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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 113 132
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +42
Contract jobs citing BGP 5 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.54% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.81% 5.08% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 5
10th Percentile £498 £490 -
25th Percentile £513 £615 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +35.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £736 £538
90th Percentile £653 £778 £635
London median daily rate £485 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -5.37% -10.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
London median hourly rate - £33.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -27.08%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 178 236 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.84% 10.59% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 155 180
10th Percentile £317 £263 £260
25th Percentile £428 £449 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £701
London median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £20.69 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 £48.22
90th Percentile £30.39 - £65.79
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% +10.67% +26.50%

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 job vacancy trend in Central London

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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 4 January 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 -13 5 £575 -19.30% 23
BGP
London

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (40.00%) NX-OS
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (20.00%) 3GPP
4 1 (20.00%) 4G
4 1 (20.00%) 5G
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Jinja
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Arista
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler