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

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 473 600
Rank change year-on-year +65 +127 -21
Permanent jobs citing BGP 333 447 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.00% 3.77% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 267 364 338
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,675
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £49,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +9.57% - -2.00%

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 8,333 11,848 15,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 13.55% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,944 9,230 8,844
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £27,900
25th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% -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 15 March 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 16 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 15 March 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 +35 323 £58,000 +13.73% 174
UK excluding London +74 222 £53,688 +9.57% 89
South East +58 106 £53,000 +6.00% 30
London +40 98 £72,500 +3.57% 96
Work from Home +42 81 £61,644 +23.29% 70
Midlands +39 47 £35,000 -27.84% 15
West Midlands 0 43 £35,000 -27.84% 12
North of England +28 35 £55,000 +29.41% 27
East of England +27 19 £70,000 +7.69% 1
North West -6 18 £57,500 +39.39% 20
Yorkshire +58 16 £45,000 -18.18% 6
South West +59 13 £60,822 +16.80% 4
East Midlands +39 4 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Scotland +74 1 £67,500 +3.85% 6
North East +29 1 £28,000 -55.20% 1
Wales - 1 £37,733 - 2

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 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.60%) SAS
2 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 88 (26.43%) Azure
2 64 (19.22%) AWS
3 22 (6.61%) Google Workspace
4 14 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.10%) SaaS
7 5 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.50%) GCP
7 5 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.90%) Cloudflare
8 3 (0.90%) IaaS
9 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.30%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.30%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.30%) Fastly
10 1 (0.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 268 (80.48%) OSPF
2 212 (63.66%) Firewall
3 141 (42.34%) WAN
4 127 (38.14%) MPLS
5 118 (35.44%) TCP/IP
6 104 (31.23%) LAN
7 101 (30.33%) EIGRP
8 99 (29.73%) VPN
9 98 (29.43%) Network Security
10 74 (22.22%) VLAN
11 61 (18.32%) IPsec
12 58 (17.42%) SD-WAN
13 51 (15.32%) Wireless
14 49 (14.71%) WLAN
15 47 (14.11%) DNS
16 44 (13.21%) Cisco ASA
17 41 (12.31%) DHCP
18 39 (11.71%) Cisco ISE
19 32 (9.61%) Cisco IOS
20 27 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 12 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 91 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.21%) Finance
3 28 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.51%) Retail
5 23 (6.91%) Automotive
6 18 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.00%) Banking
8 9 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.80%) Local Government
9 6 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Advertising
10 4 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.90%) Police
12 2 (0.60%) Front Office
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.30%) Law
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 192 (57.66%) Network Engineer
2 47 (14.11%) Senior
3 38 (11.41%) Senior Network Engineer
4 30 (9.01%) Architect
4 30 (9.01%) Network Security Engineer
4 30 (9.01%) Security Engineer
5 25 (7.51%) IT Engineer
5 25 (7.51%) Network Architect
6 24 (7.21%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (6.61%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 21 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (6.01%) Cisco Engineer
9 20 (6.01%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 16 (4.80%) NOC Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.90%) Lead
13 12 (3.60%) Junior
14 11 (3.30%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.31%) 802.1X
2 9 (2.70%) YAML
3 5 (1.50%) JSON
4 3 (0.90%) REST
5 1 (0.30%) cloud-init
5 1 (0.30%) Django
5 1 (0.30%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.30%) Flask
5 1 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.02%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.71%) Management Information System
3 22 (6.61%) Smartphone
4 9 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.40%) IoT
6 6 (1.80%) PMI
6 6 (1.80%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.90%) CMDB
8 3 (0.90%) PKI
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.30%) Clustering
10 1 (0.30%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.61%) Linux
2 28 (8.41%) Windows
3 27 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 25 (7.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (7.21%) Ubuntu
5 24 (7.21%) Windows 10
6 22 (6.61%) Mac OS X
6 22 (6.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (19.52%) Network Design
2 50 (15.02%) Network Monitoring
3 45 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (10.51%) Network Management
5 32 (9.61%) Computer Science
6 30 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 27 (8.11%) High Availability
8 25 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (6.91%) ITIL
9 23 (6.91%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (6.61%) Agile
10 22 (6.61%) Business Case
10 22 (6.61%) Systems Engineering
11 21 (6.31%) Network Architecture
12 20 (6.01%) Change Management
13 19 (5.71%) Business Continuity
13 19 (5.71%) Roadmaps
14 14 (4.20%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 44 (13.21%) PowerShell
2 40 (12.01%) Python
3 28 (8.41%) SQL
4 12 (3.60%) Bash
5 3 (0.90%) C++
5 3 (0.90%) PHP
6 1 (0.30%) Java
6 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.30%) Perl
6 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 149 (44.74%) Cisco Certification
2 136 (40.84%) Security Cleared
3 101 (30.33%) CCNP
4 95 (28.53%) SC Cleared
5 83 (24.92%) DV Cleared
6 81 (24.32%) CCNA
7 53 (15.92%) Degree
8 28 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (7.51%) JNCIS
10 22 (6.61%) CCIE
10 22 (6.61%) HNC
10 22 (6.61%) HND
10 22 (6.61%) MCSE
10 22 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.10%) JNCIA
12 6 (1.80%) JNCIP
12 6 (1.80%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.31%) SLA
2 15 (4.50%) QA
3 12 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (9.91%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.80%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.40%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.90%) Docker
6 2 (0.60%) Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (15.92%) FortiGate
2 36 (10.81%) Ansible
3 19 (5.71%) Terraform
4 9 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.70%) WSUS
5 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.20%) Nagios
6 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.20%) Puppet
6 4 (1.20%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 257 (77.18%) Cisco
2 129 (38.74%) Juniper
3 121 (36.34%) Fortinet
4 58 (17.42%) Palo Alto
5 54 (16.22%) Microsoft
6 40 (12.01%) SolarWinds
7 35 (10.51%) VMware
8 28 (8.41%) CheckPoint
8 28 (8.41%) Dell
9 27 (8.11%) Ubiquiti
10 22 (6.61%) Apple
10 22 (6.61%) Google
11 19 (5.71%) F5
12 17 (5.11%) Arista
13 14 (4.20%) Meraki
14 13 (3.90%) Riverbed
15 10 (3.00%) Citrix
16 9 (2.70%) McAfee
17 8 (2.40%) Aruba
18 7 (2.10%) Nokia