Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 476 577 620
Rank change year-on-year +101 +43 -119
Permanent jobs citing BGP 490 427 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.43% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.63% 2.73% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 353 343 577
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,481 15,646 21,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.53% 15.71% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,406 7,898 11,718
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,742 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -2.80% -4.26% +4.44%

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 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 18 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 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
England +146 449 £51,000 -11.30% 93
UK excluding London +98 351 £48,500 -3.00% 74
Work from Home +54 199 £50,000 -28.57% 47
South East +54 132 £51,000 +2.26% 16
London +71 121 £70,000 - 33
North of England +72 94 £42,500 -5.56% 18
North West +56 72 £40,000 -33.33% 12
Midlands +39 72 £48,500 -20.82% 15
West Midlands +52 64 £48,500 -16.74% 10
South West -7 32 £50,000 - 6
Yorkshire +69 27 £62,500 +38.89% 5
Scotland -59 17 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East of England 0 15 £62,500 -3.85% 4
East Midlands -5 8 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Wales +12 6 £41,067 - 3
Northern Ireland +25 4 - - 2
North East -19 4 £62,500 +66.67% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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 46 (9.39%) WebLogic
2 8 (1.63%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (9.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 137 (27.96%) Azure
2 101 (20.61%) AWS
3 46 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (9.39%) Amazon SQS
4 19 (3.88%) IaaS
5 15 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.06%) PaaS
5 15 (3.06%) SaaS
6 14 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.65%) GCP
8 12 (2.45%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.20%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.20%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 290 (59.18%) OSPF
2 251 (51.22%) MPLS
3 233 (47.55%) WAN
4 190 (38.78%) Firewall
5 169 (34.49%) LAN
6 145 (29.59%) TCP/IP
7 133 (27.14%) SD-WAN
8 125 (25.51%) VPN
9 102 (20.82%) DNS
10 100 (20.41%) Wireless
11 87 (17.76%) SSL
12 86 (17.55%) VLAN
13 70 (14.29%) EIGRP
14 67 (13.67%) IPsec
15 62 (12.65%) Wi-Fi
16 60 (12.24%) Network Security
17 56 (11.43%) DHCP
18 49 (10.00%) Ethernet
18 49 (10.00%) Internet
18 49 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.39%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (9.39%) Oracle Database
1 46 (9.39%) RDBMS
1 46 (9.39%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.27%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.61%) Redis
7 2 (0.41%) MySQL
8 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (2.45%) GitLab
2 11 (2.24%) JIRA
3 5 (1.02%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 119 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.94%) Telecoms
3 31 (6.33%) Finance
4 28 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.90%) Law
6 10 (2.04%) Retail
7 9 (1.84%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.22%) Legal
8 6 (1.22%) Military
9 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.82%) Publishing
11 3 (0.61%) Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Police
12 2 (0.41%) Billing
12 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Electronics
12 2 (0.41%) Front Office
12 2 (0.41%) Games
12 2 (0.41%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 249 (50.82%) Network Engineer
2 94 (19.18%) Senior
3 71 (14.49%) Architect
4 68 (13.88%) Senior Network Engineer
5 52 (10.61%) Lead
6 47 (9.59%) Analyst
6 47 (9.59%) Lead Architect
6 47 (9.59%) Network Analyst
7 46 (9.39%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 46 (9.39%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (8.37%) IP Engineer
9 35 (7.14%) Network Operations Analyst
9 35 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
10 34 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (6.53%) IP Network Engineer
12 26 (5.31%) Juniper Engineer
12 26 (5.31%) Network Support
13 23 (4.69%) Cisco Engineer
14 22 (4.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 21 (4.29%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.59%) 802.1X
2 46 (9.39%) RabbitMQ
2 46 (9.39%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.67%) XML
4 11 (2.24%) JSON
4 11 (2.24%) NETCONF
4 11 (2.24%) REST
4 11 (2.24%) RESTCONF
4 11 (2.24%) SOAP
4 11 (2.24%) YAML
4 11 (2.24%) YANG
5 8 (1.63%) SAML
6 7 (1.43%) HTML
7 5 (1.02%) XMPP
8 4 (0.82%) ADO
9 3 (0.61%) .NET
9 3 (0.61%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.61%) CSS
10 1 (0.20%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 91 (18.57%) Data Centre
2 58 (11.84%) Public Cloud
3 52 (10.61%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.06%) PKI
6 13 (2.65%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.04%) Client/Server
7 10 (2.04%) Clustering
7 10 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.43%) FMCG
10 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.82%) Fat Client
11 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.82%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.61%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 95 (19.39%) Linux
2 47 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (5.92%) Windows
4 19 (3.88%) Unix
5 18 (3.67%) VyOS
6 14 (2.86%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.45%) CentOS
8 7 (1.43%) Android
8 7 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.41%) Debian
11 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (16.94%) Load Balancing
2 68 (13.88%) Agile
3 61 (12.45%) Network Design
3 61 (12.45%) Open Source
4 57 (11.63%) Scrum
5 54 (11.02%) Project Management
6 53 (10.82%) Migration
7 51 (10.41%) Project Delivery
8 49 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 49 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 49 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
9 46 (9.39%) Actionable Insight
9 46 (9.39%) ArchiMate
9 46 (9.39%) Cloud Operations
9 46 (9.39%) Data Migration
9 46 (9.39%) Kanban
9 46 (9.39%) Re-Platforming
9 46 (9.39%) SDLC
9 46 (9.39%) TOGAF
10 45 (9.18%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.35%) Python
2 23 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 16 (3.27%) SQL
4 5 (1.02%) Bash
5 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 210 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 153 (31.22%) Security Cleared
3 151 (30.82%) CCNP
4 104 (21.22%) CCNA
5 77 (15.71%) SC Cleared
6 61 (12.45%) CCIE
7 47 (9.59%) AWS Certification
7 47 (9.59%) Azure Certification
8 46 (9.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 43 (8.78%) CCDP
10 38 (7.76%) JNCIA
11 30 (6.12%) JNCIP
12 26 (5.31%) Degree
13 18 (3.67%) JNCIE
14 10 (2.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 9 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.63%) JNCIS
17 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
18 3 (0.61%) MCT
19 2 (0.41%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.47%) SLA
2 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.22%) NCSC
4 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 37 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.29%) Hyper-V
3 20 (4.08%) Docker
4 12 (2.45%) Firmware
5 10 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.82%) vCloud
8 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.61%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 57 (11.63%) FortiGate
2 25 (5.10%) Ansible
3 19 (3.88%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.24%) Puppet
5 9 (1.84%) Terraform
6 8 (1.63%) Nagios
6 8 (1.63%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (1.22%) Endace
8 6 (1.22%) Icinga
8 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.22%) Nessus
9 5 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
9 5 (1.02%) WSUS
10 4 (0.82%) BMC PATROL
11 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.61%) SCOM
11 3 (0.61%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.61%) vMotion
Vendors
1 285 (58.16%) Cisco
2 209 (42.65%) Juniper
3 82 (16.73%) Fortinet
4 58 (11.84%) Nokia
5 46 (9.39%) Microsoft
5 46 (9.39%) Oracle
5 46 (9.39%) Sparx
6 39 (7.96%) Palo Alto
7 37 (7.55%) Meraki
8 34 (6.94%) CheckPoint
8 34 (6.94%) F5
8 34 (6.94%) SolarWinds
9 29 (5.92%) VMware
10 27 (5.51%) Ruckus Wireless
11 18 (3.67%) Vyatta
12 15 (3.06%) Aruba
13 14 (2.86%) McAfee
14 13 (2.65%) Draytek
15 12 (2.45%) Arista
16 10 (2.04%) Google