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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 257 245
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 +53
Contract jobs citing BGP 413 279 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.00% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.67% 8.08% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 179 215
10th Percentile £378 £325 £290
25th Percentile £419 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.99%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £538
90th Percentile £661 £675 £585
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £473
% change year-on-year - +5.82% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £45.49 £37.00 £23.15
25th Percentile £53.19 £38.13 £30.13
Median hourly rate £71.33 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.33% -4.76% -32.26%
75th Percentile £74.01 £49.38 £53.63
90th Percentile £81.57 £55.00 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +78.33% -4.76% -32.26%

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 4,272 3,452 4,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.43% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,589 2,143 2,594
10th Percentile £263 £235 £241
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 162 293
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% -18.00% +9.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.16 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.68% +5.26% -5.00%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -65 122 £500 - 43
South East 0 106 £525 +16.67% 17
North of England -8 102 £500 +5.26% 12
North West -11 78 £505 +6.32% 7
Midlands -33 49 £419 +4.69% 5
West Midlands -40 46 £413 +10.00% 5
South West -43 32 £525 -16.00% 10
Yorkshire -28 17 £495 +41.43% 6
North East -27 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -15 6 £500 -28.57% 7
East Midlands -15 2 - -
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 11 (2.66%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.73%) SAS
3 2 (0.48%) Confluence
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 111 (26.88%) Azure
2 87 (21.07%) AWS
3 30 (7.26%) GCP
4 23 (5.57%) OCI
5 16 (3.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (3.15%) SaaS
6 13 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (2.42%) GitHub
8 7 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
8 7 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.73%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 261 (63.20%) OSPF
2 248 (60.05%) Firewall
3 229 (55.45%) WAN
4 139 (33.66%) LAN
5 123 (29.78%) VPN
6 110 (26.63%) VLAN
7 107 (25.91%) VXLAN
8 103 (24.94%) DNS
9 95 (23.00%) MPLS
10 87 (21.07%) Network Security
11 83 (20.10%) SD-WAN
12 78 (18.89%) Ethernet VPN
13 75 (18.16%) Multicast
14 68 (16.46%) TCP/IP
15 65 (15.74%) IPsec
16 57 (13.80%) BIG-IP
16 57 (13.80%) Wireless
17 55 (13.32%) Wi-Fi
18 51 (12.35%) DHCP
19 46 (11.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 22 (5.33%) GitLab
2 13 (3.15%) Git
3 8 (1.94%) JIRA
3 8 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 68 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 44 (10.65%) Finance
3 41 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.99%) Banking
5 31 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.05%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.60%) Investment Banking
8 14 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.66%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.66%) Military
10 8 (1.94%) Retail
11 7 (1.69%) Legal
11 7 (1.69%) Police
12 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) German Language
13 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.73%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.48%) Law
14 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (56.90%) Network Engineer
2 88 (21.31%) Senior
3 60 (14.53%) Cisco Engineer
4 58 (14.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 53 (12.83%) Senior Network Engineer
6 44 (10.65%) Architect
7 42 (10.17%) Network Security Engineer
7 42 (10.17%) Security Engineer
8 39 (9.44%) Data Network Engineer
9 32 (7.75%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 31 (7.51%) Data Engineer
10 31 (7.51%) Network Architect
11 27 (6.54%) Network Specialist
12 20 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.12%) Consultant
14 17 (4.12%) Developer
15 15 (3.63%) Web Engineer
16 14 (3.39%) Firewall Specialist
17 13 (3.15%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.20%) 802.1X
2 12 (2.91%) REST
3 11 (2.66%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.66%) YANG
4 6 (1.45%) OpenConfig
4 6 (1.45%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.97%) CSS
5 4 (0.97%) Jinja
6 2 (0.48%) eBPF
6 2 (0.48%) LDAP
6 2 (0.48%) RFC 2544
6 2 (0.48%) SAML
7 1 (0.24%) JSON
7 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (41.16%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (8.72%) PKI
4 26 (6.30%) Clustering
5 22 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (2.18%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.21%) Digital Signage
9 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.21%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.48%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.14%) Windows
2 16 (3.87%) Linux
3 6 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.73%) Unix
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (27.12%) Load Balancing
2 77 (18.64%) High Availability
3 68 (16.46%) Network Design
4 66 (15.98%) Zero Trust
5 57 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (13.56%) Migration
7 50 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (10.90%) ITIL
8 45 (10.90%) Network Architecture
9 40 (9.69%) CI/CD
10 39 (9.44%) Project Delivery
11 37 (8.96%) Observability
12 31 (7.51%) DevOps
13 29 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 29 (7.02%) Validation
14 28 (6.78%) Network Segmentation
15 27 (6.54%) Mentoring
16 25 (6.05%) Change Management
16 25 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (6.05%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.63%) Python
2 8 (1.94%) Bash
3 7 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.45%) SQL
5 3 (0.73%) Perl
6 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 140 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 136 (32.93%) Cisco Certification
3 90 (21.79%) CCNP
4 77 (18.64%) SC Cleared
5 57 (13.80%) DV Cleared
6 47 (11.38%) CCIE
7 20 (4.84%) CCNA
8 19 (4.60%) Degree
9 12 (2.91%) JNCIE
10 9 (2.18%) JNCIP
10 9 (2.18%) JNCIS
11 8 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.94%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.97%) CISSP
13 4 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.73%) CCDP
14 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.18%) NCSC
2 5 (1.21%) NIST
3 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.73%) SLA
4 2 (0.48%) GDPR
4 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.48%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 29 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (3.15%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.69%) Firmware
5 5 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.97%) Docker
6 4 (0.97%) vSphere
7 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.24%) KVM
9 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (26.63%) Ansible
2 70 (16.95%) Terraform
3 53 (12.83%) FortiGate
4 18 (4.36%) Grafana
5 16 (3.87%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.91%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
7 6 (1.45%) Nagios
8 2 (0.48%) CASB
8 2 (0.48%) QRadar
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.24%) Iperf
9 1 (0.24%) Nmap
9 1 (0.24%) OPNET
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) Rancher
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.24%) Suricata
9 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (70.70%) Cisco
2 155 (37.53%) F5
3 113 (27.36%) Palo Alto
4 89 (21.55%) Fortinet
5 84 (20.34%) Juniper
6 83 (20.10%) Arista
7 43 (10.41%) SolarWinds
8 39 (9.44%) VMware
9 36 (8.72%) Aruba
10 35 (8.47%) CheckPoint
11 31 (7.51%) Splunk
12 26 (6.30%) Extreme Networks
13 24 (5.81%) Microsoft
14 19 (4.60%) Zscaler
15 18 (4.36%) Meraki
16 10 (2.42%) Google
17 9 (2.18%) ServiceNow
18 7 (1.69%) Citrix
19 6 (1.45%) Ekahau
20 5 (1.21%) HP