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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 229 230
Rank change year-on-year -52 +1 +101
Contract jobs citing BGP 358 272 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.14% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.08% 8.75% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 168 229
10th Percentile £346 £325 £328
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £652 £613
UK median daily rate £467 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £47.22 £22.05 £19.45
25th Percentile £56.01 £27.38 £20.88
Median hourly rate £71.33 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.21% +59.57% -66.43%
75th Percentile £73.13 £39.38 £44.38
90th Percentile £73.81 £39.75 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £37.50 £39.25
% change year-on-year +90.21% -4.46% -43.93%

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 3,944 3,109 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 13.06% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,448 1,942 2,891
10th Percentile £263 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +3.09% -1.02% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 117 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +128.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.33
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -24.81% -3.98% +116.22%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -84 110 £475 -5.00% 28
South East +11 108 £450 - 26
North of England -52 74 £575 +15.00% 17
North West -26 59 £571 +11.46% 11
Midlands -37 50 £413 +37.50% 11
West Midlands -35 47 £413 +43.48% 11
South West -35 23 £525 -4.55% 8
North East -12 11 £650 +160.00% 5
Yorkshire -50 8 £475 +35.71% 2
East of England -36 4 £500 +25.00% 4
East Midlands -31 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 6 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.40%) Confluence
3 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.23%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.23%) Azure
2 74 (20.67%) AWS
3 20 (5.59%) GCP
3 20 (5.59%) OCI
4 15 (4.19%) SaaS
5 14 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (2.23%) Route 53
7 6 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.40%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (1.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.84%) GitHub
10 3 (0.84%) IaaS
10 3 (0.84%) Nutanix
10 3 (0.84%) PaaS
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 250 (69.83%) OSPF
2 221 (61.73%) WAN
3 218 (60.89%) Firewall
4 143 (39.94%) LAN
5 106 (29.61%) VPN
6 98 (27.37%) VXLAN
7 87 (24.30%) Network Security
8 82 (22.91%) MPLS
9 80 (22.35%) DNS
10 79 (22.07%) VLAN
11 75 (20.95%) Ethernet VPN
11 75 (20.95%) SD-WAN
12 66 (18.44%) Multicast
13 59 (16.48%) BIG-IP
14 57 (15.92%) IPsec
15 43 (12.01%) TCP/IP
16 41 (11.45%) Cisco ISE
17 40 (11.17%) DHCP
18 39 (10.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 39 (10.89%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 19 (5.31%) GitLab
2 9 (2.51%) Git
3 5 (1.40%) JIRA
3 5 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) AppScan
5 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 45 (12.57%) Social Skills
2 35 (9.78%) Finance
2 35 (9.78%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.50%) Documentation Skills
4 30 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.54%) Banking
6 21 (5.87%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.31%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.63%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.35%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.79%) Military
11 6 (1.68%) Retail
12 4 (1.12%) Legal
12 4 (1.12%) Police
13 2 (0.56%) Aviation
13 2 (0.56%) German Language
13 2 (0.56%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 200 (55.87%) Network Engineer
2 67 (18.72%) Senior
3 63 (17.60%) Cisco Engineer
4 58 (16.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 44 (12.29%) Security Engineer
6 39 (10.89%) Network Security Engineer
7 38 (10.61%) Architect
7 38 (10.61%) Data Network Engineer
8 35 (9.78%) Senior Network Engineer
9 33 (9.22%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.94%) Data Engineer
11 27 (7.54%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 26 (7.26%) Network Architect
13 24 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (6.70%) Network Specialist
14 18 (5.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (4.19%) Web Engineer
16 14 (3.91%) Firewall Specialist
16 14 (3.91%) Operations Engineer
17 9 (2.51%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.17%) 802.1X
2 10 (2.79%) REST
3 8 (2.23%) NETCONF
3 8 (2.23%) YANG
4 7 (1.96%) LDAP
5 4 (1.12%) Jinja
6 3 (0.84%) CSS
6 3 (0.84%) VML
7 2 (0.56%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.56%) HTML
7 2 (0.56%) OpenConfig
7 2 (0.56%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.56%) RFC 2544
8 1 (0.28%) JSON
8 1 (0.28%) SAML
8 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (45.25%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.89%) PKI
3 32 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (6.98%) Clustering
5 16 (4.47%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.12%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.84%) CESG
9 3 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.84%) SCADA
10 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.56%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.61%) Windows
2 19 (5.31%) Linux
3 6 (1.68%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.21%) Load Balancing
2 63 (17.60%) High Availability
3 52 (14.53%) Network Design
4 50 (13.97%) Zero Trust
5 42 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (10.34%) Migration
8 32 (8.94%) ITIL
8 32 (8.94%) Network Architecture
9 31 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (8.38%) CI/CD
10 30 (8.38%) Observability
11 29 (8.10%) DevOps
12 26 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
13 24 (6.70%) Project Delivery
14 23 (6.42%) Network Monitoring
14 23 (6.42%) Network Segmentation
14 23 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (5.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (21.23%) Python
2 6 (1.68%) Bash
3 4 (1.12%) PHP
4 3 (0.84%) SQL
5 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.28%) Lisp
6 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 147 (41.06%) Cisco Certification
2 146 (40.78%) Security Cleared
3 109 (30.45%) SC Cleared
4 107 (29.89%) CCNP
5 44 (12.29%) CCIE
6 41 (11.45%) DV Cleared
7 24 (6.70%) CCNA
7 24 (6.70%) Degree
8 13 (3.63%) JNCIP
9 12 (3.35%) JNCIS
10 11 (3.07%) JNCIE
11 10 (2.79%) JNCIA
12 9 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.96%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.40%) CCDP
14 5 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.40%) GIAC
14 5 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.07%) NIST
2 9 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.51%) NCSC
3 7 (1.96%) SLA
4 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.84%) RMADS
6 2 (0.56%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 28 (7.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.51%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.56%) Docker
6 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) vCloud
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (22.91%) Ansible
2 50 (13.97%) Terraform
3 41 (11.45%) FortiGate
4 17 (4.75%) Grafana
5 15 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.68%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.40%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.40%) Nagios
8 3 (0.84%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.84%) SCOM
9 2 (0.56%) CASB
9 2 (0.56%) Iperf
9 2 (0.56%) Nmap
9 2 (0.56%) QRadar
10 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Suricata
10 1 (0.28%) vRealize
10 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 264 (73.74%) Cisco
2 138 (38.55%) F5
3 105 (29.33%) Palo Alto
4 68 (18.99%) Juniper
5 60 (16.76%) Arista
6 56 (15.64%) Fortinet
7 53 (14.80%) Aruba
8 49 (13.69%) CheckPoint
9 33 (9.22%) SolarWinds
10 31 (8.66%) VMware
11 29 (8.10%) Splunk
12 26 (7.26%) Extreme Networks
13 16 (4.47%) Meraki
14 14 (3.91%) Zscaler
15 10 (2.79%) ServiceNow
16 9 (2.51%) Nokia
17 6 (1.68%) Ekahau
17 6 (1.68%) Google
17 6 (1.68%) Microsoft
18 5 (1.40%) Netskope