BGP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 99 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 -60 +115
Contract jobs citing BGP 41 11 86
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.81% 0.65% 4.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.78% 4.58% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 7 18
10th Percentile £263 £413 £200
25th Percentile £289 £433 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £475 £544 £423
90th Percentile £521 £643 £458
England median daily rate £468 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -8.78% -6.82% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 348 240 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.41% 14.27% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 136 211
10th Percentile £211 £168 £206
25th Percentile £301 £291 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +4.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £671 £688
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 19
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.48 £20.55
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.13 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.47% -32.85% +11.34%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.00 - £67.75
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +25.53%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BGP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

BGP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BGP

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the West Midlands

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BGP

BGP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Birmingham +22 31 £400 -12.57% 3
Coventry - 3 £500 -
Solihull 0 2 £363 -27.50%
Warwickshire -9 2 £625 +25.00%
Worcestershire - 1 £538 - 6
Herefordshire - 1 £513 -
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) AWS
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
1 5 (12.20%) GCP
2 4 (9.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 31 (75.61%) VPN
2 30 (73.17%) WAN
3 29 (70.73%) MPLS
4 25 (60.98%) IPsec
5 12 (29.27%) DNS
5 12 (29.27%) VXLAN
5 12 (29.27%) Wireless
6 11 (26.83%) DHCP
7 10 (24.39%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (21.95%) OSPF
9 8 (19.51%) Firewall
10 7 (17.07%) Cisco Wireless
10 7 (17.07%) NX-OS
11 6 (14.63%) Junos
11 6 (14.63%) LAN
11 6 (14.63%) SD-WAN
11 6 (14.63%) VLAN
11 6 (14.63%) WLAN
12 5 (12.20%) IPv4
12 5 (12.20%) IPv6
General
1 8 (19.51%) Banking
1 8 (19.51%) Investment Banking
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Support Engineer
2 15 (36.59%) Network Engineer
3 14 (34.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (31.71%) 3rd Line Support
4 13 (31.71%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 11 (26.83%) WAN Engineer
6 10 (24.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 8 (19.51%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (19.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (17.07%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
8 7 (17.07%) RF Engineer
8 7 (17.07%) Wireless Engineer
8 7 (17.07%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 5 (12.20%) Architect
9 5 (12.20%) Network Architect
9 5 (12.20%) Network Support
9 5 (12.20%) Network Support Engineer
10 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 24 (58.54%) PKI
2 13 (31.71%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Load Balancing
2 15 (36.59%) Network Design
3 7 (17.07%) User Experience
4 6 (14.63%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
5 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
5 5 (12.20%) Zero Trust
6 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (9.76%) ITIL
6 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.76%) Network Architecture
6 4 (9.76%) Network Management
6 4 (9.76%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (9.76%) Security Architecture
6 4 (9.76%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (9.76%) TOGAF
7 3 (7.32%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.32%) Data Protection
7 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Lisp
2 4 (9.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (65.85%) Security Cleared
2 22 (53.66%) SC Cleared
3 15 (36.59%) CCNP
3 15 (36.59%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (12.20%) CCIE
4 5 (12.20%) Degree
5 4 (9.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (9.76%) CCSP
5 4 (9.76%) CISSP
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
6 3 (7.32%) CCIE Security
7 2 (4.88%) CCNA
7 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.88%) JNCIE
7 2 (4.88%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.44%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (2.44%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (2.44%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) GDPR
1 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.20%) NIST
1 5 (12.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) FortiGate
2 5 (12.20%) Ansible
2 5 (12.20%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (65.85%) Juniper
2 25 (60.98%) Cisco
3 7 (17.07%) Ekahau
3 7 (17.07%) F5
3 7 (17.07%) Remedy
3 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.20%) Fortinet
4 5 (12.20%) Meraki
4 5 (12.20%) Palo Alto
4 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds
4 5 (12.20%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.44%) Aruba
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Zscaler