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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 78 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +29
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BGP 22 32 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.86% 1.89% 2.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 10.63% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 16
10th Percentile - £363 £366
25th Percentile - £438 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.51% -2.00%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £575
90th Percentile - £588 £600
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
75th Percentile - £19.50 £22.50
90th Percentile - - £24.30
South East median hourly rate - £19.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -68.33% +150.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 187 301 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.85% 17.79% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 123 207
10th Percentile £293 £245 £205
25th Percentile £371 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -1.68%
75th Percentile £541 £608 £584
90th Percentile £600 £632 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £58.25 £56.25 £16.70
25th Percentile £63.13 £71.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £83.50 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +14.64% +273.51%
75th Percentile £83.13 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.75 - £76.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +31.63%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BGP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BGP

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DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +21 13 £450 -10.00% 1
Bracknell -2 1 - -
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 6 (27.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) OSPF
2 8 (36.36%) TACACS
3 7 (31.82%) Firewall
3 7 (31.82%) MPLS
3 7 (31.82%) Network Security
3 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
3 7 (31.82%) VLAN
3 7 (31.82%) VPN
4 6 (27.27%) Ethernet VPN
4 6 (27.27%) LAN
4 6 (27.27%) WAN
5 5 (22.73%) DNS
5 5 (22.73%) Spanning Tree
6 4 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (18.18%) IPv6
6 4 (18.18%) SAN
6 4 (18.18%) VSAN
7 3 (13.64%) SNMP
7 3 (13.64%) Wireless
8 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
1 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Designer
3 3 (13.64%) IP Architect
3 3 (13.64%) IP Designer
3 3 (13.64%) IP Specialist
3 3 (13.64%) Product Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) NETCONF
1 4 (18.18%) REST
1 4 (18.18%) YANG
2 3 (13.64%) YAML
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) RESTCONF
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) CentOS
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Network Architecture
1 6 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (27.27%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
1 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
1 6 (27.27%) SIEM
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps
2 5 (22.73%) Network Design
3 4 (18.18%) Runbook
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
4 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
4 3 (13.64%) Microservices
4 3 (13.64%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
4 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (31.82%) CCIE
2 7 (31.82%) CCNP
3 6 (27.27%) CCSA
3 6 (27.27%) CCSE
3 6 (27.27%) Check Point Certification
3 6 (27.27%) JNCIE
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.55%) CCNA
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Ceph
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) CheckPoint
2 6 (27.27%) Palo Alto
3 4 (18.18%) Dell
3 4 (18.18%) Meraki
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) F5
4 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
4 3 (13.64%) Juniper
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds