BGP Contracts in Cheshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 -
Contract jobs citing BGP 6 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 0.60% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.23% 3.90% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £273
25th Percentile £463 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £350
75th Percentile £544 - £388
90th Percentile £578 - £435
North West median daily rate £525 £504 £425
% change year-on-year +4.17% +18.59% +84.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.48% 15.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £248
25th Percentile £313 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warrington - 3 - - 1
Knutsford - 1 £475 -
Chester - 1 £600 - 1
BGP
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) MPLS
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) IPv4
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (16.67%) DMZ
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) DWDM
5 1 (16.67%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) IPsec
5 1 (16.67%) L2TP
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
5 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) IP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Transmission Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IP Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCIE
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) JNCIE
3 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) BMC
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (50.00%) Huawei
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (33.33%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk