BGP Job Trends in the South East

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 151 263
Rank change year-on-year -106 +112 +69
Permanent jobs citing BGP 39 104 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.27% 1.52% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 11.21% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 34 99 104
10th Percentile £48,600 £34,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,000 £49,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +7.84% -7.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,675 928 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.79% 13.52% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 813 719 1,907
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,400 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

BGP job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BGP

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for BGP in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Hampshire -72 25 £75,000 +41.51% 9
Surrey -38 6 £65,000 +85.71% 5
Kent - 4 £50,000 -
Thames Valley -5 3 £65,000 - 7
Berkshire -1 2 £66,250 +1.92% 5
Buckinghamshire -19 1 £57,000 +26.67% 1
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (10.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.13%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (61.54%) Firewall
2 23 (58.97%) VPN
3 20 (51.28%) OSPF
4 19 (48.72%) WAN
5 17 (43.59%) Wireless
6 16 (41.03%) MPLS
7 11 (28.21%) SD-WAN
7 11 (28.21%) VLAN
8 10 (25.64%) LAN
9 9 (23.08%) IPsec
9 9 (23.08%) VXLAN
10 8 (20.51%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (15.38%) EIGRP
11 6 (15.38%) HTTP
11 6 (15.38%) Network Security
11 6 (15.38%) SNMP
12 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
13 4 (10.26%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (10.26%) DHCP
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Marketing
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Network Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Cisco Consultant
2 8 (20.51%) Cisco Network Consultant
2 8 (20.51%) Consultant
2 8 (20.51%) Network Consultant
2 8 (20.51%) WAN Consultant
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (10.26%) IT Support
5 4 (10.26%) IT Support Specialist
5 4 (10.26%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Lead Network Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Network Team Leader
5 4 (10.26%) Support Specialist
5 4 (10.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) REST
2 3 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (5.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.38%) PKI
3 4 (10.26%) Replication
3 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
1 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
2 3 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Network Design
1 8 (20.51%) Network Management
1 8 (20.51%) Network Segmentation
2 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 6 (15.38%) Cryptography
3 6 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
3 6 (15.38%) Performance Testing
3 6 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (12.82%) ITIL
4 5 (12.82%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
5 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Proactive Maintenance
5 4 (10.26%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) CCNP
1 18 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
4 10 (25.64%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) CCNA
6 1 (2.56%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
2 4 (10.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) FortiGate
2 10 (25.64%) Ansible
3 6 (15.38%) Endace
4 4 (10.26%) Backup Exec
5 2 (5.13%) Terraform
6 1 (2.56%) Netcool
Vendors
1 36 (92.31%) Cisco
2 18 (46.15%) Fortinet
2 18 (46.15%) Meraki
3 10 (25.64%) Palo Alto
4 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
5 7 (17.95%) F5
6 6 (15.38%) Juniper
7 5 (12.82%) CheckPoint
7 5 (12.82%) VMware
8 4 (10.26%) Veeam
9 1 (2.56%) Mellanox
9 1 (2.56%) NVIDIA
9 1 (2.56%) Oracle
9 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.56%) Snow
9 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.56%) Sophos