BGP Job Trends in Wiltshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 77 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +27
Permanent jobs citing BGP 4 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 0.71% 0.37% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 2.16% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - - £42,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £54,000
90th Percentile - £65,500 £58,700
South West median annual salary £54,560 £60,822 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +21.64% +11.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 106 139 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.89% 17.16% 20.10%
Number of salaries quoted 54 90 95
10th Percentile £30,575 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £62,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +32.98% +13.25%
75th Percentile £52,375 £79,688 £51,500
90th Percentile £66,875 £97,250 £67,500
South West median annual salary £34,000 £52,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -34.62% +6.12% +5.38%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BGP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

BGP job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

BGP
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BGP

BGP
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Swindon - 3 £67,500 - 2
Chippenham -8 1 - -
BGP
South West

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) NGFW
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Engineering Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineering Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (50.00%) Line Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (25.00%) VMware