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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 544 610
Rank change year-on-year +95 +66 -81
Permanent jobs citing BGP 465 380 717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.46% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 2.79% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 328 310 512
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,063 £45,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,563 £74,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,563 £95,000 £106,125
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.75% +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 12,342 13,631 19,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.10% 16.49% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,528 6,936 10,460
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,244
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,475 £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 £85,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +51 143 £51,000 +2.51% 31
London +36 138 £70,000 - 29
North of England +64 95 £42,500 -5.56% 16
North West +51 73 £40,000 -39.62% 11
Midlands -4 67 £48,500 -15.65% 10
West Midlands +19 58 £48,500 -11.82% 10
Yorkshire +58 28 £68,750 +52.78% 5
South West -29 25 £52,500 +5.00% 4
East of England -16 15 £62,500 -3.85% 1
East Midlands -35 9 £50,000 -13.04%
North East -24 3 £62,500 +42.86% 1
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 (6.02%) WebLogic
2 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.72%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 28 (6.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (23.87%) Azure
2 83 (17.85%) AWS
3 28 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
3 28 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
4 22 (4.73%) IaaS
5 20 (4.30%) PaaS
5 20 (4.30%) SaaS
6 14 (3.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 14 (3.01%) Entra ID
6 14 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.58%) AWS Direct Connect
7 12 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.15%) GCP
9 3 (0.65%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.43%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 284 (61.08%) OSPF
2 231 (49.68%) MPLS
3 213 (45.81%) WAN
4 194 (41.72%) Firewall
5 150 (32.26%) LAN
6 128 (27.53%) VPN
7 126 (27.10%) TCP/IP
8 122 (26.24%) SD-WAN
9 96 (20.65%) Wireless
10 77 (16.56%) DNS
11 76 (16.34%) VLAN
12 73 (15.70%) EIGRP
13 70 (15.05%) IPsec
14 68 (14.62%) SSL
15 64 (13.76%) Wi-Fi
16 61 (13.12%) Network Security
17 56 (12.04%) Internet
18 54 (11.61%) DHCP
18 54 (11.61%) Ethernet
19 51 (10.97%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
1 28 (6.02%) Oracle Database
1 28 (6.02%) RDBMS
1 28 (6.02%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.44%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.37%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.86%) Redis
7 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (2.58%) GitLab
1 12 (2.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.22%) Git
2 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 94 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.96%) Finance
3 31 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 25 (5.38%) Law
5 20 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.37%) Retail
7 9 (1.94%) Mandarin Language
8 7 (1.51%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.08%) Legal
9 5 (1.08%) Military
10 4 (0.86%) Billing
10 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.86%) Publishing
11 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.65%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Electronics
12 2 (0.43%) Front Office
12 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (51.83%) Network Engineer
2 86 (18.49%) Senior
3 57 (12.26%) Senior Network Engineer
4 53 (11.40%) Architect
5 42 (9.03%) Analyst
5 42 (9.03%) Network Analyst
6 39 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (7.53%) Lead
8 34 (7.31%) IP Engineer
9 31 (6.67%) Network Operations Analyst
9 31 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
10 29 (6.24%) Lead Architect
11 28 (6.02%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 28 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (5.38%) IP Network Engineer
12 25 (5.38%) Juniper Engineer
12 25 (5.38%) Network Support
13 23 (4.95%) Cisco Engineer
13 23 (4.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 22 (4.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.68%) 802.1X
2 28 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
2 28 (6.02%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.87%) XML
4 12 (2.58%) NETCONF
4 12 (2.58%) RESTCONF
5 11 (2.37%) JSON
5 11 (2.37%) REST
5 11 (2.37%) SOAP
5 11 (2.37%) YAML
5 11 (2.37%) YANG
6 8 (1.72%) SAML
7 7 (1.51%) HTML
8 5 (1.08%) XMPP
9 4 (0.86%) .NET
9 4 (0.86%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.65%) CSS
11 1 (0.22%) ADO
11 1 (0.22%) EDI
11 1 (0.22%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.06%) Data Centre
2 43 (9.25%) Public Cloud
3 34 (7.31%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.23%) PKI
6 14 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.37%) Clustering
7 11 (2.37%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.15%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 10 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
8 10 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.51%) FMCG
10 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.86%) Fat Client
11 4 (0.86%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.65%) Smart City
13 2 (0.43%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.43%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.34%) Linux
2 28 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 28 (6.02%) Windows
3 19 (4.09%) Unix
4 17 (3.66%) VyOS
5 16 (3.44%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.58%) CentOS
7 7 (1.51%) Android
7 7 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.86%) Debian
10 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.22%) VMS
12 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (13.98%) Network Design
2 62 (13.33%) Load Balancing
3 57 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 51 (10.97%) Agile
5 50 (10.75%) Project Delivery
6 46 (9.89%) Open Source
7 44 (9.46%) Customer Service
8 43 (9.25%) Network Management
9 40 (8.60%) Scrum
10 37 (7.96%) ITIL
10 37 (7.96%) Project Management
11 36 (7.74%) Mentoring
12 34 (7.31%) Migration
12 34 (7.31%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (6.88%) Systems Engineering
14 30 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
15 28 (6.02%) Actionable Insight
15 28 (6.02%) Cloud Operations
15 28 (6.02%) Re-Platforming
15 28 (6.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.53%) Python
2 26 (5.59%) PowerShell
3 15 (3.23%) SQL
4 5 (1.08%) Bash
5 1 (0.22%) Go
5 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 195 (41.94%) Cisco Certification
2 139 (29.89%) CCNP
3 135 (29.03%) Security Cleared
4 92 (19.78%) CCNA
5 60 (12.90%) SC Cleared
6 47 (10.11%) CCIE
7 36 (7.74%) CCDP
7 36 (7.74%) Degree
8 34 (7.31%) JNCIA
9 29 (6.24%) AWS Certification
10 28 (6.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (6.02%) Azure Certification
11 25 (5.38%) JNCIP
12 14 (3.01%) JNCIE
13 10 (2.15%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 9 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.94%) JNCIS
15 4 (0.86%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.65%) CCSA
16 3 (0.65%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.87%) SLA
2 7 (1.51%) NCSC
3 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.08%) NIST
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 37 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.30%) Docker
3 19 (4.09%) Hyper-V
4 13 (2.80%) Firmware
5 11 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.86%) vCloud
6 4 (0.86%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.43%) NFS
7 2 (0.43%) pfSense
7 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (13.98%) FortiGate
2 21 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.09%) Ansible
4 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.72%) Progress Chef
4 8 (1.72%) Puppet
4 8 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.72%) Terraform
5 7 (1.51%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.29%) Endace
6 6 (1.29%) Nessus
6 6 (1.29%) WSUS
7 4 (0.86%) BMC PATROL
7 4 (0.86%) Nagios
7 4 (0.86%) SCOM
7 4 (0.86%) SCOrch
7 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.86%) vMotion
8 3 (0.65%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.43%) Icinga
Vendors
1 286 (61.51%) Cisco
2 199 (42.80%) Juniper
3 86 (18.49%) Fortinet
4 53 (11.40%) Nokia
5 52 (11.18%) Microsoft
6 43 (9.25%) Palo Alto
7 40 (8.60%) CheckPoint
8 39 (8.39%) Meraki
9 34 (7.31%) F5
9 34 (7.31%) SolarWinds
10 28 (6.02%) Oracle
10 28 (6.02%) Sparx
11 26 (5.59%) VMware
12 25 (5.38%) Ruckus Wireless
13 18 (3.87%) McAfee
14 17 (3.66%) Aruba
14 17 (3.66%) Vyatta
15 15 (3.23%) Citrix
16 13 (2.80%) Draytek
17 11 (2.37%) Arista