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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 243 249
Rank change year-on-year -32 +6 +66
Contract jobs citing BGP 411 287 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.05% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.61% 8.32% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 183 228
10th Percentile £350 £362 £299
25th Percentile £409 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £664 £591
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £50.15 £37.00 £19.45
25th Percentile £63.34 £38.13 £20.88
Median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.99% +70.21% -66.43%
75th Percentile £78.83 £49.38 £44.38
90th Percentile £87.05 £55.00 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +81.99% +1.91% -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 4,279 3,451 4,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.65% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,640 2,143 2,844
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +3.79% -3.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 155 384
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £23.99 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +2.41% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% +15.63% +45.45%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -65 121 £450 -8.16% 32
South East +9 107 £510 +13.33% 24
North of England -29 98 £500 +5.26% 8
North West -14 76 £475 - 4
Midlands -21 55 £419 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -35 52 £413 +17.86% 5
South West -46 31 £531 -15.00% 11
Yorkshire -37 15 £495 +41.43% 4
North East -23 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -25 6 £500 -28.57% 5
East Midlands -17 2 - - 1
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 13 (3.16%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.73%) Confluence
2 3 (0.73%) SAS
3 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 106 (25.79%) Azure
2 89 (21.65%) AWS
3 29 (7.06%) GCP
4 22 (5.35%) OCI
5 16 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (3.65%) SaaS
7 14 (3.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (1.95%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.46%) GitHub
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.22%) Route 53
11 4 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.97%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.73%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.73%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 259 (63.02%) OSPF
2 241 (58.64%) Firewall
3 240 (58.39%) WAN
4 146 (35.52%) LAN
5 130 (31.63%) VPN
6 105 (25.55%) VXLAN
7 102 (24.82%) MPLS
8 99 (24.09%) VLAN
9 97 (23.60%) DNS
10 96 (23.36%) Network Security
11 87 (21.17%) SD-WAN
12 78 (18.98%) Ethernet VPN
13 75 (18.25%) Multicast
14 65 (15.82%) TCP/IP
15 61 (14.84%) BIG-IP
16 59 (14.36%) IPsec
17 51 (12.41%) Wireless
18 48 (11.68%) Cisco ASA
19 47 (11.44%) Wi-Fi
20 44 (10.71%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 21 (5.11%) GitLab
2 11 (2.68%) Git
3 7 (1.70%) JIRA
4 6 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) AppScan
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
General
1 65 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.22%) Finance
3 36 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.79%) Banking
6 29 (7.06%) Telecoms
7 20 (4.87%) Investment Banking
8 18 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.16%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.70%) Legal
10 7 (1.70%) Military
11 6 (1.46%) Police
12 5 (1.22%) Retail
13 3 (0.73%) German Language
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.73%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.49%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 221 (53.77%) Network Engineer
2 84 (20.44%) Senior
3 58 (14.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 56 (13.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 50 (12.17%) Security Engineer
6 48 (11.68%) Architect
7 46 (11.19%) Senior Network Engineer
8 45 (10.95%) Network Security Engineer
9 42 (10.22%) Data Network Engineer
10 35 (8.52%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 34 (8.27%) Data Engineer
12 33 (8.03%) Network Architect
13 24 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (5.84%) Network Specialist
14 18 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.14%) Web Engineer
16 16 (3.89%) Consultant
17 14 (3.41%) Firewall Specialist
18 13 (3.16%) Operations Engineer
18 13 (3.16%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.25%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.16%) NETCONF
2 13 (3.16%) REST
2 13 (3.16%) YANG
3 7 (1.70%) LDAP
4 6 (1.46%) OpenConfig
4 6 (1.46%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.97%) CSS
5 4 (0.97%) Jinja
6 2 (0.49%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.49%) RFC 2544
6 2 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (41.85%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (9.49%) PKI
4 26 (6.33%) Clustering
5 24 (5.84%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.43%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.70%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.22%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.22%) SCADA
12 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.49%) Digital Signage
13 2 (0.49%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.71%) Windows
2 19 (4.62%) Linux
3 6 (1.46%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.49%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (26.52%) Load Balancing
2 75 (18.25%) High Availability
3 66 (16.06%) Network Design
4 63 (15.33%) Zero Trust
5 57 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (13.63%) Migration
7 46 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (10.95%) Network Architecture
9 43 (10.46%) ITIL
10 39 (9.49%) CI/CD
11 35 (8.52%) Observability
12 34 (8.27%) Project Delivery
13 32 (7.79%) DevOps
13 32 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 32 (7.79%) Network Segmentation
14 27 (6.57%) Validation
15 26 (6.33%) Identity Access Management
15 26 (6.33%) Network Monitoring
16 25 (6.08%) Mentoring
17 24 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.52%) Python
2 8 (1.95%) Bash
3 6 (1.46%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.46%) SQL
4 4 (0.97%) PHP
5 3 (0.73%) Perl
6 1 (0.24%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 142 (34.55%) Cisco Certification
2 141 (34.31%) Security Cleared
3 96 (23.36%) CCNP
4 88 (21.41%) SC Cleared
5 52 (12.65%) CCIE
5 52 (12.65%) DV Cleared
6 22 (5.35%) Degree
7 19 (4.62%) CCNA
8 15 (3.65%) JNCIE
9 10 (2.43%) JNCIP
10 9 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.19%) JNCIS
11 8 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.95%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.22%) CISSP
13 5 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.22%) GIAC
14 4 (0.97%) APMG
14 4 (0.97%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.92%) NCSC
2 11 (2.68%) NIST
3 9 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.97%) SLA
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
5 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.73%) QA
6 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.49%) RMADS
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) COBIT
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 31 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (2.92%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.70%) Firmware
5 4 (0.97%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.49%) Docker
7 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (26.76%) Ansible
2 68 (16.55%) Terraform
3 51 (12.41%) FortiGate
4 21 (5.11%) Grafana
5 19 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.95%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.46%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.73%) Nagios
9 3 (0.73%) SCOM
10 2 (0.49%) CASB
10 2 (0.49%) Iperf
10 2 (0.49%) Nmap
10 2 (0.49%) QRadar
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.24%) Suricata
11 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 287 (69.83%) Cisco
2 154 (37.47%) F5
3 110 (26.76%) Palo Alto
4 84 (20.44%) Fortinet
5 81 (19.71%) Juniper
6 78 (18.98%) Arista
7 41 (9.98%) SolarWinds
8 40 (9.73%) Aruba
9 37 (9.00%) CheckPoint
9 37 (9.00%) VMware
10 31 (7.54%) Splunk
11 26 (6.33%) Extreme Networks
12 22 (5.35%) Microsoft
13 19 (4.62%) Zscaler
14 16 (3.89%) Meraki
15 9 (2.19%) Google
15 9 (2.19%) ServiceNow
16 7 (1.70%) Citrix
16 7 (1.70%) Ekahau
17 5 (1.22%) HP