BGP Contracts in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 238 346
Rank change year-on-year +9 +108 +89
Contract jobs citing BGP 271 368 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 1.01% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.55% 7.69% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 233 179
10th Percentile £325 £332 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £609
90th Percentile £640 £613 £770
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £22.05 £19.45 £60.20
25th Percentile £27.38 £20.88 £61.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.57% -66.43% +156.88%
75th Percentile £39.38 £24.25 £80.25
90th Percentile £39.75 £24.55 £80.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £24.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year +56.25% -67.46% +183.65%

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 3,168 4,788 5,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.17% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,877 3,859
10th Percentile £220 £210 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.68% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 390 424
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.06 £16.44 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £59.28
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -34.70%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in England

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in England.

Daily rate trend for BGP in England

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in England.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in England

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in England

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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 16 May 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 +29 131 £500 -4.76% 107
North of England +46 52 £500 - 29
North West +36 48 £513 +0.84% 14
South East -7 32 £450 - 56
South West +28 26 £525 +7.14% 12
Midlands -34 25 £300 -20.00% 14
West Midlands -38 21 £288 -23.33% 9
East Midlands +10 4 £438 -23.91% 4
East of England +26 3 £425 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 14
North East -4 1 £250 -35.06% 1
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.11%) Confluence
1 3 (1.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.37%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.40%) AWS
2 42 (15.50%) Azure
3 12 (4.43%) GCP
4 6 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.85%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.48%) GitHub
7 3 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.74%) Akamai
8 2 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.37%) Datadog
9 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.37%) IaaS
9 1 (0.37%) npm
9 1 (0.37%) OCI
9 1 (0.37%) PaaS
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 217 (80.07%) OSPF
2 151 (55.72%) Firewall
3 116 (42.80%) VPN
4 103 (38.01%) WAN
5 95 (35.06%) MPLS
6 89 (32.84%) Network Security
7 81 (29.89%) IPsec
8 79 (29.15%) EIGRP
9 59 (21.77%) HSRP
10 49 (18.08%) LAN
11 48 (17.71%) TCP/IP
11 48 (17.71%) VLAN
12 47 (17.34%) SD-WAN
13 42 (15.50%) Cisco Nexus
14 39 (14.39%) Multicast
15 36 (13.28%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (12.55%) Cisco IOS
17 33 (12.18%) DNS
18 32 (11.81%) Cisco Firepower
19 28 (10.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.37%) MySQL
1 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (2.21%) GitLab
3 4 (1.48%) JIRA
4 3 (1.11%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (12.92%) Finance
4 31 (11.44%) Telecoms
5 21 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.54%) Banking
7 11 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.48%) Military
10 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Legal
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (60.89%) Network Engineer
2 31 (11.44%) Architect
3 29 (10.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 28 (10.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 25 (9.23%) Senior
6 20 (7.38%) Network Architect
7 18 (6.64%) Consultant
8 15 (5.54%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 14 (5.17%) Senior Network Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) Implementation Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) Network Consultant
11 12 (4.43%) WAN Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Network Security Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Principal Network Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.69%) Core Network Engineer
13 10 (3.69%) Support Engineer
14 9 (3.32%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (3.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.01%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.85%) JSON
2 5 (1.85%) Spine.js
3 3 (1.11%) XML
3 3 (1.11%) YAML
4 2 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.37%) gRPC
5 1 (0.37%) HTML
5 1 (0.37%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.37%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.37%) SOAP
5 1 (0.37%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.34%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.54%) PKI
4 7 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.58%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.74%) Derivative
8 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.74%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.37%) Clustering
9 1 (0.37%) FMCG
9 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.37%) NHS
9 1 (0.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.69%) Linux
2 6 (2.21%) Check Point GAiA
3 5 (1.85%) CatOS
3 5 (1.85%) Unix
4 2 (0.74%) Windows
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (17.71%) Network Monitoring
2 46 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (16.61%) Migration
4 30 (11.07%) ITIL
5 24 (8.86%) Network Design
6 23 (8.49%) High Availability
6 23 (8.49%) Load Balancing
7 22 (8.12%) Project Delivery
8 21 (7.75%) Network Management
9 20 (7.38%) Network Architecture
9 20 (7.38%) Service Management
10 19 (7.01%) Change Management
11 16 (5.90%) Low Latency
11 16 (5.90%) Validation
12 14 (5.17%) CI/CD
13 13 (4.80%) Matrix Organization
13 13 (4.80%) SIEM
14 12 (4.43%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.43%) Network Virtualisation
15 11 (4.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.93%) Python
2 6 (2.21%) Perl
3 5 (1.85%) Bash
3 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.37%) Bicep
4 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (46.13%) Cisco Certification
2 98 (36.16%) CCNP
3 77 (28.41%) Security Cleared
4 59 (21.77%) SC Cleared
5 42 (15.50%) CCIE
6 26 (9.59%) CCNA
7 20 (7.38%) Degree
7 20 (7.38%) DV Cleared
8 18 (6.64%) CCSE
9 14 (5.17%) CCSA
10 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.95%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (2.21%) Check Point Certification
12 6 (2.21%) JNCIA
13 5 (1.85%) CCIE Service Provider
13 5 (1.85%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.48%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.58%) SLA
2 6 (2.21%) NCSC
3 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.48%) NIST
4 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.74%) QA
5 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.95%) Firmware
2 8 (2.95%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.85%) Docker
4 3 (1.11%) vSphere
5 2 (0.74%) Ceph
6 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (22.14%) Ansible
2 26 (9.59%) FortiGate
3 17 (6.27%) Terraform
4 10 (3.69%) ZABBIX
5 8 (2.95%) Nagios
6 6 (2.21%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (2.21%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.85%) Puppet
7 5 (1.85%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.48%) CA Spectrum
9 3 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.74%) Argo
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco LMS
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco UCCX
11 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.37%) Icinga
11 1 (0.37%) Observium
11 1 (0.37%) OpenView
11 1 (0.37%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 208 (76.75%) Cisco
2 69 (25.46%) Palo Alto
3 58 (21.40%) Fortinet
4 55 (20.30%) CheckPoint
5 46 (16.97%) Juniper
6 40 (14.76%) SolarWinds
7 37 (13.65%) Arista
8 21 (7.75%) F5
8 21 (7.75%) Meraki
9 20 (7.38%) VMware
10 10 (3.69%) Aruba
10 10 (3.69%) Microsoft
11 9 (3.32%) Nokia
12 6 (2.21%) Splunk
12 6 (2.21%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.85%) Red Hat
14 4 (1.48%) BMC
14 4 (1.48%) Huawei
14 4 (1.48%) McAfee
14 4 (1.48%) Remedy