BGP Contracts in the South West

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring BGP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BGP over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 119 133
Rank change year-on-year +41 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing BGP 41 32 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.28% 0.97% 0.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.77% 5.77% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 22
10th Percentile £475 - £407
25th Percentile £513 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% -11.14% +25.00%
75th Percentile £648 £520 £594
90th Percentile £668 £663 £650
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +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 260 555 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.48% 16.87% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 354 338
10th Percentile £235 £300 £245
25th Percentile £385 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +12.18%
75th Percentile £623 £647 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 44 95
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.58 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.85%
75th Percentile £41.40 £71.56 £62.00
90th Percentile £55.56 £75.00 £77.65
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

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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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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 +27 19 £640 +29.29% 6
Somerset +17 15 £550 +12.82% 5
Gloucestershire - 4 £500 - 5
Bristol +16 3 £450 -7.69% 2
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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 8 (19.51%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) AWS
1 2 (4.88%) Azure
1 2 (4.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) OSPF
2 16 (39.02%) MPLS
3 15 (36.59%) Firewall
4 13 (31.71%) VPN
5 12 (29.27%) Cisco IOS
5 12 (29.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (21.95%) Unified Communications
7 8 (19.51%) VXLAN
7 8 (19.51%) WAN
8 7 (17.07%) DMVPN
8 7 (17.07%) DNS
8 7 (17.07%) IPsec
8 7 (17.07%) Network Security
9 5 (12.20%) LAN
9 5 (12.20%) Multicast
10 4 (9.76%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (9.76%) IPv6
11 3 (7.32%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (7.32%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (7.32%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Advertising
3 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Military
3 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (75.61%) Network Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Architect
3 7 (17.07%) Network Architect
4 6 (14.63%) Senior
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Network Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Telephony Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Core Network Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Network Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Security Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Switch Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) NETCONF
1 7 (17.07%) RESTCONF
2 5 (12.20%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) PKI
2 6 (14.63%) Onboarding
3 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) Service Management
1 14 (34.15%) System Testing
2 13 (31.71%) Network Virtualisation
2 13 (31.71%) Validation
3 12 (29.27%) NsoIT
4 9 (21.95%) Network Architecture
5 8 (19.51%) Critical Thinking
6 7 (17.07%) Network Design
7 4 (9.76%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (7.32%) ArchiMate
8 3 (7.32%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (7.32%) Customer Service
8 3 (7.32%) Incident Management
8 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (4.88%) Budget Management
9 2 (4.88%) Business Development
9 2 (4.88%) IT Governance
9 2 (4.88%) Roadmaps
9 2 (4.88%) Strategic Roadmap
9 2 (4.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (75.61%) Security Cleared
2 24 (58.54%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (53.66%) CCNP
4 20 (48.78%) SC Cleared
5 17 (41.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (17.07%) Degree
7 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (9.76%) CCIE
8 4 (9.76%) CCNA
9 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
9 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
9 2 (4.88%) JNCIE
9 2 (4.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) NCSC
2 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Ansible
2 5 (12.20%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (4.88%) Nagios
3 2 (4.88%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 33 (80.49%) Cisco
2 22 (53.66%) VMware
3 8 (19.51%) Atlassian
4 6 (14.63%) SolarWinds
5 3 (7.32%) Arista
5 3 (7.32%) Juniper
5 3 (7.32%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.88%) Google
6 2 (4.88%) Nokia
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft