BGP Jobs in the North West

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 228 282
Rank change year-on-year -55 +54 +45
Permanent jobs citing BGP 7 71 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.090% 0.69% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% 6.02% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 58 11
10th Percentile £52,000 £32,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -42.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £48,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £63,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -11.30% -4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,367 1,179 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.52% 11.40% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 435 895 655
10th Percentile £23,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,938 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,800 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for BGP in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +15 4 £56,250 +40.63% 37
Cumbria - 2 £61,250 -
Lancashire -64 1 £65,000 +30.00% 9
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (71.43%) HSRP
3 5 (71.43%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Domain Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
1 1 (14.29%) DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
1 1 (14.29%) Network Design
1 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
1 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
2 6 (85.71%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper