BGP Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Permanent jobs citing BGP 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.055% - 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% - 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,761 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £69,390 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £65,576 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 59 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.92% 12.94% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 72 51 162
10th Percentile £25,500 £23,504 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £57,000 £70,000 £72,047
North East median annual salary £42,500 £32,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +32.81% -24.71% -

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BGP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

BGP job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

BGP
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BGP

BGP
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £65,576 - 3
BGP
North East

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto