BGP Contract Job Trends in Essex

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BGP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.67% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £700 £563
% change year-on-year -28.57% +24.44% +21.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 13 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 11.74% 11.50% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 27
10th Percentile £360 £198 £250
25th Percentile £455 £231 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +55.38% -18.75% -26.44%
75th Percentile £597 £338 £551
90th Percentile £600 £433 £599
East of England median daily rate £495 £486 £400
% change year-on-year +1.80% +21.56% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £15.28 - £14.02
25th Percentile £16.25 - £15.76
Median hourly rate £17.50 £200.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -91.25% +627.27% -64.52%
75th Percentile £32.31 - £40.00
90th Percentile £73.30 - £59.95
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £24.48
% change year-on-year -0.40% +153.27% -62.34%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BGP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

BGP job vacancy trend in Essex

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing BGP

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing BGP

BGP
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Essex region over the 6 months to 13 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
Chelmsford - 2 £325 -
BGP
East of England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TACACS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IP Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (100.00%) OpenConfig
1 2 (100.00%) RESTCONF
1 2 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft