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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 219 234
Rank change year-on-year -115 +15 +184
Contract jobs citing BGP 217 328 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.16% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.40% 9.09% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 186 178
10th Percentile £300 £352 £323
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £723
UK median daily rate £455 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -11.22% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £67.45 £21.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £70.01 £24.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £74.26 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.49% -13.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £34.38 £70.00
90th Percentile - £34.75 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £33.75 £37.77
% change year-on-year +120.03% -10.64% +43.89%

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 3,391 3,607 5,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.72% 12.78% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,194 2,119 3,173
10th Percentile £205 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £682 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 103 310
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.04 £18.51
25th Percentile £20.34 £20.30 £23.22
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +48.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.25 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +61.40%

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 30 December 2025.

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
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 30 December 2025. 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 -66 78 £500 - 47
South East -30 60 £455 -17.27% 99
West Midlands +2 40 £400 -20.00% 40
Midlands -22 40 £400 -20.00% 68
North of England -89 30 £550 +8.91% 89
North West -55 26 £550 +4.76% 36
South West -20 7 £506 +5.74% 37
East of England -18 5 £700 +154.55% 47
Yorkshire -56 4 £600 +118.18% 46
North East -4 3 £550 - 9
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 16 (7.37%) OpenStack
2 12 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.89%) AWS
2 35 (16.13%) Azure
3 12 (5.53%) GCP
4 7 (3.23%) OpenShift
4 7 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (2.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.38%) Akamai
6 3 (1.38%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.92%) IaaS
7 2 (0.92%) PaaS
7 2 (0.92%) Route 53
7 2 (0.92%) SaaS
8 1 (0.46%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.46%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 135 (62.21%) OSPF
2 131 (60.37%) Firewall
3 107 (49.31%) WAN
4 92 (42.40%) VPN
5 84 (38.71%) MPLS
6 68 (31.34%) LAN
7 65 (29.95%) IPsec
8 55 (25.35%) Network Security
9 49 (22.58%) VLAN
10 38 (17.51%) Wireless
11 35 (16.13%) DNS
12 33 (15.21%) VXLAN
13 31 (14.29%) SD-WAN
14 27 (12.44%) EIGRP
15 26 (11.98%) TCP/IP
16 23 (10.60%) DHCP
17 21 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
17 21 (9.68%) Ethernet VPN
18 19 (8.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 19 (8.76%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.46%) Redis
1 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Git
2 5 (2.30%) GitLab
3 4 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 68 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.21%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.75%) Documentation Skills
4 28 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.91%) Finance
6 14 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.07%) Banking
8 10 (4.61%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.84%) Legal
9 4 (1.84%) Military
9 4 (1.84%) Retail
10 3 (1.38%) Electronics
10 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Advertising
11 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 127 (58.53%) Network Engineer
2 32 (14.75%) Architect
3 26 (11.98%) Cisco Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (7.83%) Senior
7 16 (7.37%) Network Architect
7 16 (7.37%) Support Engineer
7 16 (7.37%) WAN Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Network Security Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Security Engineer
9 12 (5.53%) 3rd Line Support
9 12 (5.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Juniper Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.69%) IP Specialist
11 8 (3.69%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.07%) YANG
2 10 (4.61%) NETCONF
3 9 (4.15%) 802.1X
4 7 (3.23%) REST
5 5 (2.30%) Jinja
6 4 (1.84%) JSON
6 4 (1.84%) VML
7 3 (1.38%) OpenConfig
7 3 (1.38%) SAML
8 2 (0.92%) RESTCONF
8 2 (0.92%) XML
9 1 (0.46%) CrewAI
9 1 (0.46%) eBPF
9 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.46%) gRPC
9 1 (0.46%) HTML
9 1 (0.46%) JFC
9 1 (0.46%) LangChain
9 1 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (30.88%) Data Centre
2 36 (16.59%) PKI
3 17 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.38%) NHS
8 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.46%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.91%) Linux
2 14 (6.45%) Windows
3 8 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.82%) Network Design
2 38 (17.51%) Load Balancing
3 35 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (10.60%) High Availability
4 23 (10.60%) Migration
4 23 (10.60%) Network Segmentation
5 21 (9.68%) Network Virtualisation
6 20 (9.22%) Network Monitoring
7 18 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (8.29%) DevOps
7 18 (8.29%) Zero Trust
8 17 (7.83%) Network Architecture
8 17 (7.83%) Roadmaps
9 15 (6.91%) ITIL
9 15 (6.91%) TOGAF
10 14 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (5.99%) Change Control
11 13 (5.99%) Incident Response
11 13 (5.99%) Project Delivery
11 13 (5.99%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.34%) Python
2 19 (8.76%) Bash
3 15 (6.91%) Perl
4 10 (4.61%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.69%) Lisp
6 5 (2.30%) C++
7 1 (0.46%) C
7 1 (0.46%) Go
7 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (50.69%) Cisco Certification
2 100 (46.08%) Security Cleared
3 89 (41.01%) CCNP
4 79 (36.41%) SC Cleared
5 42 (19.35%) CCIE
6 23 (10.60%) JNCIE
7 20 (9.22%) CCNA
8 18 (8.29%) Degree
9 17 (7.83%) DV Cleared
10 13 (5.99%) JNCIS
11 11 (5.07%) AWS Certification
12 10 (4.61%) JNCIP
13 9 (4.15%) CCDP
13 9 (4.15%) CISSP
13 9 (4.15%) JNCIA
14 5 (2.30%) CCSE
15 4 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.84%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.84%) CCIE Security
15 4 (1.84%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.69%) NIST
2 7 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.76%) GDPR
3 6 (2.76%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.30%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.46%) RMADS
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (8.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.37%) VMware NSX
3 8 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.69%) Docker
4 7 (3.23%) Firmware
5 3 (1.38%) KVM
6 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.46%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (25.35%) Ansible
2 37 (17.05%) FortiGate
3 28 (12.90%) Terraform
4 8 (3.69%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.38%) Iperf
5 3 (1.38%) Nagios
5 3 (1.38%) Nmap
5 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.92%) Grafana
6 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.46%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (0.46%) CASB
7 1 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.46%) vRealize
7 1 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 147 (67.74%) Cisco
2 76 (35.02%) Juniper
3 64 (29.49%) Palo Alto
4 51 (23.50%) Fortinet
5 46 (21.20%) F5
6 29 (13.36%) CheckPoint
7 25 (11.52%) Meraki
8 22 (10.14%) Aruba
8 22 (10.14%) VMware
9 20 (9.22%) SolarWinds
10 18 (8.29%) Arista
11 14 (6.45%) Zscaler
12 13 (5.99%) ServiceNow
13 12 (5.53%) Remedy
14 10 (4.61%) Microsoft
15 9 (4.15%) Nokia
16 8 (3.69%) Ekahau
17 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
18 5 (2.30%) NVIDIA
18 5 (2.30%) Splunk