BGP Jobs in the Thames Valley

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 233 206
Rank change year-on-year +18 -27 -4
Permanent jobs citing BGP 36 14 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.25% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.63% 1.51% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 26 14 74
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,282 £35,500
25th Percentile £50,375 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +15.91% -18.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,125 £77,500
South East median annual salary £51,000 £49,750 £52,000
% change year-on-year +2.51% -4.33% -5.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 993 930 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.41% 16.70% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 684 539 739
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £37,389
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +33 30 £53,000 -31.61% 12
Buckinghamshire -12 4 £65,000 +62.50% 2
Oxfordshire -10 2 - -
BGP
South East

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (11.11%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (58.33%) OSPF
2 19 (52.78%) VPN
3 18 (50.00%) Firewall
4 16 (44.44%) MPLS
5 13 (36.11%) DNS
5 13 (36.11%) IPsec
6 11 (30.56%) SSL
7 9 (25.00%) Wireless
8 8 (22.22%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (22.22%) SD-WAN
9 7 (19.44%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (19.44%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (19.44%) Network Security
10 6 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (16.67%) HSRP
10 6 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (16.67%) VLAN
10 6 (16.67%) WAN
11 5 (13.89%) LAN
11 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Electronics
2 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Billing
3 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Military
3 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Network Support
3 6 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) IP Design Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) IP Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Juniper Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Professional Services Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 4 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) 802.1X
2 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Data Centre
2 6 (16.67%) PKI
3 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (5.56%) Molecular Biology
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Windows
4 2 (5.56%) Android
4 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (16.67%) Agile
2 6 (16.67%) Network Design
3 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (13.89%) Migration
3 5 (13.89%) Project Management
3 5 (13.89%) Scrum
4 4 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (11.11%) ArchiMate
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Kanban
4 4 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 4 (11.11%) Open Source
4 4 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
4 4 (11.11%) SDLC
4 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
5 3 (8.33%) Information Security
5 3 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) CCNP
4 6 (16.67%) JNCIE
4 6 (16.67%) JNCIP
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.56%) CCIE
6 2 (5.56%) CCNA
6 2 (5.56%) Degree
7 1 (2.78%) CCSA
7 1 (2.78%) CCSE
7 1 (2.78%) CISSP
7 1 (2.78%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Nessus
2 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Juniper
2 16 (44.44%) Cisco
3 8 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 7 (19.44%) Aruba
4 7 (19.44%) F5
5 6 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
5 6 (16.67%) Infoblox
5 6 (16.67%) Nokia
6 4 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 4 (11.11%) Oracle
6 4 (11.11%) Sparx
6 4 (11.11%) VMware
7 1 (2.78%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) McAfee
7 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.78%) Zscaler