BGP Contracts in the Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 60 129
Rank change year-on-year -31 +69 +45
Contract jobs citing BGP 25 77 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.26% 2.86% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 16.49% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 38 15
10th Percentile £160 £263 £383
25th Percentile £238 £313 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -25.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £444 £388 £569
90th Percentile £525 £475 £599
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 225 467 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.37% 17.35% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 283 336
10th Percentile £162 £200 £249
25th Percentile £249 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 16
10th Percentile £13.79 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £15.94
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -29.89% +16.10%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £23.68
90th Percentile £24.69 £28.75 £40.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%

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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 15 May 2025.

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 15 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 Midlands -34 21 £288 -23.33% 10
East Midlands +12 4 £438 -23.91% 6
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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) GCP
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) IPsec
2 16 (64.00%) VPN
3 14 (56.00%) WAN
4 13 (52.00%) Firewall
4 13 (52.00%) OSPF
5 12 (48.00%) MPLS
6 9 (36.00%) VLAN
7 8 (32.00%) Network Security
7 8 (32.00%) SSL
8 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
9 5 (20.00%) EIGRP
9 5 (20.00%) Wireless
10 3 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
11 2 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (8.00%) DNS
11 2 (8.00%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (8.00%) TACACS
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (36.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Network Support
3 7 (28.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Check Point Expert
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Product Owner
6 2 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) IP Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) PKI
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Load Balancing
3 7 (28.00%) High Availability
4 6 (24.00%) SIEM
5 3 (12.00%) Change Management
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (8.00%) Coaching
6 2 (8.00%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) Product Backlog
6 2 (8.00%) Product Management
6 2 (8.00%) Product Requirements
6 2 (8.00%) Product Strategy
6 2 (8.00%) Product Vision
6 2 (8.00%) Scrum
6 2 (8.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) CCSE
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) CCNP
4 4 (16.00%) CCIE
5 2 (8.00%) CCIE Wireless
5 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (8.00%) Nagios
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Juniper
2 11 (44.00%) Cisco
3 9 (36.00%) Fortinet
4 6 (24.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.00%) Arista
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.00%) BMC
7 1 (4.00%) Huawei
7 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.00%) Meraki
7 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.00%) Remedy
7 1 (4.00%) Zscaler