BGP Contracts in the Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 133 177
Rank change year-on-year +83 +44 -27
Contract jobs citing BGP 88 30 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.20% 0.88% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.96% 5.86% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 15 19
10th Percentile £263 £383 £190
25th Percentile £309 £425 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £388 £569 £444
90th Percentile £471 £599 £458
England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +9.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 490 512 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.84% 14.97% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 338 394
10th Percentile £200 £250 £164
25th Percentile £306 £314 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.57% -0.06%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
West Midlands +76 85 £375 -16.67% 11
East Midlands +21 3 £575 +21.05% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 84 (95.45%) MPLS
2 81 (92.05%) WAN
3 80 (90.91%) IPsec
4 51 (57.95%) Junos
5 50 (56.82%) VPN
6 8 (9.09%) LAN
7 7 (7.95%) OSPF
8 6 (6.82%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (6.82%) Firewall
9 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
10 3 (3.41%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (3.41%) Network Security
10 3 (3.41%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.27%) DNS
11 2 (2.27%) HSRP
11 2 (2.27%) VLAN
12 1 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (1.14%) Spanning Tree
General
1 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.95%) Finance
3 2 (2.27%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.27%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 38 (43.18%) WAN Engineer
2 34 (38.64%) Network Support
3 29 (32.95%) Network Engineer
4 26 (29.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 25 (28.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 15 (17.05%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (14.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 13 (14.77%) Support Engineer
8 11 (12.50%) Architect
9 10 (11.36%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 9 (10.23%) Network Architect
11 8 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 7 (7.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (7.95%) Network Support Engineer
13 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 3 (3.41%) Lead
15 2 (2.27%) IT Architect
15 2 (2.27%) Lead Architect
15 2 (2.27%) Project Engineer
16 1 (1.14%) Cisco Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 66 (75.00%) PKI
2 7 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) Load Balancing
2 27 (30.68%) Network Design
3 9 (10.23%) Incident Management
4 4 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (3.41%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (3.41%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (2.27%) Change Management
6 2 (2.27%) ITIL
6 2 (2.27%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (2.27%) Project Management
7 1 (1.14%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (1.14%) Mentoring
7 1 (1.14%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 73 (82.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) CCNP
3 11 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (10.23%) CCNA
5 5 (5.68%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.27%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) HIPAA
1 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.41%) SLA
Vendors
1 81 (92.05%) Juniper
2 8 (9.09%) Cisco
3 3 (3.41%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.14%) F5
4 1 (1.14%) Fortinet