BGP Contracts in Berkshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 93 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 -17 +25
Contract jobs citing BGP 20 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.71% 1.56% 2.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.57% 6.30% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 12
10th Percentile - £263 £425
25th Percentile - £335 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £506
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -25.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile £500 £400 £571
90th Percentile £520 £500 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £19.08 £24.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.94 £32.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -72.29% +201.92%
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.44 £80.25
90th Percentile - £24.23 £80.70
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £43.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% -29.44% +138.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

BGP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

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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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 1 May 2025. 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 +25 12 £450 +20.81% 2
Wokingham - 2 £550 -
BGP
South East

BGP
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
1 6 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) TCP/IP
2 10 (50.00%) OSPF
2 10 (50.00%) VLAN
3 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 8 (40.00%) MPLS
3 8 (40.00%) Network Security
3 8 (40.00%) VPN
4 4 (20.00%) DNS
4 4 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (20.00%) TACACS
5 3 (15.00%) EIGRP
5 3 (15.00%) LAN
5 3 (15.00%) WAN
6 2 (10.00%) Internet
6 2 (10.00%) IPsec
6 2 (10.00%) IPv6
6 2 (10.00%) RIP
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Automation Tester
1 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (25.00%) Tester
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Product Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) CentOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (25.00%) SIEM
2 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Network Design
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Runbook
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Agile
5 1 (5.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CCNP
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) CCSA
2 4 (20.00%) CCSE
2 4 (20.00%) Check Point Certification
3 3 (15.00%) CCIE
4 2 (10.00%) CCNA
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) BC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) CCDP
5 1 (5.00%) CCIP
5 1 (5.00%) CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) CEH
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Dell
4 2 (10.00%) Meraki
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) ADVA
5 1 (5.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (5.00%) Aruba
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk