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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 277 269
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing BGP 394 254 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.92% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.02% 7.81% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 164 167
10th Percentile £400 £333 £323
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £628 £575
90th Percentile £705 £664 £665
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £48.93 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £56.53 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% +16.07% -31.15%
75th Percentile - £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £75.63 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +41.03% +28.29% -36.67%

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 4,366 3,251 3,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 11.78% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,036 2,258
10th Percentile £258 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 165 196
10th Percentile £16.02 £15.50 £15.76
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.00 £24.09
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -28.51% +1.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -18.24% -17.48% -8.83%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -63 129 £500 - 106
North of England -4 103 £500 +5.26% 21
North West 0 74 £488 +2.63% 15
South East -39 65 £525 +5.00% 29
Midlands -46 40 £571 +42.69% 13
West Midlands -39 37 £571 +42.69% 9
South West -31 32 £525 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -25 22 £495 +23.75% 5
East of England -21 16 £500 -28.57% 24
North East -26 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East Midlands -17 3 - - 4
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 14 (3.55%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.03%) SAS
3 3 (0.76%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 100 (25.38%) Azure
2 79 (20.05%) AWS
3 27 (6.85%) GCP
4 23 (5.84%) OCI
5 22 (5.58%) GitHub
6 21 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (3.30%) AWS Direct Connect
7 13 (3.30%) SaaS
8 8 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.52%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.76%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.51%) IBM Watson
14 1 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 217 (55.08%) OSPF
2 214 (54.31%) Firewall
3 184 (46.70%) WAN
4 116 (29.44%) VPN
5 110 (27.92%) VLAN
6 100 (25.38%) LAN
7 97 (24.62%) MPLS
8 89 (22.59%) VXLAN
9 81 (20.56%) Network Security
9 81 (20.56%) SD-WAN
10 80 (20.30%) DNS
11 68 (17.26%) Ethernet VPN
12 65 (16.50%) TCP/IP
13 64 (16.24%) IPsec
14 59 (14.97%) Wi-Fi
15 57 (14.47%) Multicast
15 57 (14.47%) Wireless
16 49 (12.44%) Cisco Nexus
17 45 (11.42%) EIGRP
18 44 (11.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (7.36%) GitLab
2 24 (6.09%) Git
3 6 (1.52%) JIRA
3 6 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (10.91%) Finance
3 28 (7.11%) Banking
3 28 (7.11%) Telecoms
4 27 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.06%) Investment Banking
6 9 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.03%) Legal
7 8 (2.03%) Retail
8 7 (1.78%) Police
9 6 (1.52%) Military
10 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.76%) German Language
12 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.76%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.51%) Law
13 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (58.88%) Network Engineer
2 88 (22.34%) Senior
3 57 (14.47%) Senior Network Engineer
4 51 (12.94%) Cisco Engineer
5 49 (12.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 44 (11.17%) Architect
7 36 (9.14%) Security Engineer
8 34 (8.63%) Network Architect
8 34 (8.63%) Network Security Engineer
9 29 (7.36%) Data Network Engineer
10 28 (7.11%) Consultant
11 24 (6.09%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 23 (5.84%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.82%) Network Consultant
14 19 (4.82%) Network Specialist
15 18 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (4.31%) Developer
17 12 (3.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
17 12 (3.05%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.26%) Terraform
2 27 (6.85%) REST
3 19 (4.82%) 802.1X
4 16 (4.06%) NETCONF
5 14 (3.55%) YAML
5 14 (3.55%) YANG
6 12 (3.05%) JSON
7 6 (1.52%) RESTCONF
8 5 (1.27%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.02%) CSS
10 3 (0.76%) SAML
11 2 (0.51%) eBPF
11 2 (0.51%) gRPC
12 1 (0.25%) Django
12 1 (0.25%) LDAP
12 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
12 1 (0.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 152 (38.58%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.11%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.81%) PKI
5 12 (3.05%) Private Cloud
5 12 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.03%) Digital Signage
7 8 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.52%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.27%) Clustering
9 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.02%) CMDB
10 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.76%) IoT
11 3 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.38%) Windows
2 24 (6.09%) Linux
3 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.76%) Unix
5 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (22.08%) Load Balancing
2 72 (18.27%) Migration
3 71 (18.02%) Zero Trust
4 70 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (16.24%) Network Design
6 63 (15.99%) High Availability
7 44 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (10.66%) CI/CD
8 42 (10.66%) Network Architecture
8 42 (10.66%) Validation
9 38 (9.64%) Project Delivery
10 36 (9.14%) ITIL
11 35 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (8.12%) DevOps
13 30 (7.61%) Network Segmentation
14 26 (6.60%) Change Control
14 26 (6.60%) Cloud Security
15 25 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (6.35%) Mentoring
15 25 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 120 (30.46%) Python
2 10 (2.54%) Bash
3 6 (1.52%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.27%) SQL
5 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.51%) Go
6 2 (0.51%) Perl
7 1 (0.25%) C++
7 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 122 (30.96%) Security Cleared
2 106 (26.90%) Cisco Certification
3 80 (20.30%) CCNP
4 70 (17.77%) SC Cleared
5 44 (11.17%) DV Cleared
6 43 (10.91%) CCIE
7 16 (4.06%) CCNA
8 15 (3.81%) Degree
9 13 (3.30%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.76%) CCIE Security
12 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 2 (0.51%) CWNA
13 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.51%) PMP
14 1 (0.25%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.02%) NCSC
2 3 (0.76%) NIST
3 2 (0.51%) GDPR
3 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.51%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.31%) VMware NSX
3 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.28%) vSphere
5 7 (1.78%) Docker
6 6 (1.52%) Firmware
7 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (29.19%) Ansible
2 36 (9.14%) FortiGate
3 18 (4.57%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.54%) Grafana
4 10 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.28%) Nagios
6 8 (2.03%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.27%) Cilium
8 4 (1.02%) Istio
9 2 (0.51%) 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
1 283 (71.83%) Cisco
2 117 (29.70%) F5
3 111 (28.17%) Palo Alto
4 85 (21.57%) Fortinet
5 78 (19.80%) Arista
6 55 (13.96%) Juniper
7 39 (9.90%) VMware
8 36 (9.14%) Aruba
9 35 (8.88%) CheckPoint
10 28 (7.11%) Microsoft
10 28 (7.11%) SolarWinds
11 17 (4.31%) ServiceNow
11 17 (4.31%) Zscaler
12 15 (3.81%) Meraki
13 11 (2.79%) Red Hat
13 11 (2.79%) Splunk
14 8 (2.03%) Google
15 6 (1.52%) Infoblox
15 6 (1.52%) LogicMonitor
15 6 (1.52%) Nokia