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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 124 150
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing BGP 20 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.03% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.05% 2.68% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 8
10th Percentile £432 £445 £430
25th Percentile £514 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £559
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.47% +31.41%
75th Percentile £664 £538 £703
90th Percentile £700 £547 £788
London median daily rate £493 £475 £578
% change year-on-year +3.68% -17.75% +10.00%

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 199 224 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.20% 9.66% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 136 206
10th Percentile £258 £261 £200
25th Percentile £372 £418 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £664 £625 £623
90th Percentile £746 £745 £688
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%

BGP
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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +20 15 £640 +27.90% 1
City of Westminster - 4 £590 -
BGP
London

BGP
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) OSPF
2 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) MPLS
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
4 7 (35.00%) Multicast
5 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (20.00%) DNS
6 4 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (20.00%) Network Security
6 4 (20.00%) Unicast
6 4 (20.00%) VXLAN
7 3 (15.00%) SSL
7 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (10.00%) DHCP
8 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
8 2 (10.00%) HTTP
8 2 (10.00%) LAN
8 2 (10.00%) VLAN
8 2 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
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 14 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 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 Consultant
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Jinja
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 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%) 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%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (10.00%) Network Performance Management
4 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (10.00%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (5.00%) High Availability
5 1 (5.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) 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 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Icinga
2 1 (5.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.00%) Observium
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Arista
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (15.00%) Meraki
5 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (10.00%) F5
6 2 (10.00%) Juniper
6 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
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