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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 234 230
Rank change year-on-year -96 -4 +188
Contract jobs citing BGP 230 326 403
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.05% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.74% 8.53% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 179 213
10th Percentile £325 £297 £328
25th Percentile £406 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -6.05% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile £59.10 £32.00 £24.25
25th Percentile £63.38 £33.13 £24.38
Median hourly rate £70.38 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.09% +2.94% +29.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £50.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £59.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £70.38 £36.50 £35.75
% change year-on-year +92.82% +2.10% +36.19%

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 3,410 3,824 5,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.27% 12.28% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 2,218 3,483
10th Percentile £206 £240 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 136 333
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £18.10
25th Percentile £20.75 £24.09 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -32.52% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -22.73% +29.18%

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 24 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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 -44 91 £485 +2.11% 19
West Midlands +12 44 £400 -12.57% 6
Midlands -9 44 £400 -16.45% 7
South East -41 41 £538 -2.27% 23
North of England -68 28 £550 +6.80% 5
North West -45 25 £550 - 3
South West -2 20 £625 +19.05% 4
East of England -14 7 £700 +26.13% 3
North East -5 3 £550 -
Yorkshire -46 3 £520 +89.09% 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 21 (9.13%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (5.22%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.74%) AWS
2 35 (15.22%) Azure
3 16 (6.96%) GCP
4 7 (3.04%) Akamai
4 7 (3.04%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.74%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (1.74%) SaaS
8 2 (0.87%) GitHub
8 2 (0.87%) IaaS
8 2 (0.87%) PaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.43%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 138 (60.00%) OSPF
2 124 (53.91%) Firewall
3 97 (42.17%) MPLS
4 95 (41.30%) VPN
5 94 (40.87%) WAN
6 68 (29.57%) IPsec
7 63 (27.39%) VLAN
8 55 (23.91%) Network Security
9 50 (21.74%) LAN
10 49 (21.30%) DNS
11 38 (16.52%) SD-WAN
11 38 (16.52%) Wireless
12 34 (14.78%) VXLAN
13 30 (13.04%) DHCP
14 28 (12.17%) EIGRP
15 26 (11.30%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (10.87%) Wireshark
17 22 (9.57%) Ethernet VPN
17 22 (9.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 22 (9.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.43%) Redis
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (5.65%) Git
2 10 (4.35%) JIRA
3 7 (3.04%) GitLab
4 4 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 77 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (9.57%) Finance
6 14 (6.09%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.78%) Banking
8 8 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Advertising
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Military
10 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) French Language
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 128 (55.65%) Network Engineer
2 32 (13.91%) Architect
3 25 (10.87%) Cisco Engineer
3 25 (10.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 22 (9.57%) Senior
5 18 (7.83%) WAN Engineer
6 17 (7.39%) Support Engineer
7 15 (6.52%) Network Architect
8 14 (6.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Designer
8 14 (6.09%) Juniper Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Network Security Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Security Engineer
9 13 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support
9 13 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (5.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 13 (5.65%) Senior Network Engineer
10 11 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.39%) NETCONF
2 11 (4.78%) YANG
3 10 (4.35%) RESTCONF
4 9 (3.91%) REST
5 6 (2.61%) 802.1X
6 5 (2.17%) Jinja
6 5 (2.17%) JSON
7 3 (1.30%) SAML
7 3 (1.30%) XML
7 3 (1.30%) YAML
8 2 (0.87%) OpenConfig
8 2 (0.87%) SOAP
9 1 (0.43%) CrewAI
9 1 (0.43%) eBPF
9 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.43%) gRPC
9 1 (0.43%) JFC
9 1 (0.43%) LangChain
9 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.43%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.65%) Data Centre
2 41 (17.83%) PKI
3 17 (7.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.48%) Operational Technology
5 8 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.87%) NHS
9 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.43%) SCADA
10 1 (0.43%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.39%) Linux
2 14 (6.09%) Windows
3 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) CentOS
5 2 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (20.43%) Network Design
2 34 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (13.48%) Load Balancing
4 29 (12.61%) Network Segmentation
5 28 (12.17%) Network Virtualisation
6 27 (11.74%) High Availability
7 23 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
8 22 (9.57%) Validation
9 20 (8.70%) Migration
9 20 (8.70%) Network Architecture
10 19 (8.26%) Change Control
10 19 (8.26%) DevOps
11 17 (7.39%) Roadmaps
12 15 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (6.52%) ITIL
12 15 (6.52%) Service Management
12 15 (6.52%) TOGAF
13 14 (6.09%) Agile
13 14 (6.09%) CI/CD
14 13 (5.65%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 84 (36.52%) Python
2 21 (9.13%) Bash
3 16 (6.96%) Perl
4 11 (4.78%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.48%) Lisp
6 6 (2.61%) C++
7 3 (1.30%) SQL
8 1 (0.43%) C
8 1 (0.43%) Go
8 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (47.83%) Cisco Certification
2 95 (41.30%) Security Cleared
3 87 (37.83%) CCNP
4 69 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 40 (17.39%) CCIE
6 24 (10.43%) JNCIE
7 23 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 20 (8.70%) Degree
9 19 (8.26%) CCNA
10 14 (6.09%) JNCIS
11 13 (5.65%) AWS Certification
12 11 (4.78%) JNCIA
13 10 (4.35%) JNCIP
14 8 (3.48%) CCDP
14 8 (3.48%) CISSP
15 6 (2.61%) CCSA
16 4 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (1.74%) Azure Certification
16 4 (1.74%) CCSE
16 4 (1.74%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.04%) GDPR
2 7 (3.04%) NIST
3 6 (2.61%) NCSC
4 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (11.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.96%) VMware NSX
3 15 (6.52%) Docker
4 14 (6.09%) Firmware
5 8 (3.48%) Active Directory
5 8 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (30.43%) Ansible
2 37 (16.09%) FortiGate
3 26 (11.30%) Terraform
4 10 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.74%) CA Spectrum
6 3 (1.30%) Iperf
6 3 (1.30%) Nmap
6 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.87%) Grafana
7 2 (0.87%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.87%) Nagios
7 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.43%) CASB
8 1 (0.43%) Icinga
8 1 (0.43%) Observium
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 148 (64.35%) Cisco
2 87 (37.83%) Juniper
3 61 (26.52%) Fortinet
4 51 (22.17%) Palo Alto
5 48 (20.87%) F5
6 37 (16.09%) VMware
7 30 (13.04%) SolarWinds
8 26 (11.30%) Meraki
9 24 (10.43%) Arista
10 18 (7.83%) CheckPoint
11 14 (6.09%) ServiceNow
12 13 (5.65%) Microsoft
13 11 (4.78%) Remedy
14 10 (4.35%) Zscaler
15 9 (3.91%) Dell
16 8 (3.48%) Atlassian
16 8 (3.48%) Ekahau
17 7 (3.04%) Red Hat
18 6 (2.61%) Aruba
18 6 (2.61%) Nokia