BGP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 55 70
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +35
Contract jobs citing BGP 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% 0.83% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.03% 6.85% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £456 - £513
25th Percentile £480 - £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £350 £565
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -38.05% +2.73%
75th Percentile £560 - £598
90th Percentile £584 - £617
West Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £350 £565
% change year-on-year +48.57% -38.05% +2.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 66 73 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 9.04% 12.07% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 79
10th Percentile £275 £207 £275
25th Percentile £321 £303 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £534 £569 £588
90th Percentile £551 £750 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £444 £450
% change year-on-year -2.08% -1.39% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £28.60 £17.35
% change year-on-year +74.86% +64.84% -65.31%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Leeds

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing BGP

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Leeds

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco