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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 222 229
Rank change year-on-year -58 +7 +107
Contract jobs citing BGP 361 282 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.17% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.05% 8.99% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 178 231
10th Percentile £350 £351 £335
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £544
90th Percentile £650 £649 £613
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 3,988 3,138 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.57% 13.03% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,468 1,964 2,897
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 120 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.09 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +135.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.43 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £40.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.69% +1.25% +119.30%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -80 113 £450 -10.00% 37
South East +11 105 £458 -3.58% 27
North of England -56 75 £575 +15.00% 19
North West -32 59 £575 +15.00% 10
Midlands -32 50 £413 +37.50% 9
West Midlands -34 47 £413 +43.48% 9
South West -43 23 £525 -12.50% 6
North East -16 11 £650 +160.00% 6
Yorkshire -54 9 £475 +35.71% 3
East of England -35 4 £500 +29.03% 5
East Midlands -30 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 6 (1.66%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.11%) Confluence
3 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.49%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.55%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 77 (21.33%) Azure
2 76 (21.05%) AWS
3 21 (5.82%) GCP
4 20 (5.54%) OCI
5 15 (4.16%) SaaS
6 14 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (2.22%) Route 53
8 6 (1.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.83%) GitHub
11 3 (0.83%) IaaS
11 3 (0.83%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.83%) PaaS
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 249 (68.98%) OSPF
2 223 (61.77%) WAN
3 218 (60.39%) Firewall
4 140 (38.78%) LAN
5 107 (29.64%) VPN
6 98 (27.15%) VXLAN
7 90 (24.93%) Network Security
8 86 (23.82%) MPLS
9 84 (23.27%) DNS
10 82 (22.71%) VLAN
11 76 (21.05%) SD-WAN
12 75 (20.78%) Ethernet VPN
13 67 (18.56%) Multicast
14 57 (15.79%) BIG-IP
15 56 (15.51%) IPsec
16 44 (12.19%) TCP/IP
17 41 (11.36%) Cisco ISE
17 41 (11.36%) DHCP
17 41 (11.36%) Wireless
18 38 (10.53%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 19 (5.26%) GitLab
2 9 (2.49%) Git
3 5 (1.39%) JIRA
4 4 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) AppScan
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 45 (12.47%) Social Skills
2 35 (9.70%) Finance
3 33 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.31%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (7.48%) Banking
7 21 (5.82%) Telecoms
8 19 (5.26%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.32%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.77%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.49%) Military
12 5 (1.39%) Retail
13 4 (1.11%) Legal
13 4 (1.11%) Police
14 2 (0.55%) Aviation
14 2 (0.55%) German Language
14 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.55%) Italian Language
14 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 201 (55.68%) Network Engineer
2 68 (18.84%) Senior
3 61 (16.90%) Cisco Engineer
4 57 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 44 (12.19%) Security Engineer
6 39 (10.80%) Data Network Engineer
6 39 (10.80%) Network Security Engineer
7 37 (10.25%) Architect
7 37 (10.25%) Senior Network Engineer
8 33 (9.14%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 32 (8.86%) Data Engineer
10 26 (7.20%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 25 (6.93%) Network Architect
11 25 (6.93%) Network Specialist
12 23 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (4.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.16%) Operations Engineer
14 15 (4.16%) Web Engineer
15 14 (3.88%) Firewall Specialist
16 9 (2.49%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.36%) 802.1X
2 9 (2.49%) REST
3 8 (2.22%) NETCONF
3 8 (2.22%) YANG
4 7 (1.94%) LDAP
5 4 (1.11%) CSS
5 4 (1.11%) Jinja
6 2 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.55%) HTML
6 2 (0.55%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.55%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.55%) RFC 2544
6 2 (0.55%) VML
7 1 (0.28%) JSON
7 1 (0.28%) SAML
7 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 163 (45.15%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.80%) PKI
3 33 (9.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (6.93%) Clustering
5 16 (4.43%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.66%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.83%) CESG
10 3 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) SCADA
11 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.25%) Windows
2 19 (5.26%) Linux
3 6 (1.66%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (27.98%) Load Balancing
2 65 (18.01%) High Availability
3 55 (15.24%) Network Design
4 51 (14.13%) Zero Trust
5 44 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (10.53%) Migration
6 38 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (9.14%) Network Architecture
8 31 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (8.31%) CI/CD
9 30 (8.31%) DevOps
9 30 (8.31%) ITIL
9 30 (8.31%) Observability
10 26 (7.20%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (6.93%) Network Monitoring
12 24 (6.65%) Project Delivery
13 23 (6.37%) Network Segmentation
13 23 (6.37%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (6.09%) Mentoring
15 20 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 77 (21.33%) Python
2 6 (1.66%) Bash
3 4 (1.11%) PHP
3 4 (1.11%) SQL
4 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.55%) Perl
6 1 (0.28%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 144 (39.89%) Security Cleared
2 143 (39.61%) Cisco Certification
3 106 (29.36%) SC Cleared
4 103 (28.53%) CCNP
5 43 (11.91%) CCIE
6 42 (11.63%) DV Cleared
7 22 (6.09%) Degree
8 21 (5.82%) CCNA
9 12 (3.32%) JNCIP
10 11 (3.05%) JNCIS
11 10 (2.77%) JNCIA
11 10 (2.77%) JNCIE
12 9 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.94%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.94%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.39%) CCDP
14 5 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.39%) GIAC
14 5 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.05%) NIST
2 9 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.49%) NCSC
3 7 (1.94%) SLA
4 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.83%) RMADS
6 2 (0.55%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 28 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.49%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.66%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.55%) Docker
6 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.55%) vCloud
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (22.71%) Ansible
2 50 (13.85%) Terraform
3 41 (11.36%) FortiGate
4 18 (4.99%) Grafana
5 16 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.66%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.39%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.39%) Nagios
8 3 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.83%) SCOM
9 2 (0.55%) CASB
9 2 (0.55%) Iperf
9 2 (0.55%) Nmap
9 2 (0.55%) QRadar
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Suricata
10 1 (0.28%) vRealize
10 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 263 (72.85%) Cisco
2 135 (37.40%) F5
3 102 (28.25%) Palo Alto
4 67 (18.56%) Juniper
5 62 (17.17%) Arista
5 62 (17.17%) Fortinet
6 48 (13.30%) Aruba
7 43 (11.91%) CheckPoint
8 34 (9.42%) SolarWinds
9 31 (8.59%) VMware
10 30 (8.31%) Splunk
11 26 (7.20%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (3.88%) Meraki
13 13 (3.60%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.49%) Nokia
14 9 (2.49%) ServiceNow
15 7 (1.94%) Microsoft
16 6 (1.66%) Ekahau
16 6 (1.66%) Google
17 5 (1.39%) Netskope