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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 123
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing BGP 20 19 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.79% 0.95% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.09% 8.72% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 5
10th Percentile £383 £432 £445
25th Percentile £405 £514 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -22.60%
75th Percentile £538 £664 £538
90th Percentile £792 £700 £547
London median daily rate £515 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.42% - -17.39%

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 220 218 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.73% 10.91% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 150 143
10th Percentile £298 £263 £252
25th Percentile £413 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +4.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £604
90th Percentile £715 £775 £738
London median daily rate £510 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £19.42 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% - -
75th Percentile £64.69 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £76.88 £61.54 -
London median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +17.38% +4.01% -31.44%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -11 15 £500 -21.81% 8
City of Westminster -10 4 £410 -30.51% 2
West End of London - 4 £410 - 2
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 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) OCI
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) Multicast
2 10 (50.00%) VLAN
3 8 (40.00%) Wireless
4 7 (35.00%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (30.00%) WAN
6 5 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (20.00%) Network Security
7 4 (20.00%) OSPF
8 3 (15.00%) DHCP
8 3 (15.00%) DNS
9 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
9 2 (10.00%) Extranet
9 2 (10.00%) LAN
9 2 (10.00%) TACACS
9 2 (10.00%) VPN
9 2 (10.00%) VXLAN
10 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Firewall Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.00%) eBPF
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (30.00%) Digital Signage
3 1 (5.00%) BYOD
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Load Balancing
1 6 (30.00%) Migration
1 6 (30.00%) Project Delivery
1 6 (30.00%) Use Case
2 4 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (15.00%) Change Control
3 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (5.00%) API Integration
5 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.00%) ITSM
5 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Design
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (35.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CWNA
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Prime
2 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Cisco
2 6 (30.00%) F5
3 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.00%) Arista
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (5.00%) Citrix
6 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
6 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.00%) Meraki
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.00%) Reuters