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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 98 112
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing BGP 30 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.81% 1.28% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.97% 9.88% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 14
10th Percentile £465 £550 £423
25th Percentile £493 £594 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £631 £591
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +6.77% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £659
90th Percentile £704 £649 £671
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.53 - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £48.75 £33.75
% change year-on-year +41.03% +44.44% -43.75%

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 301 253 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.12% 12.97% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 179 212
10th Percentile £210 £213 £339
25th Percentile £450 £269 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £688 £588 £613
90th Percentile £725 £654 £675
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 4 25
10th Percentile £12.71 £26.70 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.67 £40.07 -
Median hourly rate £26.14 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.73% -13.08% +15.06%
75th Percentile £90.00 £64.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.85 £81.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +10.63% -38.97% +1.52%

BGP
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -22 9 £525 -17.32% 3
Bristol -18 8 £588 +30.67% 1
Devon - 8 £495 - 1
Somerset -36 3 £364 -42.41% 2
Dorset - 2 £645 -
BGP
England

BGP
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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 16 (53.33%) OSPF
2 14 (46.67%) VLAN
3 13 (43.33%) WAN
4 12 (40.00%) Firewall
5 11 (36.67%) VXLAN
6 10 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (33.33%) MPLS
7 8 (26.67%) NX-OS
8 7 (23.33%) IPsec
9 5 (16.67%) LAN
10 4 (13.33%) Network Security
10 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
10 4 (13.33%) VPN
11 3 (10.00%) DNS
11 3 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (10.00%) VSAN
12 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
13 1 (3.33%) DHCP
13 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (3.33%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Advertising
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Firewall Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Network Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Network Design Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Design Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 7 (23.33%) Analytics
4 7 (23.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.00%) Validation
6 5 (16.67%) Change Control
6 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 5 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (16.67%) Log Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (16.67%) Operational Stability
6 5 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
6 5 (16.67%) Runbook
6 5 (16.67%) Technical Discovery
7 4 (13.33%) Network Design
7 4 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (13.33%) Service Management
8 3 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) CCDP
4 1 (3.33%) CCIE
4 1 (3.33%) CCNP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) VCDX
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.00%) vSphere
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 4 (13.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) OPNET
3 1 (3.33%) QRadar
3 1 (3.33%) Suricata
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) Cisco
2 11 (36.67%) F5
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 3 (10.00%) Juniper
6 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk