BGP Contracts in West London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
London > West London

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing BGP 21 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.47% 0.64% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.33% 3.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £319 £463 -
25th Percentile £325 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% - -
75th Percentile £438 £502 -
90th Percentile £468 £504 -
London median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 59 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 32.03% 18.79% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 45 79
10th Percentile £250 £213 £133
25th Percentile £360 £270 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £463 £538 £700
90th Percentile £504 £578 £838
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -68.27% +294.74%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £81.25
90th Percentile - £56.76 £85.00
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
% change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +43.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in West London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in West London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in West London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in West London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hillingdon - 12 £401 - 2
Hammersmith - 1 - -
BGP
London

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Akamai
3 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 19 (90.48%) Firewall
1 19 (90.48%) OSPF
2 17 (80.95%) Network Security
2 17 (80.95%) VPN
3 16 (76.19%) VLAN
4 15 (71.43%) WAN
5 14 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 13 (61.90%) SD-WAN
7 12 (57.14%) DHCP
7 12 (57.14%) DNS
7 12 (57.14%) LAN
8 11 (52.38%) SSL
9 10 (47.62%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (47.62%) EIGRP
9 10 (47.62%) Wireless
9 10 (47.62%) WLAN
10 9 (42.86%) DMVPN
11 8 (38.10%) Cisco Wireless
12 2 (9.52%) IPsec
12 2 (9.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Aviation
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Administrator
2 6 (28.57%) Network Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Network Security Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Security Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Automation Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Check Point Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Check Point Support
4 1 (4.76%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Designer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) NETCONF
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) RESTCONF
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) XML
1 1 (4.76%) YAML
1 1 (4.76%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) CentOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Change Management
3 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (4.76%) Agile
5 1 (4.76%) Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL
5 1 (4.76%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.76%) Network Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Network Management
5 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.76%) Scrum
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (66.67%) CCNP
3 12 (57.14%) CCSA
4 3 (14.29%) CCNA
4 3 (14.29%) CCSE
4 3 (14.29%) JNCIA
4 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) JNCIS
6 1 (4.76%) CCIE
6 1 (4.76%) JNCIE
6 1 (4.76%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Cisco
2 17 (80.95%) Juniper
3 15 (71.43%) F5
4 12 (57.14%) CheckPoint
5 11 (52.38%) SolarWinds
6 10 (47.62%) Meraki
7 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.76%) Remedy
7 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.76%) Zscaler