BGP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 77 117
Rank change year-on-year -41 +40 +15
Contract jobs citing BGP 23 37 37
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.68% 2.15% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.55% 14.12% 6.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 37
10th Percentile £429 £475 -
25th Percentile £493 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +21.21% +0.25%
75th Percentile £574 £648 £525
90th Percentile £697 £684 £610
England median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 269 262 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.94% 15.25% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 175 349
10th Percentile £271 £235 £300
25th Percentile £409 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.87%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £650
90th Percentile £689 £688 £703
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 4 41
10th Percentile £12.98 £13.67 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.32 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £41.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.95% +3.49% +308.16%
75th Percentile £68.25 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +135.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

BGP job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BGP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BGP

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 June 2026. 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
Wiltshire -14 10 £538 -14.34% 2
Devon - 9 £495 - 1
Dorset - 3 £645 - 1
Bristol -22 1 £700 - 1
BGP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Google Ads
3 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) OSPF
2 15 (65.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 14 (60.87%) VLAN
4 12 (52.17%) VXLAN
5 9 (39.13%) Network Security
6 8 (34.78%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (34.78%) MPLS
6 8 (34.78%) NX-OS
7 7 (30.43%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (26.09%) TACACS
8 6 (26.09%) VPN
9 3 (13.04%) Firewall
9 3 (13.04%) WAN
10 2 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (8.70%) DMVPN
10 2 (8.70%) IPsec
10 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
10 2 (8.70%) Wireshark
11 1 (4.35%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (4.35%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Security Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Network Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Design Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Data Centre
2 6 (26.09%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
1 6 (26.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (30.43%) Commercial Awareness
3 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 5 (21.74%) Network Design
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Service Design
6 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
7 2 (8.70%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
7 2 (8.70%) Project Management
7 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
8 1 (4.35%) ITIL
8 1 (4.35%) Load Balancing
8 1 (4.35%) Roadmaps
8 1 (4.35%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) APMG
3 4 (17.39%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (17.39%) GIAC
3 4 (17.39%) SSCP
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.04%) GSEC
5 2 (8.70%) CCIE
5 2 (8.70%) CCNP
5 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (4.35%) CCDP
6 1 (4.35%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) NIST
2 7 (30.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (17.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (17.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
4 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.04%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) OPNET
3 1 (4.35%) QRadar
3 1 (4.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Cisco
2 13 (56.52%) F5
3 8 (34.78%) VMware
4 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk