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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 225 255
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 +69
Contract jobs citing BGP 374 286 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.16% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.23% 8.96% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 177 218
10th Percentile £350 £362 £313
25th Percentile £405 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £538
90th Percentile £643 £658 £604
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £47.22 £37.00 £19.45
25th Percentile £56.01 £38.13 £20.88
Median hourly rate £71.33 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.33% +70.21% -66.43%
75th Percentile £73.13 £49.38 £44.38
90th Percentile £73.81 £55.00 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +78.33% +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 4,050 3,191 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.90% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,505 1,986 2,858
10th Percentile £253 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 130 393
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -6.25% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.43 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.78% +6.88% +110.53%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -74 115 £450 -10.00% 27
South East +14 103 £475 +5.56% 20
North of England -40 84 £571 +16.58% 14
North West -25 65 £575 +16.16% 8
Midlands -35 51 £413 +17.86% 7
West Midlands -31 48 £413 +26.92% 5
South West -42 25 £538 -14.00% 3
North East -20 13 £650 +160.00% 1
Yorkshire -46 12 £475 +35.71% 5
East of England -28 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands -22 2 - - 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 9 (2.41%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.07%) Confluence
3 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.67%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.80%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (22.99%) Azure
2 79 (21.12%) AWS
3 25 (6.68%) GCP
4 22 (5.88%) OCI
5 17 (4.55%) SaaS
6 13 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.14%) Route 53
9 6 (1.60%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.07%) GitHub
11 3 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.80%) IaaS
11 3 (0.80%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.80%) PaaS
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 244 (65.24%) OSPF
2 229 (61.23%) WAN
3 220 (58.82%) Firewall
4 134 (35.83%) LAN
5 107 (28.61%) VPN
6 105 (28.07%) VXLAN
7 92 (24.60%) MPLS
8 87 (23.26%) Network Security
9 85 (22.73%) SD-WAN
10 84 (22.46%) DNS
11 83 (22.19%) VLAN
12 79 (21.12%) Ethernet VPN
13 68 (18.18%) Multicast
14 59 (15.78%) BIG-IP
15 54 (14.44%) IPsec
16 47 (12.57%) TCP/IP
17 45 (12.03%) Wireless
18 39 (10.43%) DHCP
18 39 (10.43%) DMZ
18 39 (10.43%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 21 (5.61%) GitLab
2 11 (2.94%) Git
3 7 (1.87%) JIRA
4 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.27%) AppScan
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 47 (12.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.89%) Finance
3 32 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.75%) Banking
5 24 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (6.42%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.35%) Investment Banking
7 13 (3.48%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.41%) Military
9 7 (1.87%) Legal
9 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.07%) Police
10 4 (1.07%) Retail
11 3 (0.80%) German Language
11 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.80%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.80%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.53%) Aviation
12 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (53.48%) Network Engineer
2 75 (20.05%) Senior
3 61 (16.31%) Cisco Engineer
4 57 (15.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 46 (12.30%) Security Engineer
6 41 (10.96%) Network Security Engineer
7 39 (10.43%) Architect
7 39 (10.43%) Data Network Engineer
8 38 (10.16%) Senior Network Engineer
9 33 (8.82%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.56%) Data Engineer
11 27 (7.22%) Network Architect
12 24 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (6.42%) Network Specialist
13 20 (5.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 18 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (4.01%) Operations Engineer
15 15 (4.01%) Web Engineer
16 14 (3.74%) Firewall Specialist
17 11 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.76%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.48%) REST
3 9 (2.41%) NETCONF
3 9 (2.41%) YANG
4 7 (1.87%) LDAP
5 5 (1.34%) CSS
6 4 (1.07%) Jinja
7 2 (0.53%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.53%) OpenConfig
7 2 (0.53%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.53%) RFC 2544
8 1 (0.27%) HTML
8 1 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (43.85%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (10.16%) PKI
4 26 (6.95%) Clustering
5 20 (5.35%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.07%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.80%) CESG
10 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.80%) SCADA
11 2 (0.53%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.53%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.96%) Windows
2 18 (4.81%) Linux
3 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (27.54%) Load Balancing
2 69 (18.45%) High Availability
3 60 (16.04%) Network Design
4 57 (15.24%) Zero Trust
5 53 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (12.83%) Migration
7 40 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (10.43%) Network Architecture
9 35 (9.36%) CI/CD
10 32 (8.56%) DevOps
10 32 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (8.56%) Observability
11 31 (8.29%) ITIL
12 27 (7.22%) Network Segmentation
13 26 (6.95%) Identity Access Management
13 26 (6.95%) Project Delivery
14 25 (6.68%) Mentoring
14 25 (6.68%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (6.68%) Validation
15 23 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (24.33%) Python
2 7 (1.87%) Bash
3 6 (1.60%) SQL
4 5 (1.34%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.07%) PHP
6 3 (0.80%) Perl
7 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.27%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 137 (36.63%) Cisco Certification
2 135 (36.10%) Security Cleared
3 97 (25.94%) SC Cleared
4 94 (25.13%) CCNP
5 46 (12.30%) CCIE
6 42 (11.23%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.61%) Degree
8 19 (5.08%) CCNA
9 12 (3.21%) JNCIE
10 11 (2.94%) JNCIP
11 10 (2.67%) JNCIS
12 9 (2.41%) JNCIA
13 8 (2.14%) AWS Certification
13 8 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.87%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.34%) CCDP
15 5 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (1.34%) GIAC
16 4 (1.07%) CISSP
16 4 (1.07%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.94%) NIST
2 9 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.41%) NCSC
3 7 (1.87%) SLA
4 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.80%) GDPR
5 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.80%) RMADS
6 2 (0.53%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.53%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 27 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.87%) Firmware
3 7 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.53%) Docker
6 2 (0.53%) vCloud
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (25.67%) Ansible
2 60 (16.04%) Terraform
3 47 (12.57%) FortiGate
4 19 (5.08%) Grafana
5 17 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.60%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.60%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.80%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.80%) SCOM
8 2 (0.53%) CASB
8 2 (0.53%) Iperf
8 2 (0.53%) Nagios
8 2 (0.53%) Nmap
8 2 (0.53%) QRadar
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) Suricata
9 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 259 (69.25%) Cisco
2 137 (36.63%) F5
3 101 (27.01%) Palo Alto
4 74 (19.79%) Fortinet
5 73 (19.52%) Arista
6 69 (18.45%) Juniper
7 43 (11.50%) Aruba
8 34 (9.09%) CheckPoint
9 32 (8.56%) SolarWinds
10 31 (8.29%) Splunk
11 29 (7.75%) VMware
12 26 (6.95%) Extreme Networks
13 19 (5.08%) Zscaler
14 12 (3.21%) Microsoft
15 11 (2.94%) Meraki
16 9 (2.41%) ServiceNow
17 7 (1.87%) Google
17 7 (1.87%) Nokia
18 6 (1.60%) Ekahau
19 5 (1.34%) HP