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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 239 241
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +65
Contract jobs citing BGP 414 286 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.05% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.74% 8.33% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 182 225
10th Percentile £350 £363 £299
25th Percentile £413 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £576 £605 £538
90th Percentile £650 £674 £585
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £50.15 £37.00 £19.45
25th Percentile £63.34 £38.13 £20.88
Median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.99% +70.21% -66.43%
75th Percentile £78.83 £49.38 £44.38
90th Percentile £87.05 £55.00 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +81.99% +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 4,250 3,433 4,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.65% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,122 2,833
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 158 385
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £25.04 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +1.74% +39.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £47.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.34% +10.47% +39.84%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -69 125 £475 -5.00% 25
South East +15 108 £520 +15.56% 23
North of England -27 95 £500 +5.26% 11
North West -16 73 £521 +9.74% 5
Midlands -31 53 £419 +4.69% 9
West Midlands -39 50 £413 +10.00% 7
South West -41 32 £525 -16.00% 14
Yorkshire -41 15 £495 +41.43% 6
North East -27 13 £650 +160.00%
East of England -24 6 £500 -28.57% 9
East Midlands -14 2 - - 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 13 (3.14%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.72%) Confluence
2 3 (0.72%) SAS
3 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.90%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 109 (26.33%) Azure
2 89 (21.50%) AWS
3 29 (7.00%) GCP
4 22 (5.31%) OCI
5 16 (3.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 16 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (3.62%) SaaS
7 9 (2.17%) GitHub
8 8 (1.93%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (1.21%) Route 53
10 4 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.97%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.72%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 260 (62.80%) OSPF
2 245 (59.18%) Firewall
3 238 (57.49%) WAN
4 144 (34.78%) LAN
5 130 (31.40%) VPN
6 104 (25.12%) VXLAN
7 101 (24.40%) MPLS
7 101 (24.40%) VLAN
8 98 (23.67%) DNS
9 97 (23.43%) Network Security
10 85 (20.53%) SD-WAN
11 77 (18.60%) Ethernet VPN
12 73 (17.63%) Multicast
13 67 (16.18%) TCP/IP
14 60 (14.49%) IPsec
15 59 (14.25%) BIG-IP
16 51 (12.32%) Wireless
17 48 (11.59%) Cisco ASA
17 48 (11.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 47 (11.35%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 21 (5.07%) GitLab
2 12 (2.90%) Git
3 7 (1.69%) JIRA
4 6 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) AppScan
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
General
1 68 (16.43%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.14%) Finance
3 40 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.73%) Banking
6 28 (6.76%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.59%) Investment Banking
8 18 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.14%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.17%) Military
11 8 (1.93%) Retail
12 7 (1.69%) Legal
13 6 (1.45%) Police
14 3 (0.72%) German Language
14 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.48%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 221 (53.38%) Network Engineer
2 84 (20.29%) Senior
3 57 (13.77%) Cisco Engineer
4 55 (13.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 49 (11.84%) Architect
6 48 (11.59%) Security Engineer
7 46 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
8 43 (10.39%) Network Security Engineer
9 40 (9.66%) Data Network Engineer
10 34 (8.21%) Network Architect
11 33 (7.97%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 32 (7.73%) Data Engineer
13 24 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (5.80%) Network Specialist
14 18 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.11%) Consultant
16 16 (3.86%) Web Engineer
17 14 (3.38%) Firewall Specialist
18 13 (3.14%) Operations Engineer
18 13 (3.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.94%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.14%) NETCONF
2 13 (3.14%) REST
2 13 (3.14%) YANG
3 7 (1.69%) LDAP
4 6 (1.45%) OpenConfig
4 6 (1.45%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.97%) CSS
5 4 (0.97%) Jinja
6 2 (0.48%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.48%) RFC 2544
6 2 (0.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 174 (42.03%) Data Centre
2 51 (12.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (9.42%) PKI
4 26 (6.28%) Clustering
5 24 (5.80%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.42%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.45%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.21%) SCADA
12 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.48%) Digital Signage
14 2 (0.48%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.87%) Windows
2 21 (5.07%) Linux
3 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (26.33%) Load Balancing
2 75 (18.12%) High Availability
3 67 (16.18%) Network Design
4 66 (15.94%) Zero Trust
5 59 (14.25%) Migration
6 57 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (11.11%) Network Architecture
9 43 (10.39%) ITIL
10 41 (9.90%) CI/CD
11 36 (8.70%) Project Delivery
12 35 (8.45%) Observability
13 33 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 32 (7.73%) DevOps
14 32 (7.73%) Network Segmentation
15 29 (7.00%) Validation
16 26 (6.28%) Identity Access Management
16 26 (6.28%) Network Monitoring
17 25 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (6.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 114 (27.54%) Python
2 8 (1.93%) Bash
3 6 (1.45%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.45%) SQL
4 4 (0.97%) PHP
5 3 (0.72%) Perl
6 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.24%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 141 (34.06%) Cisco Certification
1 141 (34.06%) Security Cleared
2 96 (23.19%) CCNP
3 85 (20.53%) SC Cleared
4 54 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 51 (12.32%) CCIE
6 21 (5.07%) Degree
7 19 (4.59%) CCNA
8 15 (3.62%) JNCIE
9 10 (2.42%) JNCIP
10 9 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.17%) JNCIS
11 8 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.93%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.21%) CISSP
13 5 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.21%) GIAC
14 4 (0.97%) PMP
14 4 (0.97%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.66%) NCSC
1 11 (2.66%) NIST
2 9 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.72%) GDPR
4 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.72%) QA
4 3 (0.72%) SLA
5 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.24%) COBIT
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.24%) RMADS
System Software
1 32 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (2.90%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (1.93%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.69%) Firmware
6 4 (0.97%) vSphere
7 3 (0.72%) Docker
7 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.24%) KVM
9 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (27.54%) Ansible
2 71 (17.15%) Terraform
3 53 (12.80%) FortiGate
4 21 (5.07%) Grafana
5 19 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.17%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.72%) Nagios
9 3 (0.72%) SCOM
10 2 (0.48%) CASB
10 2 (0.48%) Iperf
10 2 (0.48%) Nmap
10 2 (0.48%) QRadar
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.24%) Suricata
11 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 289 (69.81%) Cisco
2 155 (37.44%) F5
3 111 (26.81%) Palo Alto
4 86 (20.77%) Fortinet
5 85 (20.53%) Juniper
6 80 (19.32%) Arista
7 41 (9.90%) SolarWinds
8 40 (9.66%) Aruba
9 39 (9.42%) VMware
10 38 (9.18%) CheckPoint
11 31 (7.49%) Splunk
12 26 (6.28%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (5.31%) Microsoft
14 21 (5.07%) Zscaler
15 15 (3.62%) Meraki
16 9 (2.17%) Google
16 9 (2.17%) ServiceNow
17 7 (1.69%) Citrix
17 7 (1.69%) Ekahau
18 5 (1.21%) HP