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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 219 233
Rank change year-on-year -106 +14 +188
Contract jobs citing BGP 223 330 395
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.55% 8.95% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 188 203
10th Percentile £302 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -13.46% -3.26% +7.50%
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 3,402 3,689 5,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.77% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 2,164 3,272
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 116 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.23
25th Percentile £20.69 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% -28.75% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £37.25 £56.40
% change year-on-year -8.72% -33.95% +37.46%

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 20 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 20 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 -41 87 £475 -5.00% 26
South East -42 57 £458 -16.73% 21
West Midlands +1 41 £400 -20.00% 10
Midlands -15 41 £400 -20.00% 10
North of England -85 27 £550 +6.80% 10
North West -56 23 £550 - 3
South West -22 7 £506 +5.74% 3
East of England -27 5 £700 +68.67% 1
Yorkshire -61 4 £600 +118.18% 7
North East -6 3 £550 - 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 16 (7.17%) OpenStack
2 12 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.18%) AWS
2 36 (16.14%) Azure
3 12 (5.38%) GCP
4 7 (3.14%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 6 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Akamai
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.90%) IaaS
8 2 (0.90%) PaaS
8 2 (0.90%) SaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.45%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.45%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 141 (63.23%) OSPF
2 134 (60.09%) Firewall
3 109 (48.88%) WAN
4 97 (43.50%) VPN
5 84 (37.67%) MPLS
6 68 (30.49%) LAN
7 63 (28.25%) IPsec
7 63 (28.25%) Network Security
8 52 (23.32%) VLAN
9 40 (17.94%) Wireless
10 39 (17.49%) DNS
11 35 (15.70%) SD-WAN
12 34 (15.25%) VXLAN
13 28 (12.56%) EIGRP
14 27 (12.11%) DHCP
14 27 (12.11%) TCP/IP
15 26 (11.66%) Cisco ISE
16 24 (10.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 22 (9.87%) Ethernet VPN
18 21 (9.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.45%) Redis
1 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (6.73%) Git
2 5 (2.24%) GitLab
2 5 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 73 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.25%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (13.45%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (7.62%) Finance
5 14 (6.28%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.48%) Banking
7 9 (4.04%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.79%) Military
9 4 (1.79%) Retail
10 3 (1.35%) Electronics
10 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 126 (56.50%) Network Engineer
2 33 (14.80%) Architect
3 25 (11.21%) Cisco Engineer
4 24 (10.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 20 (8.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 19 (8.52%) Senior
7 17 (7.62%) Network Architect
7 17 (7.62%) Support Engineer
8 16 (7.17%) WAN Engineer
9 14 (6.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) 3rd Line Support
10 13 (5.83%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Network Security Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Security Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Senior Network Engineer
12 11 (4.93%) Juniper Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.59%) Consultant
14 8 (3.59%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.93%) YANG
2 10 (4.48%) NETCONF
3 7 (3.14%) 802.1X
3 7 (3.14%) REST
4 5 (2.24%) Jinja
5 4 (1.79%) JSON
5 4 (1.79%) VML
6 3 (1.35%) OpenConfig
6 3 (1.35%) SAML
7 2 (0.90%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.90%) XML
8 1 (0.45%) CrewAI
8 1 (0.45%) eBPF
8 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.45%) gRPC
8 1 (0.45%) HTML
8 1 (0.45%) JFC
8 1 (0.45%) LangChain
8 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (30.04%) Data Centre
2 37 (16.59%) PKI
3 17 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.35%) NHS
7 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.73%) Linux
1 15 (6.73%) Windows
2 9 (4.04%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (20.18%) Network Design
2 39 (17.49%) Load Balancing
3 37 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (11.21%) High Availability
4 25 (11.21%) Network Segmentation
5 24 (10.76%) Network Monitoring
6 23 (10.31%) Migration
7 21 (9.42%) Network Virtualisation
8 19 (8.52%) DevOps
9 18 (8.07%) Zero Trust
10 17 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (7.62%) Network Architecture
10 17 (7.62%) Roadmaps
11 15 (6.73%) ITIL
11 15 (6.73%) TOGAF
12 14 (6.28%) Knowledge Transfer
13 13 (5.83%) Change Control
13 13 (5.83%) Change Management
13 13 (5.83%) Incident Response
13 13 (5.83%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.84%) Python
2 19 (8.52%) Bash
3 15 (6.73%) Perl
4 10 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.59%) Lisp
6 5 (2.24%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) Go
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (51.57%) Cisco Certification
2 99 (44.39%) Security Cleared
3 94 (42.15%) CCNP
4 77 (34.53%) SC Cleared
5 43 (19.28%) CCIE
6 23 (10.31%) JNCIE
7 21 (9.42%) CCNA
8 19 (8.52%) Degree
9 17 (7.62%) DV Cleared
10 13 (5.83%) JNCIS
11 11 (4.93%) AWS Certification
12 10 (4.48%) JNCIP
13 9 (4.04%) CCDP
13 9 (4.04%) CISSP
13 9 (4.04%) JNCIA
14 6 (2.69%) CCSA
15 5 (2.24%) CCSE
16 4 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
16 4 (1.79%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) NIST
2 7 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.69%) GDPR
3 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.45%) RMADS
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.17%) VMware NSX
3 10 (4.48%) Firmware
4 9 (4.04%) Active Directory
5 8 (3.59%) Docker
6 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 60 (26.91%) Ansible
2 38 (17.04%) FortiGate
3 29 (13.00%) Terraform
4 8 (3.59%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.79%) CA Spectrum
6 3 (1.35%) Iperf
6 3 (1.35%) Nagios
6 3 (1.35%) Nmap
6 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.90%) Grafana
7 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.45%) CASB
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.45%) vRealize
8 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 151 (67.71%) Cisco
2 84 (37.67%) Juniper
3 62 (27.80%) Palo Alto
4 54 (24.22%) Fortinet
5 52 (23.32%) F5
6 32 (14.35%) CheckPoint
7 29 (13.00%) Meraki
8 25 (11.21%) SolarWinds
9 23 (10.31%) VMware
10 20 (8.97%) Arista
10 20 (8.97%) Aruba
11 14 (6.28%) Zscaler
12 13 (5.83%) ServiceNow
13 12 (5.38%) Microsoft
13 12 (5.38%) Remedy
14 8 (3.59%) Ekahau
14 8 (3.59%) Nokia
15 7 (3.14%) Red Hat
16 6 (2.69%) LogicMonitor
17 5 (2.24%) NVIDIA