BGP Jobs in Wales

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 119 134
Rank change year-on-year +41 +15 -
Permanent jobs citing BGP 3 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.27% 0.29% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 2.36% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £40,686 - -
25th Percentile £45,117 £37,101 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,067 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £45,034 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 511 254 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 46.20% 12.24% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 313 144 78
10th Percentile £15,052 £26,250 £25,575
25th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £40,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.06% +5.19% -14.44%
75th Percentile £28,750 £47,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £70,525
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.94% -3.81%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Wales

BGP
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for BGP in Wales

BGP
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in Wales over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BGP in Wales

BGP
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 22 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 Wales +34 1 £55,000 +33.93% 4
West Wales - 1 £37,733 -
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Iperf
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Tufin