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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 114 138
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 +22
Contract jobs citing BGP 25 43 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.49% 1.34% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.73% 8.14% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 40 18
10th Percentile £413 £460 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% +1.03% -5.34%
75th Percentile £622 £525 £647
90th Percentile £688 £575 £658
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Somerset +11 9 £525 +7.69% 1
Wiltshire +3 8 £653 +31.82% 6
Gloucestershire +18 4 £500 -32.20% 3
Bristol +20 3 £550 +12.82% 4
Devon - 1 £413 - 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 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) OSPF
2 17 (68.00%) Firewall
3 14 (56.00%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (48.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (36.00%) VXLAN
6 8 (32.00%) MPLS
7 7 (28.00%) DMVPN
7 7 (28.00%) WAN
8 6 (24.00%) VPN
9 5 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (20.00%) LAN
10 4 (16.00%) IPv6
10 4 (16.00%) Spanning Tree
10 4 (16.00%) VLAN
10 4 (16.00%) Wireless
11 3 (12.00%) VoIP
12 2 (8.00%) Broadband
12 2 (8.00%) IOS XR
12 2 (8.00%) Multicast
12 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Advertising
2 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Military
2 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Core Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Principal Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Principal Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Network Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Network Architecture
2 6 (24.00%) Service Management
2 6 (24.00%) System Testing
3 5 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (20.00%) Validation
4 4 (16.00%) NsoIT
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Business Development
6 2 (8.00%) IT Governance
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) Project Management
6 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (8.00%) Supplier Management
6 2 (8.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (60.00%) CCNP
4 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (40.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (24.00%) CCIE
7 5 (20.00%) CCNA
7 5 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (8.00%) JNCIE
8 2 (8.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.00%) Nagios
2 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 6 (24.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (12.00%) Juniper
6 2 (8.00%) Google
6 2 (8.00%) Meraki
6 2 (8.00%) Nokia
7 1 (4.00%) Aruba
7 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft