BGP Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 76 72
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing BGP 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.26% 0.66% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.67% 8.47% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £364 £362 £458
25th Percentile £366 £363 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £399 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -20.20% -
75th Percentile £416 - £544
90th Percentile £421 £418 £563
Scotland median daily rate £434 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +5.15% -8.33% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 75 59 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.63% 7.75% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 54 53
10th Percentile £156 £243 £200
25th Percentile £375 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £625 £500 £600
90th Percentile £675 £550 £623
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% -4.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing BGP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing BGP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HSRP
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) VRRP
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware