BGP Contracts

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 269 296
Rank change year-on-year +34 +27 +137
Contract jobs citing BGP 338 376 484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 0.87% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.77% 6.93% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 238 282
10th Percentile £325 £300 £381
25th Percentile £418 £366 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £538 £605
90th Percentile £700 £600 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £486
% change year-on-year - -2.26% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 18
10th Percentile £37.00 £19.93 £22.70
25th Percentile £38.13 £22.06 £61.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £39.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% -43.93% +169.23%
75th Percentile £49.38 £57.50 £80.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £62.00 £82.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -69.35% +181.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,854 5,424 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,324 3,203 4,615
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.22% +3.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 430 433
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%
75th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £78.00 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.57% +115.91% -3.30%

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 17 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 2 July 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
England +6 278 £500 +5.26% 566
UK excluding London +5 165 £475 - 297
London +39 126 £475 -2.56% 333
Work from Home +46 111 £530 +8.72% 255
North of England +33 50 £475 -6.54% 51
North West +33 46 £488 -5.11% 29
South West +46 41 £625 +27.55% 34
Midlands -32 29 £350 -6.67% 42
South East -6 26 £450 - 75
West Midlands -29 25 £350 -6.67% 26
Scotland +9 12 £438 -5.41% 51
Wales +13 8 £450 - 7
East of England +20 5 £500 -11.11% 36
East Midlands +4 4 £438 -23.91% 16
Channel Islands - 4 £725 -
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 19
North East -2 1 £250 -41.18% 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 11 (3.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.48%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (24.56%) AWS
2 51 (15.09%) Azure
3 28 (8.28%) GCP
4 18 (5.33%) SaaS
5 16 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (4.73%) IaaS
5 16 (4.73%) PaaS
6 6 (1.78%) Akamai
6 6 (1.78%) GitHub
6 6 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (0.89%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.59%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.30%) Datadog
9 1 (0.30%) npm
9 1 (0.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 276 (81.66%) OSPF
2 200 (59.17%) Firewall
3 129 (38.17%) VPN
4 114 (33.73%) WAN
5 106 (31.36%) Network Security
6 96 (28.40%) MPLS
7 92 (27.22%) IPsec
8 91 (26.92%) EIGRP
9 77 (22.78%) VLAN
10 68 (20.12%) DNS
10 68 (20.12%) TCP/IP
11 59 (17.46%) LAN
12 56 (16.57%) SD-WAN
13 52 (15.38%) Wireless
14 49 (14.50%) HSRP
15 46 (13.61%) DHCP
15 46 (13.61%) Multicast
16 43 (12.72%) Cisco IOS
16 43 (12.72%) Cisco Nexus
17 39 (11.54%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.55%) JIRA
2 9 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (2.07%) GitLab
4 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.89%) Git
General
1 92 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (11.83%) Finance
4 31 (9.17%) Telecoms
5 22 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.33%) Banking
7 12 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.96%) Military
9 7 (2.07%) Marketing
10 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
11 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Retail
12 2 (0.59%) Advertising
12 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Local Government
12 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 213 (63.02%) Network Engineer
2 41 (12.13%) Architect
3 38 (11.24%) Cisco Engineer
3 38 (11.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 29 (8.58%) Senior
5 19 (5.62%) Network Architect
5 19 (5.62%) Senior Network Engineer
6 18 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
7 16 (4.73%) Cloud Native Architect
7 16 (4.73%) Technical Architect
8 15 (4.44%) Implementation Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) Network Security Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) Security Engineer
10 13 (3.85%) WAN Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Consultant
12 11 (3.25%) Core Network Engineer
12 11 (3.25%) Security Architect
13 10 (2.96%) Network Implementation Engineer
14 9 (2.66%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.10%) 802.1X
2 9 (2.66%) NETCONF
2 9 (2.66%) RESTCONF
3 6 (1.78%) JSON
4 5 (1.48%) Spine.js
5 4 (1.18%) REST
5 4 (1.18%) XML
5 4 (1.18%) YAML
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) YANG
7 1 (0.30%) gRPC
7 1 (0.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (18.34%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.62%) PKI
4 10 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.78%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.48%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.48%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.89%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.59%) CMDB
10 2 (0.59%) Derivative
10 2 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.59%) Life Science
10 2 (0.59%) NHS
10 2 (0.59%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.55%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Check Point GAiA
2 6 (1.78%) Unix
3 5 (1.48%) CatOS
4 3 (0.89%) Windows
5 2 (0.59%) CentOS
5 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (18.34%) Network Monitoring
2 48 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (12.43%) Migration
3 42 (12.43%) Network Design
4 34 (10.06%) High Availability
4 34 (10.06%) ITIL
5 28 (8.28%) Validation
6 27 (7.99%) Computer Science
7 25 (7.40%) Change Management
7 25 (7.40%) Service Management
8 23 (6.80%) Network Architecture
9 22 (6.51%) Load Balancing
10 21 (6.21%) Network Management
11 20 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (5.33%) Test Automation
13 17 (5.03%) Network Virtualisation
14 16 (4.73%) Sprint Planning
15 15 (4.44%) Low Latency
15 15 (4.44%) Project Delivery
15 15 (4.44%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (21.01%) Python
2 16 (4.73%) Bicep
3 8 (2.37%) Bash
4 6 (1.78%) Perl
4 6 (1.78%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.59%) SQL
6 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 163 (48.22%) Cisco Certification
2 136 (40.24%) CCNP
3 85 (25.15%) Security Cleared
4 63 (18.64%) SC Cleared
5 43 (12.72%) Degree
6 41 (12.13%) CCIE
7 34 (10.06%) CCNA
8 24 (7.10%) DV Cleared
9 19 (5.62%) CCSA
9 19 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (5.33%) CCSE
11 11 (3.25%) JNCIA
12 8 (2.37%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.37%) JNCIE
12 8 (2.37%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.78%) Check Point Certification
14 5 (1.48%) CCIE Service Provider
14 5 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (1.18%) JNCIP
15 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.66%) NCSC
2 6 (1.78%) SLA
3 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 23 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (5.03%) Firmware
3 8 (2.37%) Docker
3 8 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.18%) Ceph
5 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 77 (22.78%) Ansible
2 29 (8.58%) Terraform
3 21 (6.21%) FortiGate
4 11 (3.25%) Nagios
5 10 (2.96%) ZABBIX
6 8 (2.37%) CA Spectrum
7 6 (1.78%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.48%) Cacti
9 4 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
9 4 (1.18%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.18%) Puppet
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.89%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.59%) Argo
11 2 (0.59%) Icinga
11 2 (0.59%) Observium
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco LMS
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.30%) OpenView
12 1 (0.30%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 260 (76.92%) Cisco
2 92 (27.22%) Palo Alto
3 79 (23.37%) CheckPoint
4 76 (22.49%) Fortinet
5 66 (19.53%) Juniper
6 62 (18.34%) SolarWinds
7 43 (12.72%) Arista
8 41 (12.13%) F5
9 34 (10.06%) VMware
10 28 (8.28%) Meraki
11 10 (2.96%) Aruba
11 10 (2.96%) Nokia
12 9 (2.66%) Atlassian
12 9 (2.66%) Dell
12 9 (2.66%) Microsoft
13 8 (2.37%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.78%) Huawei
14 6 (1.78%) Splunk
15 5 (1.48%) Zscaler
16 4 (1.18%) Mellanox