BGP Jobs in the North of England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 299 364
Rank change year-on-year -10 +65 +29
Permanent jobs citing BGP 20 92 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.53% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.07% 4.24% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11 70 48
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,799 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £63,125 £53,875 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £74,375
England median annual salary £53,000 £50,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.95% -12.17% -4.17%

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 1,861 2,170 3,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.10% 12.40% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 888 1,660 1,259
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £73,791 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the North of England.

Salary trend for BGP in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in the North of England

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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 12 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
Yorkshire +56 12 £44,700 -28.48% 12
North West -61 8 £56,250 +40.63% 10
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) OSPF
2 16 (80.00%) Firewall
3 13 (65.00%) TCP/IP
4 11 (55.00%) EIGRP
5 8 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (40.00%) IPsec
5 8 (40.00%) Wireless
6 7 (35.00%) MPLS
7 6 (30.00%) Network Security
7 6 (30.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (30.00%) WAN
8 5 (25.00%) HSRP
9 4 (20.00%) VPN
10 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (10.00%) DHCP
11 2 (10.00%) DNS
11 2 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (10.00%) VLAN
General
1 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
3 2 (10.00%) Police
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Domain Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 5 (25.00%) ITSM
1 5 (25.00%) Line Management
1 5 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (20.00%) Migration
2 4 (20.00%) Network Management
2 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) High Availability
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (25.00%) Python
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) CCIE
5 1 (5.00%) CCNP
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) FortiGate
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (25.00%) WSUS
4 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 7 (35.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (25.00%) Draytek
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (25.00%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (10.00%) Juniper
7 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds