BGP Job Trends in Yorkshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring BGP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 136 199
Rank change year-on-year -49 +63 +43
Permanent jobs citing BGP 13 18 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.20% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.39% 3.90% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 18
10th Percentile - £40,034 £45,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,799 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% +52.78%
75th Percentile £75,945 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +31.82% +5.77% -6.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 543 461 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.16% 16.59% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 305 282 571
10th Percentile £25,746 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -23.53% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,500 £73,725 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

BGP
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing BGP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing BGP

BGP
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for BGP in Yorkshire

BGP
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -33 7 £72,788 -2.95% 1
North Yorkshire 0 1 £27,500 -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) SD-WAN
2 9 (69.23%) LAN
2 9 (69.23%) MPLS
2 9 (69.23%) WAN
3 8 (61.54%) DNS
3 8 (61.54%) Firewall
3 8 (61.54%) OSPF
4 7 (53.85%) VPN
5 6 (46.15%) DHCP
6 5 (38.46%) VoIP
6 5 (38.46%) VXLAN
7 4 (30.77%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (30.77%) Network Security
7 4 (30.77%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (30.77%) VPLS
8 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (15.38%) NGFW
9 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
9 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) IT Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) IT Support
1 4 (30.77%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Network Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Observability
2 4 (30.77%) Proactive Maintenance
2 4 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Security Patching
2 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
2 4 (30.77%) SIEM
2 4 (30.77%) Threat Detection
3 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Network Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) DDoS Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) CCNA
3 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
1 4 (30.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
2 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Arista
3 2 (15.38%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Huawei
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Polycom
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds