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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 115 147
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 +51
Contract jobs citing BGP 20 13 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.07% 0.56% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.36% 4.98% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 9
10th Percentile £429 £475 £433
25th Percentile £501 £494 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +30.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £664 £734 £688
90th Percentile £700 £775 £735
London median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
London median hourly rate £38.75 £35.00 £58.63
% change year-on-year +10.71% -40.30% +105.70%

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 176 261 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.41% 11.32% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 169 187
10th Percentile £250 £285 £221
25th Percentile £406 £430 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £739 £694
London median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £21.61 - £26.38
25th Percentile £23.75 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -33.33% +132.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £58.34 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -38.66% +43.23% +19.72%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 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 +6 16 £640 -1.62% 13
City of Westminster - 3 £600 -
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 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) OSPF
2 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) MPLS
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
4 7 (35.00%) Multicast
5 6 (30.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (20.00%) DNS
6 4 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (20.00%) Unicast
6 4 (20.00%) VXLAN
7 3 (15.00%) Network Security
7 3 (15.00%) VPN
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (10.00%) DHCP
8 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
8 2 (10.00%) IGMP
8 2 (10.00%) LAN
8 2 (10.00%) NX-OS
8 2 (10.00%) SSL
8 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Network Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Jinja
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Change Control
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) Business Case
3 3 (15.00%) ITIL
3 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (10.00%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) High Availability
5 1 (5.00%) Network Performance Management
5 1 (5.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (35.00%) CCIE
2 7 (35.00%) CCNP
3 3 (15.00%) JNCIS
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIP
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) CASB
2 1 (5.00%) Icinga
2 1 (5.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.00%) Observium
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Arista
2 9 (45.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (10.00%) F5
6 2 (10.00%) Juniper
6 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (10.00%) Meraki
7 1 (5.00%) Citrix
7 1 (5.00%) Dell
7 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.00%) Splunk
7 1 (5.00%) VMware
7 1 (5.00%) Zscaler