BGP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 172 254
Rank change year-on-year -14 +82 +70
Contract jobs citing BGP 152 252 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.22% 0.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.69% 7.39% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 147 123
10th Percentile £283 £308 £353
25th Percentile £403 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £515 £550
90th Percentile £625 £575 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.23 £29.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.81 £60.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £43.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% -29.44% +138.46%
75th Percentile £19.50 £68.13 £80.25
90th Percentile - £69.25 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £39.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.66% -43.21% +154.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +43 54 £500 - 24
North West +40 50 £525 +4.17% 13
South East -21 36 £475 +5.56% 40
South West +12 25 £525 +6.60% 16
Midlands -45 22 £300 -20.00% 13
West Midlands -44 18 £288 -23.33% 8
Scotland +17 9 £413 -17.50% 19
Wales - 9 £450 - 6
East Midlands +15 4 £438 -23.91% 4
East of England +39 3 £425 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 8
North East -5 1 £250 -27.54% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.76%) AWS
1 27 (17.76%) Azure
2 10 (6.58%) GCP
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.97%) GitHub
5 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 121 (79.61%) OSPF
2 85 (55.92%) Firewall
3 67 (44.08%) VPN
4 60 (39.47%) IPsec
5 57 (37.50%) WAN
6 54 (35.53%) EIGRP
7 47 (30.92%) Network Security
8 45 (29.61%) Cisco ASA
9 44 (28.95%) MPLS
10 39 (25.66%) HSRP
11 37 (24.34%) TCP/IP
12 36 (23.68%) Cisco Firepower
13 29 (19.08%) VLAN
13 29 (19.08%) Wireless
14 28 (18.42%) SD-WAN
15 27 (17.76%) Cisco Nexus
16 25 (16.45%) LAN
17 21 (13.82%) Cisco IOS
18 15 (9.87%) DNS
19 12 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Robot Framework
2 3 (1.97%) GitLab
2 3 (1.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 34 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.82%) Telecoms
4 18 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.95%) Finance
6 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Advertising
8 2 (1.32%) Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (70.39%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 15 (9.87%) Senior
4 14 (9.21%) Architect
5 11 (7.24%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (4.61%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
8 7 (4.61%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 7 (4.61%) Network Support
8 7 (4.61%) Network Support Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.29%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.29%) Check Point Expert
10 5 (3.29%) Telecoms Tester
10 5 (3.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.61%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.29%) Spine.js
3 3 (1.97%) YAML
4 2 (1.32%) REST
4 2 (1.32%) XML
5 1 (0.66%) HTML
5 1 (0.66%) JSON
5 1 (0.66%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.66%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.66%) SOAP
5 1 (0.66%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.21%) PKI
3 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.32%) NHS
6 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.66%) FMCG
7 1 (0.66%) IoT
7 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Check Point GAiA
2 4 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.66%) CentOS
3 1 (0.66%) Unix
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (12.50%) Network Design
3 18 (11.84%) Network Architecture
4 16 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
5 15 (9.87%) ITIL
6 14 (9.21%) Load Balancing
7 13 (8.55%) High Availability
7 13 (8.55%) Network Management
8 12 (7.89%) Migration
8 12 (7.89%) SIEM
9 11 (7.24%) Computer Science
9 11 (7.24%) ITSM
10 9 (5.92%) Containerisation
10 9 (5.92%) TOGAF
11 8 (5.26%) Change Management
11 8 (5.26%) CI/CD
11 8 (5.26%) Mentoring
11 8 (5.26%) Project Delivery
12 7 (4.61%) Service Delivery
12 7 (4.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.18%) Python
2 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.66%) Perl
3 1 (0.66%) SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 74 (48.68%) Cisco Certification
3 62 (40.79%) SC Cleared
4 61 (40.13%) CCNP
5 21 (13.82%) CCIE
6 19 (12.50%) DV Cleared
7 18 (11.84%) CCNA
8 16 (10.53%) Degree
9 10 (6.58%) CCSE
10 9 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (3.29%) CCSA
12 5 (3.29%) Check Point Certification
13 4 (2.63%) JNCIE
13 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.97%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.97%) MCSE
15 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (2.63%) NCSC
1 4 (2.63%) NIST
2 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.61%) Docker
3 6 (3.95%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.32%) Ceph
4 2 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (11.84%) Ansible
2 12 (7.89%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.29%) Cacti
4 5 (3.29%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (2.63%) Terraform
6 2 (1.32%) Argo
6 2 (1.32%) Nagios
6 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 131 (86.18%) Cisco
2 58 (38.16%) Palo Alto
3 31 (20.39%) CheckPoint
4 24 (15.79%) Juniper
5 23 (15.13%) SolarWinds
6 19 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 19 (12.50%) VMware
7 8 (5.26%) F5
7 8 (5.26%) Meraki
8 5 (3.29%) Aruba
8 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.63%) BMC
9 4 (2.63%) Huawei
9 4 (2.63%) Remedy
9 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.63%) Splunk
10 3 (1.97%) Arista
10 3 (1.97%) McAfee
10 3 (1.97%) Mellanox
10 3 (1.97%) NVIDIA