BGP Contract Job Trends in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 276 258
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 +24
Contract jobs citing BGP 402 262 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.95% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.31% 7.91% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 169 185
10th Percentile £385 £325 £323
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £550
90th Percentile £700 £666 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £48.55 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £49.00 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £58.25 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.49% +16.07% -31.15%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £85.02 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year +19.49% +16.07% -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,317 3,314 4,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.02% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,599 2,062 2,383
10th Percentile £250 £235 £248
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 167 241
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.50 £21.37
Median hourly rate £28.00 £41.45 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.45% -27.72% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.53 £77.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £43.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -39.53% -15.69% -9.72%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BGP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

BGP job vacancy trend in England

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BGP

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in England

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BGP

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in England

BGP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
London -58 134 £500 +2.56% 160
North of England +7 106 £500 +5.26% 13
North West 0 77 £488 +2.63% 5
South East -36 76 £525 +5.00% 24
Midlands -49 44 £468 +17.00% 10
West Midlands -42 41 £571 +42.69% 7
South West -38 33 £525 -16.83% 8
Yorkshire -20 22 £495 +23.75% 7
North East -27 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East of England -19 7 £475 -32.14% 15
East Midlands -15 2 - - 3
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.99%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.99%) SAS
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 106 (26.37%) Azure
2 81 (20.15%) AWS
3 23 (5.72%) GCP
3 23 (5.72%) OCI
4 19 (4.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 18 (4.48%) GitHub
6 13 (3.23%) SaaS
7 10 (2.49%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.25%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 226 (56.22%) Firewall
1 226 (56.22%) OSPF
2 196 (48.76%) WAN
3 116 (28.86%) VPN
4 113 (28.11%) VLAN
5 110 (27.36%) LAN
6 93 (23.13%) VXLAN
7 92 (22.89%) MPLS
8 86 (21.39%) DNS
9 84 (20.90%) Network Security
10 83 (20.65%) SD-WAN
11 65 (16.17%) IPsec
11 65 (16.17%) Wireless
12 63 (15.67%) Ethernet VPN
12 63 (15.67%) Wi-Fi
13 62 (15.42%) TCP/IP
14 61 (15.17%) Multicast
15 48 (11.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 47 (11.69%) Cisco Nexus
17 45 (11.19%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 28 (6.97%) GitLab
2 18 (4.48%) Git
3 6 (1.49%) JIRA
3 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 69 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.20%) Finance
4 30 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.97%) Banking
6 26 (6.47%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.48%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.99%) Legal
9 8 (1.99%) Police
9 8 (1.99%) Retail
10 6 (1.49%) Military
11 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.75%) German Language
12 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.75%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.50%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 235 (58.46%) Network Engineer
2 89 (22.14%) Senior
3 58 (14.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 58 (14.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 56 (13.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 44 (10.95%) Architect
6 38 (9.45%) Security Engineer
7 37 (9.20%) Network Security Engineer
8 33 (8.21%) Data Network Engineer
8 33 (8.21%) Network Architect
9 28 (6.97%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 27 (6.72%) Consultant
10 27 (6.72%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (4.73%) Network Consultant
12 19 (4.73%) Network Specialist
13 18 (4.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.23%) Developer
15 13 (3.23%) Web Engineer
16 12 (2.99%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.17%) Terraform
2 22 (5.47%) REST
3 20 (4.98%) 802.1X
4 12 (2.99%) NETCONF
5 11 (2.74%) YAML
6 10 (2.49%) YANG
7 9 (2.24%) JSON
8 6 (1.49%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.24%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.00%) CSS
11 3 (0.75%) SAML
12 2 (0.50%) eBPF
12 2 (0.50%) gRPC
13 1 (0.25%) Django
13 1 (0.25%) LDAP
13 1 (0.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 156 (38.81%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.97%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.23%) PKI
5 11 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (1.99%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.74%) Clustering
8 7 (1.74%) Digital Signage
9 6 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.75%) CMDB
11 3 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.75%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.72%) Windows
2 20 (4.98%) Linux
3 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (23.13%) Load Balancing
2 71 (17.66%) High Availability
3 68 (16.92%) Zero Trust
4 67 (16.67%) Migration
5 66 (16.42%) Network Design
6 63 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (10.70%) ITIL
9 41 (10.20%) Network Architecture
9 41 (10.20%) Project Delivery
10 40 (9.95%) CI/CD
11 37 (9.20%) Validation
12 34 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (7.46%) DevOps
13 30 (7.46%) Network Segmentation
14 27 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (6.47%) Change Control
15 26 (6.47%) Cloud Security
15 26 (6.47%) Mentoring
15 26 (6.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (29.35%) Python
2 10 (2.49%) Bash
3 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.24%) SQL
4 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.50%) Go
5 2 (0.50%) Perl
6 1 (0.25%) C++
6 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 129 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 110 (27.36%) Cisco Certification
3 80 (19.90%) CCNP
4 79 (19.65%) SC Cleared
5 45 (11.19%) DV Cleared
6 44 (10.95%) CCIE
7 18 (4.48%) Degree
8 16 (3.98%) CCNA
9 13 (3.23%) JNCIE
10 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.00%) PMP
13 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.75%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.75%) CISSP
14 3 (0.75%) VCDX
15 2 (0.50%) JNCIA
15 2 (0.50%) JNCIS
15 2 (0.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.00%) NCSC
2 3 (0.75%) NIST
3 2 (0.50%) GDPR
3 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.50%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (6.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.73%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.74%) Firmware
4 6 (1.49%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.24%) Docker
6 4 (1.00%) vSphere
7 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (28.11%) Ansible
2 36 (8.96%) FortiGate
3 19 (4.73%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.74%) Grafana
6 7 (1.74%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.24%) Cilium
8 4 (1.00%) Istio
8 4 (1.00%) Nagios
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) CASB
10 1 (0.25%) OPNET
10 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
10 1 (0.25%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Suricata
Vendors
1 285 (70.90%) Cisco
2 129 (32.09%) F5
3 117 (29.10%) Palo Alto
4 90 (22.39%) Fortinet
5 76 (18.91%) Arista
6 56 (13.93%) Juniper
7 38 (9.45%) Aruba
8 37 (9.20%) VMware
9 36 (8.96%) CheckPoint
10 25 (6.22%) Microsoft
11 24 (5.97%) SolarWinds
12 17 (4.23%) ServiceNow
13 16 (3.98%) Zscaler
14 15 (3.73%) Meraki
15 12 (2.99%) Splunk
16 9 (2.24%) Red Hat
17 7 (1.74%) Extreme Networks
17 7 (1.74%) Google
18 6 (1.49%) Ekahau
18 6 (1.49%) Infoblox