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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 277 271
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing BGP 395 259 295
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.93% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.15% 7.83% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 166 173
10th Percentile £396 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £563
90th Percentile £700 £664 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £48.63 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £50.75 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £57.13 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% +16.07% -31.15%
75th Percentile £69.91 £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £83.14 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £57.13 £48.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +17.18% +28.29% -36.67%

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 4,318 3,308 3,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.92% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 2,063 2,342
10th Percentile £250 £235 £248
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £676 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £503
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.48% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 166 228
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.47
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.25 £22.66
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.81 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -17.48% -8.83%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -69 135 £500 - 128
North of England +8 105 £500 +5.26% 17
North West -3 76 £488 +2.63% 9
South East -36 67 £525 +5.00% 25
Midlands -36 44 £468 +17.00% 9
West Midlands -42 40 £571 +42.69% 6
South West -36 32 £525 -16.67% 11
Yorkshire -19 22 £495 +23.75% 6
North East -29 13 £650 +160.00% 2
East of England -22 7 £475 -32.14% 28
East Midlands -14 3 - - 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 (3.04%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.03%) SAS
3 3 (0.76%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 102 (25.82%) Azure
2 77 (19.49%) AWS
3 23 (5.82%) GCP
3 23 (5.82%) OCI
4 20 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 18 (4.56%) GitHub
6 13 (3.29%) SaaS
7 10 (2.53%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.52%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.51%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.51%) IBM Watson
13 1 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 221 (55.95%) OSPF
2 219 (55.44%) Firewall
3 192 (48.61%) WAN
4 115 (29.11%) VLAN
4 115 (29.11%) VPN
5 104 (26.33%) LAN
6 95 (24.05%) MPLS
7 88 (22.28%) VXLAN
8 84 (21.27%) DNS
9 83 (21.01%) SD-WAN
10 79 (20.00%) Network Security
11 65 (16.46%) Ethernet VPN
12 64 (16.20%) Wi-Fi
13 63 (15.95%) IPsec
13 63 (15.95%) Wireless
14 61 (15.44%) Multicast
15 59 (14.94%) TCP/IP
16 48 (12.15%) Cisco Nexus
17 45 (11.39%) EIGRP
18 44 (11.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 27 (6.84%) GitLab
2 20 (5.06%) Git
3 6 (1.52%) JIRA
3 6 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 69 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (10.89%) Finance
3 28 (7.09%) Banking
3 28 (7.09%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.58%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.30%) Investment Banking
6 10 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.03%) Legal
7 8 (2.03%) Police
7 8 (2.03%) Retail
8 6 (1.52%) Military
9 5 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.76%) German Language
10 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.76%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.51%) Law
11 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (58.73%) Network Engineer
2 88 (22.28%) Senior
3 57 (14.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 54 (13.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 52 (13.16%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 43 (10.89%) Architect
7 36 (9.11%) Security Engineer
8 35 (8.86%) Network Security Engineer
9 33 (8.35%) Network Architect
10 31 (7.85%) Data Network Engineer
11 28 (7.09%) Consultant
12 26 (6.58%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 25 (6.33%) Data Engineer
14 20 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.81%) Network Consultant
15 19 (4.81%) Network Specialist
16 18 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (4.30%) Developer
18 12 (3.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 12 (3.04%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.46%) Terraform
2 24 (6.08%) REST
3 18 (4.56%) 802.1X
4 15 (3.80%) NETCONF
5 13 (3.29%) YANG
6 11 (2.78%) YAML
7 9 (2.28%) JSON
8 6 (1.52%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.27%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.01%) CSS
11 3 (0.76%) SAML
12 2 (0.51%) eBPF
12 2 (0.51%) gRPC
13 1 (0.25%) Django
13 1 (0.25%) LDAP
13 1 (0.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 153 (38.73%) Data Centre
2 48 (12.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.09%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.80%) PKI
5 11 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.03%) Digital Signage
7 8 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.52%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.27%) Clustering
9 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.76%) CMDB
11 3 (0.76%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.76%) IoT
11 3 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.08%) Windows
2 19 (4.81%) Linux
3 4 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (22.28%) Load Balancing
2 67 (16.96%) Zero Trust
3 66 (16.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (16.71%) Migration
4 64 (16.20%) High Availability
4 64 (16.20%) Network Design
5 42 (10.63%) Network Architecture
5 42 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (10.13%) Project Delivery
7 39 (9.87%) CI/CD
7 39 (9.87%) ITIL
8 38 (9.62%) Validation
9 34 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (7.59%) Network Segmentation
11 29 (7.34%) DevOps
12 26 (6.58%) Change Control
12 26 (6.58%) Mentoring
13 25 (6.33%) Cloud Security
14 24 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (29.87%) Python
2 10 (2.53%) Bash
3 5 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.27%) SQL
4 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.51%) Go
5 2 (0.51%) Perl
6 1 (0.25%) C++
6 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 121 (30.63%) Security Cleared
2 107 (27.09%) Cisco Certification
3 81 (20.51%) CCNP
4 73 (18.48%) SC Cleared
5 44 (11.14%) CCIE
6 41 (10.38%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.05%) Degree
8 15 (3.80%) CCNA
9 13 (3.29%) JNCIE
10 6 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.76%) CCIE Security
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) PMP
14 2 (0.51%) CWNA
14 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.51%) VCDX
15 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.01%) NCSC
2 3 (0.76%) NIST
3 2 (0.51%) GDPR
3 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.51%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.80%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.77%) Firmware
4 6 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.27%) Docker
6 4 (1.01%) vSphere
7 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (28.10%) Ansible
2 34 (8.61%) FortiGate
3 18 (4.56%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.28%) Grafana
6 8 (2.03%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.27%) Cilium
8 4 (1.01%) Istio
8 4 (1.01%) Nagios
9 2 (0.51%) 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
1 281 (71.14%) Cisco
2 121 (30.63%) F5
3 113 (28.61%) Palo Alto
4 88 (22.28%) Fortinet
5 78 (19.75%) Arista
6 54 (13.67%) Juniper
7 40 (10.13%) Aruba
8 36 (9.11%) CheckPoint
9 33 (8.35%) VMware
10 26 (6.58%) Microsoft
11 22 (5.57%) SolarWinds
12 16 (4.05%) Meraki
12 16 (4.05%) Zscaler
13 14 (3.54%) ServiceNow
14 11 (2.78%) Splunk
15 9 (2.28%) Red Hat
16 7 (1.77%) Google
17 6 (1.52%) Ekahau
17 6 (1.52%) Infoblox
17 6 (1.52%) Nokia