BGP Contracts in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 374 434
Rank change year-on-year +134 +60 -73
Contract jobs citing BGP 158 128 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.23% 4.77% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 78 101
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £471 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £697 £563
90th Percentile £835 £813 £615
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £23.55 - £25.73
25th Percentile £24.00 - £26.06
Median hourly rate £31.00 £70.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.71% +154.55% -62.07%
75th Percentile £46.56 - £29.13
90th Percentile £60.63 - £29.80
England median hourly rate £31.00 £70.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -55.71% +154.55% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,682 3,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.66% 9.92% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,890 2,561
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +1.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 53 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £46.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +31.43% +45.83%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in London.

Daily rate trend for BGP in London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in London.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 5 £525 +2.44% 4
East London - 3 £520 -
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (1.27%) Apache
1 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.35%) AWS
2 22 (13.92%) Azure
3 9 (5.70%) GCP
4 5 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (3.16%) OCI
5 2 (1.27%) Akamai
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.27%) Cohesity
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.63%) GitHub
6 1 (0.63%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 102 (64.56%) OSPF
2 93 (58.86%) Firewall
3 84 (53.16%) MPLS
4 71 (44.94%) WAN
5 67 (42.41%) LAN
5 67 (42.41%) VPN
6 46 (29.11%) IPsec
7 45 (28.48%) Wireless
8 40 (25.32%) Network Security
9 39 (24.68%) Cisco ASA
10 37 (23.42%) HSRP
11 35 (22.15%) DNS
12 32 (20.25%) EIGRP
13 30 (18.99%) VRRP
14 27 (17.09%) SNMP
15 26 (16.46%) Cisco Nexus
15 26 (16.46%) DHCP
15 26 (16.46%) RSVP
15 26 (16.46%) TCP/IP
16 25 (15.82%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (12.66%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.16%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.27%) TestRail
General
1 38 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.99%) Finance
3 19 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.23%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.43%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.80%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (2.53%) Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 92 (58.23%) Network Engineer
2 21 (13.29%) Network Specialist
3 17 (10.76%) IP Expert
4 14 (8.86%) Senior
5 13 (8.23%) Design Engineer
5 13 (8.23%) Network Design Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Network Security Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Cisco Expert
9 5 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.16%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Core Network Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Support Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) Data Centre Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.15%) NETCONF
2 34 (21.52%) JSON
2 34 (21.52%) YANG
3 33 (20.89%) XML
4 19 (12.03%) Jinja
5 7 (4.43%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.27%) LDAP
6 2 (1.27%) REST
6 2 (1.27%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.27%) RESTful
6 2 (1.27%) SAML
6 2 (1.27%) SOAP
7 1 (0.63%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.99%) Data Centre
2 24 (15.19%) Distributed Architecture
3 20 (12.66%) PKI
4 6 (3.80%) CCTV
4 6 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.80%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (3.16%) Clustering
6 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.59%) Windows
2 9 (5.70%) Linux
2 9 (5.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.62%) DevOps
2 29 (18.35%) Network Design
3 27 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (15.82%) Change Management
5 19 (12.03%) Migration
6 18 (11.39%) Agile
7 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (10.76%) Load Balancing
7 17 (10.76%) Network Architecture
7 17 (10.76%) Test Planning
8 16 (10.13%) Threat Management
9 15 (9.49%) Roadmaps
10 14 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (8.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 12 (7.59%) Business Strategy
11 12 (7.59%) High Availability
12 10 (6.33%) Configuration Management
12 10 (6.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (6.33%) Supplier Management
13 9 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.15%) Python
2 5 (3.16%) Perl
3 4 (2.53%) SQL
4 2 (1.27%) Bash
4 2 (1.27%) Go
4 2 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (38.61%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (31.65%) CCNP
3 24 (15.19%) CCIE
4 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.49%) Security Cleared
5 12 (7.59%) CCNA
6 11 (6.96%) Degree
7 9 (5.70%) CCIE Service Provider
8 7 (4.43%) CCDP
9 6 (3.80%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.53%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.27%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.27%) CCIP
12 2 (1.27%) JNCIE
12 2 (1.27%) PMP
13 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.27%) NCSC
2 2 (1.27%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.80%) Firmware
3 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.53%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.27%) NFS
4 2 (1.27%) PowerDNS
4 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Docker
5 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (12.03%) FortiGate
2 14 (8.86%) Ansible
3 8 (5.06%) Terraform
4 5 (3.16%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (1.90%) Kibana
6 2 (1.27%) vRealize
7 1 (0.63%) CASB
7 1 (0.63%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 119 (75.32%) Cisco
2 58 (36.71%) Palo Alto
3 45 (28.48%) Fortinet
4 43 (27.22%) F5
5 40 (25.32%) Nokia
6 35 (22.15%) Juniper
7 16 (10.13%) CheckPoint
8 14 (8.86%) Infoblox
9 12 (7.59%) Arista
9 12 (7.59%) Aruba
10 11 (6.96%) Extreme Networks
10 11 (6.96%) Huawei
11 8 (5.06%) Meraki
11 8 (5.06%) SolarWinds
12 7 (4.43%) Zscaler
13 6 (3.80%) Google
13 6 (3.80%) Microsoft
13 6 (3.80%) VMware
14 3 (1.90%) Dell
14 3 (1.90%) Splunk