BGP Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring BGP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 82 102
Rank change year-on-year -41 +20 +36
Contract jobs citing BGP 3 16 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% 1.16% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 8.51% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £456 - £513
25th Percentile £480 - £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £275 £565
Median % change year-on-year +89.09% -51.33% +18.95%
75th Percentile £560 £313 £598
90th Percentile £584 £335 £617
England median daily rate £506 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.25% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 188 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.85% 13.66% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 105 167
10th Percentile £205 £167 £190
25th Percentile £350 £220 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% - -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £623 £638 £675
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - £11.86 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £16.21 -
90th Percentile £45.15 £16.78 £30.32
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.45
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.57% +34.15%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

BGP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

BGP
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing BGP

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Yorkshire

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing BGP

BGP
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
West Yorkshire -26 2 £520 +48.57% 3
North Yorkshire +4 1 - - 3
BGP
England

BGP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto