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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 84 126
Rank change year-on-year -35 +42 +6
Contract jobs citing BGP 31 30 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.86% 1.58% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 12.30% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 17
10th Percentile £453 £475 -
25th Percentile £493 £554 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £628 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +32.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £584 £648 £538
90th Percentile £677 £649 £670
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.53 - -
England median hourly rate £64.79 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +61.98% -4.76% -32.26%

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 300 244 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.35% 12.88% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 154 315
10th Percentile £210 £225 £279
25th Percentile £363 £328 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.47% +4.88%
75th Percentile £624 £613 £634
90th Percentile £721 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 39
10th Percentile £12.71 £22.51 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £29.59 £14.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.40 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -36.32% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87.50 £53.20 £71.88
90th Percentile £100.00 £60.28 £75.60
England median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.87%

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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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -18 11 £525 -17.97%
Devon - 9 £495 -
Bristol -15 6 £588 +30.67% 2
Somerset -33 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 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (16.13%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Google Ads
3 1 (3.23%) Route 53
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) OSPF
2 16 (51.61%) VLAN
3 13 (41.94%) Cisco Nexus
3 13 (41.94%) WAN
4 12 (38.71%) Firewall
5 11 (35.48%) VXLAN
6 10 (32.26%) MPLS
7 8 (25.81%) NX-OS
8 7 (22.58%) IPsec
9 6 (19.35%) LAN
10 3 (9.68%) Network Security
10 3 (9.68%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
10 3 (9.68%) VPN
10 3 (9.68%) VSAN
11 2 (6.45%) DNS
11 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
12 1 (3.23%) EIGRP
12 1 (3.23%) VoIP
12 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Police
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Azure Consultant
2 5 (16.13%) Consultant
2 5 (16.13%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Network Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Firewall Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Network Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) Network Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
3 7 (22.58%) Analytics
3 7 (22.58%) Commercial Awareness
4 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (19.35%) Network Design
5 5 (16.13%) Change Control
5 5 (16.13%) Incident Response
5 5 (16.13%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (16.13%) Log Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
5 5 (16.13%) Operational Stability
5 5 (16.13%) Requirements Workshops
5 5 (16.13%) Runbook
5 5 (16.13%) Technical Discovery
5 5 (16.13%) Validation
6 4 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (12.90%) Service Management
7 3 (9.68%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) CCIE
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CCDP
5 1 (3.23%) CCNP
5 1 (3.23%) VCDX
5 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (12.90%) VMware NSX
2 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) FortiGate
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) OPNET
4 1 (3.23%) QRadar
4 1 (3.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Cisco
2 12 (38.71%) F5
3 6 (19.35%) VMware
4 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.13%) Zscaler
5 3 (9.68%) Juniper
6 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk