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

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 127 183
Rank change year-on-year +57 +56 -22
Contract jobs citing BGP 72 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.44% 0.96% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.00% 6.20% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 16 14
10th Percentile £263 £393 £283
25th Percentile £309 £425 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £388 £569 £438
90th Percentile £482 £622 £450
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%

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 480 500 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.28% 15.53% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 323 408
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £579 £597 £526
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 25
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £12.88 £19.56 £15.63
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.34 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +27.19% +17.07%
75th Percentile £25.55 £28.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £28.75 £35.13 £23.40
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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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 17 June 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 17 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
West Midlands +58 69 £375 -16.67% 9
East Midlands +9 3 £575 +21.05% 2
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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 69 (95.83%) MPLS
2 65 (90.28%) IPsec
2 65 (90.28%) WAN
3 47 (65.28%) Junos
4 45 (62.50%) VPN
5 8 (11.11%) LAN
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (6.94%) Firewall
7 4 (5.56%) OSPF
7 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (4.17%) Network Security
9 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.78%) VLAN
10 1 (1.39%) CATAPAN
10 1 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.39%) HSRP
10 1 (1.39%) Spanning Tree
General
1 7 (9.72%) Finance
2 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (44.44%) Network Support
2 25 (34.72%) 3rd Line Support
3 24 (33.33%) WAN Engineer
4 23 (31.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (23.61%) Network Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (13.89%) Architect
7 10 (13.89%) Support Engineer
8 8 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 8 (11.11%) Network Architect
9 7 (9.72%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Network Support Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Lead
11 3 (4.17%) Project Engineer
12 2 (2.78%) IT Architect
12 2 (2.78%) Lead Architect
13 1 (1.39%) Cisco Architect
13 1 (1.39%) Cisco Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 51 (70.83%) PKI
2 5 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) Load Balancing
2 25 (34.72%) Network Design
3 9 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 4 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (2.78%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (2.78%) Project Management
7 1 (1.39%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 1 (1.39%) Mentoring
7 1 (1.39%) Project Delivery
7 1 (1.39%) Validation
Qualifications
1 63 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) CCNP
3 7 (9.72%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.94%) CCNA
4 5 (6.94%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) HIPAA
1 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 3 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 66 (91.67%) Juniper
2 7 (9.72%) Cisco
3 1 (1.39%) F5
3 1 (1.39%) VMware