BGP Jobs in Scotland

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 263 218
Rank change year-on-year +106 -45 -17
Permanent jobs citing BGP 4 17 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 2.62% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £57,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -27.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -18.40% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 341 650 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.55% 9.72% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 194 393 268
10th Percentile - £28,000 £25,861
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% -0.50% +4.69%
75th Percentile £65,313 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,875 £70,000 £81,217
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Scotland

BGP
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in Scotland.

Salary trend for BGP in Scotland

BGP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Glasgow +178 3 £67,500 -10.00% 7
Edinburgh +11 1 - - 5
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Observability
1 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
1 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Aruba
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds