BGP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 460 499 544
Rank change year-on-year +39 +45 -78
Permanent jobs citing BGP 348 226 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.46% 2.12% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 228 166 226
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,052 10,657 11,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.72% 19.15% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 4,564 6,554
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +64 95 £42,500 -5.56% 15
North West +51 73 £40,000 -39.62% 10
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
Scotland -56 17 £75,000 +25.00% 5
East of England -16 15 £62,500 -3.85% 1
East Midlands -35 9 £50,000 -13.04%
Wales +18 6 £41,067 - 2
Northern Ireland +17 4 - - 1
North East -24 3 £62,500 +42.86% 1
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 40 (11.49%) WebLogic
2 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.15%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 40 (11.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (26.15%) Azure
2 70 (20.11%) AWS
3 40 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
3 40 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
4 13 (3.74%) Entra ID
4 13 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.45%) GCP
6 4 (1.15%) IaaS
7 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.86%) Cloudflare
7 3 (0.86%) PaaS
7 3 (0.86%) SaaS
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.57%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 206 (59.20%) OSPF
2 142 (40.80%) MPLS
3 141 (40.52%) WAN
4 110 (31.61%) Firewall
5 98 (28.16%) LAN
6 97 (27.87%) TCP/IP
7 71 (20.40%) SD-WAN
8 69 (19.83%) DNS
9 68 (19.54%) Wireless
10 65 (18.68%) SSL
11 64 (18.39%) VPN
12 60 (17.24%) EIGRP
13 57 (16.38%) IPsec
14 43 (12.36%) Cisco ASA
14 43 (12.36%) VLAN
15 40 (11.49%) Wi-Fi
16 38 (10.92%) DHCP
17 35 (10.06%) WLAN
18 34 (9.77%) HSRP
19 33 (9.48%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
1 40 (11.49%) Oracle Database
1 40 (11.49%) RDBMS
1 40 (11.49%) Relational Database
2 9 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.15%) Redis
5 2 (0.57%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 92 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.02%) Finance
3 10 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.30%) Retail
4 8 (2.30%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.44%) Legal
5 5 (1.44%) Military
6 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.57%) Electronics
7 2 (0.57%) Law
7 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.57%) Police
7 2 (0.57%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.29%) Automotive
8 1 (0.29%) Billing
8 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.29%) Games
8 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 166 (47.70%) Network Engineer
2 56 (16.09%) Architect
3 43 (12.36%) Lead
4 41 (11.78%) Lead Architect
5 40 (11.49%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 40 (11.49%) Solutions Architect
6 37 (10.63%) Senior
7 32 (9.20%) Analyst
7 32 (9.20%) Network Analyst
8 31 (8.91%) Network Operations Analyst
8 31 (8.91%) Operations Analyst
9 29 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (7.76%) IP Engineer
11 25 (7.18%) Network Support
12 23 (6.61%) Senior Network Engineer
13 19 (5.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 19 (5.46%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 19 (5.46%) Juniper Engineer
14 18 (5.17%) IP Network Engineer
15 16 (4.60%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.49%) RabbitMQ
1 40 (11.49%) Spring Boot
2 20 (5.75%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.15%) .NET
3 4 (1.15%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.86%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.80%) Public Cloud
2 46 (13.22%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (9.77%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.31%) PKI
5 12 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 11 (3.16%) Clustering
6 11 (3.16%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.01%) FMCG
8 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.15%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.15%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.57%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.29%) CMDB
12 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (18.97%) Linux
2 40 (11.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (8.05%) Windows
4 17 (4.89%) VyOS
5 16 (4.60%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.01%) Android
6 7 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.57%) Debian
9 2 (0.57%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.29%) CentOS
10 1 (0.29%) VMS
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (15.52%) Load Balancing
2 51 (14.66%) Network Design
3 50 (14.37%) Agile
4 46 (13.22%) Project Management
5 45 (12.93%) Migration
5 45 (12.93%) Project Delivery
6 43 (12.36%) Systems Engineering
7 42 (12.07%) Collaborative Working
8 41 (11.78%) Scrum
9 40 (11.49%) Actionable Insight
9 40 (11.49%) ArchiMate
9 40 (11.49%) Cloud Operations
9 40 (11.49%) Data Migration
9 40 (11.49%) Kanban
9 40 (11.49%) Open Source
9 40 (11.49%) Re-Platforming
9 40 (11.49%) SDLC
9 40 (11.49%) TOGAF
10 39 (11.21%) Customer Service
11 38 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (4.89%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.59%) Python
3 4 (1.15%) SQL
4 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (43.97%) Cisco Certification
2 149 (42.82%) Security Cleared
3 112 (32.18%) CCNP
4 74 (21.26%) SC Cleared
5 71 (20.40%) CCNA
6 41 (11.78%) AWS Certification
6 41 (11.78%) CCIE
7 40 (11.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 40 (11.49%) Azure Certification
8 35 (10.06%) CCDP
9 28 (8.05%) JNCIA
10 18 (5.17%) JNCIP
11 15 (4.31%) Degree
12 14 (4.02%) JNCIE
13 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.01%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 7 (2.01%) JNCIS
15 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.29%) CCDA
16 1 (0.29%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.29%) GDPR
2 1 (0.29%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.17%) Hyper-V
3 13 (3.74%) Firmware
4 11 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.59%) Docker
6 4 (1.15%) vCloud
6 4 (1.15%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.57%) NFS
7 2 (0.57%) pfSense
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.57%) vSphere
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (14.37%) FortiGate
2 19 (5.46%) Ansible
3 10 (2.87%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.01%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.01%) Terraform
5 6 (1.72%) Endace
6 5 (1.44%) WSUS
7 4 (1.15%) BMC PATROL
7 4 (1.15%) SCOM
7 4 (1.15%) SCOrch
7 4 (1.15%) vMotion
8 3 (0.86%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.57%) Nagios
9 2 (0.57%) Puppet
9 2 (0.57%) SCCM
9 2 (0.57%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 204 (58.62%) Cisco
2 172 (49.43%) Juniper
3 71 (20.40%) Fortinet
4 44 (12.64%) Nokia
5 40 (11.49%) Oracle
5 40 (11.49%) Sparx
6 32 (9.20%) Microsoft
7 24 (6.90%) Ruckus Wireless
7 24 (6.90%) VMware
8 23 (6.61%) F5
8 23 (6.61%) Palo Alto
9 21 (6.03%) Meraki
10 18 (5.17%) McAfee
11 17 (4.89%) Aruba
11 17 (4.89%) Vyatta
12 15 (4.31%) Citrix
12 15 (4.31%) SolarWinds
13 13 (3.74%) Draytek
14 10 (2.87%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.30%) Extreme Networks