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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 247 242
Rank change year-on-year -27 -5 +67
Contract jobs citing BGP 411 285 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.04% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.67% 8.25% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 183 224
10th Percentile £375 £332 £299
25th Percentile £416 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £582 £603 £538
90th Percentile £668 £675 £579
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £50.15 £37.00 £23.15
25th Percentile £63.34 £38.13 £30.13
Median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.99% -4.76% -40.00%
75th Percentile £78.83 £49.38 £53.63
90th Percentile £87.05 £55.00 £60.45
UK median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +81.99% -4.76% -40.00%

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 4,252 3,453 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 12.62% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 2,150 2,724
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 161 332
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.80% +5.56% -10.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -84 123 £500 - 27
South East +11 107 £523 +16.11% 13
North of England -11 100 £500 +5.26% 13
North West -7 76 £500 +2.56% 8
Midlands -33 50 £425 +6.25% 6
West Midlands -41 47 £440 +17.40% 6
South West -50 30 £525 -16.00% 8
Yorkshire -30 17 £495 +41.43% 5
North East -23 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -21 6 £500 -28.57% 7
East Midlands -13 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 11 (2.68%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.73%) SAS
3 1 (0.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.43%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 112 (27.25%) Azure
2 88 (21.41%) AWS
3 31 (7.54%) GCP
4 23 (5.60%) OCI
5 17 (4.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 14 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (3.16%) SaaS
8 10 (2.43%) GitHub
9 8 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.70%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.46%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.73%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.73%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.73%) Route 53
14 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 261 (63.50%) OSPF
2 249 (60.58%) Firewall
3 231 (56.20%) WAN
4 141 (34.31%) LAN
5 128 (31.14%) VPN
6 107 (26.03%) VLAN
6 107 (26.03%) VXLAN
7 99 (24.09%) DNS
8 96 (23.36%) MPLS
9 90 (21.90%) Network Security
10 81 (19.71%) SD-WAN
11 78 (18.98%) Ethernet VPN
12 76 (18.49%) Multicast
13 69 (16.79%) TCP/IP
14 64 (15.57%) IPsec
15 57 (13.87%) BIG-IP
16 56 (13.63%) Wireless
17 53 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
18 48 (11.68%) Cisco ASA
18 48 (11.68%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 22 (5.35%) GitLab
2 13 (3.16%) Git
3 7 (1.70%) JIRA
3 7 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) AppScan
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
General
1 65 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (11.19%) Finance
3 39 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.03%) Banking
5 32 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.33%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 17 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.19%) Military
11 8 (1.95%) Retail
12 7 (1.70%) Legal
12 7 (1.70%) Police
13 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.73%) German Language
14 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.73%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.49%) Law
15 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 230 (55.96%) Network Engineer
2 89 (21.65%) Senior
3 60 (14.60%) Cisco Engineer
4 58 (14.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 52 (12.65%) Senior Network Engineer
6 45 (10.95%) Architect
7 44 (10.71%) Security Engineer
8 42 (10.22%) Network Security Engineer
9 39 (9.49%) Data Network Engineer
10 32 (7.79%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 31 (7.54%) Data Engineer
11 31 (7.54%) Network Architect
12 25 (6.08%) Network Specialist
13 22 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.14%) Consultant
16 15 (3.65%) Web Engineer
17 14 (3.41%) Developer
17 14 (3.41%) Firewall Specialist
17 14 (3.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.25%) 802.1X
2 12 (2.92%) REST
3 11 (2.68%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.68%) YANG
4 6 (1.46%) OpenConfig
4 6 (1.46%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.97%) CSS
5 4 (0.97%) Jinja
5 4 (0.97%) LDAP
6 2 (0.49%) eBPF
6 2 (0.49%) RFC 2544
6 2 (0.49%) SAML
7 1 (0.24%) JSON
7 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (42.09%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (9.00%) PKI
4 26 (6.33%) Clustering
5 22 (5.35%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (2.19%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.70%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.22%) Digital Signage
10 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.73%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.19%) Windows
2 19 (4.62%) Linux
3 5 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.73%) Unix
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (27.25%) Load Balancing
2 75 (18.25%) High Availability
3 67 (16.30%) Network Design
3 67 (16.30%) Zero Trust
4 57 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (13.87%) Migration
5 48 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (10.95%) Network Architecture
7 43 (10.46%) ITIL
8 40 (9.73%) CI/CD
8 40 (9.73%) Project Delivery
9 36 (8.76%) Observability
10 31 (7.54%) DevOps
10 31 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (7.30%) Validation
12 28 (6.81%) Network Segmentation
13 27 (6.57%) Mentoring
14 26 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (6.33%) Identity Access Management
15 25 (6.08%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 113 (27.49%) Python
2 9 (2.19%) Bash
3 7 (1.70%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.46%) SQL
5 3 (0.73%) Perl
5 3 (0.73%) PHP
6 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.24%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 139 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 138 (33.58%) Cisco Certification
3 95 (23.11%) CCNP
4 81 (19.71%) SC Cleared
5 54 (13.14%) DV Cleared
6 48 (11.68%) CCIE
7 20 (4.87%) Degree
8 18 (4.38%) CCNA
9 12 (2.92%) JNCIE
10 9 (2.19%) JNCIP
10 9 (2.19%) JNCIS
11 8 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.95%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.97%) CISSP
13 4 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.97%) PMP
13 4 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.43%) NCSC
2 8 (1.95%) NIST
3 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.73%) GDPR
4 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.73%) QA
4 3 (0.73%) SLA
5 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.24%) COBIT
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 30 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (3.16%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.95%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.70%) Firmware
4 7 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.97%) Docker
5 4 (0.97%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (27.25%) Ansible
2 70 (17.03%) Terraform
3 53 (12.90%) FortiGate
4 19 (4.62%) Grafana
5 17 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.92%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.70%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.73%) Nagios
8 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.49%) CASB
9 2 (0.49%) Iperf
9 2 (0.49%) Nmap
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.49%) QRadar
9 2 (0.49%) SCOM
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.24%) Nessus
10 1 (0.24%) OPNET
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 290 (70.56%) Cisco
2 156 (37.96%) F5
3 115 (27.98%) Palo Alto
4 89 (21.65%) Fortinet
5 82 (19.95%) Arista
5 82 (19.95%) Juniper
6 41 (9.98%) SolarWinds
7 39 (9.49%) Aruba
8 37 (9.00%) CheckPoint
8 37 (9.00%) VMware
9 31 (7.54%) Splunk
10 26 (6.33%) Extreme Networks
11 24 (5.84%) Microsoft
12 19 (4.62%) Zscaler
13 15 (3.65%) Meraki
14 10 (2.43%) Google
15 7 (1.70%) Citrix
15 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
16 6 (1.46%) Ekahau
17 5 (1.22%) HP