BGP Jobs in the West Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 222 261
Rank change year-on-year +21 +39 -47
Permanent jobs citing BGP 60 25 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.75% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.05% 2.32% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 41 21 23
10th Percentile £25,950 £35,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.30% -4.17% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 992 1,079 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.38% 18.53% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 795 503 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,125 £32,000 £34,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -4.26% +2.17%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,800 £73,751 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BGP in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for BGP in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham -14 16 £75,000 +20.00% 3
Worcestershire - 15 £48,500 -
Solihull - 10 £26,900 - 3
Shropshire - 7 - -
Staffordshire -25 6 £48,500 +26.38%
Coventry - 3 £44,295 -
Warwickshire - 2 - - 2
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (1.67%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 54 (90.00%) MPLS
2 48 (80.00%) WAN
3 42 (70.00%) OSPF
4 38 (63.33%) LAN
4 38 (63.33%) SD-WAN
5 28 (46.67%) WLAN
6 15 (25.00%) IPsec
7 14 (23.33%) VLAN
8 10 (16.67%) EIGRP
8 10 (16.67%) Wireless
9 9 (15.00%) Network Security
9 9 (15.00%) Wireshark
10 8 (13.33%) VPN
11 7 (11.67%) Firewall
11 7 (11.67%) HSRP
11 7 (11.67%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (11.67%) VoIP
11 7 (11.67%) VRRP
12 6 (10.00%) DNS
13 3 (5.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Retail
3 6 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Automotive
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (45.00%) Analyst
1 27 (45.00%) Network Analyst
2 26 (43.33%) Network Operations Analyst
2 26 (43.33%) Operations Analyst
3 13 (21.67%) Network Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Design Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) IP Design Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) IP Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Network Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) WAN Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Presales Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) FMCG
1 7 (11.67%) PKI
2 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Mac OS X
1 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
1 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.67%) Network Design
2 9 (15.00%) Change Management
2 9 (15.00%) Load Balancing
3 8 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (11.67%) Business Analysis
4 7 (11.67%) Demand Management
4 7 (11.67%) High Availability
4 7 (11.67%) Network Architecture
4 7 (11.67%) Project Delivery
4 7 (11.67%) Release Management
5 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (5.00%) Presales
6 3 (5.00%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (3.33%) DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Logistics
7 2 (3.33%) Migration
8 1 (1.67%) Business Continuity
8 1 (1.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.67%) Python
1 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (46.67%) CCNP
1 28 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (45.00%) CCDP
2 27 (45.00%) CCIE
3 21 (35.00%) CCNA
4 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (11.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 6 (10.00%) JNCIE
7 6 (10.00%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.67%) Degree
8 1 (1.67%) HNC
8 1 (1.67%) HND
8 1 (1.67%) MCSE
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (3.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Juniper
2 19 (31.67%) Cisco
3 12 (20.00%) Nokia
4 7 (11.67%) Ekahau
5 6 (10.00%) Aruba
5 6 (10.00%) Ericsson
6 4 (6.67%) F5
6 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.33%) Riverbed
7 2 (3.33%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (1.67%) Apple
8 1 (1.67%) BT
8 1 (1.67%) Dell
8 1 (1.67%) Google
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.67%) Ubiquiti