BGP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 408 452 544
Rank change year-on-year +44 +92 -26
Permanent jobs citing BGP 171 346 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.43% 3.51% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 145 234 154
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,150 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.92% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,027 9,853 10,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.84% 13.21% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 7,110 4,617
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the UK excluding London 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
South East +43 92 £53,000 +3.92% 231
Midlands +44 29 £65,000 +34.02% 143
West Midlands +25 29 £65,000 +34.02% 77
North of England -18 25 £65,000 +52.94% 174
Yorkshire +48 18 £75,000 +20.00% 81
East of England +42 10 £50,000 -20.00% 109
North West -55 7 £57,500 +43.75% 75
Scotland +107 6 £67,500 -10.00% 32
South West +86 6 £51,729 +0.93% 98
Wales +44 3 £55,000 +33.93% 19
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (7.60%) MS Visio
2 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.88%) Azure
2 28 (16.37%) AWS
3 11 (6.43%) Google Workspace
4 8 (4.68%) GCP
4 8 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.51%) OCI
6 5 (2.92%) SaaS
7 4 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 139 (81.29%) OSPF
2 105 (61.40%) Firewall
3 70 (40.94%) WAN
4 67 (39.18%) EIGRP
5 64 (37.43%) TCP/IP
6 63 (36.84%) Network Security
7 52 (30.41%) LAN
8 49 (28.65%) MPLS
9 45 (26.32%) VPN
10 44 (25.73%) IPsec
11 39 (22.81%) VLAN
12 30 (17.54%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (12.87%) SD-WAN
14 21 (12.28%) Junos
15 20 (11.70%) Cisco IOS
16 19 (11.11%) DHCP
16 19 (11.11%) DNS
17 18 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
17 18 (10.53%) Wireless
18 15 (8.77%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (1.17%) JMeter
General
1 36 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.70%) Finance
3 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.43%) Automotive
4 11 (6.43%) Retail
5 7 (4.09%) Advertising
5 7 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.92%) Local Government
7 3 (1.75%) Police
7 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Front Office
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (59.06%) Network Engineer
2 26 (15.20%) Architect
2 26 (15.20%) Network Security Engineer
2 26 (15.20%) Security Engineer
3 25 (14.62%) Network Architect
4 17 (9.94%) IT Engineer
5 16 (9.36%) Senior
6 13 (7.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (7.60%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) 1st Line Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Cisco Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Lead
10 8 (4.68%) Designer
10 8 (4.68%) Network Designer
11 6 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.51%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.34%) JSON
2 4 (2.34%) REST
2 4 (2.34%) YAML
3 2 (1.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.81%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.02%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.43%) Smartphone
4 9 (5.26%) PMI
5 7 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.75%) PKI
6 3 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.58%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) SCADA
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.60%) Linux
1 13 (7.60%) Windows
2 12 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.43%) Mac OS X
3 11 (6.43%) Ubuntu
3 11 (6.43%) Windows 10
3 11 (6.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (6.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.73%) Network Design
2 29 (16.96%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 17 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (9.36%) Network Monitoring
6 15 (8.77%) Network Architecture
6 15 (8.77%) Project Delivery
6 15 (8.77%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (6.43%) Business Case
9 11 (6.43%) Systems Engineering
10 10 (5.85%) Network Management
11 9 (5.26%) ITIL
11 9 (5.26%) Load Balancing
12 8 (4.68%) Agile
12 8 (4.68%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (4.09%) Business Continuity
13 7 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (4.09%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
2 16 (9.36%) Python
2 16 (9.36%) SQL
3 1 (0.58%) Bash
3 1 (0.58%) Java
3 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 97 (56.73%) Security Cleared
2 81 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 66 (38.60%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (32.16%) DV Cleared
5 45 (26.32%) CCNA
5 45 (26.32%) CCNP
6 30 (17.54%) Degree
7 21 (12.28%) JNCIS
8 16 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (6.43%) HNC
9 11 (6.43%) HND
9 11 (6.43%) MCSE
9 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (5.26%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.92%) CCIE
12 3 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.58%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) SLA
2 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.17%) GDPR
3 2 (1.17%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (6.43%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.09%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.34%) Docker
6 2 (1.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (20.47%) FortiGate
2 18 (10.53%) Ansible
3 9 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.92%) WSUS
5 3 (1.75%) Terraform
6 2 (1.17%) Iperf
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 144 (84.21%) Cisco
2 85 (49.71%) Fortinet
3 72 (42.11%) Juniper
4 27 (15.79%) VMware
5 20 (11.70%) Microsoft
6 16 (9.36%) Palo Alto
6 16 (9.36%) Ubiquiti
7 14 (8.19%) CheckPoint
8 12 (7.02%) Dell
9 11 (6.43%) Apple
9 11 (6.43%) F5
9 11 (6.43%) Google
10 8 (4.68%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.51%) Aruba
11 6 (3.51%) Citrix
11 6 (3.51%) McAfee
12 5 (2.92%) Draytek
13 4 (2.34%) HP
14 3 (1.75%) Meraki
15 2 (1.17%) Riverbed