BGP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 92 133
Rank change year-on-year -16 +41 -14
Contract jobs citing BGP 29 56 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.08% 1.95% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.47% 11.02% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 10
10th Percentile £244 £408 £369
25th Percentile £317 £483 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +14.55%
75th Percentile £400 £600 £525
90th Percentile £430 £643 £644
South East median daily rate £450 £540 £433
% change year-on-year -16.67% +24.86% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.80% +201.92% +22.35%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £26.50
90th Percentile - £80.70 -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -69.35% +138.46% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 530 508 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.76% 17.66% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 300 373
10th Percentile £206 £267 £231
25th Percentile £363 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 21
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.05 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.58 £19.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £69.42 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +308.34% -47.69%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.04 £25.00
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
% change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Berkshire -25 29 £388 -29.55% 8
Buckinghamshire +20 1 - - 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (20.69%) Apache
1 6 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (100.00%) MPLS
2 14 (48.28%) VPN
3 11 (37.93%) Firewall
4 10 (34.48%) IPsec
4 10 (34.48%) WAN
5 7 (24.14%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (20.69%) EIGRP
6 6 (20.69%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (20.69%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (20.69%) SD-WAN
7 5 (17.24%) OSPF
7 5 (17.24%) SSL
8 4 (13.79%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (13.79%) HSRP
8 4 (13.79%) Internet
8 4 (13.79%) Network Security
8 4 (13.79%) SNMP
9 3 (10.34%) GLBP
9 3 (10.34%) Junos
9 3 (10.34%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
1 6 (20.69%) NoSQL
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (51.72%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 6 (20.69%) Robot Framework
2 6 (20.69%) TestRail
General
1 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Advertising
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Network Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Test Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) IP Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Senior IP Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Security Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Support
6 1 (3.45%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) NETCONF
1 6 (20.69%) REST
1 6 (20.69%) RESTCONF
1 6 (20.69%) SOAP
1 6 (20.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Migration
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) Scrum
3 7 (24.14%) MoSCoW
3 7 (24.14%) Risk Assessment
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.69%) Integration Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Performance Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Regression Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Security Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
4 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Workflow
5 3 (10.34%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (6.90%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.90%) Network Management
6 2 (6.90%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (17.24%) CCNA
3 5 (17.24%) CCNP
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) CCDP
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) CCIP
5 1 (3.45%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Endace
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) Juniper
2 13 (44.83%) Cisco
3 4 (13.79%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) Aruba
4 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.90%) Blue Coat
5 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.90%) McAfee
5 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.45%) ADVA
6 1 (3.45%) Alcatel-Lucent