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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 260 245
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 +54
Contract jobs citing BGP 409 276 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.00% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.50% 8.06% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 176 215
10th Percentile £378 £325 £290
25th Percentile £419 £421 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £585 £613 £538
90th Percentile £668 £669 £585
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £44.80 £37.00 £23.15
25th Percentile £50.72 £38.13 £30.13
Median hourly rate £64.79 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.98% -4.76% -32.26%
75th Percentile £73.31 £49.38 £53.63
90th Percentile £83.14 £55.00 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £64.79 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +61.98% -4.76% -32.26%

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 4,306 3,425 4,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.41% 12.41% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,610 2,127 2,568
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £677 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 163 288
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.38
Median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.91% -18.00% +8.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £48.56
% change year-on-year -45.76% +0.39% -3.69%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -75 123 £500 - 56
South East +2 103 £525 +16.67% 14
North of England -16 101 £500 +5.26% 18
North West -1 77 £505 +6.32% 10
Midlands -35 48 £419 +4.69% 8
West Midlands -36 45 £413 +10.00% 8
South West -43 32 £525 -16.33% 6
Yorkshire -25 17 £495 +41.43% 9
North East -31 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -17 6 £500 -28.57% 4
East Midlands -12 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 12 (2.93%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.73%) SAS
3 2 (0.49%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 110 (26.89%) Azure
2 86 (21.03%) AWS
3 29 (7.09%) GCP
4 23 (5.62%) OCI
5 16 (3.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (3.18%) SaaS
6 13 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (2.93%) GitHub
8 7 (1.71%) AWS Direct Connect
8 7 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.73%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.49%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 255 (62.35%) OSPF
2 241 (58.92%) Firewall
3 224 (54.77%) WAN
4 137 (33.50%) LAN
5 118 (28.85%) VPN
6 109 (26.65%) VXLAN
7 108 (26.41%) VLAN
8 103 (25.18%) DNS
9 93 (22.74%) MPLS
10 83 (20.29%) SD-WAN
11 82 (20.05%) Network Security
12 77 (18.83%) Ethernet VPN
13 71 (17.36%) Multicast
14 68 (16.63%) TCP/IP
15 64 (15.65%) IPsec
16 57 (13.94%) BIG-IP
16 57 (13.94%) Wireless
17 56 (13.69%) Wi-Fi
18 51 (12.47%) DHCP
19 45 (11.00%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 24 (5.87%) GitLab
2 14 (3.42%) Git
3 7 (1.71%) JIRA
3 7 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 65 (15.89%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.51%) Finance
3 41 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.58%) Banking
4 31 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.38%) Telecoms
6 19 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.44%) Military
9 8 (1.96%) Retail
10 7 (1.71%) Police
11 6 (1.47%) Legal
12 4 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) German Language
13 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.73%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (56.72%) Network Engineer
2 87 (21.27%) Senior
3 61 (14.91%) Cisco Engineer
4 59 (14.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 54 (13.20%) Senior Network Engineer
6 46 (11.25%) Architect
7 42 (10.27%) Network Security Engineer
7 42 (10.27%) Security Engineer
8 39 (9.54%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (8.07%) Network Architect
10 32 (7.82%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 31 (7.58%) Data Engineer
12 27 (6.60%) Network Specialist
13 20 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.16%) Consultant
15 17 (4.16%) Developer
16 15 (3.67%) Web Engineer
17 14 (3.42%) Firewall Specialist
18 11 (2.69%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.29%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.67%) REST
3 12 (2.93%) NETCONF
3 12 (2.93%) YANG
4 7 (1.71%) OpenConfig
5 6 (1.47%) RESTCONF
6 4 (0.98%) CSS
6 4 (0.98%) Jinja
7 3 (0.73%) JSON
7 3 (0.73%) YAML
8 2 (0.49%) eBPF
8 2 (0.49%) LDAP
8 2 (0.49%) SAML
9 1 (0.24%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 166 (40.59%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (8.80%) PKI
4 26 (6.36%) Clustering
5 22 (5.38%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (2.20%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.22%) Digital Signage
9 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.22%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.25%) Windows
2 14 (3.42%) Linux
3 5 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.73%) Unix
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (27.14%) Load Balancing
2 77 (18.83%) High Availability
3 66 (16.14%) Zero Trust
4 65 (15.89%) Network Design
5 58 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (14.18%) Migration
6 51 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (11.00%) ITIL
8 43 (10.51%) Network Architecture
9 41 (10.02%) CI/CD
10 39 (9.54%) Project Delivery
11 36 (8.80%) Observability
12 31 (7.58%) DevOps
13 30 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (7.33%) Validation
14 27 (6.60%) Network Segmentation
15 26 (6.36%) Mentoring
16 25 (6.11%) Identity Access Management
16 25 (6.11%) Network Monitoring
17 24 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (27.14%) Python
2 6 (1.47%) Bash
2 6 (1.47%) PowerShell
2 6 (1.47%) SQL
3 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.49%) Perl
5 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 137 (33.50%) Security Cleared
2 129 (31.54%) Cisco Certification
3 83 (20.29%) CCNP
4 72 (17.60%) SC Cleared
5 56 (13.69%) DV Cleared
6 45 (11.00%) CCIE
7 20 (4.89%) Degree
8 18 (4.40%) CCNA
9 13 (3.18%) JNCIE
10 8 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.96%) JNCIA
10 8 (1.96%) JNCIP
10 8 (1.96%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.71%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.98%) CISSP
12 4 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.73%) PMP
13 3 (0.73%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.71%) NCSC
2 5 (1.22%) NIST
3 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.73%) SLA
4 2 (0.49%) GDPR
4 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.49%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 30 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (3.18%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.71%) Firmware
4 5 (1.22%) Docker
4 5 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.98%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
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 (26.89%) Ansible
2 69 (16.87%) Terraform
3 53 (12.96%) FortiGate
4 17 (4.16%) Grafana
5 15 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.18%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.47%) Nagios
8 5 (1.22%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.49%) CASB
9 2 (0.49%) QRadar
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.24%) OPNET
10 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.24%) Puppet
10 1 (0.24%) Rancher
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) Suricata
10 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 289 (70.66%) Cisco
2 154 (37.65%) F5
3 111 (27.14%) Palo Alto
4 86 (21.03%) Fortinet
5 81 (19.80%) Juniper
6 80 (19.56%) Arista
7 43 (10.51%) SolarWinds
8 39 (9.54%) VMware
9 36 (8.80%) Aruba
10 33 (8.07%) CheckPoint
11 31 (7.58%) Splunk
12 26 (6.36%) Extreme Networks
13 24 (5.87%) Microsoft
14 19 (4.65%) Zscaler
15 18 (4.40%) Meraki
16 11 (2.69%) ServiceNow
17 10 (2.44%) Google
18 6 (1.47%) Ekahau
19 5 (1.22%) HP
19 5 (1.22%) Infoblox