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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 74 127
Rank change year-on-year -40 +53 +6
Contract jobs citing BGP 33 38 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.93% 2.00% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.46% 14.96% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 20
10th Percentile £461 £475 -
25th Percentile £493 £538 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £481
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +29.87% -10.47%
75th Percentile £574 £648 £514
90th Percentile £671 £680 £668
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.53 - -
England median hourly rate £72.80 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +81.99% -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 288 254 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.13% 13.35% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 165 322
10th Percentile £208 £227 £282
25th Percentile £350 £363 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -0.47% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £628
90th Percentile £691 £661 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 2 38
10th Percentile £12.71 £22.51 £12.46
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.59 £15.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.40 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -36.32% +4.84%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.20 £71.25
90th Percentile £100.00 £60.28 £75.90
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -9.09% -

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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 28 July 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 28 July 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 13 £525 -17.97% 1
Devon - 9 £495 -
Bristol -11 6 £588 +30.67% 1
Somerset -38 3 £364 -38.00% 2
Dorset - 2 £645 -
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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 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Google Ads
3 1 (3.03%) Route 53
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (54.55%) OSPF
2 16 (48.48%) VLAN
3 13 (39.39%) Cisco Nexus
4 12 (36.36%) Firewall
4 12 (36.36%) MPLS
4 12 (36.36%) WAN
5 11 (33.33%) VXLAN
6 8 (24.24%) NX-OS
7 6 (18.18%) IPsec
7 6 (18.18%) Network Security
7 6 (18.18%) VPN
8 5 (15.15%) LAN
9 4 (12.12%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (9.09%) TACACS
10 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
10 3 (9.09%) VSAN
11 2 (6.06%) DNS
11 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Architect
1 6 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) Network Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Firewall Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.15%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
4 7 (21.21%) Analytics
4 7 (21.21%) Commercial Awareness
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.18%) Network Design
6 5 (15.15%) Agile
6 5 (15.15%) Change Control
6 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
6 5 (15.15%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (15.15%) Log Analytics
6 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) Requirements Workshops
6 5 (15.15%) Runbook
6 5 (15.15%) Technical Discovery
6 5 (15.15%) Validation
7 4 (12.12%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (12.12%) Operational Stability
7 4 (12.12%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) PHP
1 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) DV Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) APMG
4 3 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (9.09%) GIAC
4 3 (9.09%) SSCP
5 2 (6.06%) CCIE
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.06%) GSEC
6 1 (3.03%) CCDP
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) VCDX
6 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
2 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
3 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) FortiGate
3 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 3 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.06%) SCOM
5 1 (3.03%) OPNET
5 1 (3.03%) QRadar
5 1 (3.03%) Suricata
Vendors
1 23 (69.70%) Cisco
2 12 (36.36%) F5
3 9 (27.27%) VMware
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (15.15%) Zscaler
5 3 (9.09%) Juniper
6 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk