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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 238 209
Rank change year-on-year -52 -29 +167
Contract jobs citing BGP 323 266 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.09% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.45% 8.32% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 167 248
10th Percentile £350 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -6.17%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £550
90th Percentile £638 £633 £613
UK median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £47.22 - £21.83
25th Percentile £56.01 £18.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £71.33 £19.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +275.42% -38.71% -55.71%
75th Percentile £73.13 £19.50 £68.13
90th Percentile £73.81 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £19.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +275.42% -49.33% -46.43%

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 3,821 3,197 5,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 13.07% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,395 1,989 3,017
10th Percentile £246 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £490
% change year-on-year +2.30% -0.26% -5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 123 396
10th Percentile £16.11 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £36.65 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.45% -6.64% +107.95%
75th Percentile £65.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.24 £37.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.97% -1.32% +100.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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
South East +3 108 £450 -10.00% 26
London -85 100 £475 -5.00% 21
North of England -73 55 £520 +4.00% 19
North West -36 47 £520 -0.95% 9
Midlands -39 47 £413 +26.92% 9
West Midlands -32 44 £413 +37.50% 8
South West -39 21 £513 -2.38% 10
Yorkshire -57 6 £538 +53.57% 4
North East -16 4 - - 6
East of England -30 4 £500 +17.65% 4
East Midlands -38 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 6 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.24%) Confluence
3 3 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.72%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.96%) AWS
2 56 (17.34%) Azure
3 17 (5.26%) GCP
4 14 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (2.48%) OCI
5 8 (2.48%) Route 53
5 8 (2.48%) SaaS
6 7 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.55%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.93%) GitHub
9 3 (0.93%) IaaS
9 3 (0.93%) Nutanix
9 3 (0.93%) PaaS
10 2 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 233 (72.14%) OSPF
2 201 (62.23%) Firewall
3 192 (59.44%) WAN
4 135 (41.80%) LAN
5 108 (33.44%) VPN
6 88 (27.24%) Network Security
7 83 (25.70%) VXLAN
8 78 (24.15%) MPLS
9 77 (23.84%) DNS
10 68 (21.05%) VLAN
11 62 (19.20%) Ethernet VPN
12 61 (18.89%) Multicast
13 56 (17.34%) SD-WAN
14 48 (14.86%) IPsec
15 45 (13.93%) BIG-IP
16 42 (13.00%) Cisco ISE
16 42 (13.00%) DHCP
17 41 (12.69%) Cisco ASA
17 41 (12.69%) Wireless
18 40 (12.38%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 10 (3.10%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) GitLab
3 5 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.24%) JIRA
5 3 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.31%) AppScan
6 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
General
1 47 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.15%) Documentation Skills
3 31 (9.60%) Finance
3 31 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.05%) Banking
6 20 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 18 (5.57%) Investment Banking
8 15 (4.64%) Financial Institution
9 14 (4.33%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.10%) Military
11 6 (1.86%) Retail
12 3 (0.93%) Legal
12 3 (0.93%) Police
13 2 (0.62%) Aviation
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.31%) Billing
Job Titles
1 196 (60.68%) Network Engineer
2 56 (17.34%) Cisco Engineer
3 53 (16.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 48 (14.86%) Senior
5 44 (13.62%) Security Engineer
6 39 (12.07%) Network Security Engineer
7 34 (10.53%) Architect
7 34 (10.53%) Data Network Engineer
8 30 (9.29%) Senior Network Engineer
9 29 (8.98%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 28 (8.67%) Data Engineer
11 27 (8.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 23 (7.12%) Network Specialist
13 22 (6.81%) Network Architect
14 14 (4.33%) Firewall Specialist
15 13 (4.02%) Web Engineer
16 11 (3.41%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 11 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.41%) Operations Engineer
17 9 (2.79%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.07%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.48%) NETCONF
2 8 (2.48%) YANG
3 7 (2.17%) REST
4 6 (1.86%) LDAP
5 4 (1.24%) Jinja
5 4 (1.24%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.24%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.24%) VML
6 2 (0.62%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.62%) CSS
6 2 (0.62%) HTML
6 2 (0.62%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.31%) JSON
7 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (44.58%) Data Centre
2 40 (12.38%) PKI
3 25 (7.74%) Clustering
4 21 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.48%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.24%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) CESG
9 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.93%) SCADA
9 3 (0.93%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.62%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.46%) Windows
2 17 (5.26%) Linux
3 6 (1.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.62%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (26.32%) Load Balancing
2 55 (17.03%) High Availability
3 42 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (12.69%) Network Design
5 34 (10.53%) Migration
6 30 (9.29%) ITIL
6 30 (9.29%) Observability
7 28 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (8.67%) Zero Trust
8 26 (8.05%) Identity Access Management
9 23 (7.12%) Project Delivery
10 22 (6.81%) Network Monitoring
10 22 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (6.50%) Change Management
11 21 (6.50%) Network Segmentation
12 19 (5.88%) Network Architecture
12 19 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (5.57%) DevOps
13 18 (5.57%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (20.12%) Python
2 4 (1.24%) Bash
2 4 (1.24%) PHP
3 3 (0.93%) Lisp
4 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.62%) SQL
5 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 142 (43.96%) Cisco Certification
2 138 (42.72%) Security Cleared
3 103 (31.89%) CCNP
4 102 (31.58%) SC Cleared
5 42 (13.00%) CCIE
6 41 (12.69%) DV Cleared
7 27 (8.36%) CCNA
8 22 (6.81%) Degree
9 16 (4.95%) JNCIS
10 14 (4.33%) JNCIP
11 11 (3.41%) JNCIA
11 11 (3.41%) JNCIE
12 8 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.86%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.86%) GIAC
14 5 (1.55%) CCDP
14 5 (1.55%) CISSP
14 5 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.10%) SLA
2 9 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.79%) NCSC
2 9 (2.79%) NIST
3 4 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.93%) RMADS
5 2 (0.62%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) COBIT
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) GRC
6 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 25 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (2.48%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Docker
4 2 (0.62%) Firmware
4 2 (0.62%) vCloud
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) KVM
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (21.05%) Ansible
2 47 (14.55%) FortiGate
3 37 (11.46%) Terraform
4 14 (4.33%) Grafana
5 12 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.86%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.55%) Nagios
8 4 (1.24%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.93%) SCOM
10 2 (0.62%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.62%) Iperf
10 2 (0.62%) Nmap
11 1 (0.31%) CASB
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.31%) Nessus
11 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.31%) QRadar
11 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 257 (79.57%) Cisco
2 120 (37.15%) F5
3 92 (28.48%) Palo Alto
4 75 (23.22%) Juniper
5 58 (17.96%) Fortinet
6 49 (15.17%) CheckPoint
7 43 (13.31%) Arista
8 41 (12.69%) Aruba
9 33 (10.22%) SolarWinds
10 28 (8.67%) Splunk
10 28 (8.67%) VMware
11 26 (8.05%) Extreme Networks
12 19 (5.88%) Meraki
13 16 (4.95%) Zscaler
14 11 (3.41%) Nokia
15 9 (2.79%) Microsoft
15 9 (2.79%) ServiceNow
16 8 (2.48%) Ekahau
17 6 (1.86%) Remedy
18 5 (1.55%) Google