BGP Contracts in the City of London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 119 154
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 +42
Contract jobs citing BGP 13 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.69% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.26% 3.77% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £421 £445 £461
25th Percentile £469 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £657 £500 £646
Median % change year-on-year +31.30% -22.60% +23.75%
75th Percentile £691 £538 £766
90th Percentile £708 £547 £831
Central London median daily rate £590 £500 £617
% change year-on-year +18.00% -18.96% +17.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 179 212 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.55% 9.91% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 128 233
10th Percentile £263 £232 £213
25th Percentile £418 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +3.29%
75th Percentile £662 £614 £675
90th Percentile £748 £742 £750
Central London median daily rate £544 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +14.47% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -47.98%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BGP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) OSPF
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) Multicast
4 5 (38.46%) WAN
5 4 (30.77%) MPLS
5 4 (30.77%) Unicast
6 3 (23.08%) LAN
6 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
7 2 (15.38%) DNS
7 2 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (15.38%) IGMP
7 2 (15.38%) VXLAN
8 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (7.69%) DHCP
8 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
8 1 (7.69%) Network Security
8 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 1 (7.69%) VLAN
8 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
6 1 (7.69%) Military
6 1 (7.69%) Police
6 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Change Control
2 3 (23.08%) Business Case
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
3 2 (15.38%) Network Design
3 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Time Management
3 2 (15.38%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Change Management
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) Network Management
4 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (46.15%) CCIE
3 5 (38.46%) CCNP
4 3 (23.08%) JNCIS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (7.69%) JNCIE
5 1 (7.69%) JNCIP
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Icinga
2 1 (7.69%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Observium
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Arista
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Fortinet
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
4 3 (23.08%) Juniper
4 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
5 2 (15.38%) F5
5 2 (15.38%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
6 1 (7.69%) Citrix
6 1 (7.69%) ForeScout
6 1 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.69%) VMware