BGP Contracts in the East of England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 79 110 118
Rank change year-on-year +31 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing BGP 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 0.68% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £285 - £369
25th Percentile £338 - £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £456
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.35%
75th Percentile £513 - £523
90th Percentile £565 - £558
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for BGP in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the East of England 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
Bedfordshire +2 2 £425 - 2
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) GLBP
3 1 (33.33%) HSRP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (33.33%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCDP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler