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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 243 253
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 +59
Contract jobs citing BGP 388 282 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.11% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.36% 8.67% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 177 223
10th Percentile £350 £347 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £658 £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 4,144 3,252 4,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.75% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 2,010 2,855
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -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% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 139 396
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.16 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.88 £41.00 £46.69
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -12.19% +125.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £26.69 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.69% - +113.17%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -97 117 £463 -3.65% 24
South East +8 104 £480 +6.67% 17
North of England -36 90 £568 +19.47% 13
North West -22 70 £568 +16.41% 7
Midlands -36 53 £419 +19.64% 6
West Midlands -30 50 £413 +26.92% 6
South West -44 26 £538 -14.00% 5
North East -22 13 £650 +160.00% 1
Yorkshire -41 13 £483 +37.86% 5
East of England -26 5 £500 - 5
East Midlands -18 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 (2.84%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (3.09%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.77%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.74%) Azure
2 86 (22.16%) AWS
3 28 (7.22%) GCP
4 22 (5.67%) OCI
5 17 (4.38%) SaaS
5 17 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (3.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.06%) AWS Direct Connect
7 8 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.55%) Route 53
9 5 (1.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (1.29%) GitHub
10 4 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.77%) IaaS
11 3 (0.77%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 249 (64.18%) OSPF
2 234 (60.31%) WAN
3 230 (59.28%) Firewall
4 138 (35.57%) LAN
5 117 (30.15%) VPN
6 104 (26.80%) VXLAN
7 95 (24.48%) MPLS
8 92 (23.71%) DNS
8 92 (23.71%) Network Security
9 89 (22.94%) VLAN
10 88 (22.68%) SD-WAN
11 77 (19.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 70 (18.04%) Multicast
13 62 (15.98%) BIG-IP
14 55 (14.18%) IPsec
14 55 (14.18%) TCP/IP
15 45 (11.60%) Wireless
16 43 (11.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 42 (10.82%) Cisco ASA
17 42 (10.82%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 21 (5.41%) GitLab
2 11 (2.84%) Git
3 7 (1.80%) JIRA
4 5 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.26%) AppScan
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 57 (14.69%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.31%) Finance
3 33 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.99%) Banking
6 28 (7.22%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (5.15%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.35%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.06%) Military
11 6 (1.55%) Legal
12 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.29%) Police
12 5 (1.29%) Retail
13 3 (0.77%) German Language
13 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.77%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 208 (53.61%) Network Engineer
2 79 (20.36%) Senior
3 58 (14.95%) Cisco Engineer
4 55 (14.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 49 (12.63%) Security Engineer
6 44 (11.34%) Architect
6 44 (11.34%) Network Security Engineer
7 41 (10.57%) Senior Network Engineer
8 40 (10.31%) Data Network Engineer
9 34 (8.76%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 33 (8.51%) Data Engineer
11 31 (7.99%) Network Architect
12 25 (6.44%) Network Specialist
13 24 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
16 16 (4.12%) Web Engineer
17 14 (3.61%) Consultant
17 14 (3.61%) Firewall Specialist
17 14 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.05%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.35%) REST
3 11 (2.84%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.84%) YANG
4 7 (1.80%) LDAP
5 5 (1.29%) CSS
6 4 (1.03%) Jinja
6 4 (1.03%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.03%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.52%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.52%) RFC 2544
8 1 (0.26%) HTML
8 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (44.07%) Data Centre
2 47 (12.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (9.79%) PKI
4 26 (6.70%) Clustering
5 24 (6.19%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.06%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.80%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.03%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.03%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.77%) SCADA
13 2 (0.52%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.52%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.60%) Windows
2 17 (4.38%) Linux
3 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.77%) 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 (27.32%) Load Balancing
2 71 (18.30%) High Availability
3 64 (16.49%) Network Design
4 61 (15.72%) Zero Trust
5 57 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (13.92%) Migration
7 44 (11.34%) Network Architecture
8 42 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (9.79%) ITIL
10 37 (9.54%) CI/CD
11 33 (8.51%) Observability
12 32 (8.25%) DevOps
12 32 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (7.73%) Project Delivery
14 27 (6.96%) Network Segmentation
14 27 (6.96%) Validation
15 26 (6.70%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (6.19%) Mentoring
17 23 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (26.55%) Python
2 8 (2.06%) Bash
3 6 (1.55%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.55%) SQL
4 4 (1.03%) PHP
5 3 (0.77%) Perl
6 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.26%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 141 (36.34%) Cisco Certification
2 134 (34.54%) Security Cleared
3 97 (25.00%) CCNP
4 91 (23.45%) SC Cleared
5 50 (12.89%) CCIE
6 44 (11.34%) DV Cleared
7 24 (6.19%) Degree
8 19 (4.90%) CCNA
9 14 (3.61%) JNCIE
10 11 (2.84%) JNCIP
11 9 (2.32%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.32%) JNCIS
12 8 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.06%) JNCIA
13 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.29%) CISSP
14 5 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.29%) GIAC
15 4 (1.03%) APMG
15 4 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.09%) NCSC
2 11 (2.84%) NIST
3 9 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.29%) SLA
5 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.77%) GDPR
6 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.77%) 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 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (2.84%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.80%) Firmware
5 3 (0.77%) 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
1 103 (26.55%) Ansible
2 65 (16.75%) Terraform
3 50 (12.89%) FortiGate
4 19 (4.90%) Grafana
5 17 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.55%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.55%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.77%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.77%) 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
1 271 (69.85%) Cisco
2 145 (37.37%) F5
3 107 (27.58%) Palo Alto
4 80 (20.62%) Fortinet
5 76 (19.59%) Arista
6 75 (19.33%) Juniper
7 41 (10.57%) Aruba
8 36 (9.28%) CheckPoint
8 36 (9.28%) SolarWinds
9 34 (8.76%) VMware
10 31 (7.99%) Splunk
11 26 (6.70%) Extreme Networks
12 20 (5.15%) Microsoft
13 19 (4.90%) Zscaler
14 13 (3.35%) Meraki
15 10 (2.58%) ServiceNow
16 9 (2.32%) Google
17 6 (1.55%) Ekahau
17 6 (1.55%) Nokia
18 5 (1.29%) HP