BGP Contracts

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 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	372	337	337
Rank change year-on-year	-35	0
Contract jobs citing BGP	250	349	349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.53%	0.65%	0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	3.88%	4.00%	4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted	146	202	209
Median daily rate	£425	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+13.33%	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£289	£275	£265
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£531	£525	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£363	£340
% change year-on-year	+14.48%	+6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	13	1
Median hourly rate	£33.00	£47.83	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-31.00%	+19.57%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£47.83	£40.00
% change year-on-year	-31.00%	+19.57%

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

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	6449	8728	7938
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.69%	16.21%	14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted	3818	5273	4473
Median daily rate	£400	£390	£355
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.56%	+9.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£213	£240	£213
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	392	431	468
Median hourly rate	£29.00	£28.50	£23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+1.75%	+23.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£13.00	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£31.50	£24.00
% change year-on-year	-4.76%	+31.25%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing BGP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing BGP over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing BGP over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 30 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-43	226	£430	+14.66%	78
London	-7	96	£475	+17.28%	34
South East	+13	75	£426	+13.46%	21
Hampshire	+26	42	£403	+32.13%	10
City of London	-1	20	£419	+9.83%	10
Basingstoke	+2	19	£415	+93.02%	3
Berkshire	-2	19	£500	+20.84%	6
Scotland	+42	17	£250	-28.57%	2
North West	+24	17	£376	+15.76%	8
Edinburgh	+22	13	£275	-21.42%	1
Yorkshire	+12	12	£430	+7.50%	2
Leeds	+15	11	£430	+7.50%	1
West Yorkshire	+15	11	£430	+7.50%	2
South West	-20	11	£450	+24.13%	3
Manchester	+17	10	£400	+22.92%	5
Reading	-2	10	£525	+24.55%	3
East of England	-4	9	£375	+17.18%	6
Cheshire	+14	7	£365	+12.30%	2
Buckinghamshire	-20	7	£525	+40.00%	1
Milton Keynes	-20	6	£525	+40.00%
Oxfordshire	-2	5	£433	+33.07%	2
East Midlands	-7	5	£525	+68.00%
Dorset	+9	4	£450	+12.50%	1
Surrey	+5	4	£519	+35.62%	1
Essex	-	4	£325	-
Chester	-	4	£356	-
Bracknell	+8	3	£500	+48.14%
Northampton	+6	3	£525	+68.00%
Canary Wharf	+5	3	£554	+47.66%
Northamptonshire	+2	3	£525	+68.00%

BGP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing BGP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for BGP.

1	408 (85.00%)	Cisco
2	338 (70.42%)	OSPF
3	302 (62.92%)	Cisco Certification
4	288 (60.00%)	Firewall
5	250 (52.08%)	CCNP
6	235 (48.96%)	MPLS
7	190 (39.58%)	WAN
8	182 (37.92%)	VPN
9	165 (34.38%)	LAN
9	165 (34.38%)	Juniper
10	163 (33.96%)	EIGRP
11	151 (31.46%)	Cisco Nexus
12	144 (30.00%)	Wireless
13	139 (28.96%)	TCP/IP
14	129 (26.88%)	Data Centre

15	124 (25.83%)	F5
16	120 (25.00%)	Cisco ASA
17	108 (22.50%)	CheckPoint
18	103 (21.46%)	Network Design
19	101 (21.04%)	CCNA
20	91 (18.96%)	CCIE
21	90 (18.75%)	DNS
22	89 (18.54%)	Cisco IOS
23	85 (17.71%)	Security Cleared
24	83 (17.29%)	VLAN
25	81 (16.88%)	Network Security
26	77 (16.04%)	Palo Alto
27	74 (15.42%)	IPsec
27	74 (15.42%)	Finance
28	71 (14.79%)	Telecoms

BGP
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	14 (2.92%)	Skype for Business
2	3 (0.63%)	OpenStack
2	3 (0.63%)	SharePoint
3	2 (0.42%)	Exchange Server 2013
3	2 (0.42%)	IIS
3	2 (0.42%)	nginx
4	1 (0.21%)	Apache
4	1 (0.21%)	CMS
4	1 (0.21%)	MS Exchange
4	1 (0.21%)	Traffic Server

Applications
1	21 (4.38%)	MS Visio
2	19 (3.96%)	Microsoft Excel
3	12 (2.50%)	Microsoft Office
4	7 (1.46%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	1 (0.21%)	Remedy ITSM
1	1 (0.21%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	33 (6.88%)	Microsoft Azure
2	24 (5.00%)	Amazon AWS
3	9 (1.88%)	Virtual Private Cloud
4	3 (0.63%)	Amazon EC2
4	3 (0.63%)	Office 365
5	2 (0.42%)	Cloud Computing
6	1 (0.21%)	Akamai
6	1 (0.21%)	Amazon S3
6	1 (0.21%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	1 (0.21%)	Azure Active Directory
6	1 (0.21%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	1 (0.21%)	Route 53
6	1 (0.21%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	338 (70.42%)	OSPF
2	288 (60.00%)	Firewall
3	235 (48.96%)	MPLS
4	190 (39.58%)	WAN
5	182 (37.92%)	VPN
6	165 (34.38%)	LAN
7	163 (33.96%)	EIGRP
8	151 (31.46%)	Cisco Nexus
9	144 (30.00%)	Wireless
10	139 (28.96%)	TCP/IP
11	120 (25.00%)	Cisco ASA
12	90 (18.75%)	DNS
13	89 (18.54%)	Cisco IOS
14	83 (17.29%)	VLAN
15	81 (16.88%)	Network Security
16	74 (15.42%)	IPsec
17	58 (12.08%)	IPv6
18	56 (11.67%)	Multicast
19	50 (10.42%)	VoIP
20	49 (10.21%)	Ethernet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	5 (1.04%)	SQL Server
2	3 (0.63%)	MS Access
3	2 (0.42%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	7 (1.46%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	3 (0.63%)	Sonatype Nexus

General
1	74 (15.42%)	Finance
2	71 (14.79%)	Telecoms
3	30 (6.25%)	Banking
4	16 (3.33%)	Retail
5	13 (2.71%)	Military
6	10 (2.08%)	Marketing
7	7 (1.46%)	Multimedia
7	7 (1.46%)	Retail Banking
8	4 (0.83%)	Electronics
8	4 (0.83%)	Investment Banking
9	2 (0.42%)	Billing
9	2 (0.42%)	Financial Institution
9	2 (0.42%)	French Language
9	2 (0.42%)	Games
9	2 (0.42%)	Manufacturing
9	2 (0.42%)	Publishing
10	1 (0.21%)	Corporate Banking
10	1 (0.21%)	German Language
10	1 (0.21%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	252 (52.50%)	Network Engineer
2	81 (16.88%)	Architect
3	68 (14.17%)	Cisco Engineer
4	62 (12.92%)	Network Architect
5	60 (12.50%)	Cisco Network Engineer
6	41 (8.54%)	Senior Network Engineer
7	30 (6.25%)	Network Support
8	28 (5.83%)	Support Engineer
9	27 (5.63%)	Analyst
10	25 (5.21%)	Network Support Engineer
11	24 (5.00%)	Design Engineer
12	22 (4.58%)	Network Design Engineer
12	22 (4.58%)	Security Engineer
13	21 (4.38%)	Consultant
13	21 (4.38%)	Network Security Engineer
14	20 (4.17%)	Cisco Architect
15	19 (3.96%)	Network Analyst
15	19 (3.96%)	Network Specialist
16	17 (3.54%)	Cisco Network Architect
16	17 (3.54%)	Network Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	45 (9.38%)	802.1X
2	5 (1.04%)	Web Services
3	4 (0.83%)	Middleware
4	3 (0.63%)	CGI
4	3 (0.63%)	RFC 2544
5	2 (0.42%)	CSS
5	2 (0.42%)	ExaBGP
5	2 (0.42%)	FreeMarker
5	2 (0.42%)	POSIX
5	2 (0.42%)	RESTful
5	2 (0.42%)	XMPP
6	1 (0.21%)	.NET
6	1 (0.21%)	Core Data
6	1 (0.21%)	JMS
6	1 (0.21%)	LAMP
6	1 (0.21%)	REST
6	1 (0.21%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	129 (26.88%)	Data Centre
2	57 (11.88%)	Analytical Skills
3	15 (3.13%)	Hybrid Cloud
4	10 (2.08%)	Computer Science
5	8 (1.67%)	CESG
5	8 (1.67%)	Video Conferencing
6	7 (1.46%)	Clustering
6	7 (1.46%)	DataPower
7	6 (1.25%)	Management Information System
8	5 (1.04%)	CMDB
8	5 (1.04%)	PKI
8	5 (1.04%)	Private Cloud
8	5 (1.04%)	Smart Meter
9	4 (0.83%)	IPTV
9	4 (0.83%)	Over-the-Top Content
9	4 (0.83%)	Social Network
9	4 (0.83%)	STB
9	4 (0.83%)	Video on Demand
10	3 (0.63%)	FlexPod
10	3 (0.63%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	35 (7.29%)	Windows
2	31 (6.46%)	Linux
3	20 (4.17%)	Unix
4	6 (1.25%)	Windows Server
5	5 (1.04%)	CatOS
6	4 (0.83%)	CentOS
7	3 (0.63%)	AIX
7	3 (0.63%)	Windows Server 2008
8	2 (0.42%)	VyOS
8	2 (0.42%)	Windows 7
8	2 (0.42%)	Windows Server 2012
9	1 (0.21%)	Android
9	1 (0.21%)	Debian
9	1 (0.21%)	Mac OS X
9	1 (0.21%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	1 (0.21%)	Ubuntu
9	1 (0.21%)	Windows 10
9	1 (0.21%)	Windows 2000
9	1 (0.21%)	Windows 8
9	1 (0.21%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	103 (21.46%)	Network Design
2	70 (14.58%)	Migration
3	61 (12.71%)	Load Balancing
4	57 (11.88%)	Network Management
5	49 (10.21%)	ITIL
6	39 (8.13%)	Project Management
7	36 (7.50%)	Network Monitoring
8	25 (5.21%)	High Availability
9	24 (5.00%)	Mentoring
10	23 (4.79%)	Continuous Improvement
10	23 (4.79%)	Disaster Recovery
11	21 (4.38%)	Change Management
11	21 (4.38%)	Network Architecture
12	18 (3.75%)	Problem Management
13	16 (3.33%)	Integration Testing
13	16 (3.33%)	Service Management
14	14 (2.92%)	Configuration Management
14	14 (2.92%)	Service Delivery
14	14 (2.92%)	SOA
14	14 (2.92%)	Time Management

Programming Languages
1	14 (2.92%)	Python
2	12 (2.50%)	C
3	11 (2.29%)	Lisp
4	10 (2.08%)	Perl
5	4 (0.83%)	Bash Shell
5	4 (0.83%)	Java
5	4 (0.83%)	Shell Script
6	3 (0.63%)	SQL
7	2 (0.42%)	JavaScript
7	2 (0.42%)	Ruby
7	2 (0.42%)	Tcl
8	1 (0.21%)	C++
8	1 (0.21%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	302 (62.92%)	Cisco Certification
2	250 (52.08%)	CCNP
3	101 (21.04%)	CCNA
4	91 (18.96%)	CCIE
5	85 (17.71%)	Security Cleared
6	67 (13.96%)	SC Cleared
7	26 (5.42%)	CCDP
8	23 (4.79%)	JNCIS
9	21 (4.38%)	Degree
10	19 (3.96%)	JNCIA
10	19 (3.96%)	JNCIE
11	16 (3.33%)	CCIP
12	14 (2.92%)	DV Cleared
13	13 (2.71%)	CCIE Routing and Switching
14	9 (1.88%)	JNCIP
15	8 (1.67%)	Computer Science Degree
16	7 (1.46%)	ITIL Certification
17	6 (1.25%)	CCDA
17	6 (1.25%)	Master's Degree
18	5 (1.04%)	CCVP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	10 (2.08%)	SLA
2	6 (1.25%)	PCI DSS
3	4 (0.83%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	4 (0.83%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	4 (0.83%)	PMO
4	3 (0.63%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	2 (0.42%)	QA

System Software
1	39 (8.13%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	15 (3.13%)	Active Directory
3	10 (2.08%)	ProxySG
4	5 (1.04%)	vCloud
5	4 (0.83%)	Virtual Machines
6	3 (0.63%)	Hyper-V
6	3 (0.63%)	KVM
6	3 (0.63%)	NFS
6	3 (0.63%)	VMware ESXi
6	3 (0.63%)	vSphere
7	2 (0.42%)	Docker
7	2 (0.42%)	EMC RecoverPoint
7	2 (0.42%)	Firmware
7	2 (0.42%)	VirtualBox
7	2 (0.42%)	XenApp
8	1 (0.21%)	pfSense
8	1 (0.21%)	Squid
8	1 (0.21%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	38 (7.92%)	FortiGate
2	33 (6.88%)	Cisco Prime
3	17 (3.54%)	Cisco CUCM
4	12 (2.50%)	Cacti
5	10 (2.08%)	Cisco UCCX
5	10 (2.08%)	Nagios
6	7 (1.46%)	HP UCMDB
6	7 (1.46%)	OPNET
7	6 (1.25%)	OVSD
8	5 (1.04%)	Netcool
9	4 (0.83%)	Opscode Chef
9	4 (0.83%)	Puppet
10	2 (0.42%)	Graphite
10	2 (0.42%)	Kubernetes
10	2 (0.42%)	vRealize
10	2 (0.42%)	WhatsUp Gold
10	2 (0.42%)	ZABBIX
11	1 (0.21%)	Amdocs OSS
11	1 (0.21%)	Cisco UCCE
11	1 (0.21%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	408 (85.00%)	Cisco
2	165 (34.38%)	Juniper
3	124 (25.83%)	F5
4	108 (22.50%)	CheckPoint
5	77 (16.04%)	Palo Alto
6	68 (14.17%)	Fortinet
7	59 (12.29%)	VMware
8	49 (10.21%)	SolarWinds
9	41 (8.54%)	HP
10	37 (7.71%)	Arista
11	36 (7.50%)	Citrix
12	28 (5.83%)	Blue Coat
13	25 (5.21%)	Microsoft
14	20 (4.17%)	Riverbed
15	16 (3.33%)	Aruba
16	15 (3.13%)	Huawei
17	13 (2.71%)	IBM
18	12 (2.50%)	Infoblox
19	11 (2.29%)	Brocade
19	11 (2.29%)	Nokia