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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BGP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.63% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

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 91 70 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 9.61% 14.86% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 52
10th Percentile £313 £222 £313
25th Percentile £342 £240 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £492 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -3.05% -0.98%
75th Percentile £545 £566 £604
90th Percentile £600 £575 £649
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -8.54% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £16.68 - -
25th Percentile £17.68 - -
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £13.87
75th Percentile £21.82 - £16.07
90th Percentile £23.30 - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.29 - £13.87
% change year-on-year - - -57.32%

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
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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) SD-WAN
4 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
4 3 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (50.00%) VXLAN
4 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (50.00%) WLAN
5 2 (33.33%) DHCP
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 2 (33.33%) LAN
5 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 2 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (33.33%) Wireless
6 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 1 (16.67%) IPsec
6 1 (16.67%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Network Design
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Logistics
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Runbook
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Arista
2 3 (50.00%) Aruba
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki