BGP Jobs in the South East

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 193 260 317
Rank change year-on-year +67 +57 -3
Permanent jobs citing BGP 103 132 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 0.78% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.50% 4.79% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 98 97 52
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,122
25th Percentile £48,172 £46,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £49,875
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +0.25% -9.32%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £59,375
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,500 £78,750
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
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 1,374 2,758 2,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.62% 16.40% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 770 1,879 1,480
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,125 £70,000 £75,100
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the South East.

Salary trend for BGP in the South East

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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 12 May 2025.

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 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
Hampshire +57 72 £53,000 +8.16% 7
Surrey +56 19 £35,000 -74.55% 2
Thames Valley +39 11 £57,500 +8.49% 15
Berkshire +18 10 £61,250 +15.57% 13
Buckinghamshire +34 1 £45,000 -30.77%
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 11 (10.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.71%) AWS
2 6 (5.83%) Azure
3 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (3.88%) SaaS
3 4 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 92 (89.32%) OSPF
2 65 (63.11%) Firewall
3 61 (59.22%) EIGRP
4 52 (50.49%) Network Security
5 33 (32.04%) WAN
6 24 (23.30%) LAN
7 23 (22.33%) Cisco ASA
8 22 (21.36%) VPN
9 20 (19.42%) IPsec
10 19 (18.45%) MPLS
11 17 (16.50%) TCP/IP
12 14 (13.59%) DMVPN
13 9 (8.74%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (8.74%) SD-WAN
13 9 (8.74%) SSL
13 9 (8.74%) VLAN
14 8 (7.77%) Junos
15 7 (6.80%) Ethernet VPN
16 6 (5.83%) Cisco IOS
17 5 (4.85%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 11 (10.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.83%) Advertising
2 6 (5.83%) Finance
3 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (73.79%) Network Engineer
2 29 (28.16%) Network Security Engineer
2 29 (28.16%) Security Engineer
3 17 (16.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 17 (16.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) 1st Line Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Architect
7 8 (7.77%) Designer
7 8 (7.77%) Network Architect
7 8 (7.77%) Network Designer
7 8 (7.77%) Network Support
7 8 (7.77%) Network Support Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Senior
7 8 (7.77%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.88%) JSON
1 4 (3.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.24%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.48%) Network Design
2 11 (10.68%) Network Architecture
3 9 (8.74%) Project Delivery
4 7 (6.80%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (5.83%) Boundary Protection
5 6 (5.83%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (5.83%) Presales
6 5 (4.85%) Agile
6 5 (4.85%) BCP
6 5 (4.85%) Business Continuity
6 5 (4.85%) Business Continuity Planning
6 5 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (4.85%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (4.85%) Data Centre Operations
6 5 (4.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (4.85%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (4.85%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (4.85%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (4.85%) Server Management
6 5 (4.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.97%) Python
Qualifications
1 80 (77.67%) Security Cleared
2 66 (64.08%) SC Cleared
3 64 (62.14%) DV Cleared
4 43 (41.75%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (25.24%) CCNA
5 26 (25.24%) CCNP
6 9 (8.74%) PMI Certification
7 7 (6.80%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.94%) CCIE
9 1 (0.97%) Degree
9 1 (0.97%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (11.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.97%) Firmware
3 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.91%) Ansible
3 2 (1.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (91.26%) Cisco
2 70 (67.96%) Fortinet
3 56 (54.37%) Juniper
4 12 (11.65%) VMware
5 7 (6.80%) McAfee
6 5 (4.85%) F5
7 2 (1.94%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.94%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.94%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.97%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.97%) Citrix
8 1 (0.97%) Dell