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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 285 244
Rank change year-on-year -26 -41 +29
Contract jobs citing BGP 379 248 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.89% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.77% 7.53% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 161 176
10th Percentile £400 £360 £344
25th Percentile £425 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £577
90th Percentile £705 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
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 4,320 3,292 3,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.28% 11.76% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,539 2,081 2,273
10th Percentile £261 £225 £237
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £590 £608
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 386 173 172
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.83 £25.94
Median hourly rate £41.75 £35.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -38.97% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £92.52 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.94 £50.50
% change year-on-year -22.51% -16.95% -10.60%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -71 124 £488 -2.50% 170
North of England +2 99 £500 +5.26% 27
North West -1 70 £488 +2.63% 16
South East -40 63 £525 +5.00% 31
Midlands -53 38 £571 +42.69% 19
West Midlands -40 37 £571 +42.69% 10
South West -30 30 £525 -16.83% 10
Yorkshire -13 22 £495 +23.75% 10
East of England -15 18 £500 -28.57% 20
North East -30 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East Midlands -14 1 - - 9
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 (3.69%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.11%) SAS
3 3 (0.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 98 (25.86%) Azure
2 78 (20.58%) AWS
3 27 (7.12%) GCP
4 23 (6.07%) OCI
5 22 (5.80%) GitHub
6 21 (5.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 15 (3.96%) AWS Direct Connect
8 13 (3.43%) SaaS
9 8 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.58%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.79%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.53%) 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
1 209 (55.15%) Firewall
2 205 (54.09%) OSPF
3 173 (45.65%) WAN
4 113 (29.82%) VPN
5 102 (26.91%) VLAN
6 99 (26.12%) LAN
7 97 (25.59%) MPLS
8 84 (22.16%) Network Security
8 84 (22.16%) VXLAN
9 79 (20.84%) SD-WAN
10 76 (20.05%) DNS
11 65 (17.15%) TCP/IP
12 64 (16.89%) Ethernet VPN
13 63 (16.62%) IPsec
14 59 (15.57%) Wi-Fi
15 56 (14.78%) Wireless
16 51 (13.46%) Multicast
17 47 (12.40%) Cisco Nexus
18 45 (11.87%) EIGRP
19 42 (11.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (7.92%) GitLab
2 25 (6.60%) Git
3 6 (1.58%) JIRA
3 6 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (11.08%) Finance
4 28 (7.39%) Telecoms
5 27 (7.12%) Banking
6 26 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.96%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.11%) Legal
10 7 (1.85%) Retail
11 6 (1.58%) Police
12 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.32%) Military
13 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.79%) German Language
14 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (58.58%) Network Engineer
2 85 (22.43%) Senior
3 55 (14.51%) Senior Network Engineer
4 47 (12.40%) Cisco Engineer
5 45 (11.87%) Architect
5 45 (11.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 36 (9.50%) Network Architect
7 34 (8.97%) Security Engineer
8 32 (8.44%) Network Security Engineer
9 28 (7.39%) Consultant
10 24 (6.33%) Data Network Engineer
11 22 (5.80%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 21 (5.54%) Data Engineer
13 19 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (5.01%) Network Consultant
14 17 (4.49%) Developer
14 17 (4.49%) Network Specialist
14 17 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.43%) Operations Engineer
16 12 (3.17%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (17.41%) Terraform
2 27 (7.12%) REST
3 18 (4.75%) 802.1X
4 16 (4.22%) NETCONF
5 15 (3.96%) YAML
6 14 (3.69%) YANG
7 13 (3.43%) JSON
8 6 (1.58%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.32%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.06%) CSS
11 3 (0.79%) SAML
12 2 (0.53%) eBPF
12 2 (0.53%) gRPC
13 1 (0.26%) Django
13 1 (0.26%) LDAP
13 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
13 1 (0.26%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 144 (37.99%) Data Centre
2 48 (12.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.39%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.43%) PKI
6 12 (3.17%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (2.11%) Digital Signage
8 8 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.06%) CMDB
11 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.79%) Clustering
12 3 (0.79%) IoT
12 3 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.50%) Windows
2 28 (7.39%) Linux
3 11 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.79%) Unix
5 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (21.64%) Load Balancing
2 70 (18.47%) Migration
2 70 (18.47%) Zero Trust
3 69 (18.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (16.36%) Network Design
5 60 (15.83%) High Availability
6 45 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (11.35%) CI/CD
8 41 (10.82%) Network Architecture
8 41 (10.82%) Validation
9 35 (9.23%) ITIL
10 34 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (8.97%) Project Delivery
11 33 (8.71%) DevOps
12 30 (7.92%) Network Segmentation
13 28 (7.39%) Change Control
14 26 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (6.86%) Runbook
14 26 (6.86%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (6.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 114 (30.08%) Python
2 10 (2.64%) Bash
3 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.32%) SQL
5 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.53%) Go
6 2 (0.53%) Perl
7 1 (0.26%) C++
7 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 117 (30.87%) Security Cleared
2 100 (26.39%) Cisco Certification
3 76 (20.05%) CCNP
4 64 (16.89%) SC Cleared
5 46 (12.14%) DV Cleared
6 43 (11.35%) CCIE
7 16 (4.22%) CCNA
8 13 (3.43%) Degree
8 13 (3.43%) JNCIE
9 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.79%) CCIE Security
10 3 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.53%) CWNA
11 2 (0.53%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.06%) NCSC
1 4 (1.06%) NIST
2 2 (0.53%) GDPR
2 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
2 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.53%) QA
2 2 (0.53%) SLA
3 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.75%) VMware NSX
3 13 (3.43%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.90%) vSphere
5 9 (2.37%) Docker
6 6 (1.58%) Firmware
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (29.02%) Ansible
2 33 (8.71%) FortiGate
3 19 (5.01%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.90%) Nagios
5 10 (2.64%) Grafana
5 10 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.11%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.32%) Cilium
8 4 (1.06%) Istio
9 2 (0.53%) 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
1 268 (70.71%) Cisco
2 110 (29.02%) F5
3 108 (28.50%) Palo Alto
4 81 (21.37%) Fortinet
5 70 (18.47%) Arista
6 51 (13.46%) Juniper
7 42 (11.08%) VMware
8 36 (9.50%) Aruba
9 34 (8.97%) CheckPoint
10 28 (7.39%) Microsoft
10 28 (7.39%) SolarWinds
11 18 (4.75%) ServiceNow
12 16 (4.22%) Zscaler
13 15 (3.96%) Meraki
14 12 (3.17%) Red Hat
15 9 (2.37%) Splunk
16 8 (2.11%) Google
17 7 (1.85%) Infoblox
17 7 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
18 5 (1.32%) SevOne