BGP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 247 299
Rank change year-on-year +58 +52 +120
Contract jobs citing BGP 115 98 182
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.03% 6.09% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 72 123
10th Percentile £399 £335 £366
25th Percentile £456 £418 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £758 £534 £569
90th Percentile £838 £655 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £20.40 £28.48
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.25 £65.38
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.50 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -68.79% +185.45%
75th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £80.44
90th Percentile - £50.40 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £37.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -49.33% -46.43% +154.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

BGP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BGP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BGP.

BGP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BGP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

BGP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BGP.

BGP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.74%) Confluence
1 2 (1.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.57%) AWS
2 33 (28.70%) Azure
3 20 (17.39%) GCP
4 19 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (16.52%) IaaS
4 19 (16.52%) PaaS
4 19 (16.52%) SaaS
5 2 (1.74%) Akamai
5 2 (1.74%) GitHub
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.74%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.87%) Datadog
6 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.87%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 93 (80.87%) OSPF
2 61 (53.04%) Firewall
3 51 (44.35%) TCP/IP
4 47 (40.87%) VPN
5 40 (34.78%) MPLS
6 38 (33.04%) WAN
7 33 (28.70%) DNS
8 27 (23.48%) DHCP
9 25 (21.74%) Network Security
10 24 (20.87%) Cisco Nexus
11 22 (19.13%) LAN
12 21 (18.26%) Multicast
13 20 (17.39%) HTTP
13 20 (17.39%) HTTPS
14 18 (15.65%) EIGRP
14 18 (15.65%) SD-WAN
15 17 (14.78%) IPsec
15 17 (14.78%) VLAN
16 14 (12.17%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (10.43%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.74%) GitLab
2 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Finance
3 11 (9.57%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Military
6 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.48%) Marketing
8 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Law
10 1 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (46.09%) Network Engineer
2 34 (29.57%) Architect
3 22 (19.13%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (17.39%) Technical Architect
5 18 (15.65%) Cloud Native Architect
6 15 (13.04%) Security Architect
7 12 (10.43%) Cisco Engineer
8 11 (9.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 11 (9.57%) Network Security Architect
9 10 (8.70%) AWS Architect
9 10 (8.70%) Consultant
9 10 (8.70%) Senior
10 9 (7.83%) Network Consultant
10 9 (7.83%) Security Technical Architect
11 8 (6.96%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Principal Network Engineer
12 7 (6.09%) Core Network Engineer
12 7 (6.09%) Implementation Engineer
12 7 (6.09%) Network Architect
13 6 (5.22%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.87%) 802.1X
1 1 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (0.87%) HTML
1 1 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Data Centre
2 18 (15.65%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.74%) PKI
5 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.87%) FMCG
6 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.87%) IoT
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.48%) Migration
2 24 (20.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (15.65%) Sprint Planning
3 18 (15.65%) Test Automation
4 17 (14.78%) Network Monitoring
5 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.57%) ITIL
7 10 (8.70%) Network Design
8 9 (7.83%) Network Management
8 9 (7.83%) Project Delivery
8 9 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (6.09%) Validation
10 6 (5.22%) Change Management
10 6 (5.22%) CI/CD
10 6 (5.22%) Computer Science
11 5 (4.35%) Agile
11 5 (4.35%) DevSecOps
11 5 (4.35%) Load Balancing
12 4 (3.48%) Service Delivery
12 4 (3.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.52%) Bicep
2 13 (11.30%) Python
3 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (38.26%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (27.83%) CCNP
3 17 (14.78%) CCIE
4 16 (13.91%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.91%) Security Cleared
5 9 (7.83%) CCNA
6 8 (6.96%) Degree
7 5 (4.35%) CCIE Service Provider
8 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.61%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (1.74%) CCDP
11 1 (0.87%) CCIP
11 1 (0.87%) CCSP
11 1 (0.87%) CEH
11 1 (0.87%) CISSP
11 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.87%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.87%) MCSE
11 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.61%) NCSC
1 3 (2.61%) NIST
2 2 (1.74%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.48%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.74%) vSphere
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (21.74%) Terraform
2 13 (11.30%) FortiGate
3 12 (10.43%) Ansible
4 6 (5.22%) ZABBIX
5 4 (3.48%) Nagios
6 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.87%) Icinga
7 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.87%) Observium
7 1 (0.87%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 86 (74.78%) Cisco
2 60 (52.17%) Palo Alto
3 35 (30.43%) Fortinet
4 33 (28.70%) CheckPoint
5 13 (11.30%) SolarWinds
6 11 (9.57%) F5
6 11 (9.57%) Juniper
7 8 (6.96%) Meraki
8 7 (6.09%) Nokia
9 6 (5.22%) VMware
10 5 (4.35%) Aruba
10 5 (4.35%) Zscaler
11 4 (3.48%) Arista
12 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.74%) BMC
13 2 (1.74%) Huawei
13 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.74%) Remedy
13 2 (1.74%) Splunk
14 1 (0.87%) Alcatel-Lucent