BGP Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 76 73
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing BGP 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.40% 0.11% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.00% 0.83% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £441
25th Percentile £425 - £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.34%
75th Percentile £475 - £597
90th Percentile - - £650
South West median daily rate £631 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +20.24% -4.55% +6.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 60 120 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.05% 13.41% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 75
10th Percentile £235 £388 £228
25th Percentile £308 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £571
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -16.74% +20.11%
75th Percentile £511 £581 £638
90th Percentile £575 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £486 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 12
10th Percentile £22.51 £16.95 £65.00
25th Percentile £29.59 - £67.81
Median hourly rate £41.40 £65.00 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.32% -11.86% +13.46%
75th Percentile £53.20 £75.00 £77.19
90th Percentile £60.28 £84.00 £85.63
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -5.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BGP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

BGP job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing BGP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing BGP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) HSRP
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) VRRP
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) VMware