BGP Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BGP 13 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.18% - 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.81% - 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £351
25th Percentile - - £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £650 £250 £425
% change year-on-year +160.00% -41.18% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 57 22 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.58% 9.36% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 22
10th Percentile £173 £210 £338
25th Percentile £341 £313 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £441
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +2.16% +57.32%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £578
90th Percentile £645 £648 £643
North East median daily rate £475 £325 £441
% change year-on-year +46.15% -26.22% +57.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £23.30 - £29.98
25th Percentile £26.25 - £40.44
Median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £41.50 - -
North East median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BGP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

BGP job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BGP

BGP
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 13 £650 - 3
BGP
North East

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) OCI
2 6 (46.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 13 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) OSPF
1 13 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 12 (92.31%) Ethernet VPN
2 12 (92.31%) SD-WAN
3 11 (84.62%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (46.15%) WLAN
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (7.69%) NGFW
5 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) GitLab
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) Senior
1 10 (76.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (92.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Load Balancing
3 9 (69.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (53.85%) Network Design
5 6 (46.15%) High Availability
6 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
7 4 (30.77%) DevOps
7 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
8 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
9 1 (7.69%) Backlog Management
9 1 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
9 1 (7.69%) Operational Stability
9 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) F5
1 13 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (92.31%) Arista
3 11 (84.62%) Aruba
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint