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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 283 251
Rank change year-on-year -14 -32 +22
Contract jobs citing BGP 389 247 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.88% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.96% 7.53% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 160 175
10th Percentile £400 £359 £343
25th Percentile £426 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £575
90th Percentile £705 £665 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £49.70 £37.38 £21.80
25th Percentile £57.59 £39.06 £26.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% +39.29% -42.62%
75th Percentile - £60.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £64.70 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +41.03% +33.56% -39.17%

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 4,340 3,280 3,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.32% 11.74% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 2,064 2,307
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 168 192
10th Percentile £16.02 £15.50 £15.33
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £44.25 £39.66 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -30.85% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.63 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.38 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -22.35% -15.00% -11.49%

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 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 26 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 26 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 -66 128 £500 - 170
North of England +3 101 £500 +5.26% 21
North West +7 72 £488 +2.63% 13
South East -47 63 £525 +5.00% 30
Midlands -40 41 £571 +38.36% 13
West Midlands -41 39 £571 +42.69% 9
South West -33 31 £525 -16.83% 9
Yorkshire -21 22 £495 +23.75% 7
East of England -24 18 £500 -28.57% 22
North East -27 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East Midlands -14 2 - - 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 (3.60%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.06%) SAS
3 3 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.77%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 99 (25.45%) Azure
2 78 (20.05%) AWS
3 26 (6.68%) GCP
4 23 (5.91%) OCI
5 22 (5.66%) GitHub
6 21 (5.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 14 (3.60%) AWS Direct Connect
8 13 (3.34%) SaaS
9 8 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.54%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.77%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.51%) IBM Watson
14 1 (0.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 213 (54.76%) Firewall
1 213 (54.76%) OSPF
2 180 (46.27%) WAN
3 115 (29.56%) VPN
4 105 (26.99%) VLAN
5 101 (25.96%) LAN
6 97 (24.94%) MPLS
7 86 (22.11%) VXLAN
8 83 (21.34%) Network Security
9 81 (20.82%) SD-WAN
10 78 (20.05%) DNS
11 66 (16.97%) Ethernet VPN
11 66 (16.97%) TCP/IP
12 63 (16.20%) IPsec
13 59 (15.17%) Wi-Fi
14 56 (14.40%) Multicast
14 56 (14.40%) Wireless
15 48 (12.34%) Cisco Nexus
16 45 (11.57%) EIGRP
17 42 (10.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (7.71%) GitLab
2 25 (6.43%) Git
3 6 (1.54%) JIRA
3 6 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (11.05%) Finance
3 29 (7.46%) Banking
3 29 (7.46%) Telecoms
4 26 (6.68%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.11%) Investment Banking
6 9 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.06%) Legal
8 7 (1.80%) Police
8 7 (1.80%) Retail
9 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.29%) Military
10 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.77%) German Language
11 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.77%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (58.87%) Network Engineer
2 87 (22.37%) Senior
3 57 (14.65%) Senior Network Engineer
4 50 (12.85%) Cisco Engineer
5 48 (12.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 45 (11.57%) Architect
7 36 (9.25%) Network Architect
7 36 (9.25%) Security Engineer
8 34 (8.74%) Network Security Engineer
9 28 (7.20%) Consultant
10 27 (6.94%) Data Network Engineer
11 24 (6.17%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 23 (5.91%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.88%) Network Consultant
14 18 (4.63%) Network Specialist
15 17 (4.37%) Developer
15 17 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 12 (3.08%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.97%) Terraform
2 28 (7.20%) REST
3 18 (4.63%) 802.1X
4 16 (4.11%) NETCONF
5 15 (3.86%) YAML
6 14 (3.60%) YANG
7 13 (3.34%) JSON
8 6 (1.54%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.29%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.03%) CSS
11 3 (0.77%) SAML
12 2 (0.51%) eBPF
12 2 (0.51%) gRPC
13 1 (0.26%) Django
13 1 (0.26%) LDAP
13 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
13 1 (0.26%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 150 (38.56%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.20%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.60%) PKI
4 14 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.08%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.06%) Digital Signage
7 8 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.03%) Clustering
10 4 (1.03%) CMDB
10 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.25%) Windows
2 27 (6.94%) Linux
3 11 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.77%) Unix
5 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (21.85%) Load Balancing
2 71 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 71 (18.25%) Migration
3 70 (17.99%) Zero Trust
4 63 (16.20%) Network Design
5 61 (15.68%) High Availability
6 45 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (11.05%) CI/CD
8 42 (10.80%) Network Architecture
9 41 (10.54%) Validation
10 35 (9.00%) ITIL
10 35 (9.00%) Project Delivery
11 34 (8.74%) DevOps
11 34 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (7.97%) Network Segmentation
13 28 (7.20%) Change Control
14 26 (6.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (6.68%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (6.43%) Runbook
15 25 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (30.33%) Python
2 10 (2.57%) Bash
3 6 (1.54%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.29%) SQL
5 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.51%) Go
6 2 (0.51%) Perl
7 1 (0.26%) C++
7 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 119 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 104 (26.74%) Cisco Certification
3 79 (20.31%) CCNP
4 65 (16.71%) SC Cleared
5 47 (12.08%) DV Cleared
6 43 (11.05%) CCIE
7 17 (4.37%) CCNA
8 14 (3.60%) Degree
9 13 (3.34%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.77%) CCIE Security
11 3 (0.77%) CISSP
12 2 (0.51%) CWNA
12 2 (0.51%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.51%) PMP
13 1 (0.26%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.03%) NCSC
1 4 (1.03%) NIST
2 2 (0.51%) GDPR
2 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
2 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.51%) QA
2 2 (0.51%) SLA
3 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (7.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.63%) VMware NSX
3 13 (3.34%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.83%) vSphere
5 9 (2.31%) Docker
6 6 (1.54%) Firmware
7 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (29.05%) Ansible
2 35 (9.00%) FortiGate
3 18 (4.63%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.83%) Nagios
5 9 (2.31%) Grafana
5 9 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.06%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.29%) Cilium
8 4 (1.03%) Istio
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
10 1 (0.26%) CASB
10 1 (0.26%) OPNET
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
10 1 (0.26%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Suricata
10 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 279 (71.72%) Cisco
2 113 (29.05%) F5
3 109 (28.02%) Palo Alto
4 85 (21.85%) Fortinet
5 74 (19.02%) Arista
6 52 (13.37%) Juniper
7 42 (10.80%) VMware
8 37 (9.51%) Aruba
9 34 (8.74%) CheckPoint
10 29 (7.46%) SolarWinds
11 28 (7.20%) Microsoft
12 18 (4.63%) ServiceNow
13 16 (4.11%) Zscaler
14 15 (3.86%) Meraki
15 12 (3.08%) Red Hat
16 10 (2.57%) Splunk
17 8 (2.06%) Google
18 7 (1.80%) Infoblox
19 6 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
20 5 (1.29%) SevOne