Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 592 604
Rank change year-on-year +117 +12 -87
Permanent jobs citing BGP 490 419 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.41% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.63% 2.66% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 353 334 574
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £99,325 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% -5.66% +6.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £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 £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +161 449 £50,500 -12.17% 93
UK excluding London +105 353 £48,500 -3.00% 70
Work from Home +56 202 £50,000 -28.57% 40
South East +63 132 £50,000 +0.50% 17
London +69 118 £70,000 - 35
North of England +73 92 £42,500 -5.56% 10
Midlands +28 73 £48,500 -19.17% 17
North West +57 71 £40,000 -33.33% 5
West Midlands +40 65 £48,500 -16.74% 12
South West +1 32 £50,000 - 9
Yorkshire +75 26 £62,500 +38.89% 4
Scotland -50 17 £75,000 +25.00% 10
East of England +13 16 £62,500 -3.85% 4
East Midlands -12 8 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Wales +12 6 £41,067 - 4
Northern Ireland +21 4 - -
North East -18 4 £62,500 +66.67% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 46 (9.39%) WebLogic
2 8 (1.63%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (9.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (28.16%) Azure
2 102 (20.82%) AWS
3 46 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (9.39%) Amazon SQS
4 18 (3.67%) IaaS
5 15 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (2.86%) GCP
6 14 (2.86%) PaaS
6 14 (2.86%) SaaS
7 13 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.45%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 291 (59.39%) OSPF
2 249 (50.82%) MPLS
3 233 (47.55%) WAN
4 188 (38.37%) Firewall
5 169 (34.49%) LAN
6 145 (29.59%) TCP/IP
7 134 (27.35%) SD-WAN
8 126 (25.71%) VPN
9 104 (21.22%) DNS
10 99 (20.20%) Wireless
11 87 (17.76%) SSL
12 84 (17.14%) VLAN
13 70 (14.29%) EIGRP
14 66 (13.47%) IPsec
15 61 (12.45%) Wi-Fi
16 59 (12.04%) Network Security
17 57 (11.63%) DHCP
18 50 (10.20%) WLAN
19 49 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
19 49 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.39%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (9.39%) Oracle Database
1 46 (9.39%) RDBMS
1 46 (9.39%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.27%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.61%) MySQL
6 3 (0.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (2.45%) GitLab
2 11 (2.24%) JIRA
3 5 (1.02%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 120 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.94%) Telecoms
3 30 (6.12%) Finance
4 29 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.69%) Law
6 10 (2.04%) Retail
7 9 (1.84%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.22%) Legal
8 6 (1.22%) Military
9 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.82%) Publishing
11 3 (0.61%) Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Police
12 2 (0.41%) Billing
12 2 (0.41%) Electronics
12 2 (0.41%) Front Office
12 2 (0.41%) Games
12 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.41%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 246 (50.20%) Network Engineer
2 93 (18.98%) Senior
3 71 (14.49%) Architect
4 67 (13.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 52 (10.61%) Lead
6 49 (10.00%) Analyst
6 49 (10.00%) Network Analyst
7 47 (9.59%) Lead Architect
8 46 (9.39%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 46 (9.39%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (8.16%) IP Engineer
10 37 (7.55%) Network Operations Analyst
10 37 (7.55%) Operations Analyst
11 34 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 32 (6.53%) IP Network Engineer
13 25 (5.10%) Juniper Engineer
13 25 (5.10%) Network Support
14 23 (4.69%) Cisco Engineer
15 22 (4.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 21 (4.29%) Senior Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.59%) 802.1X
2 46 (9.39%) RabbitMQ
2 46 (9.39%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.67%) XML
4 11 (2.24%) JSON
4 11 (2.24%) NETCONF
4 11 (2.24%) REST
4 11 (2.24%) RESTCONF
4 11 (2.24%) SOAP
4 11 (2.24%) YAML
4 11 (2.24%) YANG
5 8 (1.63%) SAML
6 7 (1.43%) HTML
7 5 (1.02%) XMPP
8 4 (0.82%) ADO
9 3 (0.61%) .NET
9 3 (0.61%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.61%) CSS
10 1 (0.20%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.37%) Data Centre
2 58 (11.84%) Public Cloud
3 52 (10.61%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.06%) PKI
6 13 (2.65%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.04%) Client/Server
7 10 (2.04%) Clustering
7 10 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.43%) FMCG
10 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.82%) Fat Client
11 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.82%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 95 (19.39%) Linux
2 47 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (5.92%) Windows
4 19 (3.88%) Unix
5 18 (3.67%) VyOS
6 14 (2.86%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.45%) CentOS
8 7 (1.43%) Android
8 7 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.41%) Debian
11 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (16.73%) Load Balancing
2 67 (13.67%) Agile
3 61 (12.45%) Network Design
4 60 (12.24%) Open Source
5 57 (11.63%) Scrum
6 54 (11.02%) Project Management
7 53 (10.82%) Migration
8 51 (10.41%) Project Delivery
9 49 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
9 49 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
10 48 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 46 (9.39%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (9.39%) ArchiMate
11 46 (9.39%) Cloud Operations
11 46 (9.39%) Data Migration
11 46 (9.39%) Kanban
11 46 (9.39%) Re-Platforming
11 46 (9.39%) SDLC
11 46 (9.39%) TOGAF
12 44 (8.98%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.14%) Python
2 23 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 17 (3.47%) SQL
4 5 (1.02%) Bash
5 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 212 (43.27%) Cisco Certification
2 155 (31.63%) Security Cleared
3 153 (31.22%) CCNP
4 106 (21.63%) CCNA
5 77 (15.71%) SC Cleared
6 63 (12.86%) CCIE
7 47 (9.59%) AWS Certification
7 47 (9.59%) Azure Certification
8 46 (9.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (9.18%) CCDP
10 38 (7.76%) JNCIA
11 29 (5.92%) JNCIP
12 26 (5.31%) Degree
13 17 (3.47%) JNCIE
14 10 (2.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 9 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.63%) JNCIS
17 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
18 3 (0.61%) MCT
19 2 (0.41%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.47%) SLA
2 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.02%) NCSC
4 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 37 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.49%) Hyper-V
3 21 (4.29%) Docker
4 12 (2.45%) Firmware
5 11 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.82%) vCloud
8 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.61%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 57 (11.63%) FortiGate
2 25 (5.10%) Ansible
3 20 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.24%) Puppet
5 10 (2.04%) Terraform
6 9 (1.84%) Nagios
7 8 (1.63%) Icinga
7 8 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (1.22%) Endace
9 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.02%) Nessus
10 5 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
10 5 (1.02%) WSUS
11 4 (0.82%) BMC PATROL
11 4 (0.82%) Grafana
12 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.61%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.61%) vMotion
Vendors
1 283 (57.76%) Cisco
2 208 (42.45%) Juniper
3 83 (16.94%) Fortinet
4 57 (11.63%) Nokia
5 46 (9.39%) Microsoft
5 46 (9.39%) Oracle
5 46 (9.39%) Sparx
6 37 (7.55%) Meraki
7 36 (7.35%) Palo Alto
8 34 (6.94%) SolarWinds
9 33 (6.73%) CheckPoint
9 33 (6.73%) F5
10 30 (6.12%) VMware
11 27 (5.51%) Ruckus Wireless
12 18 (3.67%) Vyatta
13 15 (3.06%) Aruba
14 14 (2.86%) McAfee
15 13 (2.65%) Draytek
16 11 (2.24%) Arista
17 10 (2.04%) Google