BGP Contracts in Reading

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 48 73 63
Rank change year-on-year +25 -10 +11
Contract jobs citing BGP 12 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 1.51% 2.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.95% 7.32% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile - £268 £455
25th Percentile - £335 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £373 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -25.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £400 £528
90th Percentile - - £547
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £375 £506
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.93% +3.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

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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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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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
1 10 (83.33%) VLAN
2 7 (58.33%) MPLS
3 6 (50.00%) OSPF
3 6 (50.00%) VPN
4 5 (41.67%) Firewall
4 5 (41.67%) Network Security
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
5 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (8.33%) Internet
5 1 (8.33%) IPsec
5 1 (8.33%) LAN
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) TACACS
5 1 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Automation Tester
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTCONF
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) XML
1 1 (8.33%) YAML
1 1 (8.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Test Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 4 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CCNP
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CCSA
2 4 (33.33%) CCSE
2 4 (33.33%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCIE
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco
1 6 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba