BGP Contracts in the South East

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 104 156
Rank change year-on-year -13 +52 +30
Contract jobs citing BGP 35 93 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.16% 1.69% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 7.67% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 24
10th Percentile £425 £333 £406
25th Percentile £431 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £553
90th Percentile £624 £628 £575
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £19.08 £47.55
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.94 £60.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -64.92% +138.46%
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.44 £80.25
90th Percentile - £24.23 £80.48
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +59.57% -66.43% +154.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 525 1,213 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.36% 21.99% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 601 551
10th Percentile £206 £205 £240
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +1.44% +6.79%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 130 73
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.25
25th Percentile £20.85 £27.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +9.24% +144.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for BGP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley +33 27 £500 +33.33% 14
Berkshire +19 21 £450 +20.00% 13
Buckinghamshire +20 6 £599 -
Hampshire -22 4 £450 - 5
Surrey +11 2 £425 -33.33% 1
Kent +6 1 £425 +17.24%
Sussex - 1 - -
BGP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (71.43%) OSPF
2 21 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 20 (57.14%) VPN
4 15 (42.86%) Firewall
4 15 (42.86%) Network Security
4 15 (42.86%) VLAN
5 14 (40.00%) WAN
6 13 (37.14%) MPLS
7 9 (25.71%) DNS
8 7 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 7 (20.00%) SD-WAN
9 6 (17.14%) LAN
10 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (14.29%) EIGRP
10 5 (14.29%) NGFW
10 5 (14.29%) VSAN
11 4 (11.43%) TACACS
12 3 (8.57%) IPsec
12 3 (8.57%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Robot Framework
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Telecoms
3 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
3 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Automation Tester
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Telecoms Tester
4 4 (11.43%) Tester
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Product Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Principal Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Security Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.86%) SOAP
2 1 (2.86%) XML
2 1 (2.86%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.57%) PKI
5 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.86%) IoT
6 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) CentOS
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (20.00%) SIEM
2 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
2 6 (17.14%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (17.14%) Security Monitoring
2 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
3 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
4 4 (11.43%) Network Design
4 4 (11.43%) Test Strategy
5 3 (8.57%) Adaptive Security
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.57%) IT Strategy
5 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.57%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (48.57%) CCNP
3 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.14%) CCSA
5 6 (17.14%) CCSE
5 6 (17.14%) Check Point Certification
5 6 (17.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (14.29%) CCIE
7 3 (8.57%) MCSE
7 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (5.71%) CCNA
8 2 (5.71%) Degree
9 1 (2.86%) CCDP
9 1 (2.86%) CCIP
9 1 (2.86%) CCSP
9 1 (2.86%) CISM
9 1 (2.86%) CISSP
9 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (11.43%) NCSC
1 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (17.14%) VMware NSX
2 5 (14.29%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Ansible
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Argo
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (80.00%) Cisco
2 14 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (17.14%) VMware
5 3 (8.57%) Aruba
5 3 (8.57%) Juniper
5 3 (8.57%) Mellanox
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.57%) NVIDIA
6 2 (5.71%) Dell
6 2 (5.71%) Meraki
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) ADVA
7 1 (2.86%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (2.86%) Arista
7 1 (2.86%) F5
7 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.86%) McAfee
7 1 (2.86%) Splunk