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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 292 242
Rank change year-on-year -6 -50 +26
Contract jobs citing BGP 380 245 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.88% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.84% 7.46% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 160 175
10th Percentile £400 £359 £315
25th Percentile £426 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £581
90th Percentile £705 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £503
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.48% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile £50.40 £37.38 £22.33
25th Percentile £58.13 £39.06 £28.06
Median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% +44.44% -0.74%
75th Percentile - £60.88 £42.50
90th Percentile £72.75 £64.70 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.03% +39.29% -2.83%

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 4,297 3,283 3,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.29% 11.73% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,536 2,084 2,245
10th Percentile £259 £219 £240
25th Percentile £400 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £599 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 172 161
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.81 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -39.13% +1.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £92.53 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £40.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% -19.00% -11.49%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -66 126 £500 -4.76% 175
North of England +13 98 £500 +8.46% 18
North West +4 69 £488 +2.63% 12
South East -38 63 £525 +5.00% 24
Midlands -51 39 £475 +18.75% 14
West Midlands -47 37 £571 +42.69% 7
South West -33 30 £525 -16.83% 8
Yorkshire -15 22 £495 +12.50% 5
East of England -24 18 £488 -30.36% 13
North East -27 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £475 +8.57% 7
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 14 (3.68%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.11%) SAS
3 3 (0.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 99 (26.05%) Azure
2 80 (21.05%) AWS
3 28 (7.37%) GCP
4 23 (6.05%) OCI
5 22 (5.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 22 (5.79%) GitHub
6 17 (4.47%) AWS Direct Connect
7 13 (3.42%) SaaS
8 8 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.58%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.79%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.53%) IBM Watson
14 1 (0.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.26%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 210 (55.26%) Firewall
2 208 (54.74%) OSPF
3 175 (46.05%) WAN
4 115 (30.26%) VPN
5 102 (26.84%) VLAN
6 101 (26.58%) LAN
7 98 (25.79%) MPLS
8 85 (22.37%) Network Security
9 84 (22.11%) VXLAN
10 82 (21.58%) SD-WAN
11 76 (20.00%) DNS
12 67 (17.63%) TCP/IP
13 64 (16.84%) Ethernet VPN
13 64 (16.84%) IPsec
14 59 (15.53%) Wi-Fi
15 57 (15.00%) Wireless
16 50 (13.16%) Multicast
17 48 (12.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 48 (12.63%) EIGRP
18 42 (11.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (7.89%) GitLab
2 25 (6.58%) Git
3 7 (1.84%) JIRA
3 7 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 66 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 45 (11.84%) Finance
3 43 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.37%) Banking
4 28 (7.37%) Telecoms
5 27 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.95%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.11%) Legal
9 7 (1.84%) Retail
10 6 (1.58%) Military
10 6 (1.58%) Police
11 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.79%) German Language
13 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 223 (58.68%) Network Engineer
2 83 (21.84%) Senior
3 53 (13.95%) Senior Network Engineer
4 45 (11.84%) Architect
4 45 (11.84%) Cisco Engineer
5 43 (11.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 36 (9.47%) Network Architect
7 32 (8.42%) Security Engineer
8 30 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
9 28 (7.37%) Consultant
10 23 (6.05%) Data Network Engineer
11 20 (5.26%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 20 (5.26%) Data Engineer
12 19 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (5.00%) Network Consultant
13 17 (4.47%) Developer
13 17 (4.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.95%) Network Specialist
15 14 (3.68%) Operations Engineer
16 10 (2.63%) Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (17.63%) Terraform
2 27 (7.11%) REST
3 18 (4.74%) 802.1X
4 16 (4.21%) NETCONF
5 15 (3.95%) YAML
6 14 (3.68%) YANG
7 13 (3.42%) JSON
8 6 (1.58%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.32%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.05%) CSS
11 3 (0.79%) SAML
12 2 (0.53%) eBPF
12 2 (0.53%) gRPC
13 1 (0.26%) Django
13 1 (0.26%) LDAP
13 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
13 1 (0.26%) pytest
13 1 (0.26%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 147 (38.68%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.42%) PKI
6 12 (3.16%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.11%) Digital Signage
9 6 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.58%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.05%) CMDB
11 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.79%) Clustering
12 3 (0.79%) IoT
12 3 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.74%) Windows
2 29 (7.63%) Linux
3 12 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.79%) Unix
5 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (21.58%) Load Balancing
2 71 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 71 (18.68%) Zero Trust
3 69 (18.16%) Migration
4 61 (16.05%) Network Design
5 60 (15.79%) High Availability
6 45 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (11.58%) CI/CD
8 43 (11.32%) Validation
9 42 (11.05%) Network Architecture
10 36 (9.47%) ITIL
10 36 (9.47%) Project Delivery
11 35 (9.21%) DevOps
12 34 (8.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (8.16%) Network Segmentation
14 29 (7.63%) Change Control
15 27 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.11%) Runbook
16 26 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.26%) Python
2 11 (2.89%) Bash
3 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.32%) SQL
5 3 (0.79%) Go
5 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.53%) Perl
7 1 (0.26%) C++
7 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 117 (30.79%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.84%) Cisco Certification
3 78 (20.53%) CCNP
4 63 (16.58%) SC Cleared
5 47 (12.37%) DV Cleared
6 43 (11.32%) CCIE
7 18 (4.74%) CCNA
8 13 (3.42%) Degree
8 13 (3.42%) JNCIE
9 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.79%) CCIE Security
10 3 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.53%) CWNA
11 2 (0.53%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
12 1 (0.26%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.05%) NCSC
1 4 (1.05%) NIST
2 3 (0.79%) SLA
3 2 (0.53%) GDPR
3 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
3 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.53%) QA
4 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.74%) VMware NSX
3 14 (3.68%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.16%) vSphere
5 9 (2.37%) Docker
6 6 (1.58%) Firmware
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (29.21%) Ansible
2 35 (9.21%) FortiGate
3 19 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 12 (3.16%) Nagios
5 10 (2.63%) Grafana
5 10 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.11%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.32%) Cilium
8 4 (1.05%) Istio
9 2 (0.53%) Puppet
10 1 (0.26%) CASB
10 1 (0.26%) OPNET
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
10 1 (0.26%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Suricata
10 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 267 (70.26%) Cisco
2 110 (28.95%) Palo Alto
3 109 (28.68%) F5
4 79 (20.79%) Fortinet
5 71 (18.68%) Arista
6 50 (13.16%) Juniper
7 42 (11.05%) VMware
8 37 (9.74%) Aruba
9 34 (8.95%) CheckPoint
10 29 (7.63%) SolarWinds
11 28 (7.37%) Microsoft
12 19 (5.00%) ServiceNow
13 16 (4.21%) Zscaler
14 15 (3.95%) Meraki
15 12 (3.16%) Red Hat
16 9 (2.37%) Google
16 9 (2.37%) Splunk
17 8 (2.11%) Infoblox
18 7 (1.84%) LogicMonitor
19 5 (1.32%) SevOne