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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 275 257
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 +27
Contract jobs citing BGP 401 256 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.94% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.35% 7.81% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 167 185
10th Percentile £385 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £550
90th Percentile £700 £668 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
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 4,288 3,279 3,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.40% 12.05% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 2,042 2,363
10th Percentile £250 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
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 344 166 244
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.19
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.75 £41.48 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% -27.68% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -40.23% -13.86% -9.67%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -73 134 £500 +5.26% 163
North of England +2 106 £500 +5.26% 14
North West +7 77 £488 +2.63% 6
South East -32 76 £525 +5.00% 28
Midlands -42 44 £468 +17.00% 10
West Midlands -42 41 £571 +42.69% 7
South West -39 33 £525 -16.83% 8
Yorkshire -21 22 £495 +23.75% 7
North East -25 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East of England -19 7 £475 -32.14% 15
East Midlands -20 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 (2.00%) SAS
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 105 (26.18%) Azure
2 80 (19.95%) AWS
3 23 (5.74%) OCI
4 22 (5.49%) GCP
5 19 (4.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (4.24%) GitHub
7 13 (3.24%) SaaS
8 10 (2.49%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.25%) Google Ads
14 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 225 (56.11%) Firewall
1 225 (56.11%) OSPF
2 196 (48.88%) WAN
3 115 (28.68%) VPN
4 113 (28.18%) VLAN
5 110 (27.43%) LAN
6 93 (23.19%) VXLAN
7 92 (22.94%) MPLS
8 86 (21.45%) DNS
9 83 (20.70%) Network Security
9 83 (20.70%) SD-WAN
10 65 (16.21%) IPsec
10 65 (16.21%) Wireless
11 63 (15.71%) Ethernet VPN
11 63 (15.71%) Wi-Fi
12 62 (15.46%) TCP/IP
13 61 (15.21%) Multicast
14 48 (11.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 47 (11.72%) Cisco Nexus
16 45 (11.22%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 28 (6.98%) GitLab
2 17 (4.24%) Git
3 6 (1.50%) JIRA
3 6 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 69 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.22%) Finance
4 30 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.98%) Banking
6 26 (6.48%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.49%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.00%) Legal
9 8 (2.00%) Police
9 8 (2.00%) Retail
10 6 (1.50%) 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 (58.60%) Network Engineer
2 89 (22.19%) Senior
3 58 (14.46%) Cisco Engineer
3 58 (14.46%) Senior Network Engineer
4 56 (13.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 44 (10.97%) Architect
6 37 (9.23%) Network Security Engineer
6 37 (9.23%) Security Engineer
7 33 (8.23%) Data Network Engineer
7 33 (8.23%) Network Architect
8 28 (6.98%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 27 (6.73%) Consultant
9 27 (6.73%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.74%) Network Consultant
11 19 (4.74%) Network Specialist
12 18 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (4.24%) Developer
14 13 (3.24%) Web Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.96%) Terraform
2 22 (5.49%) REST
3 20 (4.99%) 802.1X
4 12 (2.99%) NETCONF
5 10 (2.49%) YAML
5 10 (2.49%) YANG
6 8 (2.00%) JSON
7 6 (1.50%) RESTCONF
8 5 (1.25%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.00%) CSS
10 3 (0.75%) SAML
11 2 (0.50%) eBPF
11 2 (0.50%) gRPC
12 1 (0.25%) Django
12 1 (0.25%) LDAP
12 1 (0.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 156 (38.90%) Data Centre
2 48 (11.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.24%) PKI
5 11 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.00%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.75%) Clustering
8 7 (1.75%) Digital Signage
9 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.25%) 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 (6.73%) Windows
2 20 (4.99%) 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 (23.19%) Load Balancing
2 71 (17.71%) High Availability
3 68 (16.96%) Zero Trust
4 66 (16.46%) Migration
4 66 (16.46%) Network Design
5 63 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (10.72%) ITIL
8 41 (10.22%) Network Architecture
8 41 (10.22%) Project Delivery
9 40 (9.98%) CI/CD
10 37 (9.23%) Validation
11 34 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (7.48%) Network Segmentation
13 29 (7.23%) DevOps
14 27 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (6.48%) Change Control
15 26 (6.48%) Mentoring
15 26 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (6.23%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 117 (29.18%) Python
2 10 (2.49%) Bash
3 5 (1.25%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.25%) 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 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 110 (27.43%) Cisco Certification
3 80 (19.95%) CCNP
4 79 (19.70%) SC Cleared
5 45 (11.22%) DV Cleared
6 44 (10.97%) CCIE
7 18 (4.49%) Degree
8 16 (3.99%) CCNA
9 13 (3.24%) JNCIE
10 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.25%) 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 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.74%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.75%) Firmware
4 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.25%) 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
1 112 (27.93%) Ansible
2 36 (8.98%) FortiGate
3 19 (4.74%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.74%) Grafana
6 7 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.25%) 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
1 284 (70.82%) Cisco
2 129 (32.17%) F5
3 116 (28.93%) Palo Alto
4 90 (22.44%) Fortinet
5 76 (18.95%) Arista
6 56 (13.97%) Juniper
7 38 (9.48%) Aruba
8 37 (9.23%) VMware
9 36 (8.98%) CheckPoint
10 25 (6.23%) Microsoft
11 24 (5.99%) SolarWinds
12 17 (4.24%) ServiceNow
13 15 (3.74%) Meraki
13 15 (3.74%) Zscaler
14 12 (2.99%) Splunk
15 9 (2.24%) Red Hat
16 7 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
16 7 (1.75%) Google
17 6 (1.50%) Ekahau
17 6 (1.50%) Infoblox