BGP Contracts in the North West

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 117 110
Rank change year-on-year +47 -7 +44
Contract jobs citing BGP 50 20 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.54% 0.73% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.29% 5.49% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 27
10th Percentile £363 £432 £283
25th Percentile £463 £456 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +18.59% +84.78%
75th Percentile £588 £522 £538
90th Percentile £605 £546 £580
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cumbria +18 34 £575 +11.92% 1
Merseyside - 7 £525 - 1
Cheshire +3 6 £475 - 2
Manchester +17 3 £375 -25.00% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) AWS
2 2 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (94.00%) OSPF
2 35 (70.00%) EIGRP
3 33 (66.00%) IPsec
4 32 (64.00%) HSRP
5 29 (58.00%) Firewall
6 26 (52.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 24 (48.00%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (26.00%) VPN
9 12 (24.00%) MPLS
10 11 (22.00%) Network Security
11 9 (18.00%) WAN
12 7 (14.00%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (12.00%) Broadband
14 5 (10.00%) NetScaler
15 4 (8.00%) Converged Networks
15 4 (8.00%) IPv6
15 4 (8.00%) LAN
15 4 (8.00%) SD-WAN
16 3 (6.00%) IPv4
16 3 (6.00%) Wireless
General
1 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (84.00%) Network Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) IP Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Core Network Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Designer
5 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Network Designer
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Principal Network Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Principal Security Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Solutions Designer
5 2 (4.00%) Transmission Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) ITSM
2 9 (18.00%) ITIL
3 8 (16.00%) Network Management
4 5 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 5 (10.00%) Network Design
4 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.00%) Change Management
5 4 (8.00%) High Availability
5 4 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (6.00%) Network Planning
6 3 (6.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (6.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.00%) Migration
7 2 (4.00%) Service Design
7 2 (4.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (4.00%) Threat Detection
7 2 (4.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) Perl
1 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) SC Cleared
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (22.00%) CCNP
4 9 (18.00%) CCNA
5 6 (12.00%) CCIE
6 5 (10.00%) Degree
7 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.00%) JNCIE
7 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Nagios
1 2 (4.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (56.00%) Palo Alto
3 19 (38.00%) CheckPoint
4 11 (22.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.00%) BMC
5 3 (6.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.00%) Huawei
5 3 (6.00%) Remedy
6 2 (4.00%) F5
6 2 (4.00%) Meraki
6 2 (4.00%) Nokia
7 1 (2.00%) Arista
7 1 (2.00%) Citrix
7 1 (2.00%) McAfee
7 1 (2.00%) Splunk