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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 439 545
Rank change year-on-year +34 +106 -40
Permanent jobs citing BGP 183 352 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.50% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 3.61% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 159 246 148
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £54,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -18.40% +4.17%

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 6,526 9,748 10,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.70% 13.76% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,189 7,064 4,738
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 15 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 15 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 +65 103 £53,000 +6.00% 64
Midlands +25 32 £49,344 +1.74% 16
West Midlands +23 32 £49,344 +1.74% 10
North of England -15 21 £55,000 +29.41% 31
Yorkshire +52 13 £44,700 -28.48% 15
East of England +39 12 £50,000 -20.00% 5
South West +94 8 £51,729 +3.46% 16
North West -64 8 £56,250 +40.63% 15
Scotland +101 4 £67,500 -10.00% 16
Wales +37 3 £55,000 +33.93% 3
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 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (7.10%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.49%) Azure
2 26 (14.21%) AWS
3 14 (7.65%) Google Workspace
4 8 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.28%) SaaS
6 4 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.64%) GCP
8 2 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.09%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 148 (80.87%) OSPF
2 116 (63.39%) Firewall
3 80 (43.72%) EIGRP
4 73 (39.89%) WAN
5 71 (38.80%) Network Security
6 60 (32.79%) TCP/IP
7 53 (28.96%) LAN
8 51 (27.87%) MPLS
9 45 (24.59%) IPsec
10 42 (22.95%) VPN
11 39 (21.31%) VLAN
12 33 (18.03%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (13.66%) SD-WAN
14 22 (12.02%) Junos
15 21 (11.48%) DHCP
15 21 (11.48%) DNS
16 18 (9.84%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (9.84%) Wireless
16 18 (9.84%) WLAN
17 17 (9.29%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 2 (1.09%) JMeter
General
1 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.93%) Finance
4 14 (7.65%) Automotive
4 14 (7.65%) Retail
5 7 (3.83%) Advertising
5 7 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.28%) Local Government
7 3 (1.64%) Police
7 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Front Office
8 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (57.38%) Network Engineer
2 30 (16.39%) Network Security Engineer
2 30 (16.39%) Security Engineer
3 26 (14.21%) Architect
4 25 (13.66%) Network Architect
5 20 (10.93%) IT Engineer
6 17 (9.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 17 (9.29%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 17 (9.29%) Senior
7 14 (7.65%) Senior Network Engineer
7 14 (7.65%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (7.10%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 10 (5.46%) 1st Line Engineer
10 10 (5.46%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (5.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Network Designer
11 8 (4.37%) Network Support
11 8 (4.37%) Network Support Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.28%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.19%) JSON
2 4 (2.19%) REST
2 4 (2.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.86%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.20%) Management Information System
3 14 (7.65%) Smartphone
4 9 (4.92%) PMI
5 7 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.64%) PKI
8 1 (0.55%) Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.55%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) SCADA
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.29%) Linux
2 16 (8.74%) Windows
3 15 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.65%) Mac OS X
4 14 (7.65%) Ubuntu
4 14 (7.65%) Windows 10
4 14 (7.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (7.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.40%) Network Design
2 25 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
3 23 (12.57%) Computer Science
4 17 (9.29%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (8.74%) Network Architecture
5 16 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (8.20%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (8.20%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (7.65%) Business Case
7 14 (7.65%) Project Delivery
7 14 (7.65%) Systems Engineering
8 12 (6.56%) Network Management
9 9 (4.92%) Business Continuity
9 9 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (4.92%) ITIL
10 8 (4.37%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (4.37%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (3.83%) Presales
11 7 (3.83%) Service Delivery
11 7 (3.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.93%) PowerShell
2 19 (10.38%) SQL
3 11 (6.01%) Python
4 1 (0.55%) Bash
4 1 (0.55%) Java
4 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 112 (61.20%) Security Cleared
2 92 (50.27%) SC Cleared
3 71 (38.80%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (36.61%) DV Cleared
5 47 (25.68%) CCNP
6 46 (25.14%) CCNA
7 35 (19.13%) Degree
8 21 (11.48%) JNCIS
9 20 (10.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (7.65%) HNC
10 14 (7.65%) HND
10 14 (7.65%) MCSE
10 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (4.92%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.73%) CCIE
13 4 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.55%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.55%) JNCIE
14 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) SLA
2 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.64%) QA
4 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.01%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.83%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.19%) Docker
6 2 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (20.22%) FortiGate
2 12 (6.56%) Ansible
3 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.73%) WSUS
5 4 (2.19%) Terraform
6 2 (1.09%) Iperf
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 159 (86.89%) Cisco
2 101 (55.19%) Fortinet
3 78 (42.62%) Juniper
4 27 (14.75%) VMware
5 23 (12.57%) Microsoft
6 19 (10.38%) Palo Alto
6 19 (10.38%) Ubiquiti
7 15 (8.20%) Dell
8 14 (7.65%) Apple
8 14 (7.65%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.65%) Google
9 12 (6.56%) SolarWinds
10 11 (6.01%) F5
11 7 (3.83%) McAfee
12 6 (3.28%) Aruba
12 6 (3.28%) Citrix
13 5 (2.73%) Draytek
13 5 (2.73%) HP
14 3 (1.64%) Meraki
15 2 (1.09%) Riverbed