BGP Contracts in Hampshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 62 70
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +42
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BGP 8 35 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.81% 2.34% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 9.14% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 7
10th Percentile £395 £374 -
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% +12.53%
75th Percentile £700 £509 £600
90th Percentile - £654 -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.30
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £19.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -68.33% +150.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 196 383 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.82% 25.65% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 177 153
10th Percentile £308 £413 £236
25th Percentile £500 £463 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +27.78% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £610
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £457
% change year-on-year - +9.36% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 67 33
10th Percentile £49.10 £31.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £51.42 £53.40 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +30.90%
75th Percentile £58.73 £62.53 £66.25
90th Percentile £60.18 £70.00 £74.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +31.63%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Hampshire

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BGP

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Hampshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Hampshire

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing BGP

BGP
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth - 3 £700 -
Southampton - 1 £500 - 2
BGP
South East

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) Firewall
3 5 (62.50%) VLAN
4 3 (37.50%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (37.50%) Network Security
4 3 (37.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) Multicast
5 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) CCNP
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (12.50%) Iperf
4 1 (12.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Fortinet
2 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
3 3 (37.50%) Mellanox
3 3 (37.50%) NVIDIA
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds