BGP Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BGP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £700 £563
% change year-on-year -32.14% +24.44% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 70 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.03% 20.83% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 15
10th Percentile £301 £280 £262
25th Percentile £408 £363 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -4.19% +13.16%
75th Percentile £545 £625 £588
90th Percentile £665 £715 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £523 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +30.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.12 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% - -8.01%
75th Percentile £19.06 £31.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £24.78 £69.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.41% +23.00% -23.08%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing BGP

BGP
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
Cambridge - 1 £420 - 6
BGP
East of England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco