Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 470 510
Rank change year-on-year -7 +40 +165
Permanent jobs citing BGP 267 487 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.20% 3.75% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 198 328 390
10th Percentile £32,990 £37,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.13% -0.42%
75th Percentile £75,938 £72,250 £77,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,109 12,990 13,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.16% 12.59% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5,767 8,732 7,625
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £47,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% -7.50% -2.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,500 £44,132 £45,000
% change year-on-year -33.15% -1.93% -5.26%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England -3 248 £60,000 +14.29% 211
UK excluding London +1 143 £55,000 +10.00% 168
London +88 113 £65,000 -7.14% 75
South East +3 68 £53,000 +0.95% 40
Work from Home -24 64 £65,000 +18.18% 143
North of England -9 28 £60,000 +33.33% 36
West Midlands +40 20 £65,000 +34.02% 21
Yorkshire +37 20 £59,850 -4.24% 15
Midlands +36 20 £65,000 +34.02% 33
Scotland +81 9 £67,500 -10.00% 23
East of England +32 8 £50,000 -20.00% 20
North West -49 8 £60,000 +41.18% 19
South West +85 7 £51,729 +2.43% 17
Wales +27 3 £55,000 +33.93% 3

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) IIS
2 1 (0.37%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (7.49%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.37%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.96%) Azure
2 73 (27.34%) AWS
3 25 (9.36%) GCP
4 14 (5.24%) AWS Direct Connect
5 8 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.62%) OCI
7 6 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.50%) Akamai
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.75%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.37%) CloudFront
11 1 (0.37%) Fastly
11 1 (0.37%) IaaS
11 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 216 (80.90%) OSPF
2 184 (68.91%) Firewall
3 131 (49.06%) WAN
4 113 (42.32%) VPN
5 100 (37.45%) MPLS
6 99 (37.08%) LAN
7 86 (32.21%) TCP/IP
8 76 (28.46%) Network Security
9 69 (25.84%) EIGRP
9 69 (25.84%) IPsec
10 63 (23.60%) SD-WAN
11 47 (17.60%) VLAN
12 42 (15.73%) Cisco ASA
13 39 (14.61%) Wireless
14 34 (12.73%) WLAN
15 33 (12.36%) Wi-Fi
16 31 (11.61%) Cisco IOS
17 30 (11.24%) Cisco Firepower
18 26 (9.74%) NX-OS
18 26 (9.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Git
2 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.75%) JMeter
3 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 62 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.35%) Finance
3 26 (9.74%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (8.99%) Banking
5 21 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.62%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.75%) Mandarin Language
7 10 (3.75%) Retail
8 7 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.62%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.25%) Advertising
9 6 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.25%) Local Government
10 5 (1.87%) Automotive
10 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Marketing
12 3 (1.12%) Police
13 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Aviation
14 1 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 163 (61.05%) Network Engineer
2 34 (12.73%) Senior
3 27 (10.11%) Architect
3 27 (10.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 25 (9.36%) Network Architect
5 21 (7.87%) Cisco Engineer
5 21 (7.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 17 (6.37%) Lead
7 16 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.24%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.49%) Network Security Engineer
9 12 (4.49%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) 1st Line Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Data Centre Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Data Network Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) NOC Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 9 (3.37%) Network Operations Engineer
12 9 (3.37%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.49%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.25%) Middleware
3 4 (1.50%) Jinja
3 4 (1.50%) REST
4 3 (1.12%) YAML
5 2 (0.75%) YANG
6 1 (0.37%) .NET
6 1 (0.37%) Django
6 1 (0.37%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.37%) Flask
6 1 (0.37%) JSON
6 1 (0.37%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (31.46%) Data Centre
2 31 (11.61%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.37%) PMI
5 6 (2.25%) IPTV
6 5 (1.87%) PKI
6 5 (1.87%) Smartphone
7 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Handset
9 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.37%) Clustering
10 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.87%) Linux
2 10 (3.75%) Windows
3 8 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.25%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.25%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.87%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (17.98%) Network Design
2 47 (17.60%) Network Monitoring
3 43 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
5 27 (10.11%) Network Management
6 26 (9.74%) High Availability
7 25 (9.36%) ITIL
7 25 (9.36%) Network Architecture
8 23 (8.61%) Computer Science
8 23 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (7.87%) Change Management
9 21 (7.87%) Load Balancing
10 20 (7.49%) Migration
10 20 (7.49%) Network Segmentation
10 20 (7.49%) Project Delivery
11 18 (6.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (6.37%) Incident Management
12 17 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (6.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.10%) Python
2 15 (5.62%) Bash
3 14 (5.24%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.75%) SQL
5 3 (1.12%) C++
6 2 (0.75%) Go
6 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) R
7 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 123 (46.07%) Cisco Certification
2 86 (32.21%) CCNP
3 84 (31.46%) CCNA
4 71 (26.59%) Security Cleared
5 61 (22.85%) SC Cleared
6 54 (20.22%) Degree
7 34 (12.73%) DV Cleared
8 21 (7.87%) CCIE
9 19 (7.12%) JNCIS
10 16 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.37%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.87%) CCSA
12 5 (1.87%) HNC
12 5 (1.87%) HND
12 5 (1.87%) MCSE
12 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.50%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.50%) CCSE
13 4 (1.50%) JNCIA
14 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.62%) SLA
2 8 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.87%) QA
4 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.12%) PMO
5 2 (0.75%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.49%) Hyper-V
3 9 (3.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.00%) Firmware
5 6 (2.25%) Docker
6 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.12%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.37%) pfSense
8 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (15.73%) FortiGate
2 38 (14.23%) Ansible
3 14 (5.24%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.87%) Nagios
5 10 (3.75%) Terraform
6 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.87%) WSUS
7 2 (0.75%) Iperf
7 2 (0.75%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.37%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 210 (78.65%) Cisco
2 95 (35.58%) Fortinet
3 91 (34.08%) Juniper
4 58 (21.72%) SolarWinds
5 46 (17.23%) CheckPoint
6 37 (13.86%) Palo Alto
7 31 (11.61%) VMware
8 30 (11.24%) F5
9 28 (10.49%) Meraki
10 19 (7.12%) Arista
10 19 (7.12%) Microsoft
11 14 (5.24%) Dynatrace
12 13 (4.87%) Aruba
12 13 (4.87%) Infoblox
13 11 (4.12%) Citrix
14 10 (3.75%) Ubiquiti
15 7 (2.62%) McAfee
16 6 (2.25%) Bloomberg
16 6 (2.25%) Refinitiv
17 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow