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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 542 518
Rank change year-on-year +103 -24 -78
Permanent jobs citing BGP 347 210 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.36% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.56% 1.94% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 241 151 243
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £78,750
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
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 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
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 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 20 May 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 20 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 +58 131 £51,000 +2.51% 27
North of England +66 93 £42,500 -5.56% 21
North West +55 72 £40,000 -42.86% 12
Midlands +34 72 £48,500 -22.40% 21
West Midlands +52 64 £48,500 -19.17% 16
South West -4 30 £48,500 -3.00% 6
Yorkshire +72 26 £62,500 +38.89% 9
Scotland -56 17 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East of England +1 15 £62,500 -3.85% 4
East Midlands -16 8 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Wales +14 6 £41,067 - 2
Northern Ireland +30 4 - - 2
North East -13 4 £62,500 +66.67% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -
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 (11.53%) WebLogic
2 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.86%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 40 (11.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 94 (27.09%) Azure
2 70 (20.17%) AWS
3 40 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
3 40 (11.53%) Amazon SQS
4 13 (3.75%) Entra ID
4 13 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.46%) GCP
6 5 (1.44%) IaaS
7 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.86%) PaaS
7 3 (0.86%) SaaS
7 3 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.58%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 207 (59.65%) OSPF
2 151 (43.52%) MPLS
3 149 (42.94%) WAN
4 105 (30.26%) LAN
5 103 (29.68%) Firewall
6 102 (29.39%) TCP/IP
7 81 (23.34%) SD-WAN
8 73 (21.04%) DNS
9 67 (19.31%) Wireless
10 65 (18.73%) SSL
11 62 (17.87%) VPN
12 49 (14.12%) EIGRP
12 49 (14.12%) IPsec
12 49 (14.12%) VLAN
13 42 (12.10%) DHCP
13 42 (12.10%) WLAN
14 40 (11.53%) Wi-Fi
15 35 (10.09%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (9.80%) Ethernet
17 32 (9.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.53%) Amazon RDS
1 40 (11.53%) Oracle Database
1 40 (11.53%) RDBMS
1 40 (11.53%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.73%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.86%) Redis
5 1 (0.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 97 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (3.75%) Finance
3 10 (2.88%) Telecoms
4 8 (2.31%) Retail
5 6 (1.73%) Legal
6 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.15%) Military
8 2 (0.58%) Electronics
8 2 (0.58%) Law
8 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.58%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.58%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.29%) Automotive
9 1 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 168 (48.41%) Network Engineer
2 56 (16.14%) Architect
3 43 (12.39%) Lead
4 41 (11.82%) Lead Architect
5 40 (11.53%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 40 (11.53%) Solutions Architect
6 39 (11.24%) Senior
7 37 (10.66%) Analyst
7 37 (10.66%) Network Analyst
8 35 (10.09%) Network Operations Analyst
8 35 (10.09%) Operations Analyst
9 28 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (8.07%) IP Engineer
10 26 (7.49%) Network Support
10 26 (7.49%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (5.76%) IP Network Engineer
12 19 (5.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 19 (5.48%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 18 (5.19%) Juniper Engineer
14 16 (4.61%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.53%) RabbitMQ
1 40 (11.53%) Spring Boot
2 20 (5.76%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.86%) .NET
3 3 (0.86%) .NET Core
3 3 (0.86%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.99%) Public Cloud
2 46 (13.26%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (10.37%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (4.03%) PKI
6 13 (3.75%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.88%) Clustering
7 10 (2.88%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.02%) FMCG
9 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.15%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.15%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.58%) CMDB
11 2 (0.58%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.58%) Molecular Biology
12 1 (0.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 66 (19.02%) Linux
2 40 (11.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (8.07%) Windows
4 18 (5.19%) VyOS
5 14 (4.03%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.02%) Android
6 7 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.58%) VMS
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (16.14%) Load Balancing
2 49 (14.12%) Agile
3 46 (13.26%) Project Delivery
3 46 (13.26%) Project Management
4 45 (12.97%) Network Design
5 44 (12.68%) Migration
6 43 (12.39%) Collaborative Working
6 43 (12.39%) Systems Engineering
7 40 (11.53%) Actionable Insight
7 40 (11.53%) ArchiMate
7 40 (11.53%) Cloud Operations
7 40 (11.53%) Data Migration
7 40 (11.53%) Kanban
7 40 (11.53%) Open Source
7 40 (11.53%) Re-Platforming
7 40 (11.53%) Scrum
7 40 (11.53%) SDLC
7 40 (11.53%) TOGAF
8 37 (10.66%) Customer Service
9 35 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.32%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.88%) Python
3 5 (1.44%) SQL
4 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 160 (46.11%) Cisco Certification
2 140 (40.35%) Security Cleared
3 118 (34.01%) CCNP
4 81 (23.34%) CCNA
5 69 (19.88%) SC Cleared
6 47 (13.54%) CCIE
7 42 (12.10%) CCDP
8 40 (11.53%) AWS Certification
8 40 (11.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 40 (11.53%) Azure Certification
9 29 (8.36%) JNCIA
10 16 (4.61%) Degree
10 16 (4.61%) JNCIP
11 13 (3.75%) JNCIE
12 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.02%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (1.73%) JNCIS
15 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 27 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.48%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.17%) Firmware
4 9 (2.59%) Docker
4 9 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.44%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.15%) vCloud
7 3 (0.86%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (13.26%) FortiGate
2 20 (5.76%) Ansible
3 8 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.31%) Terraform
4 7 (2.02%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (1.73%) Endace
6 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.44%) Nagios
7 4 (1.15%) BMC PATROL
7 4 (1.15%) WSUS
8 3 (0.86%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.86%) Icinga
8 3 (0.86%) SCOM
8 3 (0.86%) SCOrch
8 3 (0.86%) vMotion
9 2 (0.58%) Grafana
9 2 (0.58%) Nessus
9 2 (0.58%) Puppet
9 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 191 (55.04%) Cisco
2 172 (49.57%) Juniper
3 67 (19.31%) Fortinet
4 44 (12.68%) Nokia
5 40 (11.53%) Oracle
5 40 (11.53%) Sparx
6 28 (8.07%) Microsoft
7 26 (7.49%) Ruckus Wireless
8 25 (7.20%) VMware
9 23 (6.63%) F5
10 21 (6.05%) Meraki
11 18 (5.19%) Vyatta
12 16 (4.61%) Palo Alto
13 14 (4.03%) Aruba
13 14 (4.03%) McAfee
14 13 (3.75%) Draytek
15 11 (3.17%) SolarWinds
16 8 (2.31%) Citrix
17 7 (2.02%) Ekahau
17 7 (2.02%) Extreme Networks