Coat
6 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.76%) Fortinet
6 4 (11.76%) Huawei
6 4 (11.76%) Infoblox
6 4 (11.76%) Meraki
6 4 (11.76%) Motorola
6 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
6 4 (11.76%) Polycom
6 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (8.82%) VMware
8 2 (5.88%) Aruba
8 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.94%) Microsoft