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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 351 432
Rank change year-on-year +71 +81 -19
Contract jobs citing BGP 120 131 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.21% 5.10% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 83 103
10th Percentile £350 £453 £409
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £553 £681 £581
90th Percentile £625 £808 £725
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £27.43 - -
25th Percentile £33.69 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £44.25 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.79% +169.23% -64.14%
75th Percentile £54.69 - £28.38
90th Percentile £60.88 - £29.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -66.43% +169.23% +13.04%

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 1,664 2,568 3,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.41% 10.21% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,808 2,579
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 90
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +36.60% -43.48%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £43.29
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £63.39
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

BGP
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

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 June 2024. 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
Central London +35 8 £500 -9.46% 3
East London - 1 - - 5
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 2 (1.67%) Apache
1 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.50%) AWS
2 21 (17.50%) Azure
3 8 (6.67%) GCP
4 5 (4.17%) OCI
5 2 (1.67%) Akamai
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.83%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.83%) GitHub
6 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 80 (66.67%) OSPF
2 70 (58.33%) Firewall
3 59 (49.17%) MPLS
4 48 (40.00%) WAN
5 46 (38.33%) LAN
6 39 (32.50%) VPN
7 35 (29.17%) DNS
8 33 (27.50%) Network Security
9 32 (26.67%) EIGRP
9 32 (26.67%) Wireless
10 28 (23.33%) DHCP
11 27 (22.50%) IPsec
12 26 (21.67%) Cisco ASA
12 26 (21.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 24 (20.00%) SD-WAN
14 22 (18.33%) HSRP
14 22 (18.33%) TCP/IP
15 17 (14.17%) Cisco IOS
15 17 (14.17%) SNMP
16 16 (13.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.67%) GitLab
3 2 (1.67%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.33%) Finance
3 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.67%) Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 86 (71.67%) Network Engineer
2 14 (11.67%) Design Engineer
3 13 (10.83%) Senior
4 11 (9.17%) Network Design Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) IP Expert
7 7 (5.83%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Network Specialist
7 7 (5.83%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Cisco Expert
9 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) RAN Design Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) RAN Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Support Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.50%) NETCONF
2 20 (16.67%) JSON
2 20 (16.67%) YANG
3 19 (15.83%) XML
4 10 (8.33%) Jinja
5 6 (5.00%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.67%) LDAP
6 2 (1.67%) REST
6 2 (1.67%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.67%) RESTful
6 2 (1.67%) SOAP
7 1 (0.83%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 14 (11.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (5.00%) PKI
4 5 (4.17%) Clustering
5 4 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.67%) CCTV
6 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.67%) Replication
6 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.50%) Network Design
2 19 (15.83%) Load Balancing
2 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.17%) DevOps
4 14 (11.67%) Change Management
5 11 (9.17%) Migration
5 11 (9.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 10 (8.33%) High Availability
7 9 (7.50%) Business Strategy
7 9 (7.50%) ITSM
7 9 (7.50%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (7.50%) Network Architecture
7 9 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (7.50%) Roadmaps
8 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (6.67%) Test Planning
9 7 (5.83%) Network Management
10 6 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (5.00%) Problem Management
10 6 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) Python
2 2 (1.67%) Bash
2 2 (1.67%) Go
2 2 (1.67%) Scala
3 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (41.67%) CCNP
3 18 (15.00%) CCIE
4 17 (14.17%) CCNA
5 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.83%) Security Cleared
6 6 (5.00%) CCDP
6 6 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.17%) JNCIP
8 4 (3.33%) CCIE Service Provider
8 4 (3.33%) Degree
8 4 (3.33%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.83%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.83%) CCIP
9 1 (0.83%) CCSE
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) SLA
2 2 (1.67%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Firmware
2 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.67%) PowerDNS
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.83%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Ansible
1 9 (7.50%) FortiGate
2 8 (6.67%) Terraform
3 7 (5.83%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (0.83%) CASB
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.83%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 92 (76.67%) Cisco
2 50 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 38 (31.67%) F5
4 29 (24.17%) Nokia
5 24 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 16 (13.33%) CheckPoint
6 16 (13.33%) Juniper
7 14 (11.67%) Infoblox
8 12 (10.00%) SolarWinds
9 11 (9.17%) Aruba
10 8 (6.67%) Arista
10 8 (6.67%) Huawei
10 8 (6.67%) Meraki
11 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
11 7 (5.83%) Zscaler
12 6 (5.00%) Google
13 4 (3.33%) Ericsson
13 4 (3.33%) VMware
14 3 (2.50%) Citrix
14 3 (2.50%) Dell