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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 232 228
Rank change year-on-year -45 -4 +115
Contract jobs citing BGP 346 272 365
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.12% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.95% 8.58% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 163 232
10th Percentile £340 £325 £332
25th Percentile £405 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £550
90th Percentile £639 £640 £613
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £47.22 £22.05 £18.98
25th Percentile £56.01 £27.38 £19.69
Median hourly rate £71.33 £37.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.21% +76.47% -69.64%
75th Percentile £73.13 £39.38 £22.69
90th Percentile £73.81 £39.75 £23.33
UK median hourly rate £71.33 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year +90.21% +59.57% -68.14%

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 3,864 3,171 4,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 13.04% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 1,973 2,878
10th Percentile £259 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 118 389
10th Percentile £16.59 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £40.54 £29.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.68% -25.85% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.11 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.54% -8.57% +116.22%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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
South East +9 108 £450 - 28
London -83 108 £450 -10.00% 25
North of England -51 69 £571 +14.25% 22
North West -32 57 £568 +8.10% 15
Midlands -39 48 £413 +37.50% 9
West Midlands -32 45 £413 +43.48% 8
South West -31 21 £513 -4.65% 8
North East -13 9 £650 +160.00% 4
Yorkshire -49 5 £538 +53.57% 4
East of England -27 4 £500 +17.65% 2
East Midlands -32 2 - - 1
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 4 (1.16%) Confluence
1 4 (1.16%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 70 (20.23%) Azure
2 68 (19.65%) AWS
3 18 (5.20%) GCP
4 17 (4.91%) OCI
5 14 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (3.76%) SaaS
7 8 (2.31%) Route 53
8 6 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (1.45%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.87%) GitHub
11 3 (0.87%) IaaS
11 3 (0.87%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.87%) PaaS
12 2 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 242 (69.94%) OSPF
2 212 (61.27%) Firewall
3 209 (60.40%) WAN
4 140 (40.46%) LAN
5 105 (30.35%) VPN
6 94 (27.17%) VXLAN
7 83 (23.99%) Network Security
8 78 (22.54%) DNS
8 78 (22.54%) MPLS
9 73 (21.10%) VLAN
10 72 (20.81%) Ethernet VPN
11 67 (19.36%) Multicast
11 67 (19.36%) SD-WAN
12 56 (16.18%) BIG-IP
13 53 (15.32%) IPsec
14 45 (13.01%) TCP/IP
15 41 (11.85%) Cisco ISE
16 39 (11.27%) DHCP
16 39 (11.27%) Wireless
17 37 (10.69%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 18 (5.20%) GitLab
2 10 (2.89%) Git
3 5 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.16%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.29%) AppScan
6 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
General
1 45 (13.01%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.83%) Documentation Skills
2 34 (9.83%) Finance
2 34 (9.83%) Public Sector
3 29 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.80%) Banking
5 19 (5.49%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.76%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.47%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.89%) Military
9 6 (1.73%) Retail
10 3 (0.87%) Legal
10 3 (0.87%) Police
11 2 (0.58%) Aviation
11 2 (0.58%) German Language
11 2 (0.58%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 199 (57.51%) Network Engineer
2 62 (17.92%) Cisco Engineer
2 62 (17.92%) Senior
3 58 (16.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 44 (12.72%) Security Engineer
5 39 (11.27%) Network Security Engineer
6 38 (10.98%) Data Network Engineer
7 35 (10.12%) Architect
8 33 (9.54%) Cisco Security Engineer
8 33 (9.54%) Senior Network Engineer
9 32 (9.25%) Data Engineer
10 27 (7.80%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 23 (6.65%) Network Architect
11 23 (6.65%) Network Specialist
12 21 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.34%) Web Engineer
14 14 (4.05%) Firewall Specialist
15 13 (3.76%) Operations Engineer
16 9 (2.60%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.27%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.31%) NETCONF
2 8 (2.31%) REST
2 8 (2.31%) YANG
3 7 (2.02%) LDAP
4 4 (1.16%) Jinja
4 4 (1.16%) VML
5 3 (0.87%) OpenConfig
5 3 (0.87%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.58%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.58%) CSS
6 2 (0.58%) HTML
6 2 (0.58%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) SAML
7 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (45.09%) Data Centre
2 39 (11.27%) PKI
3 29 (8.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (7.23%) Clustering
5 13 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.16%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.87%) CESG
10 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.87%) SCADA
11 2 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.58%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.69%) Windows
2 18 (5.20%) Linux
3 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (28.03%) Load Balancing
2 59 (17.05%) High Availability
3 47 (13.58%) Network Design
4 42 (12.14%) Zero Trust
5 40 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (10.69%) Migration
8 32 (9.25%) ITIL
9 30 (8.67%) Observability
10 27 (7.80%) CI/CD
10 27 (7.80%) Network Architecture
11 26 (7.51%) DevOps
11 26 (7.51%) Identity Access Management
11 26 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (7.23%) Project Delivery
13 23 (6.65%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (6.07%) Mentoring
14 21 (6.07%) Network Monitoring
14 21 (6.07%) Network Segmentation
15 20 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 73 (21.10%) Python
2 5 (1.45%) Bash
3 4 (1.16%) PHP
4 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.58%) SQL
5 1 (0.29%) Lisp
5 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 144 (41.62%) Cisco Certification
2 141 (40.75%) Security Cleared
3 105 (30.35%) CCNP
4 104 (30.06%) SC Cleared
5 44 (12.72%) CCIE
6 40 (11.56%) DV Cleared
7 24 (6.94%) Degree
8 23 (6.65%) CCNA
9 13 (3.76%) JNCIP
9 13 (3.76%) JNCIS
10 11 (3.18%) JNCIE
11 10 (2.89%) JNCIA
12 9 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.02%) AWS Certification
13 7 (2.02%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.45%) GIAC
14 5 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.16%) PMP
15 4 (1.16%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.60%) NCSC
1 9 (2.60%) NIST
2 7 (2.02%) SLA
3 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.87%) RMADS
5 2 (0.58%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 25 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (2.31%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.58%) Docker
5 2 (0.58%) vCloud
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (23.12%) Ansible
2 46 (13.29%) Terraform
3 41 (11.85%) FortiGate
4 16 (4.62%) Grafana
5 14 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.73%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.45%) Nagios
8 4 (1.16%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.87%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.87%) SCOM
10 2 (0.58%) CASB
10 2 (0.58%) Iperf
10 2 (0.58%) Nmap
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) vRealize
11 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 259 (74.86%) Cisco
2 136 (39.31%) F5
3 101 (29.19%) Palo Alto
4 69 (19.94%) Juniper
5 58 (16.76%) Arista
6 54 (15.61%) Fortinet
7 50 (14.45%) Aruba
8 49 (14.16%) CheckPoint
9 33 (9.54%) SolarWinds
10 28 (8.09%) Splunk
10 28 (8.09%) VMware
11 26 (7.51%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (4.62%) Meraki
13 14 (4.05%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.89%) ServiceNow
15 9 (2.60%) Nokia
16 7 (2.02%) Microsoft
17 6 (1.73%) Ekahau
18 5 (1.45%) Google
18 5 (1.45%) Netskope