Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 355 430
Rank change year-on-year +104 +75 +40
Contract jobs citing BGP 427 414 507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.60% 5.62% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 253 306
10th Percentile £313 £370 £313
25th Percentile £363 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £614 £656 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £498 £442
% change year-on-year -9.55% +12.49% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
10th Percentile £22.30 £49.10 £21.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £61.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +154.55% +41.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.62 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.75 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -29.44% +138.46% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +167 409 £475 -6.17% 83
UK excluding London +87 252 £450 -9.55% 72
London +135 158 £525 -4.55% 26
Work from Home +52 98 £490 -2.00% 32
South East +48 94 £450 -10.00% 21
West Midlands +84 88 £363 -19.44% 11
Midlands +77 88 £363 -27.50% 14
South West +37 43 £493 +1.03% 8
North of England +2 22 £500 +9.59% 11
North West -9 20 £504 +18.59% 6
Scotland +3 4 £500 +0.50% 11
North East +19 2 £345 -37.27% 2
East of England +14 2 - - 3

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (8.67%) Confluence
2 35 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.20%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (3.04%) Apache
3 13 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 73 (17.10%) Azure
2 40 (9.37%) AWS
3 34 (7.96%) Azure Stack
4 13 (3.04%) GCP
5 6 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.17%) OCI
7 3 (0.70%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (0.70%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.70%) Cohesity
7 3 (0.70%) GitHub
7 3 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.47%) Akamai
8 2 (0.47%) IaaS
8 2 (0.47%) PaaS
8 2 (0.47%) SaaS
9 1 (0.23%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.23%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 240 (56.21%) MPLS
2 207 (48.48%) WAN
3 195 (45.67%) Firewall
4 193 (45.20%) OSPF
5 162 (37.94%) IPsec
6 154 (36.07%) VPN
7 94 (22.01%) LAN
8 85 (19.91%) EIGRP
9 71 (16.63%) Cisco ASA
10 60 (14.05%) HSRP
11 55 (12.88%) Junos
12 53 (12.41%) Wireless
13 50 (11.71%) DNS
13 50 (11.71%) Network Security
14 47 (11.01%) SNMP
15 46 (10.77%) Cisco Firepower
16 45 (10.54%) Cisco Nexus
17 42 (9.84%) VLAN
18 40 (9.37%) SD-WAN
18 40 (9.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.81%) MongoDB
1 12 (2.81%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (12.65%) JIRA
2 23 (5.39%) Git
3 13 (3.04%) GitLab
3 13 (3.04%) Robot Framework
3 13 (3.04%) TestRail
4 8 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.99%) Finance
3 38 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.62%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.41%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (0.94%) Banking
10 2 (0.47%) Advertising
10 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.47%) Aviation
10 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.23%) German Language
11 1 (0.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 205 (48.01%) Network Engineer
2 45 (10.54%) WAN Engineer
3 42 (9.84%) Network Support
4 41 (9.60%) Senior
5 40 (9.37%) Architect
5 40 (9.37%) Network Architect
6 38 (8.90%) Network Specialist
7 33 (7.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 29 (6.79%) Senior Network Engineer
9 26 (6.09%) 3rd Line Support
10 22 (5.15%) Cisco Engineer
10 22 (5.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 20 (4.68%) Support Engineer
12 19 (4.45%) 2nd Line Support
13 17 (3.98%) IP Expert
13 17 (3.98%) Microsoft Engineer
14 15 (3.51%) Design Engineer
14 15 (3.51%) Network Design Engineer
15 14 (3.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 14 (3.28%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.94%) YANG
2 49 (11.48%) NETCONF
3 40 (9.37%) JSON
4 36 (8.43%) XML
5 32 (7.49%) Jinja
6 16 (3.75%) REST
7 13 (3.04%) RESTCONF
7 13 (3.04%) SOAP
8 11 (2.58%) 802.1X
9 6 (1.41%) RESTful
10 3 (0.70%) Django
10 3 (0.70%) SAML
11 2 (0.47%) LDAP
12 1 (0.23%) .NET
12 1 (0.23%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 96 (22.48%) PKI
2 53 (12.41%) Data Centre
3 36 (8.43%) Private Cloud
4 24 (5.62%) Distributed Architecture
5 12 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.41%) CCTV
9 5 (1.17%) Clustering
9 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.47%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.47%) Replication
12 1 (0.23%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.23%) CMDB
12 1 (0.23%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.24%) Windows
2 15 (3.51%) Linux
3 10 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.41%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (24.36%) Network Design
2 84 (19.67%) Network Management
3 69 (16.16%) Load Balancing
4 63 (14.75%) ITIL
5 47 (11.01%) ITSM
6 46 (10.77%) DevOps
7 45 (10.54%) Change Management
8 42 (9.84%) Capacity Management
9 39 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (8.67%) Service Management
11 34 (7.96%) Security Monitoring
12 33 (7.73%) Agile
13 32 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (6.79%) Migration
15 24 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (5.62%) Customer Requirements
15 24 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 21 (4.92%) Network Architecture
17 19 (4.45%) Roadmaps
17 19 (4.45%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.16%) Python
2 18 (4.22%) SQL
3 17 (3.98%) Perl
4 12 (2.81%) Tcl
5 5 (1.17%) Bash
6 4 (0.94%) Java
7 3 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.47%) Go
8 2 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 203 (47.54%) Security Cleared
2 120 (28.10%) Cisco Certification
3 101 (23.65%) CCNP
4 70 (16.39%) SC Cleared
5 64 (14.99%) DV Cleared
6 47 (11.01%) CCNA
7 31 (7.26%) CCIE
8 25 (5.85%) Degree
9 17 (3.98%) JNCIS
10 12 (2.81%) CCDP
10 12 (2.81%) JNCIA
11 9 (2.11%) CCIE Service Provider
12 8 (1.87%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.17%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.17%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.94%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (0.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.20%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.11%) SLA
3 4 (0.94%) QA
4 3 (0.70%) NCSC
5 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (4.45%) Firmware
2 12 (2.81%) Docker
3 11 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.87%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.70%) NFS
8 2 (0.47%) PowerDNS
9 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (11.71%) FortiGate
2 32 (7.49%) Ansible
3 24 (5.62%) Endace
3 24 (5.62%) SCOM
4 11 (2.58%) Terraform
5 7 (1.64%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (0.70%) Kibana
6 3 (0.70%) vRealize
7 2 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.47%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.23%) CASB
8 1 (0.23%) Icinga
8 1 (0.23%) Nagios
8 1 (0.23%) Observium
8 1 (0.23%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 244 (57.14%) Cisco
2 199 (46.60%) Juniper
3 86 (20.14%) F5
4 85 (19.91%) Palo Alto
5 82 (19.20%) Fortinet
6 43 (10.07%) Nokia
7 42 (9.84%) Microsoft
8 35 (8.20%) Atlassian
9 31 (7.26%) SolarWinds
10 19 (4.45%) CheckPoint
11 16 (3.75%) Infoblox
12 15 (3.51%) Aruba
13 14 (3.28%) Arista
14 13 (3.04%) Citrix
15 12 (2.81%) VMware
16 11 (2.58%) Extreme Networks
16 11 (2.58%) Huawei
16 11 (2.58%) Zscaler
17 9 (2.11%) Meraki
18 6 (1.41%) Google