BGP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 263 315
Rank change year-on-year +90 +52 +13
Contract jobs citing BGP 241 204 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.87% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.22% 5.83% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 112 109
10th Percentile £313 £350 £261
25th Percentile £363 £406 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +7.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £531 £511
90th Percentile £575 £581 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £19.08 £47.55 -
25th Percentile £19.94 £60.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.75 £62.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.92% +138.46% +33.33%
75th Percentile £23.44 £80.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £24.23 £80.48 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £73.75 £26.75
% change year-on-year -66.78% +175.70% +37.18%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +40 93 £450 -10.00% 19
Midlands +80 82 £375 -25.00% 16
West Midlands +77 79 £375 -16.67% 11
South West +29 39 £490 +0.51% 9
North of England +4 23 £500 +25.00% 11
North West +1 20 £508 +27.06% 5
East Midlands +21 3 £575 +21.05% 5
Scotland +17 3 £500 +1.01% 11
North East - 3 £345 - 2
East of England -1 2 - - 4
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 37 (15.35%) Confluence
2 35 (14.52%) SharePoint
2 35 (14.52%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (4.56%) Apache
3 11 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.92%) Azure
2 34 (14.11%) Azure Stack
3 7 (2.90%) AWS
4 5 (2.07%) GCP
5 2 (0.83%) GitHub
5 2 (0.83%) IaaS
5 2 (0.83%) PaaS
5 2 (0.83%) SaaS
6 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 144 (59.75%) MPLS
2 118 (48.96%) WAN
3 104 (43.15%) IPsec
4 88 (36.51%) Firewall
5 83 (34.44%) VPN
6 75 (31.12%) OSPF
7 54 (22.41%) Junos
8 50 (20.75%) EIGRP
9 48 (19.92%) Cisco Firepower
10 30 (12.45%) SSL
11 29 (12.03%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (9.54%) DMVPN
13 22 (9.13%) HSRP
14 20 (8.30%) LAN
15 19 (7.88%) SNMP
16 18 (7.47%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (6.64%) Spanning Tree
17 16 (6.64%) TCP/IP
18 15 (6.22%) Wi-Fi
19 13 (5.39%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.56%) MongoDB
1 11 (4.56%) NoSQL
1 11 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (21.58%) JIRA
2 11 (4.56%) GitLab
2 11 (4.56%) Robot Framework
2 11 (4.56%) TestRail
3 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.41%) Git
General
1 43 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.28%) Finance
3 20 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.47%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.73%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 94 (39.00%) Network Engineer
2 40 (16.60%) Architect
3 38 (15.77%) Network Architect
4 36 (14.94%) Network Support
5 33 (13.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 33 (13.69%) WAN Engineer
6 27 (11.20%) 3rd Line Support
7 23 (9.54%) Senior
8 17 (7.05%) Microsoft Engineer
8 17 (7.05%) Network Specialist
9 15 (6.22%) 2nd Line Support
9 15 (6.22%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Test Engineer
11 10 (4.15%) Analyst
12 9 (3.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Network Support Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.22%) YANG
2 14 (5.81%) REST
3 12 (4.98%) Jinja
3 12 (4.98%) NETCONF
4 11 (4.56%) RESTCONF
4 11 (4.56%) SOAP
5 4 (1.66%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.66%) JSON
6 3 (1.24%) Django
6 3 (1.24%) RESTful
7 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (26.56%) PKI
2 35 (14.52%) Private Cloud
3 15 (6.22%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.41%) CMDB
8 1 (0.41%) IoT
8 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.52%) Windows
2 4 (1.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.20%) Network Management
2 76 (31.54%) Network Design
3 55 (22.82%) ITIL
4 50 (20.75%) Load Balancing
5 41 (17.01%) ITSM
6 36 (14.94%) Capacity Management
6 36 (14.94%) Service Management
7 34 (14.11%) Security Monitoring
8 30 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (10.79%) Customer Requirements
10 22 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.88%) Change Management
12 16 (6.64%) CI/CD
13 15 (6.22%) Agile
14 12 (4.98%) DevOps
15 11 (4.56%) Backlog Management
15 11 (4.56%) Containerisation
15 11 (4.56%) Knowledge Transfer
15 11 (4.56%) Regression Testing
15 11 (4.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.03%) Python
2 14 (5.81%) SQL
3 12 (4.98%) Perl
3 12 (4.98%) Tcl
4 3 (1.24%) Bash
4 3 (1.24%) Java
4 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (73.03%) Security Cleared
2 61 (25.31%) DV Cleared
3 52 (21.58%) SC Cleared
4 46 (19.09%) Cisco Certification
5 39 (16.18%) CCNP
6 33 (13.69%) CCNA
7 12 (4.98%) Degree
7 12 (4.98%) JNCIS
8 9 (3.73%) JNCIA
9 6 (2.49%) CCIE
10 4 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.66%) VCAP
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.83%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.83%) CCDP
12 1 (0.41%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.52%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.24%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.24%) SLA
3 2 (0.83%) QA
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (5.39%) Firmware
2 11 (4.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (11.62%) FortiGate
2 26 (10.79%) Endace
3 24 (9.96%) SCOM
4 15 (6.22%) Ansible
5 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.83%) Terraform
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.41%) Observium
6 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 150 (62.24%) Juniper
2 108 (44.81%) Cisco
3 40 (16.60%) F5
4 36 (14.94%) Microsoft
5 35 (14.52%) Atlassian
6 30 (12.45%) Fortinet
7 23 (9.54%) Palo Alto
8 22 (9.13%) SolarWinds
9 13 (5.39%) Citrix
10 4 (1.66%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.24%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.24%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.83%) ADVA
12 2 (0.83%) Forcepoint
12 2 (0.83%) Nokia
12 2 (0.83%) Splunk
12 2 (0.83%) VMware
13 1 (0.41%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.41%) QinetiQ
13 1 (0.41%) Tellabs