BGP Contracts in Central London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 128 156
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +38
Contract jobs citing BGP 18 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.90% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.78% 3.21% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 10
10th Percentile £416 £445 £435
25th Percentile £468 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £500 £646
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -22.60% +23.05%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £788
90th Percentile £700 £547 £819
London median daily rate £475 £488 £580
% change year-on-year -2.56% -15.95% +10.48%

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 205 249 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.31% 10.52% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 165 270
10th Percentile £250 £240 £180
25th Percentile £385 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £669
90th Percentile £760 £738 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
London median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £38.27
% change year-on-year +41.81% -37.81% +39.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in Central London.

Daily rate trend for BGP in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in Central London

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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 3 July 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
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 11 £654 +30.80% 45
City of Westminster - 5 £580 -
BGP
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) OSPF
2 9 (50.00%) WAN
3 7 (38.89%) Firewall
3 7 (38.89%) Multicast
4 5 (27.78%) MPLS
5 4 (22.22%) LAN
5 4 (22.22%) SD-WAN
6 3 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 3 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (16.67%) Network Security
6 3 (16.67%) Unicast
6 3 (16.67%) VXLAN
6 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (11.11%) HTTP
7 2 (11.11%) IGMP
7 2 (11.11%) SSL
7 2 (11.11%) VLAN
8 1 (5.56%) HSRP
8 1 (5.56%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Police
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Change Control
2 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Business Case
4 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Network Design
4 2 (11.11%) Network Performance Management
4 2 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
4 2 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
4 2 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CCIE
3 4 (22.22%) CCNP
4 3 (16.67%) JNCIS
4 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco LMS
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (5.56%) Icinga
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
2 1 (5.56%) Netcool
2 1 (5.56%) Observium
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) Arista
3 6 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
5 4 (22.22%) SolarWinds
6 3 (16.67%) Juniper
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (11.11%) F5
7 2 (11.11%) Meraki
7 2 (11.11%) Sun
8 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
8 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (5.56%) Riverbed