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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 261 244
Rank change year-on-year -20 -17 +49
Contract jobs citing BGP 404 275 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.99% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.39% 8.08% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 174 217
10th Percentile £391 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £414 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £538
90th Percentile £693 £675 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £51.21 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £55.66 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £65.38 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.10% +16.07% -32.26%
75th Percentile £78.45 £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £86.90 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £65.38 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year +34.10% +16.07% -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 4,303 3,404 4,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.25% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,100 2,576
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £401 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.24% +0.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 170 279
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% -20.27% -0.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -10.91%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -70 128 £505 +1.00% 106
North of England -4 108 £500 +5.26% 12
South East -13 87 £525 +16.67% 21
North West +7 81 £500 +5.26% 6
Midlands -32 49 £425 +6.25% 13
West Midlands -37 46 £440 +10.06% 10
South West -38 32 £525 -16.83% 5
Yorkshire -17 20 £500 - 5
North East -30 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East of England -21 6 £500 -28.57% 9
East Midlands -18 2 - - 3
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 (2.97%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.49%) SAS
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.74%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 107 (26.49%) Azure
2 85 (21.04%) AWS
3 26 (6.44%) GCP
4 23 (5.69%) OCI
5 19 (4.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (4.21%) GitHub
7 13 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (2.97%) SaaS
9 10 (2.48%) AWS Direct Connect
10 6 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.50%) Route 53
15 1 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
15 1 (0.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 239 (59.16%) OSPF
2 230 (56.93%) Firewall
3 207 (51.24%) WAN
4 121 (29.95%) LAN
5 119 (29.46%) VPN
6 106 (26.24%) VLAN
7 104 (25.74%) VXLAN
8 95 (23.51%) MPLS
9 92 (22.77%) DNS
10 83 (20.54%) SD-WAN
11 79 (19.55%) Network Security
12 73 (18.07%) Ethernet VPN
13 68 (16.83%) Multicast
13 68 (16.83%) TCP/IP
14 61 (15.10%) IPsec
15 58 (14.36%) Wi-Fi
15 58 (14.36%) Wireless
16 47 (11.63%) Cisco ASA
16 47 (11.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 45 (11.14%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 29 (7.18%) GitLab
2 20 (4.95%) Git
3 7 (1.73%) JIRA
4 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 66 (16.34%) Social Skills
2 44 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (9.90%) Finance
4 30 (7.43%) Banking
5 28 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.94%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.70%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.48%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.98%) Legal
10 8 (1.98%) Police
10 8 (1.98%) Retail
11 6 (1.49%) Military
12 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.74%) German Language
13 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.74%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (58.91%) Network Engineer
2 84 (20.79%) Senior
3 60 (14.85%) Cisco Engineer
4 58 (14.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 53 (13.12%) Senior Network Engineer
6 45 (11.14%) Architect
7 41 (10.15%) Network Security Engineer
7 41 (10.15%) Security Engineer
8 39 (9.65%) Data Network Engineer
9 32 (7.92%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 31 (7.67%) Data Engineer
10 31 (7.67%) Network Architect
11 22 (5.45%) Network Specialist
12 20 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.70%) Consultant
14 18 (4.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.21%) Developer
16 15 (3.71%) Web Engineer
17 12 (2.97%) Network Consultant
18 11 (2.72%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.68%) 802.1X
2 20 (4.95%) REST
3 12 (2.97%) NETCONF
3 12 (2.97%) YANG
4 8 (1.98%) JSON
4 8 (1.98%) YAML
5 7 (1.73%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.49%) RESTCONF
7 4 (0.99%) CSS
7 4 (0.99%) Jinja
8 2 (0.50%) eBPF
8 2 (0.50%) SAML
9 1 (0.25%) LDAP
9 1 (0.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 160 (39.60%) Data Centre
2 51 (12.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (6.44%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.94%) PKI
5 13 (3.22%) Clustering
6 11 (2.72%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.73%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.74%) CMDB
13 3 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.74%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.17%) Windows
2 18 (4.46%) Linux
3 5 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (24.75%) Load Balancing
2 66 (16.34%) High Availability
2 66 (16.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 66 (16.34%) Network Design
3 65 (16.09%) Zero Trust
4 57 (14.11%) Migration
5 48 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (11.14%) CI/CD
7 43 (10.64%) ITIL
8 40 (9.90%) Network Architecture
9 39 (9.65%) Project Delivery
10 35 (8.66%) Validation
11 31 (7.67%) DevOps
11 31 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (7.18%) Network Segmentation
13 28 (6.93%) Observability
14 26 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (6.44%) Mentoring
14 26 (6.44%) Network Monitoring
15 25 (6.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 116 (28.71%) Python
2 9 (2.23%) Bash
3 6 (1.49%) SQL
4 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.50%) Perl
7 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 126 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 118 (29.21%) Cisco Certification
3 81 (20.05%) CCNP
4 71 (17.57%) SC Cleared
5 46 (11.39%) CCIE
5 46 (11.39%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.46%) Degree
7 15 (3.71%) CCNA
8 13 (3.22%) JNCIE
9 8 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.73%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.99%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.99%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.99%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.74%) CISSP
13 3 (0.74%) PMP
13 3 (0.74%) VCDX
14 2 (0.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.24%) NCSC
2 4 (0.99%) NIST
3 3 (0.74%) SLA
4 2 (0.50%) GDPR
4 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.50%) QA
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.71%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.98%) Firmware
4 7 (1.73%) Docker
5 6 (1.49%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.99%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.25%) KVM
9 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (28.22%) Ansible
2 68 (16.83%) Terraform
3 42 (10.40%) FortiGate
4 19 (4.70%) Kubernetes
5 14 (3.47%) Grafana
5 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.49%) Nagios
7 5 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.74%) Cilium
9 2 (0.50%) Istio
10 1 (0.25%) CASB
10 1 (0.25%) OPNET
10 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.25%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
10 1 (0.25%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Suricata
10 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 283 (70.05%) Cisco
2 142 (35.15%) F5
3 114 (28.22%) Palo Alto
4 88 (21.78%) Fortinet
5 80 (19.80%) Arista
6 66 (16.34%) Juniper
7 38 (9.41%) VMware
8 37 (9.16%) Aruba
9 35 (8.66%) CheckPoint
10 33 (8.17%) SolarWinds
11 25 (6.19%) Microsoft
12 19 (4.70%) Splunk
13 17 (4.21%) Zscaler
14 16 (3.96%) Meraki
14 16 (3.96%) ServiceNow
15 14 (3.47%) Extreme Networks
16 12 (2.97%) Google
17 9 (2.23%) Red Hat
18 6 (1.49%) Ekahau
18 6 (1.49%) Infoblox