BGP Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 35 51
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing BGP 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.97% 2.93% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 18.75% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £508 £607
25th Percentile £513 £533 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £614
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -6.52% +2.29%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £618
90th Percentile - £630 £618
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £583 £614
% change year-on-year -9.87% -5.09% +6.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 50 32 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.65% 15.61% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 80
10th Percentile £130 £266 £320
25th Percentile £513 £483 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £574 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +9.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £632 £630 £560
90th Percentile £647 £661 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £554 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +3.94% +1.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% +45.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing BGP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing BGP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) MPLS
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
1 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
1 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (40.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) IPv6
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CCDA
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCIP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vCloud
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds