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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 232 258
Rank change year-on-year -52 +26 +54
Contract jobs citing BGP 382 279 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.10% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.31% 8.65% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 174 221
10th Percentile £350 £362 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £660 £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 4,103 3,225 4,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 12.76% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,543 1,992 2,860
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -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% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 137 393
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.46 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.88 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% -12.82% +121.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £43.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.71% -2.78% +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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -82 116 £450 -10.00% 25
South East +15 104 £480 +6.67% 18
North of England -34 85 £575 +21.05% 16
North West -29 66 £575 +17.95% 10
Midlands -37 53 £419 +19.64% 7
West Midlands -37 50 £413 +26.92% 7
South West -51 26 £538 -14.00% 4
North East -24 13 £650 +160.00% 1
Yorkshire -30 12 £475 +35.71% 5
East of England -27 5 £500 - 3
East Midlands -15 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 (2.88%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.05%) Confluence
3 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 94 (24.61%) Azure
2 85 (22.25%) AWS
3 27 (7.07%) GCP
4 22 (5.76%) OCI
5 17 (4.45%) SaaS
5 17 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (3.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.09%) AWS Direct Connect
7 8 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.57%) Route 53
9 5 (1.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (1.31%) GitHub
10 4 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.79%) IaaS
11 3 (0.79%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 243 (63.61%) OSPF
2 232 (60.73%) WAN
3 224 (58.64%) Firewall
4 137 (35.86%) LAN
5 114 (29.84%) VPN
6 104 (27.23%) VXLAN
7 94 (24.61%) MPLS
8 91 (23.82%) DNS
8 91 (23.82%) Network Security
9 88 (23.04%) VLAN
10 87 (22.77%) SD-WAN
11 77 (20.16%) Ethernet VPN
12 70 (18.32%) Multicast
13 62 (16.23%) BIG-IP
14 54 (14.14%) TCP/IP
15 53 (13.87%) IPsec
16 43 (11.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 42 (10.99%) Wireless
18 41 (10.73%) DHCP
19 40 (10.47%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 21 (5.50%) GitLab
2 11 (2.88%) Git
3 7 (1.83%) JIRA
4 5 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.26%) AppScan
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 55 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.47%) Finance
3 32 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.12%) Banking
5 30 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 28 (7.33%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (5.24%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.40%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.09%) Military
11 6 (1.57%) Legal
12 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.31%) Retail
13 4 (1.05%) Police
14 3 (0.79%) German Language
14 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (53.14%) Network Engineer
2 78 (20.42%) Senior
3 58 (15.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 55 (14.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 49 (12.83%) Security Engineer
6 44 (11.52%) Architect
6 44 (11.52%) Network Security Engineer
7 40 (10.47%) Data Network Engineer
7 40 (10.47%) Senior Network Engineer
8 34 (8.90%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 33 (8.64%) Data Engineer
10 31 (8.12%) Network Architect
11 25 (6.54%) Network Specialist
12 24 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
15 16 (4.19%) Web Engineer
16 14 (3.66%) Firewall Specialist
16 14 (3.66%) Operations Engineer
17 13 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.21%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.40%) REST
3 11 (2.88%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.88%) YANG
4 7 (1.83%) LDAP
5 5 (1.31%) CSS
6 4 (1.05%) Jinja
6 4 (1.05%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.05%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.52%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.52%) RFC 2544
8 1 (0.26%) HTML
8 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 169 (44.24%) Data Centre
2 47 (12.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (9.69%) PKI
4 26 (6.81%) Clustering
5 24 (6.28%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.09%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.05%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) SCADA
12 2 (0.52%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.52%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.26%) Windows
2 17 (4.45%) Linux
3 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.75%) Load Balancing
2 71 (18.59%) High Availability
3 64 (16.75%) Network Design
4 61 (15.97%) Zero Trust
5 56 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (13.87%) Migration
7 44 (11.52%) Network Architecture
8 41 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (9.69%) CI/CD
10 35 (9.16%) ITIL
11 33 (8.64%) Observability
12 32 (8.38%) DevOps
12 32 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (7.85%) Project Delivery
14 27 (7.07%) Network Segmentation
14 27 (7.07%) Validation
15 26 (6.81%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (6.28%) Mentoring
17 23 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (26.70%) Python
2 8 (2.09%) Bash
3 6 (1.57%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.57%) SQL
4 4 (1.05%) PHP
5 3 (0.79%) Perl
6 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.26%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 139 (36.39%) Cisco Certification
2 131 (34.29%) Security Cleared
3 95 (24.87%) CCNP
4 88 (23.04%) SC Cleared
5 50 (13.09%) CCIE
6 44 (11.52%) DV Cleared
7 24 (6.28%) Degree
8 19 (4.97%) CCNA
9 14 (3.66%) JNCIE
10 11 (2.88%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.36%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.36%) JNCIS
12 8 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.09%) JNCIA
13 7 (1.83%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.31%) CISSP
14 5 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.31%) GIAC
15 4 (1.05%) CCDP
15 4 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.14%) NCSC
2 11 (2.88%) NIST
3 9 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.31%) SLA
5 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.79%) GDPR
6 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.79%) QA
7 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.52%) RMADS
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) COBIT
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (2.88%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.83%) Firmware
5 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.52%) Docker
6 2 (0.52%) vCloud
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (26.70%) Ansible
2 64 (16.75%) Terraform
3 50 (13.09%) FortiGate
4 19 (4.97%) Grafana
5 17 (4.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.57%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.57%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.79%) SCOM
8 2 (0.52%) CASB
8 2 (0.52%) Iperf
8 2 (0.52%) Nagios
8 2 (0.52%) Nmap
8 2 (0.52%) QRadar
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) Suricata
9 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 266 (69.63%) Cisco
2 144 (37.70%) F5
3 102 (26.70%) Palo Alto
4 79 (20.68%) Fortinet
5 75 (19.63%) Arista
6 74 (19.37%) Juniper
7 40 (10.47%) Aruba
8 36 (9.42%) SolarWinds
9 34 (8.90%) VMware
10 32 (8.38%) CheckPoint
11 31 (8.12%) Splunk
12 26 (6.81%) Extreme Networks
13 20 (5.24%) Microsoft
14 19 (4.97%) Zscaler
15 12 (3.14%) Meraki
16 10 (2.62%) ServiceNow
17 9 (2.36%) Google
18 6 (1.57%) Ekahau
18 6 (1.57%) Nokia
19 5 (1.31%) HP