Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 581 614
Rank change year-on-year +122 +33 -121
Permanent jobs citing BGP 500 439 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.68% 2.74% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 365 342 581
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,525 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £49,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.51% -5.24% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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 +169 458 £51,000 -7.27% 83
UK excluding London +113 357 £49,000 -1.51% 72
Work from Home +75 207 £50,000 -28.57% 32
South East +79 134 £50,500 +1.51% 21
London +88 123 £70,000 - 26
North of England +63 92 £42,500 -5.56% 11
Midlands +52 73 £48,500 -20.82% 14
North West +62 71 £40,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands +68 65 £48,500 -19.17% 11
South West +18 33 £51,036 +2.07% 8
Yorkshire +73 26 £62,500 +38.89% 4
East of England +8 17 £63,750 -1.92% 3
Scotland -55 17 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East Midlands -12 8 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Wales +18 6 £41,067 - 4
Northern Ireland +30 4 - - 2
North East -17 4 £62,500 +52.44% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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 46 (9.20%) WebLogic
2 8 (1.60%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) uWSGI
Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (9.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.60%) Azure
2 103 (20.60%) AWS
3 46 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (9.20%) Amazon SQS
4 17 (3.40%) IaaS
5 15 (3.00%) GCP
5 15 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.60%) PaaS
7 13 (2.60%) SaaS
8 12 (2.40%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.60%) Route 53
12 2 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 293 (58.60%) OSPF
2 253 (50.60%) MPLS
3 236 (47.20%) WAN
4 201 (40.20%) Firewall
5 174 (34.80%) LAN
6 145 (29.00%) TCP/IP
7 132 (26.40%) SD-WAN
8 130 (26.00%) VPN
9 107 (21.40%) DNS
10 100 (20.00%) Wireless
11 88 (17.60%) SSL
12 82 (16.40%) VLAN
13 68 (13.60%) EIGRP
13 68 (13.60%) IPsec
14 62 (12.40%) Network Security
15 60 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
16 59 (11.80%) DHCP
17 50 (10.00%) WLAN
18 49 (9.80%) Internet
19 48 (9.60%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (9.20%) Oracle Database
1 46 (9.20%) RDBMS
1 46 (9.20%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.20%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.20%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.80%) MySQL
5 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (2.40%) GitLab
2 11 (2.20%) JIRA
3 5 (1.00%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 120 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (7.00%) Telecoms
3 31 (6.20%) Finance
4 27 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.60%) Law
6 9 (1.80%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.80%) Retail
7 8 (1.60%) Military
8 7 (1.40%) Legal
9 5 (1.00%) Games
9 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.00%) Police
10 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.80%) Publishing
11 3 (0.60%) Banking
12 2 (0.40%) Billing
12 2 (0.40%) Electronics
12 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.40%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 252 (50.40%) Network Engineer
2 100 (20.00%) Senior
3 72 (14.40%) Senior Network Engineer
4 71 (14.20%) Architect
5 55 (11.00%) Lead
6 50 (10.00%) Analyst
6 50 (10.00%) Network Analyst
7 48 (9.60%) Lead Architect
8 46 (9.20%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 46 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (9.00%) IP Engineer
10 37 (7.40%) Network Operations Analyst
10 37 (7.40%) Operations Analyst
11 36 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (7.00%) IP Network Engineer
13 30 (6.00%) Juniper Engineer
14 29 (5.80%) Network Support
15 24 (4.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 24 (4.80%) Cisco Engineer
16 23 (4.60%) Senior Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.60%) 802.1X
2 46 (9.20%) RabbitMQ
2 46 (9.20%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.60%) XML
4 11 (2.20%) JSON
4 11 (2.20%) NETCONF
4 11 (2.20%) REST
4 11 (2.20%) RESTCONF
4 11 (2.20%) SOAP
4 11 (2.20%) YAML
4 11 (2.20%) YANG
5 8 (1.60%) SAML
6 7 (1.40%) HTML
7 5 (1.00%) XMPP
8 4 (0.80%) ADO
9 3 (0.60%) .NET
9 3 (0.60%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.60%) CSS
10 2 (0.40%) LDAP
11 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (18.80%) Data Centre
2 58 (11.60%) Public Cloud
3 52 (10.40%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.20%) PKI
6 15 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.80%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.00%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.00%) Clustering
8 10 (2.00%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.40%) FMCG
11 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.80%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.80%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.60%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 101 (20.20%) Linux
2 48 (9.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (6.20%) Windows
4 19 (3.80%) Unix
4 19 (3.80%) VyOS
5 15 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.40%) CentOS
7 8 (1.60%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.40%) Android
9 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.80%) Debian
10 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.60%) VMS
11 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (16.20%) Load Balancing
2 66 (13.20%) Agile
3 62 (12.40%) Network Design
4 60 (12.00%) Open Source
5 57 (11.40%) Scrum
6 54 (10.80%) Migration
7 53 (10.60%) Project Management
8 51 (10.20%) Project Delivery
9 50 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
10 49 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 49 (9.80%) Systems Engineering
11 46 (9.20%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (9.20%) ArchiMate
11 46 (9.20%) Cloud Operations
11 46 (9.20%) Data Migration
11 46 (9.20%) Kanban
11 46 (9.20%) Re-Platforming
11 46 (9.20%) SDLC
11 46 (9.20%) TOGAF
12 44 (8.80%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.60%) Python
2 24 (4.80%) PowerShell
3 18 (3.60%) SQL
4 8 (1.60%) Bash
5 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 214 (42.80%) Cisco Certification
2 159 (31.80%) Security Cleared
3 154 (30.80%) CCNP
4 107 (21.40%) CCNA
5 79 (15.80%) SC Cleared
6 64 (12.80%) CCIE
7 47 (9.40%) AWS Certification
7 47 (9.40%) Azure Certification
8 46 (9.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (9.00%) CCDP
10 42 (8.40%) JNCIA
11 31 (6.20%) JNCIP
12 24 (4.80%) Degree
13 17 (3.40%) JNCIE
14 10 (2.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 9 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.40%) JNCIS
17 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
18 3 (0.60%) MCT
19 2 (0.40%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.40%) SLA
2 8 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.00%) NCSC
4 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 38 (7.60%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.80%) Docker
3 23 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.40%) Firmware
6 6 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.80%) vCloud
7 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.60%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (10.80%) FortiGate
2 29 (5.80%) Ansible
3 23 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.20%) Progress Chef
4 11 (2.20%) Puppet
4 11 (2.20%) Terraform
5 8 (1.60%) Nagios
5 8 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (1.40%) Icinga
6 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.20%) Endace
7 6 (1.20%) Nessus
7 6 (1.20%) SolarWinds Orion
7 6 (1.20%) WSUS
8 5 (1.00%) Grafana
9 4 (0.80%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.60%) Salt
10 3 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 289 (57.80%) Cisco
2 217 (43.40%) Juniper
3 83 (16.60%) Fortinet
4 60 (12.00%) Nokia
5 46 (9.20%) Oracle
5 46 (9.20%) Sparx
6 45 (9.00%) Microsoft
7 40 (8.00%) Palo Alto
8 36 (7.20%) Meraki
9 34 (6.80%) F5
9 34 (6.80%) SolarWinds
9 34 (6.80%) VMware
10 33 (6.60%) CheckPoint
11 28 (5.60%) Ruckus Wireless
12 19 (3.80%) Vyatta
13 16 (3.20%) Aruba
14 13 (2.60%) Draytek
15 12 (2.40%) Arista
16 11 (2.20%) McAfee
17 10 (2.00%) Google