BGP Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +38
Contract jobs citing BGP 10 5 31
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.44% 1.16% 3.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.42% 6.85% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 25
10th Percentile £493 £561 £439
25th Percentile £519 £597 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £654 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +30.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £560 £688 £575
90th Percentile £575 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +2.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 96 73 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 13.79% 16.90% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 110
10th Percentile £459 £399 £411
25th Percentile £521 £525 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +6.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £715 £688 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £788
South West median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £43.01
25th Percentile £47.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.66%
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £67.40
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £44.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.11% +476.43%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BGP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BGP

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BGP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BGP

BGP
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
Corsham -10 9 £538 -17.78% 3
BGP
South West

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (70.00%) Network Security
3 6 (60.00%) MPLS
3 6 (60.00%) TACACS
3 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 4 (40.00%) OSPF
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (20.00%) VoIP
6 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
6 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
6 1 (10.00%) LAN
6 1 (10.00%) Skype
6 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (10.00%) VLAN
6 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
6 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Network Design
4 1 (10.00%) NsoIT
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PHP
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) APMG
3 4 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (40.00%) GIAC
3 4 (40.00%) SSCP
4 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 3 (30.00%) GSEC
5 2 (20.00%) CCNP
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
2 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (30.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee