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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 260 245
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 +42
Contract jobs citing BGP 415 275 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 0.99% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.58% 8.12% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 174 207
10th Percentile £389 £325 £308
25th Percentile £425 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £550
90th Percentile £700 £672 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
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% -32.26%
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% -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 4,330 3,385 4,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.20% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 2,101 2,503
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £401 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.09% +0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 168 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.18
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £28.52 £43.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.67% -21.64% -2.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -7.50% -11.49%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -75 133 £520 +9.47% 33
North of England +15 112 £500 +5.26% 7
South East -23 84 £525 +16.67% 14
North West +7 83 £500 +5.26% 1
Midlands -30 50 £425 +6.25% 9
West Midlands -36 47 £440 +10.06% 9
South West -36 33 £525 -16.67% 5
Yorkshire -19 22 £495 +23.75% 6
North East -31 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -19 7 £488 -30.36% 10
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 12 (2.89%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.93%) SAS
3 2 (0.48%) Confluence
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 111 (26.75%) Azure
2 86 (20.72%) AWS
3 27 (6.51%) GCP
4 24 (5.78%) OCI
5 20 (4.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (4.10%) GitHub
7 13 (3.13%) SaaS
7 13 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (2.65%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.45%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.48%) Route 53
14 1 (0.24%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 242 (58.31%) OSPF
2 235 (56.63%) Firewall
3 213 (51.33%) WAN
4 124 (29.88%) VPN
5 121 (29.16%) LAN
6 111 (26.75%) VLAN
7 103 (24.82%) VXLAN
8 97 (23.37%) MPLS
9 96 (23.13%) DNS
10 87 (20.96%) SD-WAN
11 83 (20.00%) Network Security
12 73 (17.59%) Ethernet VPN
13 69 (16.63%) TCP/IP
14 68 (16.39%) Multicast
15 63 (15.18%) Wireless
16 62 (14.94%) Wi-Fi
17 61 (14.70%) IPsec
18 47 (11.33%) Cisco ASA
18 47 (11.33%) Cisco Nexus
19 46 (11.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 29 (6.99%) GitLab
2 22 (5.30%) Git
3 7 (1.69%) JIRA
4 6 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 69 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 47 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (9.64%) Finance
4 31 (7.47%) Banking
5 30 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.27%) Telecoms
7 20 (4.82%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.93%) Legal
8 8 (1.93%) Police
8 8 (1.93%) Retail
9 7 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.45%) Military
11 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.72%) German Language
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.48%) Law
13 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 247 (59.52%) Network Engineer
2 88 (21.20%) Senior
3 61 (14.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 59 (14.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 58 (13.98%) Senior Network Engineer
6 48 (11.57%) Architect
7 41 (9.88%) Network Security Engineer
7 41 (9.88%) Security Engineer
8 39 (9.40%) Data Network Engineer
9 32 (7.71%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 32 (7.71%) Network Architect
10 31 (7.47%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.54%) Network Specialist
12 20 (4.82%) Consultant
12 20 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.10%) Developer
15 15 (3.61%) Web Engineer
16 13 (3.13%) Network Consultant
16 13 (3.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.14%) Terraform
2 27 (6.51%) 802.1X
3 20 (4.82%) REST
4 12 (2.89%) NETCONF
4 12 (2.89%) YANG
5 8 (1.93%) JSON
5 8 (1.93%) YAML
6 7 (1.69%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.45%) RESTCONF
8 4 (0.96%) CSS
8 4 (0.96%) Jinja
9 2 (0.48%) eBPF
9 2 (0.48%) SAML
10 1 (0.24%) Django
10 1 (0.24%) LDAP
10 1 (0.24%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 166 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 51 (12.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.75%) Cloud Native
4 23 (5.54%) PKI
5 12 (2.89%) Clustering
6 11 (2.65%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.93%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.45%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.72%) CMDB
13 3 (0.72%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.72%) IoT
13 3 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.47%) Windows
2 21 (5.06%) Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.72%) Unix
4 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (24.34%) Load Balancing
2 69 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (16.39%) High Availability
4 67 (16.14%) Zero Trust
5 65 (15.66%) Network Design
6 60 (14.46%) Migration
7 49 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (10.84%) CI/CD
8 45 (10.84%) ITIL
9 41 (9.88%) Network Architecture
9 41 (9.88%) Project Delivery
10 35 (8.43%) DevOps
10 35 (8.43%) Validation
11 33 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (7.23%) Network Segmentation
13 28 (6.75%) Observability
14 27 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (6.51%) Mentoring
15 25 (6.02%) Agile
15 25 (6.02%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (29.16%) Python
2 10 (2.41%) Bash
3 7 (1.69%) SQL
4 5 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.48%) Go
6 2 (0.48%) Perl
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) Java
Qualifications
1 135 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 123 (29.64%) Cisco Certification
3 88 (21.20%) CCNP
4 79 (19.04%) SC Cleared
5 48 (11.57%) DV Cleared
6 47 (11.33%) CCIE
7 19 (4.58%) Degree
8 15 (3.61%) CCNA
9 13 (3.13%) JNCIE
10 9 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.45%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.72%) CISSP
14 3 (0.72%) JNCIA
14 3 (0.72%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.72%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.72%) PMP
14 3 (0.72%) VCDX
15 2 (0.48%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.20%) NCSC
2 4 (0.96%) NIST
3 2 (0.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
3 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.48%) QA
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.61%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.93%) Firmware
4 7 (1.69%) Docker
5 6 (1.45%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.96%) vSphere
7 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (28.19%) Ansible
2 40 (9.64%) FortiGate
3 21 (5.06%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.37%) Grafana
4 14 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (1.20%) Cilium
6 5 (1.20%) Nagios
7 4 (0.96%) Istio
8 2 (0.48%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) CASB
9 1 (0.24%) OPNET
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) QRadar
9 1 (0.24%) Rancher
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.24%) Suricata
9 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 293 (70.60%) Cisco
2 138 (33.25%) F5
3 116 (27.95%) Palo Alto
4 89 (21.45%) Fortinet
5 81 (19.52%) Arista
6 64 (15.42%) Juniper
7 38 (9.16%) Aruba
7 38 (9.16%) CheckPoint
8 36 (8.67%) VMware
9 31 (7.47%) SolarWinds
10 28 (6.75%) Microsoft
11 18 (4.34%) Splunk
12 16 (3.86%) Meraki
12 16 (3.86%) ServiceNow
12 16 (3.86%) Zscaler
13 13 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (2.89%) Google
15 9 (2.17%) Red Hat
16 6 (1.45%) Ekahau
16 6 (1.45%) Infoblox