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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 282 312
Rank change year-on-year +43 +30 +107
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BGP 125 107 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.93% 0.66% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.04% 6.98% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 68 105
10th Percentile £365 £248 £450
25th Percentile £409 £350 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £675
90th Percentile £663 £599 £830
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £36.63 - £35.80
25th Percentile £37.19 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 £65.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.38% +25.00% +82.46%
75th Percentile £39.69 - £61.50
90th Percentile £39.88 - £66.60
England median hourly rate £48.75 £42.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -30.00% +130.77%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,383 1,532 2,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.33% 9.42% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 999 1,674
10th Percentile £286 £250 £252
25th Percentile £400 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £623 £650
90th Percentile £713 £705 £750
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +0.90% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 40
10th Percentile £20.32 £18.88 £18.51
25th Percentile - £20.50 £22.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.99 £35.27
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -31.98% +47.51%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £65.00 £80.30
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.73% -2.64% +43.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BGP

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BGP

BGP
DemandTrendContract 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 27 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
West London +17 20 £400 -16.88% 1
Central London +11 19 £600 +20.00% 5
South London - 4 £600 -
East London +9 3 £550 +148.67%
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%) Confluence
1 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.20%) AWS
2 13 (10.40%) Azure
3 8 (6.40%) Akamai
4 4 (3.20%) GCP
5 3 (2.40%) GitHub
5 3 (2.40%) SaaS
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.80%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.80%) Datadog
7 1 (0.80%) IaaS
7 1 (0.80%) npm
7 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (92.00%) OSPF
2 82 (65.60%) Firewall
3 50 (40.00%) WAN
4 47 (37.60%) VPN
5 42 (33.60%) Network Security
6 39 (31.20%) MPLS
7 32 (25.60%) EIGRP
8 31 (24.80%) SD-WAN
9 30 (24.00%) LAN
10 29 (23.20%) IPsec
11 28 (22.40%) DNS
12 26 (20.80%) Multicast
13 24 (19.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (18.40%) VLAN
15 21 (16.80%) Ethernet VPN
16 20 (16.00%) VXLAN
17 19 (15.20%) SSL
18 18 (14.40%) Cisco ISE
19 17 (13.60%) Wireless
20 16 (12.80%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.60%) JIRA
6 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.60%) Finance
3 16 (12.80%) Telecoms
4 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (7.20%) Banking
6 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Aviation
9 1 (0.80%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (66.40%) Network Engineer
2 25 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 25 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 16 (12.80%) Senior
4 12 (9.60%) Juniper Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) WAN Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Security Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Architect
7 9 (7.20%) Consultant
7 9 (7.20%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Core Network Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Administrator
10 6 (4.80%) Implementation Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Network Administrator
11 5 (4.00%) Lead
11 5 (4.00%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.20%) Jinja
2 4 (3.20%) JSON
3 2 (1.60%) XML
3 2 (1.60%) YAML
4 1 (0.80%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.80%) eBPF
4 1 (0.80%) gRPC
4 1 (0.80%) LangChain
4 1 (0.80%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.80%) REST
4 1 (0.80%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.80%) SOAP
4 1 (0.80%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.00%) PKI
3 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.40%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Linux
2 5 (4.00%) Windows
3 4 (3.20%) Unix
4 3 (2.40%) CatOS
5 1 (0.80%) CentOS
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) Network Monitoring
2 20 (16.00%) Migration
3 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (12.80%) Network Segmentation
5 15 (12.00%) Change Control
5 15 (12.00%) Change Management
6 14 (11.20%) High Availability
6 14 (11.20%) Low Latency
7 13 (10.40%) ITIL
7 13 (10.40%) Validation
8 12 (9.60%) DevOps
9 10 (8.00%) CI/CD
10 9 (7.20%) Agile
10 9 (7.20%) Network Design
11 8 (6.40%) Patch Management
11 8 (6.40%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (5.60%) Matrix Organization
12 7 (5.60%) Runbook
12 7 (5.60%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.20%) Python
2 9 (7.20%) Bash
3 8 (6.40%) Perl
4 4 (3.20%) C++
5 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.80%) C
6 1 (0.80%) Go
6 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (49.60%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (40.80%) CCNP
3 21 (16.80%) CCIE
4 14 (11.20%) Security Cleared
5 12 (9.60%) CCSA
5 12 (9.60%) JNCIA
6 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
7 10 (8.00%) Degree
8 9 (7.20%) CCNA
8 9 (7.20%) CCSE
8 9 (7.20%) JNCIS
9 8 (6.40%) JNCIE
10 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (4.00%) JNCIP
12 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.60%) CCIE Data Center
13 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.80%) CCDE
14 1 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.60%) SLA
2 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (13.60%) Firmware
2 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.20%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.40%) KVM
4 2 (1.60%) Docker
4 2 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.80%) Squid
Systems Management
1 58 (46.40%) Ansible
2 13 (10.40%) Terraform
3 9 (7.20%) FortiGate
4 7 (5.60%) CA Spectrum
5 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.40%) Nagios
7 2 (1.60%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.60%) Icinga
7 2 (1.60%) Observium
8 1 (0.80%) OpenView
8 1 (0.80%) OPNET
8 1 (0.80%) Puppet
8 1 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 92 (73.60%) Cisco
2 49 (39.20%) Juniper
3 39 (31.20%) Arista
4 36 (28.80%) Fortinet
5 32 (25.60%) CheckPoint
5 32 (25.60%) F5
6 23 (18.40%) Palo Alto
6 23 (18.40%) SolarWinds
7 17 (13.60%) Meraki
8 8 (6.40%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.00%) VMware
10 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.40%) Aruba
11 3 (2.40%) Remedy
11 3 (2.40%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.60%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (1.60%) McAfee
12 2 (1.60%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.60%) Splunk
12 2 (1.60%) Sun