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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 275 258
Rank change year-on-year -15 -17 +22
Contract jobs citing BGP 403 260 296
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.94% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.29% 7.80% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 167 175
10th Percentile £385 £325 £343
25th Percentile £425 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £485 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -2.02% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £551
90th Percentile £700 £664 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £48.63 £37.38 £23.15
25th Percentile £50.75 £39.06 £30.13
Median hourly rate £57.13 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% +16.07% -31.15%
75th Percentile £69.91 £60.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £83.14 £64.70 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £57.13 £48.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +17.18% +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 4,339 3,334 3,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 12.00% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,074 2,329
10th Percentile £250 £238 £243
25th Percentile £400 £367 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -2.77% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 168 231
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.48 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -38.49% -17.48% -8.83%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -58 136 £500 +3.09% 55
North of England +7 106 £500 +5.26% 13
North West -1 77 £488 +2.63% 6
South East -33 72 £525 +5.00% 21
Midlands -45 46 £468 +17.00% 5
West Midlands -37 42 £571 +42.69% 4
South West -35 33 £525 -16.67% 8
Yorkshire -24 22 £495 +23.75% 6
North East -34 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East of England -29 7 £475 -32.14% 25
East Midlands -15 3 - - 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 12 (2.98%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.99%) SAS
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.74%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 105 (26.05%) Azure
2 80 (19.85%) AWS
3 23 (5.71%) GCP
3 23 (5.71%) OCI
4 20 (4.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 18 (4.47%) GitHub
6 13 (3.23%) SaaS
7 10 (2.48%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.25%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 225 (55.83%) Firewall
1 225 (55.83%) OSPF
2 194 (48.14%) WAN
3 118 (29.28%) VPN
4 116 (28.78%) VLAN
5 108 (26.80%) LAN
6 93 (23.08%) MPLS
6 93 (23.08%) VXLAN
7 86 (21.34%) DNS
8 83 (20.60%) Network Security
9 82 (20.35%) SD-WAN
10 65 (16.13%) IPsec
10 65 (16.13%) Wireless
11 64 (15.88%) Ethernet VPN
11 64 (15.88%) Wi-Fi
12 62 (15.38%) Multicast
12 62 (15.38%) TCP/IP
13 49 (12.16%) Cisco Nexus
14 47 (11.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 46 (11.41%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 27 (6.70%) GitLab
2 18 (4.47%) Git
3 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.24%) JIRA
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 70 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (10.42%) Finance
4 28 (6.95%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.70%) Banking
5 27 (6.70%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.99%) Legal
8 8 (1.99%) Police
8 8 (1.99%) Retail
9 6 (1.49%) Military
10 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) German Language
12 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.74%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (58.56%) Network Engineer
2 88 (21.84%) Senior
3 57 (14.14%) Cisco Engineer
3 57 (14.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 55 (13.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 44 (10.92%) Architect
6 39 (9.68%) Security Engineer
7 38 (9.43%) Network Security Engineer
8 34 (8.44%) Data Network Engineer
9 33 (8.19%) Network Architect
10 28 (6.95%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 27 (6.70%) Consultant
11 27 (6.70%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.71%) Network Consultant
13 19 (4.71%) Network Specialist
14 18 (4.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.22%) Developer
16 13 (3.23%) Web Engineer
17 12 (2.98%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.13%) Terraform
2 22 (5.46%) REST
3 20 (4.96%) 802.1X
4 12 (2.98%) NETCONF
5 11 (2.73%) YAML
6 10 (2.48%) YANG
7 9 (2.23%) JSON
8 6 (1.49%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.24%) OpenConfig
10 4 (0.99%) CSS
11 3 (0.74%) 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%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 159 (39.45%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.95%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.97%) PKI
5 11 (2.73%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (1.99%) Digital Signage
7 8 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.74%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.49%) Clustering
10 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.74%) CMDB
12 3 (0.74%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.74%) IoT
12 3 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.20%) Windows
2 20 (4.96%) Linux
3 4 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (22.83%) Load Balancing
2 69 (17.12%) High Availability
3 68 (16.87%) Zero Trust
4 66 (16.38%) Migration
4 66 (16.38%) Network Design
5 64 (15.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (10.67%) ITIL
8 42 (10.42%) Network Architecture
9 41 (10.17%) Project Delivery
10 39 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 37 (9.18%) Validation
12 34 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
14 29 (7.20%) DevOps
15 27 (6.70%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (6.45%) Change Control
16 26 (6.45%) Cloud Security
16 26 (6.45%) Mentoring
17 25 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (29.28%) Python
2 10 (2.48%) Bash
3 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.24%) SQL
4 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.50%) Go
5 2 (0.50%) Perl
6 1 (0.25%) C++
6 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 125 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 109 (27.05%) Cisco Certification
3 81 (20.10%) CCNP
4 76 (18.86%) SC Cleared
5 44 (10.92%) CCIE
6 42 (10.42%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.47%) Degree
8 15 (3.72%) CCNA
9 13 (3.23%) JNCIE
10 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.99%) PMP
13 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.74%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.74%) CISSP
14 3 (0.74%) VCDX
15 2 (0.50%) CWNA
15 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.99%) NCSC
2 3 (0.74%) NIST
3 2 (0.50%) GDPR
3 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.50%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (6.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.72%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.74%) Firmware
4 6 (1.49%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.24%) Docker
6 4 (0.99%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) 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
1 113 (28.04%) Ansible
2 34 (8.44%) FortiGate
3 19 (4.71%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.98%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.73%) Grafana
6 8 (1.99%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.24%) Cilium
8 4 (0.99%) Istio
8 4 (0.99%) Nagios
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 (71.22%) Cisco
2 129 (32.01%) F5
3 117 (29.03%) Palo Alto
4 89 (22.08%) Fortinet
5 77 (19.11%) Arista
6 56 (13.90%) Juniper
7 39 (9.68%) Aruba
8 37 (9.18%) VMware
9 36 (8.93%) CheckPoint
10 26 (6.45%) Microsoft
11 23 (5.71%) SolarWinds
12 16 (3.97%) ServiceNow
12 16 (3.97%) Zscaler
13 15 (3.72%) Meraki
14 11 (2.73%) Splunk
15 9 (2.23%) Red Hat
16 7 (1.74%) Google
16 7 (1.74%) Nokia
17 6 (1.49%) Extreme Networks
17 6 (1.49%) Infoblox