BGP Contracts in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 356 447
Rank change year-on-year +149 +91 -14
Contract jobs citing BGP 412 321 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.11% 0.64% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.20% 5.21% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 183 216
10th Percentile £316 £363 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +7.10%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £550
90th Percentile £613 £766 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 7
10th Percentile £21.83 £40.93 £25.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £61.00 £25.88
Median hourly rate £31.00 £70.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.71% +154.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £68.13 £80.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.78 £52.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -46.43% +154.55% +41.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,026 6,162 7,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.50% 12.21% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,035 4,048 5,186
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 439 302
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.26
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in England

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BGP in England.

Daily rate trend for BGP in England

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BGP in England.

Hourly rate trend for BGP in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London +134 159 £525 -4.55% 28
South East +43 96 £450 -10.00% 20
Midlands +82 88 £363 -27.50% 14
West Midlands +80 88 £363 -19.44% 10
South West +26 43 £493 +1.03% 9
North of England -4 22 £500 +9.59% 9
North West -3 20 £504 +18.59% 4
North East +19 2 £345 -37.27% 2
East of England +10 2 - - 5
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 37 (8.98%) Confluence
2 35 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.50%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (3.16%) Apache
3 13 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 70 (16.99%) Azure
2 36 (8.74%) AWS
3 34 (8.25%) Azure Stack
4 13 (3.16%) GCP
5 6 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.21%) OCI
7 3 (0.73%) GitHub
8 2 (0.49%) Akamai
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.49%) Cohesity
8 2 (0.49%) IaaS
8 2 (0.49%) PaaS
8 2 (0.49%) SaaS
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 235 (57.04%) MPLS
2 202 (49.03%) WAN
3 184 (44.66%) Firewall
4 181 (43.93%) OSPF
5 161 (39.08%) IPsec
6 149 (36.17%) VPN
7 91 (22.09%) LAN
8 84 (20.39%) EIGRP
9 70 (16.99%) Cisco ASA
10 59 (14.32%) HSRP
11 55 (13.35%) Junos
12 52 (12.62%) Wireless
13 47 (11.41%) Cisco Firepower
13 47 (11.41%) DNS
13 47 (11.41%) Network Security
14 46 (11.17%) SNMP
15 42 (10.19%) Cisco Nexus
16 39 (9.47%) SSL
17 38 (9.22%) TCP/IP
17 38 (9.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.91%) MongoDB
1 12 (2.91%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (13.35%) JIRA
2 22 (5.34%) Git
3 13 (3.16%) GitLab
3 13 (3.16%) Robot Framework
3 13 (3.16%) TestRail
4 8 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.56%) Finance
3 36 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.46%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (0.97%) Banking
9 2 (0.49%) Advertising
9 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.49%) Aviation
9 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.49%) Police
10 1 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (47.33%) Network Engineer
2 45 (10.92%) WAN Engineer
3 41 (9.95%) Architect
3 41 (9.95%) Network Architect
3 41 (9.95%) Network Support
4 38 (9.22%) Network Specialist
5 37 (8.98%) Senior
6 33 (8.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 26 (6.31%) 3rd Line Support
8 25 (6.07%) Senior Network Engineer
9 21 (5.10%) Cisco Engineer
9 21 (5.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 19 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (4.61%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.13%) IP Expert
11 17 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
12 15 (3.64%) Design Engineer
12 15 (3.64%) Network Design Engineer
13 14 (3.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 14 (3.40%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.14%) YANG
2 48 (11.65%) NETCONF
3 39 (9.47%) JSON
4 35 (8.50%) XML
5 31 (7.52%) Jinja
6 16 (3.88%) REST
7 13 (3.16%) RESTCONF
7 13 (3.16%) SOAP
8 11 (2.67%) 802.1X
9 5 (1.21%) RESTful
10 3 (0.73%) Django
11 2 (0.49%) LDAP
11 2 (0.49%) SAML
12 1 (0.24%) .NET
12 1 (0.24%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.82%) PKI
2 48 (11.65%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.50%) Private Cloud
4 25 (6.07%) Distributed Architecture
5 11 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.46%) CCTV
8 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.21%) Clustering
9 5 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.49%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.49%) Replication
12 1 (0.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.41%) Windows
2 14 (3.40%) Linux
3 9 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (24.76%) Network Design
2 83 (20.15%) Network Management
3 69 (16.75%) Load Balancing
4 63 (15.29%) ITIL
5 46 (11.17%) ITSM
6 45 (10.92%) Change Management
6 45 (10.92%) DevOps
7 42 (10.19%) Capacity Management
8 36 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (8.74%) Service Management
9 34 (8.25%) Security Monitoring
10 33 (8.01%) Technical Leadership
11 32 (7.77%) Agile
12 27 (6.55%) Migration
13 25 (6.07%) Customer Requirements
14 24 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (4.85%) Roadmaps
17 19 (4.61%) Network Architecture
17 19 (4.61%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (16.02%) Python
2 18 (4.37%) SQL
3 17 (4.13%) Perl
4 12 (2.91%) Tcl
5 5 (1.21%) Bash
6 4 (0.97%) Java
7 3 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.49%) Go
8 2 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 204 (49.51%) Security Cleared
2 111 (26.94%) Cisco Certification
3 92 (22.33%) CCNP
4 71 (17.23%) SC Cleared
5 64 (15.53%) DV Cleared
6 45 (10.92%) CCNA
7 29 (7.04%) CCIE
8 23 (5.58%) Degree
9 15 (3.64%) JNCIS
10 12 (2.91%) CCDP
11 11 (2.67%) JNCIA
12 9 (2.18%) CCIE Service Provider
13 8 (1.94%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.97%) BC Cleared
15 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.97%) JNCIP
16 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.73%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.18%) SLA
3 4 (0.97%) QA
4 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (4.61%) Firmware
2 12 (2.91%) Docker
3 10 (2.43%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.46%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.49%) NFS
6 2 (0.49%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (11.41%) FortiGate
2 30 (7.28%) Ansible
3 25 (6.07%) Endace
4 24 (5.83%) SCOM
5 10 (2.43%) Terraform
6 7 (1.70%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.73%) Kibana
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.49%) vRealize
9 1 (0.24%) CASB
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 234 (56.80%) Cisco
2 196 (47.57%) Juniper
3 84 (20.39%) F5
4 81 (19.66%) Palo Alto
5 79 (19.17%) Fortinet
6 43 (10.44%) Nokia
7 42 (10.19%) Microsoft
8 35 (8.50%) Atlassian
9 29 (7.04%) SolarWinds
10 18 (4.37%) CheckPoint
11 14 (3.40%) Infoblox
12 13 (3.16%) Citrix
13 12 (2.91%) Arista
13 12 (2.91%) Aruba
14 11 (2.67%) Extreme Networks
14 11 (2.67%) Huawei
15 10 (2.43%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.94%) Meraki
16 8 (1.94%) VMware
17 6 (1.46%) Google