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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 265 259
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing BGP 401 256 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.92% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.24% 7.77% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 165 175
10th Percentile £400 £325 £315
25th Percentile £425 £418 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £558
90th Percentile £700 £664 £650
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 4,340 3,293 3,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.86% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,571 2,057 2,306
10th Percentile £250 £230 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 165 218
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.28 £14.47
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £22.84
Median hourly rate £38.53 £41.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -27.64% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £43.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -24.42% -14.85% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -71 135 £500 - 215
North of England -2 104 £500 +5.26% 24
North West +9 75 £500 +5.26% 15
South East -44 67 £525 +5.00% 39
Midlands -41 44 £468 +17.00% 19
West Midlands -48 40 £571 +42.69% 11
South West -37 32 £525 -16.67% 13
Yorkshire -26 22 £495 +23.75% 7
East of England -24 13 £475 -32.14% 33
North East -29 13 £650 +160.00% 2
East Midlands -5 3 - - 8
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 (2.99%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.00%) SAS
3 3 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.94%) Azure
2 79 (19.70%) AWS
3 24 (5.99%) GCP
4 23 (5.74%) OCI
5 22 (5.49%) GitHub
6 20 (4.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (3.24%) SaaS
8 11 (2.74%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.50%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.25%) 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%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.25%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 225 (56.11%) OSPF
2 221 (55.11%) Firewall
3 190 (47.38%) WAN
4 116 (28.93%) VPN
5 114 (28.43%) VLAN
6 104 (25.94%) LAN
7 96 (23.94%) MPLS
8 90 (22.44%) VXLAN
9 83 (20.70%) DNS
10 82 (20.45%) Network Security
10 82 (20.45%) SD-WAN
11 67 (16.71%) Ethernet VPN
12 64 (15.96%) TCP/IP
13 63 (15.71%) IPsec
14 62 (15.46%) Wi-Fi
15 60 (14.96%) Multicast
15 60 (14.96%) Wireless
16 48 (11.97%) Cisco Nexus
17 45 (11.22%) EIGRP
18 44 (10.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (7.23%) GitLab
2 24 (5.99%) Git
3 6 (1.50%) JIRA
3 6 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 69 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 44 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (10.72%) Finance
4 29 (7.23%) Banking
5 28 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.24%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.00%) Legal
8 8 (2.00%) Police
8 8 (2.00%) Retail
9 6 (1.50%) Military
10 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.75%) German Language
12 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.75%) Law
12 3 (0.75%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (59.10%) Network Engineer
2 87 (21.70%) Senior
3 57 (14.21%) Senior Network Engineer
4 55 (13.72%) Cisco Engineer
5 53 (13.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 44 (10.97%) Architect
7 37 (9.23%) Security Engineer
8 35 (8.73%) Network Security Engineer
9 34 (8.48%) Network Architect
10 31 (7.73%) Data Network Engineer
11 28 (6.98%) Consultant
12 26 (6.48%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 25 (6.23%) Data Engineer
14 20 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.74%) Network Consultant
15 19 (4.74%) Network Specialist
16 18 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (4.24%) Developer
18 12 (2.99%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 12 (2.99%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.46%) Terraform
2 27 (6.73%) REST
3 18 (4.49%) 802.1X
4 15 (3.74%) NETCONF
5 14 (3.49%) YAML
6 13 (3.24%) YANG
7 12 (2.99%) JSON
8 6 (1.50%) RESTCONF
9 5 (1.25%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.00%) 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
1 155 (38.65%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.74%) PKI
5 11 (2.74%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (2.00%) Digital Signage
8 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.25%) Clustering
10 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.00%) CMDB
11 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.75%) IoT
12 3 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.48%) Windows
2 23 (5.74%) Linux
3 8 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.50%) 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 (22.19%) Load Balancing
2 69 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 69 (17.21%) Migration
3 68 (16.96%) Zero Trust
4 64 (15.96%) High Availability
4 64 (15.96%) Network Design
5 45 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (10.47%) Network Architecture
6 42 (10.47%) Validation
7 41 (10.22%) CI/CD
8 40 (9.98%) Project Delivery
9 39 (9.73%) ITIL
10 34 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 32 (7.98%) DevOps
12 29 (7.23%) Network Segmentation
13 28 (6.98%) Change Control
14 26 (6.48%) Cloud Security
14 26 (6.48%) Mentoring
15 25 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (30.42%) Python
2 10 (2.49%) Bash
3 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.25%) 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
1 125 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 108 (26.93%) Cisco Certification
3 82 (20.45%) CCNP
4 73 (18.20%) SC Cleared
5 44 (10.97%) DV Cleared
6 43 (10.72%) CCIE
7 17 (4.24%) CCNA
8 16 (3.99%) Degree
9 13 (3.24%) JNCIE
10 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.75%) CCIE Security
13 3 (0.75%) CISSP
13 3 (0.75%) PMP
14 2 (0.50%) CWNA
14 2 (0.50%) JNCIP
14 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.50%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.00%) 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 28 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.24%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.00%) vSphere
5 7 (1.75%) Docker
6 6 (1.50%) 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 (28.68%) Ansible
2 35 (8.73%) FortiGate
3 18 (4.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.49%) Grafana
4 10 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.00%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (2.00%) Nagios
6 5 (1.25%) Cilium
7 4 (1.00%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) CASB
9 1 (0.25%) OPNET
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
9 1 (0.25%) Rancher
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Suricata
Vendors
1 287 (71.57%) Cisco
2 120 (29.93%) F5
3 114 (28.43%) Palo Alto
4 89 (22.19%) Fortinet
5 78 (19.45%) Arista
6 54 (13.47%) Juniper
7 39 (9.73%) VMware
8 37 (9.23%) Aruba
9 35 (8.73%) CheckPoint
10 27 (6.73%) SolarWinds
11 26 (6.48%) Microsoft
12 17 (4.24%) ServiceNow
12 17 (4.24%) Zscaler
13 15 (3.74%) Meraki
14 11 (2.74%) Red Hat
14 11 (2.74%) Splunk
15 8 (2.00%) Infoblox
16 7 (1.75%) Google
17 6 (1.50%) Nokia
18 5 (1.25%) Dell