BGP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	123	107	121
Rank change year-on-year	-16	+14	+21
Contract jobs citing BGP	29	20	13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	1.22%	1.07%	0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	11.51%	11.30%	5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	23	14	11
10^th Percentile	£382	£429	£475
25^th Percentile	£405	£501	£494
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£613	£650
Median % change year-on-year	-26.53%	-5.77%	+16.38%
75^th Percentile	£538	£664	£734
90^th Percentile	£761	£700	£775
London median daily rate	£500	£500	£500
% change year-on-year	-	-	-13.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£31.25
Median hourly rate	-	-	£32.50
75^th Percentile	-	-	£33.75
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
London median hourly rate	£60.75	£38.75	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+56.77%	+10.71%	+2.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	252	177	258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London	10.62%	9.49%	11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	168	127	163
10^th Percentile	£259	£250	£294
25^th Percentile	£384	£397	£431
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£514	£536	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-4.15%	+2.10%	-
75^th Percentile	£638	£664	£638
90^th Percentile	£729	£736	£736
London median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	-2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	3	1
10^th Percentile	£27.10	£20.89	-
25^th Percentile	£55.00	£21.96	£31.25
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£24.50	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+155.10%	-24.62%	-33.33%
75^th Percentile	£155.34	£45.41	£33.75
90^th Percentile	-	£57.51	-
London median hourly rate	£52.50	£25.15	£37.25
% change year-on-year	+108.75%	-32.48%	+41.90%

BGP Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

BGP Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BGP.

BGP Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Central London over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Central London

BGP Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BGP.

BGP Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
City of London	-10	23	£500	-21.81%	9
City of Westminster	-8	4	£410	-31.67%
West End of London	-	4	£410	-
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BGP Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing BGP also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region with a requirement for BGP.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cisco	75.9%	22
2	Firewall	65.5%	19
3	Multicast	48.3%	14
4	VLAN	44.8%	13
5	Wireless	37.9%	11
6	WAN	34.5%	10
7	Cisco Certification	27.6%	8
7	F5	27.6%	8
7	Migration	27.6%	8
7	OSPF	27.6%	8
11	CCNP	24.1%	7
11	Cisco Prime	24.1%	7
11	Cisco Wireless	24.1%	7
11	Load Balancing	24.1%	7
11	Project Delivery	24.1%	7
11	Use Case	24.1%	7
11	Wi-Fi	24.1%	7
18	AWS	20.7%	6
18	Azure	20.7%	6
18	MPLS	20.7%	6
18	Network Security	20.7%	6
18	Palo Alto	20.7%	6
18	VPN	20.7%	6
24	Arista	17.2%	5
24	High Availability	17.2%	5
24	Python	17.2%	5
27	Change Control	13.8%	4
27	DHCP	13.8%	4
27	DNS	13.8%	4
27	Grafana	13.8%	4

BGP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	65.5%	19
2	Multicast	48.3%	14
3	VLAN	44.8%	13
4	Wireless	37.9%	11
5	WAN	34.5%	10
6	OSPF	27.6%	8
7	Cisco Wireless	24.1%	7
7	Wi-Fi	24.1%	7
9	MPLS	20.7%	6
9	Network Security	20.7%	6
9	VPN	20.7%	6
12	DHCP	13.8%	4
12	DNS	13.8%	4
12	SD-WAN	13.8%	4
15	Extranet	10.3%	3
16	Cisco IOS	6.9%	2
16	Ethernet VPN	6.9%	2
16	Intrusion Detection	6.9%	2
16	IPsec	6.9%	2
16	LAN	6.9%	2