BGP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 78 93
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 +8
Contract jobs citing BGP 6 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.42% 0.88% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.19% 7.56% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile - £408 £358
25th Percentile £300 £475 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £700
90th Percentile £583 £565 -
North West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 97 119 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.84% 11.62% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 83 143
10th Percentile £186 £193 £254
25th Percentile £376 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.05% -14.36%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £584
90th Percentile £677 £650 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £465 £495
% change year-on-year +7.53% -6.06% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £14.29
25th Percentile £18.00 - -
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.42%
75th Percentile £19.63 - £50.00
90th Percentile £19.85 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +70.59% -5.44% +7.87%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Manchester

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing BGP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Manchester

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing BGP

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (50.00%) IPsec
3 3 (50.00%) MPLS
3 3 (50.00%) VLAN
3 3 (50.00%) VXLAN
4 2 (33.33%) 802.11
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Arista
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba
3 1 (16.67%) Broadcom
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Netskope
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec