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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 35 61
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +8
Contract jobs citing BGP 11 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.45% 4.35% 2.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.64% 21.74% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 23
10th Percentile £500 £557 -
25th Percentile £513 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £640 £495
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +29.29% -10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £648 £531
90th Percentile £575 £688 £667
South West median daily rate £525 £625 £495
% change year-on-year -16.00% +26.26% -10.00%

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 59 92 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.75% 20.00% 26.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 61 178
10th Percentile £305 £440 £447
25th Percentile £363 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £668
90th Percentile £731 £688 £675
South West median daily rate £495 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -5.71% -2.33% +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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 25 July 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

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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 25 July 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 -8 10 £525 -16.33% 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Route 53
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) MPLS
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
3 5 (45.45%) IPsec
3 5 (45.45%) LAN
4 4 (36.36%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (27.27%) Network Security
5 3 (27.27%) OSPF
5 3 (27.27%) TACACS
5 3 (27.27%) VPN
6 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (18.18%) Firewall
7 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
7 1 (9.09%) DNS
7 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
7 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
7 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (9.09%) VoIP
7 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Operational Stability
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Network Design
4 1 (9.09%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PHP
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) DV Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) APMG
4 3 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (27.27%) GIAC
4 3 (27.27%) SSCP
5 2 (18.18%) GSEC
6 1 (9.09%) CCDP
6 1 (9.09%) CCIE
6 1 (9.09%) CCNP
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (9.09%) Degree
6 1 (9.09%) VCDX
6 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
3 1 (9.09%) OPNET
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto