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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 108 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing BGP 28 20 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.17% 1.05% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.38% 10.64% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 11
10th Percentile £382 £432 £475
25th Percentile £405 £514 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% -7.69% +5.35%
75th Percentile £538 £664 £734
90th Percentile £768 £700 £775
London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £60.75 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +56.77% +10.71% -32.69%

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 246 188 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.27% 9.88% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 136 153
10th Percentile £259 £253 £350
25th Percentile £384 £383 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £638 £661 £638
90th Percentile £718 £722 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £27.10 £20.89 -
25th 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%
75th Percentile £155.34 £45.41 £33.75
90th Percentile - £57.51 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +32.08%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

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 6 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 -12 22 £513 -19.86% 8
City of Westminster -8 4 £410 -30.51%
West End of London - 4 £410 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.57%) OCI
3 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) Firewall
2 13 (46.43%) Multicast
2 13 (46.43%) VLAN
3 11 (39.29%) Wireless
4 9 (32.14%) WAN
5 7 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
5 7 (25.00%) OSPF
5 7 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (21.43%) Network Security
6 6 (21.43%) VPN
7 5 (17.86%) MPLS
8 4 (14.29%) DHCP
8 4 (14.29%) DNS
8 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
9 3 (10.71%) Extranet
10 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (7.14%) IPsec
10 2 (7.14%) LAN
10 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
10 2 (7.14%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Network Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Network Security Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Security Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Network Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Cisco Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) eBPF
1 1 (3.57%) JSON
1 1 (3.57%) REST
1 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (25.00%) Digital Signage
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Migration
2 7 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (25.00%) Use Case
3 5 (17.86%) High Availability
4 4 (14.29%) Change Control
4 4 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.14%) API Integration
6 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.14%) Project Management
6 2 (7.14%) Security Architecture
6 2 (7.14%) Validation
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 1 (3.57%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (3.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (3.57%) CCIE Security
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) CWNA
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.57%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
2 4 (14.29%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Cisco
2 8 (28.57%) F5
3 6 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 5 (17.86%) Arista
5 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
5 3 (10.71%) Meraki
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (7.14%) VMware
7 1 (3.57%) Aruba
7 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.57%) Ciena
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) Forcepoint
7 1 (3.57%) ForeScout
7 1 (3.57%) Juniper
7 1 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle
7 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.57%) Reuters