BGP Jobs in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 586 570
Rank change year-on-year +146 -16 -75
Permanent jobs citing BGP 449 368 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.42% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.72% 2.63% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 334 294 528
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,150 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,055 13,997 18,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.97% 15.80% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,533 7,173 10,342
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in England

BGP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for BGP in England

BGP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in England

BGP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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 East +54 132 £51,000 +2.26% 17
London +71 121 £70,000 - 32
North of England +72 94 £42,500 -5.56% 17
North West +56 72 £40,000 -33.33% 10
Midlands +39 72 £48,500 -20.82% 16
West Midlands +52 64 £48,500 -16.74% 10
South West -7 32 £50,000 - 6
Yorkshire +69 27 £62,500 +38.89% 6
East of England 0 15 £62,500 -3.85% 4
East Midlands -5 8 £50,000 -28.57% 6
North East -19 4 £62,500 +66.67% 2
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (6.24%) WebLogic
2 8 (1.78%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 28 (6.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 110 (24.50%) Azure
2 77 (17.15%) AWS
3 28 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
3 28 (6.24%) Amazon SQS
4 19 (4.23%) IaaS
5 15 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.34%) PaaS
5 15 (3.34%) SaaS
6 13 (2.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (2.90%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.67%) AWS Direct Connect
8 11 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.23%) GCP
10 3 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 280 (62.36%) OSPF
2 234 (52.12%) MPLS
3 224 (49.89%) WAN
4 179 (39.87%) Firewall
5 161 (35.86%) LAN
6 129 (28.73%) SD-WAN
7 125 (27.84%) TCP/IP
8 117 (26.06%) VPN
9 98 (21.83%) Wireless
10 83 (18.49%) DNS
10 83 (18.49%) VLAN
11 68 (15.14%) SSL
12 65 (14.48%) EIGRP
13 63 (14.03%) IPsec
14 59 (13.14%) Wi-Fi
15 56 (12.47%) DHCP
16 55 (12.25%) Network Security
17 49 (10.91%) Ethernet
18 48 (10.69%) Internet
19 46 (10.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
1 28 (6.24%) Oracle Database
1 28 (6.24%) RDBMS
1 28 (6.24%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.56%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.45%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.67%) Redis
7 2 (0.45%) MySQL
8 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (2.45%) GitLab
1 11 (2.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.22%) Git
2 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 97 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 33 (7.35%) Telecoms
3 30 (6.68%) Finance
4 24 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.35%) Law
5 10 (2.23%) Retail
6 9 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.34%) Legal
7 6 (1.34%) Military
8 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.89%) Publishing
10 3 (0.67%) Banking
10 3 (0.67%) Police
11 2 (0.45%) Billing
11 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Electronics
11 2 (0.45%) Front Office
11 2 (0.45%) Games
11 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (51.67%) Network Engineer
2 81 (18.04%) Senior
3 56 (12.47%) Senior Network Engineer
4 53 (11.80%) Architect
5 46 (10.24%) Analyst
5 46 (10.24%) Network Analyst
6 34 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (7.57%) IP Engineer
6 34 (7.57%) Lead
6 34 (7.57%) Network Operations Analyst
6 34 (7.57%) Operations Analyst
7 29 (6.46%) Lead Architect
8 28 (6.24%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 28 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (5.79%) IP Network Engineer
9 26 (5.79%) Network Support
10 25 (5.57%) Juniper Engineer
11 22 (4.90%) Cisco Engineer
11 22 (4.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 21 (4.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.47%) 802.1X
2 28 (6.24%) RabbitMQ
2 28 (6.24%) Spring Boot
3 18 (4.01%) XML
4 11 (2.45%) JSON
4 11 (2.45%) NETCONF
4 11 (2.45%) REST
4 11 (2.45%) RESTCONF
4 11 (2.45%) SOAP
4 11 (2.45%) YAML
4 11 (2.45%) YANG
5 8 (1.78%) SAML
6 7 (1.56%) HTML
7 5 (1.11%) XMPP
8 3 (0.67%) .NET
8 3 (0.67%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.67%) CSS
9 1 (0.22%) ADO
9 1 (0.22%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.71%) Data Centre
2 40 (8.91%) Public Cloud
3 34 (7.57%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.34%) PKI
6 14 (3.12%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.23%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.23%) Clustering
8 10 (2.23%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (1.56%) FMCG
10 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.89%) Fat Client
11 4 (0.89%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.67%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.67%) Smart City
13 2 (0.45%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.93%) Linux
2 29 (6.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (6.46%) Windows
3 19 (4.23%) Unix
4 18 (4.01%) VyOS
5 14 (3.12%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.67%) CentOS
7 7 (1.56%) Android
7 7 (1.56%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.45%) Debian
10 2 (0.45%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.45%) VMS
10 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (14.48%) Load Balancing
2 60 (13.36%) Network Design
3 51 (11.36%) Project Delivery
4 50 (11.14%) Agile
5 49 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (9.58%) Open Source
7 41 (9.13%) Customer Service
8 39 (8.69%) Network Management
8 39 (8.69%) Scrum
9 36 (8.02%) ITIL
9 36 (8.02%) Mentoring
9 36 (8.02%) Project Management
10 35 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (7.57%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (7.35%) Migration
13 31 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
13 31 (6.90%) Systems Engineering
14 30 (6.68%) Network Monitoring
15 28 (6.24%) ArchiMate
15 28 (6.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.13%) Python
2 23 (5.12%) PowerShell
3 16 (3.56%) SQL
4 5 (1.11%) Bash
5 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 198 (44.10%) Cisco Certification
2 140 (31.18%) CCNP
3 129 (28.73%) Security Cleared
4 99 (22.05%) CCNA
5 57 (12.69%) CCIE
6 56 (12.47%) SC Cleared
7 42 (9.35%) CCDP
8 37 (8.24%) JNCIA
9 28 (6.24%) AWS Certification
9 28 (6.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (6.24%) Azure Certification
10 26 (5.79%) Degree
11 22 (4.90%) JNCIP
12 13 (2.90%) JNCIE
13 10 (2.23%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 9 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.78%) JNCIS
16 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
17 3 (0.67%) MCT
18 2 (0.45%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.56%) SLA
2 6 (1.34%) NCSC
3 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 37 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.68%) Hyper-V
3 20 (4.45%) Docker
4 12 (2.67%) Firmware
5 10 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.89%) vCloud
8 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.67%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 56 (12.47%) FortiGate
2 19 (4.23%) Ansible
2 19 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.00%) Puppet
3 9 (2.00%) Terraform
4 8 (1.78%) Nagios
4 8 (1.78%) Progress Chef
4 8 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.34%) Endace
6 6 (1.34%) Icinga
6 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.34%) Nessus
7 5 (1.11%) SolarWinds Orion
7 5 (1.11%) WSUS
8 4 (0.89%) BMC PATROL
9 3 (0.67%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.67%) SCOM
9 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
9 3 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 274 (61.02%) Cisco
2 199 (44.32%) Juniper
3 78 (17.37%) Fortinet
4 53 (11.80%) Nokia
5 46 (10.24%) Microsoft
6 37 (8.24%) Meraki
7 35 (7.80%) Palo Alto
8 34 (7.57%) CheckPoint
8 34 (7.57%) F5
9 30 (6.68%) SolarWinds
10 29 (6.46%) VMware
11 28 (6.24%) Oracle
11 28 (6.24%) Sparx
12 27 (6.01%) Ruckus Wireless
13 18 (4.01%) Vyatta
14 15 (3.34%) Aruba
15 14 (3.12%) McAfee
16 13 (2.90%) Draytek
17 12 (2.67%) Arista
18 10 (2.23%) Google