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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 282 267
Rank change year-on-year -11 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing BGP 398 256 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.92% 0.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.19% 7.82% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 164 169
10th Percentile £400 £325 £330
25th Percentile £426 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £563
90th Percentile £700 £664 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £48.93 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £56.53 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% +16.07% -31.15%
75th Percentile - £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £75.63 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +41.03% +28.29% -36.67%

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 4,331 3,275 3,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.79% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 2,052 2,319
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -3.55% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £612
90th Percentile £677 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 166 213
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.06 £14.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.81 £23.10
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -29.38% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.63 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -23.53% -15.84% -10.60%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -57 133 £500 - 170
North of England +11 105 £500 +5.26% 21
North West +6 76 £488 +2.63% 15
South East -39 65 £525 +5.00% 33
Midlands -47 42 £571 +42.69% 12
West Midlands -46 39 £571 +42.69% 8
South West -29 32 £525 -16.67% 13
Yorkshire -25 22 £495 +23.75% 5
East of England -20 15 £488 -30.36% 30
North East -30 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East Midlands -16 3 - - 4
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 13 (3.27%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.01%) SAS
3 3 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 102 (25.63%) Azure
2 78 (19.60%) AWS
3 26 (6.53%) GCP
4 23 (5.78%) OCI
5 22 (5.53%) GitHub
6 20 (5.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (3.27%) SaaS
8 12 (3.02%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.51%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.50%) IBM Watson
14 1 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
14 1 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 219 (55.03%) Firewall
1 219 (55.03%) OSPF
2 186 (46.73%) WAN
3 116 (29.15%) VPN
4 114 (28.64%) VLAN
5 101 (25.38%) LAN
6 95 (23.87%) MPLS
7 88 (22.11%) VXLAN
8 82 (20.60%) DNS
9 80 (20.10%) Network Security
9 80 (20.10%) SD-WAN
10 67 (16.83%) Ethernet VPN
11 65 (16.33%) TCP/IP
12 63 (15.83%) IPsec
13 61 (15.33%) Multicast
14 59 (14.82%) Wi-Fi
15 57 (14.32%) Wireless
16 48 (12.06%) Cisco Nexus
17 45 (11.31%) EIGRP
18 44 (11.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (7.29%) GitLab
2 24 (6.03%) Git
3 6 (1.51%) JIRA
3 6 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (10.80%) Finance
3 29 (7.29%) Banking
4 28 (7.04%) Telecoms
5 27 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.01%) Legal
8 8 (2.01%) Retail
9 7 (1.76%) Police
10 6 (1.51%) Military
11 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.75%) German Language
13 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.75%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (59.55%) Network Engineer
2 90 (22.61%) Senior
3 60 (15.08%) Senior Network Engineer
4 55 (13.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 53 (13.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 43 (10.80%) Architect
7 37 (9.30%) Security Engineer
8 35 (8.79%) Network Security Engineer
9 34 (8.54%) Network Architect
10 31 (7.79%) Data Network Engineer
11 28 (7.04%) Consultant
12 26 (6.53%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 25 (6.28%) Data Engineer
14 20 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.77%) Network Consultant
15 19 (4.77%) Network Specialist
16 18 (4.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (4.27%) Developer
18 12 (3.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 12 (3.02%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.83%) Terraform
2 26 (6.53%) REST
3 19 (4.77%) 802.1X
4 15 (3.77%) NETCONF
5 14 (3.52%) YAML
6 13 (3.27%) YANG
7 12 (3.02%) JSON
8 6 (1.51%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.26%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.01%) CSS
11 3 (0.75%) SAML
12 2 (0.50%) eBPF
12 2 (0.50%) gRPC
13 1 (0.25%) Django
13 1 (0.25%) LDAP
13 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
13 1 (0.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 153 (38.44%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.04%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.77%) PKI
5 12 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.76%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (2.01%) Digital Signage
9 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.51%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.26%) Clustering
11 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.01%) CMDB
12 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.75%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.29%) Windows
2 24 (6.03%) Linux
3 9 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.75%) Unix
5 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.36%) Load Balancing
2 69 (17.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 69 (17.34%) Migration
2 69 (17.34%) Zero Trust
3 64 (16.08%) Network Design
4 63 (15.83%) High Availability
5 44 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (10.55%) Network Architecture
6 42 (10.55%) Validation
7 41 (10.30%) CI/CD
8 38 (9.55%) ITIL
8 38 (9.55%) Project Delivery
9 35 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (7.79%) DevOps
11 29 (7.29%) Network Segmentation
12 28 (7.04%) Change Control
13 26 (6.53%) Mentoring
14 25 (6.28%) Cloud Security
14 25 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (6.28%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 120 (30.15%) Python
2 10 (2.51%) Bash
3 6 (1.51%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.26%) SQL
5 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.50%) Go
6 2 (0.50%) Perl
7 1 (0.25%) C++
7 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 122 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 106 (26.63%) Cisco Certification
3 80 (20.10%) CCNP
4 70 (17.59%) SC Cleared
5 44 (11.06%) DV Cleared
6 42 (10.55%) CCIE
7 16 (4.02%) CCNA
8 15 (3.77%) Degree
9 13 (3.27%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.75%) CCIE Security
12 3 (0.75%) CISSP
13 2 (0.50%) CWNA
13 2 (0.50%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.50%) PMP
14 1 (0.25%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.01%) NCSC
2 3 (0.75%) NIST
3 2 (0.50%) GDPR
3 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.50%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.27%) VMware NSX
3 11 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.26%) vSphere
5 7 (1.76%) Docker
6 6 (1.51%) Firmware
7 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (28.89%) Ansible
2 36 (9.05%) FortiGate
3 17 (4.27%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.51%) Grafana
4 10 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.26%) Nagios
6 8 (2.01%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.26%) Cilium
8 4 (1.01%) Istio
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) CASB
10 1 (0.25%) OPNET
10 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
10 1 (0.25%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Suricata
Vendors
1 287 (72.11%) Cisco
2 119 (29.90%) F5
3 113 (28.39%) Palo Alto
4 87 (21.86%) Fortinet
5 79 (19.85%) Arista
6 55 (13.82%) Juniper
7 39 (9.80%) VMware
8 36 (9.05%) Aruba
9 35 (8.79%) CheckPoint
10 28 (7.04%) SolarWinds
11 26 (6.53%) Microsoft
12 17 (4.27%) ServiceNow
12 17 (4.27%) Zscaler
13 15 (3.77%) Meraki
14 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
14 11 (2.76%) Splunk
15 7 (1.76%) Google
16 6 (1.51%) Infoblox
16 6 (1.51%) LogicMonitor
16 6 (1.51%) Nokia