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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 36 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing BGP 12 20 19
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.58% 4.22% 2.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.67% 21.98% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 19
10th Percentile £500 £557 -
25th Percentile £509 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £640 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +34.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £546 £648 £518
90th Percentile £575 £688 £669
South West median daily rate £525 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +31.58% -11.63%

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 61 91 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 8.05% 19.20% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 59 170
10th Percentile £305 £437 £440
25th Percentile £363 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +8.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £640 £670
90th Percentile £729 £689 £675
South West median daily rate £495 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.47% +7.50%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Wiltshire

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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 1 August 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 11 £525 -16.33%
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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Route 53
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) MPLS
2 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 6 (50.00%) IPsec
3 6 (50.00%) LAN
4 4 (33.33%) Firewall
5 3 (25.00%) OSPF
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 1 (8.33%) BIG-IP
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (8.33%) DMVPN
7 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
7 1 (8.33%) Network Security
7 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (8.33%) TACACS
7 1 (8.33%) VLAN
7 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Military
4 1 (8.33%) Police
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Operational Stability
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Network Design
4 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PHP
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) APMG
4 1 (8.33%) CCDP
4 1 (8.33%) CCIE
4 1 (8.33%) CCNP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) GIAC
4 1 (8.33%) SSCP
4 1 (8.33%) VCDX
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) OPNET
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto