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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 256 246
Rank change year-on-year -24 -10 +52
Contract jobs citing BGP 406 276 324
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.00% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.46% 8.05% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 176 210
10th Percentile £380 £325 £297
25th Percentile £419 £416 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £538
90th Percentile £668 £669 £582
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £44.80 £37.00 £23.15
25th Percentile £50.72 £38.13 £30.13
Median hourly rate £64.79 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.98% -4.76% -32.26%
75th Percentile £73.31 £49.38 £53.63
90th Percentile £83.14 £55.00 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £64.79 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +61.98% -4.76% -32.26%

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 4,294 3,427 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.40% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,130 2,572
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 165 282
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.07 £46.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year -44.38% -5.30% -3.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -88 123 £500 - 55
South East -9 101 £525 +16.67% 15
North of England -14 101 £500 +5.26% 16
North West +5 77 £505 +6.32% 8
Midlands -39 49 £419 +4.69% 8
West Midlands -39 46 £413 +3.13% 8
South West -35 31 £525 -16.33% 7
Yorkshire -30 17 £495 +41.43% 7
North East -30 13 £650 +160.00% 1
East of England -21 6 £500 -28.57% 4
East Midlands -12 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 12 (2.96%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.74%) SAS
3 2 (0.49%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.74%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 110 (27.09%) Azure
2 86 (21.18%) AWS
3 27 (6.65%) GCP
4 23 (5.67%) OCI
5 17 (4.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (2.96%) GitHub
7 12 (2.96%) SaaS
8 8 (1.97%) AWS Direct Connect
9 6 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.48%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.49%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.49%) Route 53
14 1 (0.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 253 (62.32%) OSPF
2 241 (59.36%) Firewall
3 221 (54.43%) WAN
4 136 (33.50%) LAN
5 118 (29.06%) VPN
6 109 (26.85%) VXLAN
7 108 (26.60%) VLAN
8 104 (25.62%) DNS
9 93 (22.91%) MPLS
10 84 (20.69%) SD-WAN
11 82 (20.20%) Network Security
12 76 (18.72%) Ethernet VPN
13 70 (17.24%) Multicast
14 69 (17.00%) TCP/IP
15 61 (15.02%) IPsec
16 57 (14.04%) BIG-IP
17 56 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
17 56 (13.79%) Wireless
18 52 (12.81%) DHCP
19 45 (11.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 24 (5.91%) GitLab
2 15 (3.69%) Git
3 7 (1.72%) JIRA
4 6 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (15.76%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.59%) Finance
3 41 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.64%) Banking
5 30 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.91%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.68%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.71%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.46%) Military
10 8 (1.97%) Retail
11 7 (1.72%) Police
12 6 (1.48%) Legal
13 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.74%) German Language
14 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.74%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.49%) Law
15 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 87 (21.43%) Senior
3 60 (14.78%) Cisco Engineer
4 58 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 54 (13.30%) Senior Network Engineer
6 45 (11.08%) Architect
7 41 (10.10%) Network Security Engineer
7 41 (10.10%) Security Engineer
8 39 (9.61%) Data Network Engineer
9 32 (7.88%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 32 (7.88%) Network Architect
10 31 (7.64%) Data Engineer
11 27 (6.65%) Network Specialist
12 20 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.19%) Consultant
14 17 (4.19%) Developer
15 15 (3.69%) Web Engineer
16 14 (3.45%) Firewall Specialist
17 11 (2.71%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.11%) 802.1X
2 15 (3.69%) REST
3 12 (2.96%) NETCONF
3 12 (2.96%) YANG
4 7 (1.72%) OpenConfig
5 6 (1.48%) RESTCONF
6 4 (0.99%) CSS
6 4 (0.99%) Jinja
7 3 (0.74%) JSON
7 3 (0.74%) YAML
8 2 (0.49%) eBPF
8 2 (0.49%) SAML
9 1 (0.25%) LDAP
9 1 (0.25%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 163 (40.15%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 34 (8.37%) PKI
4 26 (6.40%) Clustering
5 24 (5.91%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.72%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.23%) Digital Signage
10 5 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.74%) CMDB
12 3 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.74%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.08%) Windows
2 14 (3.45%) Linux
3 5 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (27.09%) Load Balancing
2 79 (19.46%) High Availability
3 67 (16.50%) Zero Trust
4 65 (16.01%) Network Design
5 59 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (13.79%) Migration
7 51 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (11.33%) ITIL
9 42 (10.34%) Network Architecture
10 41 (10.10%) CI/CD
11 38 (9.36%) Project Delivery
12 36 (8.87%) Observability
13 31 (7.64%) DevOps
13 31 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 30 (7.39%) Validation
15 29 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
16 26 (6.40%) Mentoring
17 25 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (6.16%) Identity Access Management
17 25 (6.16%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (27.34%) Python
2 7 (1.72%) Bash
3 6 (1.48%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.48%) SQL
4 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 134 (33.00%) Security Cleared
2 127 (31.28%) Cisco Certification
3 81 (19.95%) CCNP
4 68 (16.75%) SC Cleared
5 55 (13.55%) DV Cleared
6 45 (11.08%) CCIE
7 18 (4.43%) Degree
8 16 (3.94%) CCNA
9 13 (3.20%) JNCIE
10 8 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.97%) JNCIA
10 8 (1.97%) JNCIP
10 8 (1.97%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.72%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.48%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.99%) CISSP
13 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.74%) PMP
14 3 (0.74%) VCDX
15 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.48%) NCSC
2 4 (0.99%) NIST
3 3 (0.74%) SLA
4 2 (0.49%) GDPR
4 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.49%) QA
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (3.20%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.72%) Firmware
4 6 (1.48%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.23%) Docker
6 4 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.99%) vSphere
7 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (27.09%) Ansible
2 69 (17.00%) Terraform
3 53 (13.05%) FortiGate
4 16 (3.94%) Grafana
5 15 (3.69%) Kubernetes
6 14 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.48%) Nagios
8 5 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.49%) QRadar
10 1 (0.25%) CASB
10 1 (0.25%) Cilium
10 1 (0.25%) Istio
10 1 (0.25%) OPNET
10 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.25%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Suricata
10 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 285 (70.20%) Cisco
2 154 (37.93%) F5
3 110 (27.09%) Palo Alto
4 87 (21.43%) Fortinet
5 78 (19.21%) Arista
5 78 (19.21%) Juniper
6 43 (10.59%) SolarWinds
7 37 (9.11%) VMware
8 34 (8.37%) Aruba
9 31 (7.64%) CheckPoint
9 31 (7.64%) Splunk
10 25 (6.16%) Extreme Networks
11 24 (5.91%) Microsoft
12 18 (4.43%) Zscaler
13 17 (4.19%) Meraki
14 11 (2.71%) ServiceNow
15 10 (2.46%) Google
16 6 (1.48%) Ekahau
17 5 (1.23%) Citrix
17 5 (1.23%) Infoblox