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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 229 232
Rank change year-on-year -44 +3 +107
Contract jobs citing BGP 365 279 365
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.16% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.06% 8.93% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 175 230
10th Percentile £349 £340 £333
25th Percentile £405 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £598 £539
90th Percentile £650 £649 £613
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 4,028 3,123 4,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.60% 12.97% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,492 1,954 2,872
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 122 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +135.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.03 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% +3.75% +119.30%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -79 113 £450 -10.00% 32
South East +10 103 £465 +3.33% 20
North of England -52 80 £575 +15.00% 13
North West -24 63 £575 +12.20% 6
Midlands -25 51 £413 +37.50% 9
West Midlands -28 48 £413 +43.48% 8
South West -46 23 £525 -12.50% 8
North East -17 12 £650 +160.00% 4
Yorkshire -42 11 £475 +35.71% 3
East of England -29 4 £500 +29.03% 4
East Midlands -26 2 - - 1
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 7 (1.92%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.10%) Confluence
3 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.55%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 79 (21.64%) Azure
2 76 (20.82%) AWS
3 22 (6.03%) GCP
4 21 (5.75%) OCI
5 16 (4.38%) SaaS
6 14 (3.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (2.19%) Route 53
8 6 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.82%) GitHub
11 3 (0.82%) IaaS
11 3 (0.82%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.82%) PaaS
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 247 (67.67%) OSPF
2 223 (61.10%) WAN
3 218 (59.73%) Firewall
4 138 (37.81%) LAN
5 107 (29.32%) VPN
6 101 (27.67%) VXLAN
7 88 (24.11%) Network Security
8 85 (23.29%) DNS
8 85 (23.29%) MPLS
8 85 (23.29%) VLAN
9 79 (21.64%) SD-WAN
10 77 (21.10%) Ethernet VPN
11 67 (18.36%) Multicast
12 58 (15.89%) BIG-IP
13 52 (14.25%) IPsec
14 48 (13.15%) TCP/IP
15 41 (11.23%) Cisco ISE
15 41 (11.23%) DHCP
16 40 (10.96%) Wireless
17 38 (10.41%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 20 (5.48%) GitLab
2 8 (2.19%) Git
3 6 (1.64%) JIRA
4 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) AppScan
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 45 (12.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.14%) Finance
3 33 (9.04%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (7.67%) Banking
5 28 (7.67%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (6.03%) Telecoms
7 20 (5.48%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.56%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.47%) Military
10 6 (1.64%) Legal
11 4 (1.10%) Police
11 4 (1.10%) Retail
12 3 (0.82%) German Language
12 3 (0.82%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (55.07%) Network Engineer
2 70 (19.18%) Senior
3 60 (16.44%) Cisco Engineer
4 56 (15.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 45 (12.33%) Security Engineer
6 40 (10.96%) Network Security Engineer
7 39 (10.68%) Data Network Engineer
8 37 (10.14%) Architect
8 37 (10.14%) Senior Network Engineer
9 33 (9.04%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 32 (8.77%) Data Engineer
11 25 (6.85%) Network Architect
11 25 (6.85%) Network Specialist
12 24 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (6.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 18 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) Operations Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) Web Engineer
15 14 (3.84%) Firewall Specialist
16 9 (2.47%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.23%) 802.1X
2 11 (3.01%) REST
3 7 (1.92%) LDAP
3 7 (1.92%) NETCONF
3 7 (1.92%) YANG
4 5 (1.37%) CSS
5 4 (1.10%) Jinja
6 2 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.55%) HTML
6 2 (0.55%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.55%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.55%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.27%) SAML
7 1 (0.27%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (44.93%) Data Centre
2 41 (11.23%) PKI
3 34 (9.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (6.85%) Clustering
5 17 (4.66%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.82%) CESG
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.82%) SCADA
11 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.14%) Windows
2 19 (5.21%) Linux
3 6 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (27.40%) Load Balancing
2 68 (18.63%) High Availability
3 56 (15.34%) Network Design
4 52 (14.25%) Zero Trust
5 46 (12.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (11.23%) Migration
7 39 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (9.32%) Network Architecture
9 32 (8.77%) CI/CD
9 32 (8.77%) ITIL
10 30 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (8.22%) Observability
11 29 (7.95%) DevOps
12 26 (7.12%) Identity Access Management
13 25 (6.85%) Mentoring
13 25 (6.85%) Network Segmentation
13 25 (6.85%) Project Delivery
14 24 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (6.30%) Network Monitoring
16 22 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.19%) Python
2 7 (1.92%) Bash
3 5 (1.37%) SQL
4 4 (1.10%) PHP
5 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.55%) Perl
7 1 (0.27%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 142 (38.90%) Security Cleared
2 141 (38.63%) Cisco Certification
3 103 (28.22%) SC Cleared
4 100 (27.40%) CCNP
5 43 (11.78%) CCIE
6 42 (11.51%) DV Cleared
7 23 (6.30%) Degree
8 20 (5.48%) CCNA
9 12 (3.29%) JNCIP
10 11 (3.01%) JNCIS
11 10 (2.74%) JNCIA
11 10 (2.74%) JNCIE
12 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.92%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.92%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.37%) CCDP
14 5 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.37%) GIAC
14 5 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.29%) NIST
2 9 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.47%) NCSC
3 7 (1.92%) SLA
4 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.82%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) RMADS
6 2 (0.55%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 29 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.47%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.92%) Firmware
5 6 (1.64%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.55%) Docker
7 2 (0.55%) vCloud
8 1 (0.27%) KVM
8 1 (0.27%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (24.11%) Ansible
2 52 (14.25%) Terraform
3 40 (10.96%) FortiGate
4 18 (4.93%) Grafana
5 16 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.64%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.64%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.37%) Nagios
8 3 (0.82%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.82%) SCOM
9 2 (0.55%) CASB
9 2 (0.55%) Iperf
9 2 (0.55%) Nmap
9 2 (0.55%) QRadar
10 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) Suricata
10 1 (0.27%) vRealize
10 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 264 (72.33%) Cisco
2 135 (36.99%) F5
3 99 (27.12%) Palo Alto
4 68 (18.63%) Juniper
5 67 (18.36%) Arista
6 66 (18.08%) Fortinet
7 45 (12.33%) Aruba
8 39 (10.68%) CheckPoint
9 34 (9.32%) SolarWinds
10 32 (8.77%) VMware
11 30 (8.22%) Splunk
12 26 (7.12%) Extreme Networks
13 13 (3.56%) Zscaler
14 12 (3.29%) Meraki
15 9 (2.47%) ServiceNow
16 8 (2.19%) Microsoft
17 7 (1.92%) Nokia
18 6 (1.64%) Ekahau
18 6 (1.64%) Google
19 5 (1.37%) Netskope