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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 262 250
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 +33
Contract jobs citing BGP 416 271 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.98% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.59% 8.02% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 175 190
10th Percentile £387 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £550
90th Percentile £700 £670 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £48.55 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £49.00 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £58.25 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.49% +16.07% -31.15%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £85.02 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year +19.49% +16.07% -30.00%

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 4,339 3,378 4,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.17% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 2,100 2,422
10th Percentile £263 £242 £250
25th Percentile £400 £364 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 169 259
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -24.77% -
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.68 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.62%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -61 138 £500 +5.26% 145
North of England +3 109 £500 +5.26% 10
South East -24 81 £525 +5.00% 27
North West -8 80 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -34 48 £425 +6.25% 10
West Midlands -27 45 £440 +10.06% 8
South West -35 33 £525 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire -23 22 £495 +23.75% 8
North East -25 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -24 7 £475 -32.14% 15
East Midlands -13 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 12 (2.88%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.92%) SAS
3 2 (0.48%) Confluence
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 110 (26.44%) Azure
2 84 (20.19%) AWS
3 25 (6.01%) GCP
4 24 (5.77%) OCI
5 20 (4.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (4.09%) GitHub
7 13 (3.13%) SaaS
8 11 (2.64%) AWS Direct Connect
9 10 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.44%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
15 1 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
15 1 (0.24%) IBM Watson
15 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 237 (56.97%) OSPF
2 234 (56.25%) Firewall
3 208 (50.00%) WAN
4 122 (29.33%) VPN
5 117 (28.13%) LAN
6 116 (27.88%) VLAN
7 100 (24.04%) VXLAN
8 96 (23.08%) MPLS
9 92 (22.12%) DNS
10 90 (21.63%) Network Security
11 88 (21.15%) SD-WAN
12 69 (16.59%) Ethernet VPN
13 67 (16.11%) TCP/IP
14 65 (15.63%) Wireless
15 64 (15.38%) IPsec
15 64 (15.38%) Multicast
16 63 (15.14%) Wi-Fi
17 48 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
18 47 (11.30%) Cisco ASA
18 47 (11.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 28 (6.73%) GitLab
2 20 (4.81%) Git
3 7 (1.68%) JIRA
3 7 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 70 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (10.34%) Finance
4 30 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.97%) Banking
6 26 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.57%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.92%) Legal
9 8 (1.92%) Police
9 8 (1.92%) Retail
10 6 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.44%) Military
11 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.72%) German Language
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (58.17%) Network Engineer
2 89 (21.39%) Senior
3 59 (14.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 58 (13.94%) Senior Network Engineer
5 57 (13.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 48 (11.54%) Architect
7 39 (9.38%) Network Security Engineer
7 39 (9.38%) Security Engineer
8 37 (8.89%) Data Network Engineer
9 35 (8.41%) Network Architect
10 30 (7.21%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 29 (6.97%) Data Engineer
12 27 (6.49%) Consultant
13 21 (5.05%) Network Specialist
14 20 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.57%) Network Consultant
16 18 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (4.09%) Developer
18 14 (3.37%) Web Engineer
19 13 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.87%) Terraform
2 24 (5.77%) 802.1X
3 21 (5.05%) REST
4 12 (2.88%) NETCONF
5 11 (2.64%) YANG
6 10 (2.40%) YAML
7 8 (1.92%) JSON
8 6 (1.44%) OpenConfig
8 6 (1.44%) RESTCONF
9 4 (0.96%) CSS
10 3 (0.72%) SAML
11 2 (0.48%) eBPF
11 2 (0.48%) Jinja
12 1 (0.24%) Django
12 1 (0.24%) gRPC
12 1 (0.24%) LDAP
12 1 (0.24%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 166 (39.90%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.57%) PKI
5 11 (2.64%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.16%) Clustering
6 9 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.92%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.44%) Digital Signage
8 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.72%) CMDB
11 3 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.72%) IoT
11 3 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.21%) Windows
2 20 (4.81%) Linux
3 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.72%) Unix
4 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (23.56%) Load Balancing
2 72 (17.31%) High Availability
3 70 (16.83%) Migration
4 69 (16.59%) Zero Trust
5 68 (16.35%) Network Design
6 66 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (10.58%) ITIL
9 43 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 42 (10.10%) Network Architecture
11 41 (9.86%) Project Delivery
12 38 (9.13%) Validation
13 33 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 32 (7.69%) DevOps
15 30 (7.21%) Network Segmentation
16 28 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (6.49%) Mentoring
18 25 (6.01%) Change Control
18 25 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (6.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 121 (29.09%) Python
2 10 (2.40%) Bash
3 6 (1.44%) SQL
4 5 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.48%) Go
6 2 (0.48%) Perl
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) Java
Qualifications
1 133 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 116 (27.88%) Cisco Certification
3 83 (19.95%) CCNP
4 80 (19.23%) SC Cleared
5 47 (11.30%) DV Cleared
6 46 (11.06%) CCIE
7 19 (4.57%) Degree
8 16 (3.85%) CCNA
9 13 (3.13%) JNCIE
10 9 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.20%) PMP
13 4 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.72%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.72%) CISSP
14 3 (0.72%) VCDX
15 2 (0.48%) CWNA
15 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.48%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.96%) NCSC
2 3 (0.72%) NIST
3 2 (0.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.48%) QA
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.61%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.92%) Firmware
4 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.20%) Docker
5 4 (0.96%) vSphere
6 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (28.13%) Ansible
2 38 (9.13%) FortiGate
3 19 (4.57%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.37%) Grafana
4 14 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (1.20%) Cilium
7 4 (0.96%) Istio
7 4 (0.96%) Nagios
8 2 (0.48%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) CASB
9 1 (0.24%) OPNET
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) QRadar
9 1 (0.24%) Rancher
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.24%) Suricata
Vendors
1 296 (71.15%) Cisco
2 134 (32.21%) F5
3 118 (28.37%) Palo Alto
4 91 (21.88%) Fortinet
5 80 (19.23%) Arista
6 60 (14.42%) Juniper
7 39 (9.38%) Aruba
8 37 (8.89%) CheckPoint
8 37 (8.89%) VMware
9 27 (6.49%) Microsoft
9 27 (6.49%) SolarWinds
10 17 (4.09%) Meraki
11 16 (3.85%) ServiceNow
11 16 (3.85%) Zscaler
12 14 (3.37%) Splunk
13 10 (2.40%) Extreme Networks
14 9 (2.16%) Google
14 9 (2.16%) Red Hat
15 6 (1.44%) Ekahau
15 6 (1.44%) Infoblox