BGP Contracts in Berkshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 76 101
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing BGP 31 39 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.56% 2.15% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.30% 11.34% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 10
10th Percentile £263 £425 £358
25th Percentile £335 £463 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £506 £488
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% +27.94%
75th Percentile £400 £571 £519
90th Percentile £500 £575 £644
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £19.08 £24.20 -
25th Percentile £19.94 £32.75 £25.50
Median hourly rate £21.75 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.29% +201.92% +22.35%
75th Percentile £23.44 £80.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £24.23 £80.70 -
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -29.44% +138.46% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 492 344 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.77% 18.94% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 186 226
10th Percentile £205 £313 £200
25th Percentile £310 £395 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £486 £467
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +4.21% +20.49%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £562
90th Percentile £619 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £486 £450
% change year-on-year +0.77% +8.06% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 7
10th Percentile £40.70 £19.65 -
25th Percentile £76.99 £25.13 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £47.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.26 £73.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -37.68%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Reading -10 18 £373 -25.50%
Bracknell - 9 £438 - 2
Newbury -1 2 - - 1
Slough +8 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 £345 -
BGP
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 11 (35.48%) Apache
1 11 (35.48%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (93.55%) MPLS
2 19 (61.29%) VPN
3 12 (38.71%) Firewall
3 12 (38.71%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (35.48%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (25.81%) WAN
6 7 (22.58%) IPsec
6 7 (22.58%) OSPF
7 6 (19.35%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (19.35%) EIGRP
8 5 (16.13%) SSL
9 4 (12.90%) HSRP
9 4 (12.90%) Internet
9 4 (12.90%) SNMP
10 3 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (9.68%) GLBP
10 3 (9.68%) Junos
10 3 (9.68%) SD-WAN
10 3 (9.68%) VLAN
10 3 (9.68%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) MongoDB
1 11 (35.48%) NoSQL
1 11 (35.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) JIRA
2 11 (35.48%) GitLab
2 11 (35.48%) Robot Framework
2 11 (35.48%) TestRail
General
1 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Advertising
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (74.19%) Network Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Test Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Network Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IP Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Senior IP Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Network Architect
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Support
6 1 (3.23%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) NETCONF
1 11 (35.48%) REST
1 11 (35.48%) RESTCONF
1 11 (35.48%) SOAP
1 11 (35.48%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
1 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
1 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
1 11 (35.48%) Integration Testing
1 11 (35.48%) Performance Testing
1 11 (35.48%) Regression Testing
1 11 (35.48%) Scrum
1 11 (35.48%) Security Testing
1 11 (35.48%) Test Automation
1 11 (35.48%) Unit Testing
1 11 (35.48%) Workflow
2 5 (16.13%) Migration
3 3 (9.68%) High Availability
3 3 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (6.45%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.45%) MoSCoW
4 2 (6.45%) Network Design
4 2 (6.45%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) CCNP
4 5 (16.13%) CCNA
4 5 (16.13%) JNCIS
5 3 (9.68%) CCDP
5 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) JNCIA
6 2 (6.45%) BC Cleared
6 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.23%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Endace
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Juniper
2 15 (48.39%) Cisco
3 2 (6.45%) ADVA
3 2 (6.45%) F5
3 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.23%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (3.23%) Nokia
4 1 (3.23%) Nokia Networks
4 1 (3.23%) Tellabs