BGP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 315 404
Rank change year-on-year -132 +89 +127
Permanent jobs citing BGP 88 218 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.78% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.12% 5.35% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 66 174 256
10th Percentile £45,625 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,546 £45,313 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +12.24% -1.01%
75th Percentile £76,875 £66,250 £55,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +15.38% -9.57%

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 7,837 4,076 8,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.78% 14.56% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,875 2,505 6,810
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £43,239
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +15.64% -3.91%
75th Percentile £55,313 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £40,792 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -23.03% +9.28% -7.62%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BGP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

BGP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BGP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BGP

BGP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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
South East -68 41 £69,000 +30.19% 18
North of England -63 17 £50,000 -9.09% 5
South West -32 12 £62,800 +3.25% 2
Midlands -54 11 £62,500 +78.57% 8
North East -13 8 - - 1
West Midlands -28 8 £62,500 +78.57% 6
Yorkshire -48 8 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Scotland -4 5 £70,750 +4.81% 3
East Midlands -33 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Wales -7 1 £75,000 +98.77% 3
East of England -12 1 £67,500 -3.57% 5
North West -27 1 £53,000 -7.83%
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) Azure
2 18 (20.45%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 4 (4.55%) GCP
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.27%) OCI
6 1 (1.14%) IaaS
6 1 (1.14%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (63.64%) Firewall
2 54 (61.36%) VPN
3 50 (56.82%) WAN
4 49 (55.68%) OSPF
5 40 (45.45%) LAN
6 36 (40.91%) Wireless
7 34 (38.64%) MPLS
8 26 (29.55%) SD-WAN
9 24 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
9 24 (27.27%) EIGRP
10 23 (26.14%) VLAN
11 19 (21.59%) Network Security
12 16 (18.18%) SNMP
13 15 (17.05%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (13.64%) DNS
14 12 (13.64%) IPsec
15 11 (12.50%) TCP/IP
15 11 (12.50%) VXLAN
16 10 (11.36%) Cisco Firepower
16 10 (11.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 3 (3.41%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) JIRA
General
1 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Finance
3 8 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Law
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.55%) Marketing
6 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Police
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (57.95%) Network Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Senior
3 27 (30.68%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Architect
4 8 (9.09%) Cisco Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) Cisco Network Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) IT Support
4 8 (9.09%) Lead
4 8 (9.09%) Lead Network Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Network Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) WAN Consultant
5 7 (7.95%) Network Team Leader
5 7 (7.95%) Team Leader
6 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) IT Support Specialist
7 4 (4.55%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) REST
2 4 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.41%) Jinja
3 3 (3.41%) JSON
3 3 (3.41%) NETCONF
3 3 (3.41%) YANG
4 2 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.14%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.09%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.36%) PKI
3 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Replication
4 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.41%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.41%) Social Media
6 2 (2.27%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.14%) CMDB
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
2 13 (14.77%) Load Balancing
3 11 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 11 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 11 (12.50%) Network Design
4 9 (10.23%) Customer Requirements
4 9 (10.23%) Customer Service
4 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (10.23%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (10.23%) Network Architecture
5 8 (9.09%) DevOps
5 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (9.09%) Network Management
5 8 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
5 8 (9.09%) Observability
5 8 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
5 8 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 8 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 7 (7.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.23%) Python
2 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.41%) Bash
3 3 (3.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 47 (53.41%) Cisco Certification
2 42 (47.73%) CCNP
3 23 (26.14%) Security Cleared
4 17 (19.32%) DV Cleared
5 15 (17.05%) SC Cleared
6 11 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (12.50%) Degree
7 9 (10.23%) CCIE
8 8 (9.09%) CCNA
9 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.27%) JNCIS
11 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) PMO
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.14%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.64%) VMware NSX
3 8 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.95%) ProxySG
5 4 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.55%) vSphere
6 1 (1.14%) Firmware
6 1 (1.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) Ansible
2 14 (15.91%) FortiGate
3 9 (10.23%) Terraform
4 6 (6.82%) Endace
5 4 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.55%) Backup Exec
5 4 (4.55%) Grafana
5 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.55%) WSUS
6 1 (1.14%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 76 (86.36%) Cisco
2 31 (35.23%) Fortinet
3 30 (34.09%) Meraki
4 21 (23.86%) Palo Alto
5 20 (22.73%) F5
6 16 (18.18%) CheckPoint
7 15 (17.05%) VMware
8 14 (15.91%) SolarWinds
9 11 (12.50%) ServiceNow
10 10 (11.36%) Juniper
11 9 (10.23%) Infoblox
12 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
12 8 (9.09%) Splunk
13 7 (7.95%) Blue Coat
13 7 (7.95%) Motorola
14 4 (4.55%) Veeam
15 3 (3.41%) Dell
16 2 (2.27%) Huawei
16 2 (2.27%) Progress
17 1 (1.14%) Polycom