BGP Contracts in Reading

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 63 74
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -14
Contract jobs citing BGP 18 24 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 2.31% 1.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.38% 13.04% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £268 £455 £350
25th Percentile £335 £475 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +5.26% +24.66%
75th Percentile £400 £528 £563
90th Percentile - £547 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £375 £506 £488
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% +27.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.75 £78.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -72.29% +201.92% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 184 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.49% 17.68% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 115
10th Percentile £205 £337 £164
25th Percentile £335 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £602
90th Percentile - £718 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £486 £467
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (61.11%) Apache
1 11 (61.11%) Apache Airflow
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) MPLS
2 12 (66.67%) VPN
3 11 (61.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (61.11%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (38.89%) Firewall
5 5 (27.78%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (22.22%) HSRP
7 3 (16.67%) EIGRP
7 3 (16.67%) GLBP
7 3 (16.67%) IPsec
7 3 (16.67%) SNMP
7 3 (16.67%) SSL
7 3 (16.67%) VPLS
7 3 (16.67%) VRRP
8 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (11.11%) OSPF
9 1 (5.56%) GGSN
9 1 (5.56%) Internet
9 1 (5.56%) VLAN
9 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) MongoDB
1 11 (61.11%) NoSQL
1 11 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) GitLab
1 11 (61.11%) JIRA
1 11 (61.11%) Robot Framework
1 11 (61.11%) TestRail
General
1 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Network Engineer
2 10 (55.56%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) NETCONF
1 11 (61.11%) REST
1 11 (61.11%) RESTCONF
1 11 (61.11%) SOAP
1 11 (61.11%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
1 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
1 11 (61.11%) Integration Testing
1 11 (61.11%) Performance Testing
1 11 (61.11%) Regression Testing
1 11 (61.11%) Scrum
1 11 (61.11%) Security Testing
1 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
1 11 (61.11%) Unit Testing
1 11 (61.11%) Workflow
2 3 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CCNA
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CCNP
2 2 (11.11%) JNCIA
2 2 (11.11%) JNCIS
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Juniper