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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 220 225
Rank change year-on-year -120 +5 +197
Contract jobs citing BGP 221 337 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.17% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.46% 9.18% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 194 198
10th Percentile £300 £351 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £453 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -11.71% -4.65% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £67.45 £21.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £70.01 £24.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £74.26 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.49% -13.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £34.38 £70.00
90th Percentile - £34.75 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £33.75 £37.77
% change year-on-year +120.03% -10.64% +43.89%

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 3,423 3,671 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.77% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,152 3,213
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £360 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 110 313
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £18.64
25th Percentile £20.34 £20.93 £23.09
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +27.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.44 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.22
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -8.57% -37.99% +37.57%

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 25 December 2025.

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
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 25 December 2025. 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 -57 83 £480 -4.00% 30
South East -50 57 £458 -16.73% 83
West Midlands -1 41 £400 -20.00% 35
Midlands -18 41 £400 -20.00% 61
North of England -88 30 £550 +8.91% 71
North West -59 26 £550 +2.33% 28
South West -30 7 £506 +5.74% 30
East of England -24 5 £700 +154.55% 41
Yorkshire -52 4 £600 +118.18% 39
North East -5 3 £550 - 5
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 16 (7.24%) OpenStack
2 12 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.33%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.91%) AWS
2 35 (15.84%) Azure
3 12 (5.43%) GCP
4 7 (3.17%) OpenShift
4 7 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (2.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.36%) Akamai
6 3 (1.36%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.90%) IaaS
7 2 (0.90%) PaaS
7 2 (0.90%) Route 53
7 2 (0.90%) SaaS
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.45%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.45%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 138 (62.44%) OSPF
2 134 (60.63%) Firewall
3 110 (49.77%) WAN
4 98 (44.34%) VPN
5 85 (38.46%) MPLS
6 68 (30.77%) LAN
7 64 (28.96%) IPsec
8 60 (27.15%) Network Security
9 54 (24.43%) VLAN
10 43 (19.46%) Wireless
11 39 (17.65%) DNS
12 36 (16.29%) SD-WAN
13 34 (15.38%) VXLAN
14 30 (13.57%) EIGRP
15 27 (12.22%) DHCP
15 27 (12.22%) TCP/IP
16 25 (11.31%) Cisco ISE
17 23 (10.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 22 (9.95%) Ethernet VPN
19 21 (9.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.45%) Redis
1 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.33%) Git
2 5 (2.26%) GitLab
3 4 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.90%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 71 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.12%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.79%) Finance
6 13 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.98%) Banking
8 10 (4.52%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.81%) Legal
10 4 (1.81%) Military
10 4 (1.81%) Retail
11 3 (1.36%) Electronics
11 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 125 (56.56%) Network Engineer
2 33 (14.93%) Architect
3 25 (11.31%) Cisco Engineer
4 23 (10.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 21 (9.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (7.69%) Network Architect
6 17 (7.69%) Senior
6 17 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 16 (7.24%) WAN Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) Network Security Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) Security Engineer
9 13 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
9 13 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Juniper Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.62%) IP Specialist
11 8 (3.62%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.98%) YANG
2 10 (4.52%) 802.1X
2 10 (4.52%) NETCONF
3 7 (3.17%) REST
4 5 (2.26%) Jinja
5 4 (1.81%) JSON
5 4 (1.81%) VML
6 3 (1.36%) OpenConfig
6 3 (1.36%) SAML
7 2 (0.90%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.90%) XML
8 1 (0.45%) CSS
8 1 (0.45%) eBPF
8 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.45%) gRPC
8 1 (0.45%) HTML
8 1 (0.45%) JFC
8 1 (0.45%) LangChain
8 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 37 (16.74%) PKI
3 17 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.36%) NHS
7 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.45%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.79%) Linux
2 14 (6.33%) Windows
3 8 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (19.91%) Network Design
2 40 (18.10%) Load Balancing
3 37 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.86%) Network Monitoring
4 24 (10.86%) Network Segmentation
5 23 (10.41%) High Availability
5 23 (10.41%) Migration
6 21 (9.50%) Network Virtualisation
7 18 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (8.14%) DevOps
7 18 (8.14%) Zero Trust
8 17 (7.69%) Network Architecture
8 17 (7.69%) Roadmaps
9 15 (6.79%) ITIL
9 15 (6.79%) TOGAF
10 14 (6.33%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (5.88%) Change Control
11 13 (5.88%) Incident Response
11 13 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (5.88%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.22%) Python
2 19 (8.60%) Bash
3 15 (6.79%) Perl
4 10 (4.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.62%) Lisp
6 5 (2.26%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) Go
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (50.68%) Cisco Certification
2 100 (45.25%) Security Cleared
3 91 (41.18%) CCNP
4 78 (35.29%) SC Cleared
5 42 (19.00%) CCIE
6 23 (10.41%) JNCIE
7 20 (9.05%) CCNA
8 18 (8.14%) Degree
9 17 (7.69%) DV Cleared
10 13 (5.88%) JNCIS
11 11 (4.98%) AWS Certification
12 10 (4.52%) JNCIP
13 9 (4.07%) CCDP
13 9 (4.07%) CISSP
13 9 (4.07%) JNCIA
14 6 (2.71%) CCSA
15 5 (2.26%) CCSE
16 4 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (1.81%) CCIE Security
16 4 (1.81%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.62%) NIST
2 7 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.71%) GDPR
3 6 (2.71%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.71%) SLA
4 3 (1.36%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.45%) RMADS
5 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.24%) VMware NSX
3 10 (4.52%) Firmware
4 8 (3.62%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.62%) Docker
5 3 (1.36%) KVM
6 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 57 (25.79%) Ansible
2 37 (16.74%) FortiGate
3 28 (12.67%) Terraform
4 8 (3.62%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.81%) CA Spectrum
6 3 (1.36%) Iperf
6 3 (1.36%) Nagios
6 3 (1.36%) Nmap
6 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.90%) Grafana
7 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.45%) CASB
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.45%) vRealize
8 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 150 (67.87%) Cisco
2 82 (37.10%) Juniper
3 61 (27.60%) Palo Alto
4 52 (23.53%) Fortinet
5 51 (23.08%) F5
6 31 (14.03%) CheckPoint
7 29 (13.12%) Meraki
8 23 (10.41%) SolarWinds
9 22 (9.95%) VMware
10 20 (9.05%) Aruba
11 18 (8.14%) Arista
12 14 (6.33%) Zscaler
13 13 (5.88%) ServiceNow
14 12 (5.43%) Remedy
15 11 (4.98%) Microsoft
16 8 (3.62%) Ekahau
16 8 (3.62%) Nokia
17 7 (3.17%) Red Hat
18 5 (2.26%) LogicMonitor
18 5 (2.26%) NVIDIA