BGP Contracts in the West Midlands

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 56 92
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 +80
Contract jobs citing BGP 31 56 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.80% 2.99% 1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 18.86% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 9
10th Percentile £230 £263 £330
25th Percentile £291 £309 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £433
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.29% +1.76%
75th Percentile £475 £388 £525
90th Percentile £539 £419 £585
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

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 248 297 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.40% 15.88% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 190 241
10th Percentile £254 £229 £213
25th Percentile £350 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -2.58%
75th Percentile £570 £635 £594
90th Percentile £650 £728 £731
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.40 £16.70
25th Percentile £24.50 £13.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%
75th Percentile £37.38 £18.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £21.80 £29.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +57.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the West Midlands

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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 16 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
Birmingham +9 19 £400 +45.45% 8
Solihull -10 5 £363 -3.33% 1
Herefordshire - 2 £525 -
Worcestershire - 1 £538 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) AWS
1 2 (6.45%) Azure
1 2 (6.45%) GCP
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (77.42%) IPsec
2 22 (70.97%) VPN
3 21 (67.74%) WAN
4 17 (54.84%) MPLS
5 16 (51.61%) OSPF
6 13 (41.94%) VLAN
7 12 (38.71%) Firewall
8 11 (35.48%) Network Security
9 8 (25.81%) EIGRP
9 8 (25.81%) SSL
9 8 (25.81%) TCP/IP
10 4 (12.90%) Junos
10 4 (12.90%) LAN
10 4 (12.90%) Wireless
10 4 (12.90%) Wireshark
11 3 (9.68%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (9.68%) SD-WAN
12 2 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (6.45%) Unified Communications
12 2 (6.45%) Wireless Security
General
1 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Network Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) Support Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (25.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Network Support
3 8 (25.81%) Network Support Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Check Point Expert
5 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) WAN Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
8 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) PKI
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Load Balancing
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) High Availability
4 7 (22.58%) Network Design
5 6 (19.35%) SIEM
6 3 (9.68%) Change Management
6 3 (9.68%) ITIL
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (6.45%) Agile
7 2 (6.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (6.45%) Coaching
7 2 (6.45%) Network Management
7 2 (6.45%) Network Optimisation
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (6.45%) Product Backlog
7 2 (6.45%) Product Management
7 2 (6.45%) Product Requirements
7 2 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) CCNP
3 8 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (19.35%) CCSE
5 3 (9.68%) CCNA
5 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.45%) Degree
7 1 (3.23%) CCIE
7 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.23%) JNCIA
7 1 (3.23%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Def Stans
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) FortiGate
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Nagios
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Juniper
2 13 (41.94%) Cisco
3 6 (19.35%) CheckPoint
3 6 (19.35%) Fortinet
3 6 (19.35%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.45%) Arista
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) BMC
5 1 (3.23%) Fujitsu
5 1 (3.23%) Huawei
5 1 (3.23%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.23%) Meraki
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Remedy
5 1 (3.23%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) Zscaler