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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 247 252
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +60
Contract jobs citing BGP 396 278 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.07% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.49% 8.39% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 174 229
10th Percentile £350 £336 £300
25th Percentile £411 £423 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £654 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £47.22 £37.00 £19.45
25th Percentile £56.01 £38.13 £20.88
Median hourly rate £71.33 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.33% +70.21% -66.43%
75th Percentile £73.13 £49.38 £44.38
90th Percentile £73.81 £55.00 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +78.33% +1.91% -43.93%

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 4,174 3,312 4,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.69% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,572 2,046 2,882
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 143 391
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.75 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% -12.82% +121.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £44.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -1.11% +114.29%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -75 119 £450 -5.26% 36
South East +12 102 £500 +11.11% 23
North of England -26 96 £495 +4.21% 12
North West -13 75 £475 - 7
Midlands -36 54 £419 +19.64% 8
West Midlands -36 51 £413 +17.86% 6
South West -41 26 £538 -14.00% 11
Yorkshire -40 14 £490 +40.00% 5
North East -25 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -22 5 £500 - 3
East Midlands -16 2 - - 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 11 (2.78%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.01%) Confluence
3 3 (0.76%) SAS
3 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.76%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 99 (25.00%) Azure
2 86 (21.72%) AWS
3 29 (7.32%) GCP
4 22 (5.56%) OCI
5 17 (4.29%) SaaS
6 16 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (3.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.02%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (1.26%) GitHub
9 5 (1.26%) Route 53
10 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.76%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.76%) IaaS
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 253 (63.89%) OSPF
2 235 (59.34%) Firewall
3 233 (58.84%) WAN
4 138 (34.85%) LAN
5 123 (31.06%) VPN
6 104 (26.26%) VXLAN
7 96 (24.24%) MPLS
8 94 (23.74%) DNS
8 94 (23.74%) Network Security
9 92 (23.23%) VLAN
10 87 (21.97%) SD-WAN
11 77 (19.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 72 (18.18%) Multicast
13 62 (15.66%) BIG-IP
14 57 (14.39%) TCP/IP
15 53 (13.38%) IPsec
16 48 (12.12%) Wireless
17 47 (11.87%) Cisco ASA
18 44 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 43 (10.86%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 21 (5.30%) GitLab
2 11 (2.78%) Git
3 7 (1.77%) JIRA
4 5 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) AppScan
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
General
1 58 (14.65%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.10%) Finance
3 34 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.08%) Banking
6 28 (7.07%) Telecoms
7 20 (5.05%) Investment Banking
8 18 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.28%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.02%) Military
11 7 (1.77%) Legal
12 6 (1.52%) Police
13 5 (1.26%) Retail
14 3 (0.76%) German Language
14 3 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.76%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.51%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 216 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 81 (20.45%) Senior
3 57 (14.39%) Cisco Engineer
4 55 (13.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 50 (12.63%) Security Engineer
6 45 (11.36%) Network Security Engineer
7 44 (11.11%) Architect
8 43 (10.86%) Senior Network Engineer
9 41 (10.35%) Data Network Engineer
10 35 (8.84%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 34 (8.59%) Data Engineer
12 31 (7.83%) Network Architect
13 26 (6.57%) Network Specialist
14 24 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (4.29%) Web Engineer
17 16 (4.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
18 14 (3.54%) Consultant
18 14 (3.54%) Firewall Specialist
19 13 (3.28%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.60%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.28%) REST
3 11 (2.78%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.78%) YANG
4 7 (1.77%) LDAP
5 5 (1.26%) CSS
6 4 (1.01%) Jinja
6 4 (1.01%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.01%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.51%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.51%) RFC 2544
7 2 (0.51%) SAML
8 1 (0.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (42.93%) Data Centre
2 47 (11.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (9.85%) PKI
4 26 (6.57%) Clustering
5 24 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.02%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.01%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.76%) SCADA
13 2 (0.51%) CESG
13 2 (0.51%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.36%) Windows
2 17 (4.29%) Linux
3 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.51%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 73 (18.43%) High Availability
3 65 (16.41%) Network Design
4 62 (15.66%) Zero Trust
5 57 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (14.14%) Migration
7 44 (11.11%) Network Architecture
8 43 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (10.61%) ITIL
10 37 (9.34%) CI/CD
11 33 (8.33%) Observability
12 32 (8.08%) DevOps
12 32 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (7.83%) Project Delivery
14 27 (6.82%) Network Segmentation
14 27 (6.82%) Validation
15 26 (6.57%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (6.06%) Change Management
17 23 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (5.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 105 (26.52%) Python
2 8 (2.02%) Bash
3 6 (1.52%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.52%) SQL
4 4 (1.01%) PHP
5 3 (0.76%) Perl
6 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.25%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 140 (35.35%) Cisco Certification
2 138 (34.85%) Security Cleared
3 96 (24.24%) CCNP
4 94 (23.74%) SC Cleared
5 50 (12.63%) CCIE
6 45 (11.36%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.81%) Degree
8 19 (4.80%) CCNA
9 14 (3.54%) JNCIE
10 11 (2.78%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.27%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.27%) JNCIS
12 8 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.02%) JNCIA
13 7 (1.77%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.26%) CISSP
14 5 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.26%) GIAC
15 4 (1.01%) CCDP
15 4 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.03%) NCSC
2 11 (2.78%) NIST
3 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.01%) SLA
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
5 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.76%) QA
6 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.51%) RMADS
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) COBIT
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.77%) Firmware
5 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.51%) Docker
6 2 (0.51%) vCloud
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (26.26%) Ansible
2 65 (16.41%) Terraform
3 51 (12.88%) FortiGate
4 19 (4.80%) Grafana
5 17 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.76%) Nagios
7 3 (0.76%) SCOM
8 2 (0.51%) CASB
8 2 (0.51%) Iperf
8 2 (0.51%) Nmap
8 2 (0.51%) QRadar
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Suricata
9 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 279 (70.45%) Cisco
2 150 (37.88%) F5
3 110 (27.78%) Palo Alto
4 83 (20.96%) Fortinet
5 78 (19.70%) Juniper
6 77 (19.44%) Arista
7 40 (10.10%) Aruba
8 39 (9.85%) SolarWinds
9 38 (9.60%) CheckPoint
10 34 (8.59%) VMware
11 31 (7.83%) Splunk
12 26 (6.57%) Extreme Networks
13 20 (5.05%) Microsoft
14 19 (4.80%) Zscaler
15 16 (4.04%) Meraki
16 10 (2.53%) ServiceNow
17 9 (2.27%) Google
18 7 (1.77%) Citrix
19 6 (1.52%) Ekahau
19 6 (1.52%) Nokia