BGP Contracts in the City of London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for BGP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BGP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 159 187
Rank change year-on-year +41 +28 -31
Contract jobs citing BGP 9 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.07% 3.76% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile £445 £463 £363
25th Percentile £475 £481 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £584 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +16.70% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £763 £550
90th Percentile £547 £804 £720
Central London median daily rate £500 £584 £524
% change year-on-year -14.31% +11.46% -30.20%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

BGP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 221 346 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.25% 9.98% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 302
10th Percentile £208 £227 £313
25th Percentile £350 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £629
90th Percentile £749 £750 £725
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £23.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -20.42% +137.29%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £53.13
90th Percentile - £33.62 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
% change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +136.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BGP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
1 6 (66.67%) OSPF
1 6 (66.67%) Wireless
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (55.56%) LAN
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) WLAN
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (33.33%) DHCP
4 3 (33.33%) DNS
4 3 (33.33%) IPsec
4 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (11.11%) HSRP
5 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Network Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Management
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCNA
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) CCIE
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
1 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
4 2 (22.22%) Juniper
5 1 (11.11%) CA
5 1 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (11.11%) Meraki
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft