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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 175 210
Rank change year-on-year -41 +35 +140
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BGP 157 209 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 1.15% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.30% 7.74% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 123 117
10th Percentile £320 £320 £373
25th Percentile £413 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.88% -2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £560
90th Percentile £689 £644 £610
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile £65.75 £18.50 £21.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £19.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +250.00% -68.33% +172.73%
75th Percentile £67.25 £19.50 £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £42.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -30.00% +130.77%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,152 2,702 3,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.99% 14.88% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,555 2,159
10th Percentile £204 £206 £205
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £581
90th Percentile £644 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 260 221
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.34 £22.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.94 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% -4.46% +30.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.49% +46.73%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BGP

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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BGP

BGP
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -23 37 £400 +6.67% 18
South East -35 37 £500 - 14
West Midlands -7 35 £400 +23.08% 13
North of England -24 34 £475 -5.94% 7
North West -8 31 £475 -6.63% 3
South West +31 29 £630 +32.63% 8
Scotland -2 10 £425 +4.94% 6
East of England +5 8 £700 +24.44% 2
Wales +8 3 £438 -
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
East Midlands -15 2 £438 -22.22% 4
Yorkshire -18 2 £400 +14.29% 3
North East -4 1 £250 -41.18% 1
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 12 (7.64%) OpenStack
2 9 (5.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.65%) AWS
2 19 (12.10%) Azure
3 7 (4.46%) GCP
4 6 (3.82%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.27%) GitHub
6 2 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 103 (65.61%) OSPF
2 82 (52.23%) Firewall
3 77 (49.04%) VPN
4 62 (39.49%) WAN
5 56 (35.67%) IPsec
5 56 (35.67%) MPLS
6 51 (32.48%) Network Security
6 51 (32.48%) VLAN
7 35 (22.29%) EIGRP
8 30 (19.11%) TCP/IP
9 25 (15.92%) LAN
10 20 (12.74%) DNS
11 18 (11.46%) Wireless
12 16 (10.19%) SD-WAN
13 15 (9.55%) HSRP
14 14 (8.92%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (8.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (8.92%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (7.64%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (7.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.37%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.64%) Robot Framework
General
1 44 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.01%) Public Sector
4 19 (12.10%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.10%) Finance
6 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.91%) Advertising
9 2 (1.27%) Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Local Government
10 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.64%) Military
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (56.69%) Network Engineer
2 18 (11.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 17 (10.83%) Support Engineer
4 16 (10.19%) Architect
5 14 (8.92%) Senior
6 12 (7.64%) Designer
7 9 (5.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) Network Support
7 9 (5.73%) Network Support Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Network Designer
9 7 (4.46%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Check Point Expert
10 6 (3.82%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.64%) NETCONF
2 8 (5.10%) RESTCONF
3 6 (3.82%) REST
3 6 (3.82%) YANG
4 4 (2.55%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.91%) YAML
6 2 (1.27%) JSON
6 2 (1.27%) Spine.js
7 1 (0.64%) gRPC
7 1 (0.64%) JFC
7 1 (0.64%) Jinja
7 1 (0.64%) SOAP
7 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.20%) PKI
2 20 (12.74%) Data Centre
3 12 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (7.64%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.18%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.64%) Life Science
9 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Check Point GAiA
2 5 (3.18%) Linux
3 3 (1.91%) Windows
4 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.64%) CentOS
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.02%) Network Design
2 26 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (15.92%) High Availability
4 22 (14.01%) Network Architecture
5 18 (11.46%) Network Monitoring
5 18 (11.46%) Network Virtualisation
6 17 (10.83%) Load Balancing
7 16 (10.19%) Validation
8 14 (8.92%) SIEM
9 12 (7.64%) ITIL
10 11 (7.01%) NsoIT
10 11 (7.01%) Roadmaps
10 11 (7.01%) Service Management
10 11 (7.01%) System Testing
11 10 (6.37%) Network Segmentation
12 9 (5.73%) Critical Thinking
12 9 (5.73%) Network Management
12 9 (5.73%) TOGAF
13 8 (5.10%) Change Management
13 8 (5.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.93%) Python
2 4 (2.55%) Bash
2 4 (2.55%) Perl
3 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (50.32%) Security Cleared
2 77 (49.04%) Cisco Certification
3 66 (42.04%) CCNP
4 54 (34.39%) SC Cleared
5 21 (13.38%) CCIE
5 21 (13.38%) Degree
5 21 (13.38%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.28%) JNCIE
7 12 (7.64%) CCSE
8 10 (6.37%) CCNA
9 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.82%) CCSA
10 6 (3.82%) Check Point Certification
11 5 (3.18%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.91%) CCDP
14 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.64%) CCIE Wireless
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) NCSC
2 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.10%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (3.18%) Docker
4 4 (2.55%) Ceph
4 4 (2.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.27%) Firmware
6 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (21.66%) Ansible
2 17 (10.83%) FortiGate
3 10 (6.37%) Terraform
4 3 (1.91%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.91%) Nagios
4 3 (1.91%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.27%) Argo
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.27%) Iperf
5 2 (1.27%) Nmap
6 1 (0.64%) Cacti
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 108 (68.79%) Cisco
2 42 (26.75%) Palo Alto
3 39 (24.84%) Juniper
4 33 (21.02%) Fortinet
5 28 (17.83%) CheckPoint
6 27 (17.20%) VMware
7 22 (14.01%) SolarWinds
8 12 (7.64%) F5
9 11 (7.01%) Meraki
10 9 (5.73%) Atlassian
11 8 (5.10%) Dell
12 6 (3.82%) Arista
12 6 (3.82%) Huawei
13 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
14 4 (2.55%) BMC
14 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
14 4 (2.55%) Remedy
15 3 (1.91%) Mellanox
15 3 (1.91%) NVIDIA
16 2 (1.27%) Red Hat