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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 50 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing BGP 14 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.23% 2.55% 2.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.87% 11.27% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 15
10th Percentile £572 - £443
25th Percentile £613 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.68% -13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £643 £652 £575
90th Percentile £648 £670 £620
South West median daily rate £630 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +32.63% -13.64% +8.37%

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 83 142 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.12% 22.65% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 101 95
10th Percentile £430 - £210
25th Percentile £490 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £640 £628 £606
90th Percentile £695 £675 £658
South West median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £44.09
25th Percentile £47.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.01%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £61.80
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -8.32%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for BGP 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

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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 18 September 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
Corsham +14 11 £625 +31.58%
BGP
South West

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Network Security
2 5 (35.71%) Unified Communications
3 4 (28.57%) MPLS
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) IPsec
4 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) OSPF
5 2 (14.29%) Skype
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (42.86%) Senior
3 5 (35.71%) Network Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Senior Network Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) NETCONF
1 3 (21.43%) RESTCONF
2 1 (7.14%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Network Design
2 6 (42.86%) NsoIT
3 5 (35.71%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (35.71%) Service Management
3 5 (35.71%) System Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 1 (7.14%) ArchiMate
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) CCNP
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Atlassian
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft