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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 99 104
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +59
Contract jobs citing BGP 8 26 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.35% 1.22% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.38% 8.31% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 33
10th Percentile £448 - £430
25th Percentile £481 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -12.95% +11.68%
75th Percentile £608 £565 £575
90th Percentile £642 £649 £730
England median daily rate £468 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -9.44% -6.14% +10.00%

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 237 313 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.32% 14.69% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 195 271
10th Percentile £225 £250 £250
25th Percentile £325 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £582 £656
90th Percentile £717 £670 £730
England median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 68
10th Percentile £15.62 £11.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £25.94 £25.31 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.26 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -25.66% +19.07% -13.09%
75th Percentile £64.75 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £66.14 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +27.03%

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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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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
Wiltshire -5 6 £550 -13.04% 3
Bristol -1 2 £481 -12.50% 2
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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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) VoIP
3 2 (25.00%) VXLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) Skype
4 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (12.50%) TACACS
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (12.50%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Design
2 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) NsoIT
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) CCNP
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 1 (12.50%) CCNA
6 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds