BGP Contracts in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 236 367
Rank change year-on-year +8 +131 +63
Contract jobs citing BGP 125 158 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 0.89% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.51% 9.19% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 105 78
10th Percentile £330 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £697
90th Percentile £673 £820 £813
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.71% +154.55%
England median hourly rate £19.00 £31.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -38.71% -55.71% +154.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in London.

Daily rate trend for BGP in London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in London.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 12 £400 - 1
Central London +10 11 £525 - 10
East London +14 2 £543 +4.33%
South London - 2 £600 -
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.40%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.60%) AWS
2 18 (14.40%) Azure
3 3 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (2.40%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.60%) GCP
5 1 (0.80%) Akamai
5 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.80%) Datadog
5 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.80%) GitHub
5 1 (0.80%) IaaS
5 1 (0.80%) npm
5 1 (0.80%) OCI
5 1 (0.80%) PaaS
5 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (85.60%) OSPF
2 73 (58.40%) Firewall
3 61 (48.80%) VPN
4 51 (40.80%) MPLS
5 50 (40.00%) Network Security
6 46 (36.80%) WAN
7 33 (26.40%) EIGRP
8 29 (23.20%) Multicast
9 25 (20.00%) LAN
10 23 (18.40%) SD-WAN
11 22 (17.60%) IPsec
12 21 (16.80%) HSRP
13 20 (16.00%) DNS
14 19 (15.20%) VLAN
15 17 (13.60%) Cisco IOS
15 17 (13.60%) VRRP
15 17 (13.60%) Wireless
16 15 (12.00%) TCP/IP
17 14 (11.20%) SSL
18 13 (10.40%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.60%) MySQL
1 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) GitLab
1 5 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.40%) JIRA
3 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.00%) Finance
3 24 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Telecoms
5 10 (8.00%) Banking
6 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.40%) Marketing
10 2 (1.60%) Electronics
10 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Aviation
11 1 (0.80%) Military
11 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (57.60%) Network Engineer
2 19 (15.20%) Cisco Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) Consultant
5 13 (10.40%) Architect
6 11 (8.80%) Network Consultant
7 10 (8.00%) Implementation Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) Network Architect
8 9 (7.20%) Senior
9 8 (6.40%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Principal Network Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Core Network Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) WAN Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) WAN Specialist
11 6 (4.80%) Deployment Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Network Deployment Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.00%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.00%) JSON
3 3 (2.40%) XML
4 2 (1.60%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.60%) REST
4 2 (1.60%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.60%) SOAP
4 2 (1.60%) YAML
4 2 (1.60%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.80%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.40%) NHS
5 2 (1.60%) Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Derivative
5 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.80%) PKI
6 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Linux
2 6 (4.80%) Unix
3 5 (4.00%) CatOS
4 2 (1.60%) CentOS
4 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.40%) Network Monitoring
2 32 (25.60%) Migration
3 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (12.80%) ITIL
5 14 (11.20%) Project Delivery
5 14 (11.20%) Service Management
6 13 (10.40%) Low Latency
6 13 (10.40%) Network Design
7 12 (9.60%) Matrix Organization
8 11 (8.80%) Network Management
9 10 (8.00%) High Availability
10 8 (6.40%) CI/CD
10 8 (6.40%) Validation
11 7 (5.60%) Analytics
11 7 (5.60%) Change Management
11 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (5.60%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (4.80%) Process Improvement
12 6 (4.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (4.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.80%) Python
2 6 (4.80%) Bash
2 6 (4.80%) Perl
3 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 61 (48.80%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (36.80%) CCNP
3 22 (17.60%) CCIE
4 13 (10.40%) CCNA
5 12 (9.60%) Degree
6 8 (6.40%) CCSA
7 7 (5.60%) Security Cleared
8 6 (4.80%) CCSE
9 5 (4.00%) CCIE Service Provider
9 5 (4.00%) JNCIA
10 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.60%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.60%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.80%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.60%) DICOM
2 2 (1.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (4.00%) Firmware
1 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.40%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.40%) vSphere
3 2 (1.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (27.20%) Ansible
2 18 (14.40%) FortiGate
3 11 (8.80%) Terraform
4 8 (6.40%) ZABBIX
5 5 (4.00%) Puppet
6 4 (3.20%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (3.20%) Nagios
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco LMS
9 1 (0.80%) Icinga
9 1 (0.80%) Netcool
9 1 (0.80%) Observium
9 1 (0.80%) OpenView
9 1 (0.80%) OPNET
9 1 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 87 (69.60%) Cisco
2 37 (29.60%) Fortinet
3 23 (18.40%) Arista
3 23 (18.40%) Juniper
4 21 (16.80%) CheckPoint
4 21 (16.80%) Palo Alto
4 21 (16.80%) SolarWinds
5 14 (11.20%) F5
5 14 (11.20%) Meraki
6 7 (5.60%) Nokia
7 6 (4.80%) VMware
8 4 (3.20%) Splunk
9 3 (2.40%) Aruba
9 3 (2.40%) IBM
9 3 (2.40%) McAfee
9 3 (2.40%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle
9 3 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.40%) Solace
9 3 (2.40%) TIBCO