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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 370 610 574
Rank change year-on-year +240 -36 -175
Permanent jobs citing BGP 415 515 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.42% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.18% 3.38% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 351 378 519
10th Percentile £41,000 £32,500 £34,242
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £51,321
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +4.73% -6.69%
75th Percentile £72,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 8,005 15,255 16,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 12.42% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 10,353 11,511
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 17 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 7 December 2023. 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 +247 390 £55,000 +4.76% 127
UK excluding London +236 260 £52,500 +5.00% 89
Work from Home +193 169 £55,000 -1.35% 51
London +197 137 £65,000 +13.04% 44
South East +129 101 £57,500 +4.55% 20
South West +110 61 £50,000 +10.50% 14
Midlands +154 52 £57,500 -30.30% 30
West Midlands +155 49 £57,500 -32.35% 28
North of England +93 49 £47,500 -5.00% 18
North West +108 27 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Yorkshire +72 24 £52,500 +16.67% 5
East of England +127 21 £75,000 -4.76% 1
North East +43 11 £85,000 +86.81% 3
Scotland +42 10 £56,250 +12.50% 5
East Midlands +47 3 £60,000 +5.73% 2
Wales +15 2 £39,250 -
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 - 1

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 12 (2.89%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.17%) Confluence
3 4 (0.96%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.72%) MS Exchange
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) uWSGI
Applications
1 15 (3.61%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 111 (26.75%) Azure
2 55 (13.25%) AWS
3 26 (6.27%) IaaS
4 22 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.61%) SaaS
6 14 (3.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 14 (3.37%) PaaS
7 13 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.65%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.17%) GCP
10 7 (1.69%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.20%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.20%) Rubrik
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.96%) Azure Stack
12 4 (0.96%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.96%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.72%) Route 53
13 3 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 297 (71.57%) OSPF
2 273 (65.78%) Firewall
3 215 (51.81%) MPLS
4 213 (51.33%) WAN
5 156 (37.59%) VPN
6 134 (32.29%) LAN
7 128 (30.84%) Wireless
8 123 (29.64%) SD-WAN
9 91 (21.93%) Cisco ASA
10 83 (20.00%) TCP/IP
11 80 (19.28%) IPsec
12 68 (16.39%) VLAN
13 67 (16.14%) DNS
14 63 (15.18%) Cisco Nexus
15 57 (13.73%) DHCP
16 56 (13.49%) Cisco IOS
16 56 (13.49%) EIGRP
17 55 (13.25%) Network Security
18 41 (9.88%) Wi-Fi
19 39 (9.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.93%) MySQL
2 4 (0.96%) Power BI
3 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.48%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (1.69%) Git
3 5 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
General
1 102 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.63%) Telecoms
3 40 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.06%) Finance
6 17 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.13%) Legal
8 12 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.65%) Law
10 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.93%) Military
12 7 (1.69%) Police
12 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.45%) Retail
14 5 (1.20%) Advertising
14 5 (1.20%) Games
14 5 (1.20%) Marketing
15 3 (0.72%) French Language
15 3 (0.72%) German Language
15 3 (0.72%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 225 (54.22%) Network Engineer
2 83 (20.00%) Senior
3 63 (15.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 50 (12.05%) Architect
5 37 (8.92%) Network Architect
6 32 (7.71%) IP Engineer
7 28 (6.75%) Support Engineer
8 26 (6.27%) Network Support
9 22 (5.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 22 (5.30%) Lead
10 21 (5.06%) Analyst
10 21 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (5.06%) Network Analyst
11 19 (4.58%) Network Support Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) Cisco Engineer
13 15 (3.61%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 15 (3.61%) IP Network Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.75%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.13%) REST
3 5 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.72%) LAMP
5 2 (0.48%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.48%) CSS
5 2 (0.48%) JSON
5 2 (0.48%) LDAP
5 2 (0.48%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (0.48%) XMPP
6 1 (0.24%) FIDO
6 1 (0.24%) HTML
6 1 (0.24%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.24%) OAuth
6 1 (0.24%) SAML
6 1 (0.24%) Web Services
6 1 (0.24%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 141 (33.98%) Data Centre
2 12 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (2.41%) Virtual Team
4 7 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (1.45%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.45%) PKI
5 6 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.45%) Reinsurance
5 6 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (1.20%) IoT
6 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (0.96%) Handset
7 4 (0.96%) Replication
8 3 (0.72%) Clustering
8 3 (0.72%) CMDB
9 2 (0.48%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.84%) Linux
2 32 (7.71%) Windows
3 24 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.20%) Debian
8 4 (0.96%) Unix
8 4 (0.96%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.48%) CentOS
10 2 (0.48%) VMS
10 2 (0.48%) VyOS
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (19.04%) ITIL
3 77 (18.55%) Network Design
4 51 (12.29%) Load Balancing
5 46 (11.08%) Network Monitoring
6 45 (10.84%) Network Management
7 36 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 36 (8.67%) Network Architecture
8 30 (7.23%) Project Delivery
9 27 (6.51%) Network Virtualisation
10 25 (6.02%) Change Management
11 22 (5.30%) Agile
12 17 (4.10%) High Availability
13 16 (3.86%) CI/CD
13 16 (3.86%) Migration
14 13 (3.13%) Customer Service
15 12 (2.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (2.89%) Customer Experience
15 12 (2.89%) Customer Requirements
15 12 (2.89%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (8.43%) Python
2 11 (2.65%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.17%) Bash
4 7 (1.69%) SQL
5 6 (1.45%) Perl
6 4 (0.96%) PHP
7 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.24%) Go
8 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 196 (47.23%) Cisco Certification
2 134 (32.29%) CCNP
3 95 (22.89%) Security Cleared
4 92 (22.17%) CCNA
5 59 (14.22%) SC Cleared
6 56 (13.49%) CCIE
7 38 (9.16%) Degree
8 32 (7.71%) JNCIA
9 19 (4.58%) DV Cleared
10 16 (3.86%) JNCIP
11 8 (1.93%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.69%) CCDP
12 7 (1.69%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 6 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.20%) MCP
14 5 (1.20%) MCSE
14 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.78%) SLA
2 8 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.96%) NCSC
5 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) QA
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.10%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.86%) VMware NSX
5 14 (3.37%) Docker
6 11 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.93%) vSphere
8 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.96%) Firmware
10 3 (0.72%) vCloud
10 3 (0.72%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (17.11%) FortiGate
2 37 (8.92%) Ansible
3 18 (4.34%) Icinga
4 15 (3.61%) Grafana
4 15 (3.61%) Kubernetes
5 12 (2.89%) Nagios
6 10 (2.41%) Terraform
7 9 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (1.93%) Nessus
9 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.20%) Cacti
10 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.20%) Puppet
11 4 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.72%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (0.72%) Salt
12 3 (0.72%) Stealthwatch
12 3 (0.72%) WhatsUp Gold
12 3 (0.72%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.48%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 294 (70.84%) Cisco
2 134 (32.29%) Juniper
3 108 (26.02%) Fortinet
4 88 (21.20%) Palo Alto
5 84 (20.24%) CheckPoint
5 84 (20.24%) Meraki
6 56 (13.49%) F5
7 55 (13.25%) VMware
8 53 (12.77%) Aruba
9 48 (11.57%) Microsoft
10 40 (9.64%) SolarWinds
11 20 (4.82%) Dell
12 17 (4.10%) Huawei
12 17 (4.10%) Nokia
13 16 (3.86%) Riverbed
14 13 (3.13%) HP
15 9 (2.17%) Ericsson
15 9 (2.17%) NetApp
16 8 (1.93%) Ubiquiti
16 8 (1.93%) Veeam