BGP Contracts in the South West

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 138 151
Rank change year-on-year +36 +13 -28
Contract jobs citing BGP 48 30 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.50% 0.81% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.97% 4.58% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 10
10th Percentile £460 £363 £391
25th Percentile £463 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £540
90th Percentile £575 £658 £549
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.55
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - - £52.00
75th Percentile - - £54.00
90th Percentile - - £54.45
England median hourly rate £31.00 £70.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -55.71% +154.55% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 535 655 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.78% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 425 300
10th Percentile £275 £208 £224
25th Percentile £460 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £541
90th Percentile £713 £717 £621
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.51 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the South West

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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 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the South West

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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 24 April 2024. 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 +32 39 £495 -20.80%
Gloucestershire +10 4 £738 - 3
Bristol +12 2 £488 +21.88% 4
Somerset -3 2 £488 +13.04% 1
Devon -2 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (72.92%) Confluence
1 35 (72.92%) SharePoint
1 35 (72.92%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 35 (72.92%) Azure
2 34 (70.83%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 46 (95.83%) Firewall
2 12 (25.00%) WAN
3 8 (16.67%) LAN
4 6 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (12.50%) OSPF
4 6 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
5 5 (10.42%) VPN
6 4 (8.33%) DHCP
6 4 (8.33%) DNS
6 4 (8.33%) Network Security
6 4 (8.33%) SNMP
6 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 3 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (6.25%) EIGRP
7 3 (6.25%) MPLS
8 2 (4.17%) IGRP
8 2 (4.17%) RIP
8 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 35 (72.92%) JIRA
General
1 37 (77.08%) Social Skills
2 18 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Police
4 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Network Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Cisco Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Service Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Service Management Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco Field Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Field Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Network Field Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (72.92%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (72.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) ITIL
2 38 (79.17%) Network Management
3 35 (72.92%) Service Management
4 34 (70.83%) Capacity Management
4 34 (70.83%) Security Monitoring
5 28 (58.33%) ITSM
6 18 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (22.92%) Backlog Management
7 11 (22.92%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
9 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 1 (2.08%) Migration
Qualifications
1 39 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 36 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) CCNA
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (72.92%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 24 (50.00%) SCOM
2 4 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (72.92%) Atlassian
1 35 (72.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) Cisco
3 4 (8.33%) F5
3 4 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.17%) Siemens