BGP Contracts in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 294 399
Rank change year-on-year +35 +105 +10
Contract jobs citing BGP 123 138 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.79% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.18% 6.28% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 96 110
10th Percentile £250 £413 £331
25th Percentile £398 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £650 £659 £575
90th Percentile £737 £745 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £32.00 £37.13 £25.75
25th Percentile £33.13 £44.81 £26.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.63 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.30% +105.70% +14.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.44 £52.39
90th Percentile £59.00 £78.53 £65.67
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% - -45.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,504 2,196 3,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.61% 10.74% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 1,492 2,643
10th Percentile £258 £225 £290
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £663
90th Percentile £725 £745 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 49 77
10th Percentile £23.72 £18.86 £16.40
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.99 £18.93
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +10.42% +7.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 £32.00
90th Percentile £76.41 £80.65 £59.25
England median hourly rate £57.38 £56.49 £41.50
% change year-on-year +1.57% +36.12% +102.34%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Central London +23 14 £639 +30.97% 4
East London +13 4 £221 - 1
West London - 3 £481 - 1
South London +12 2 £475 - 1
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.26%) Azure
2 12 (9.76%) AWS
3 7 (5.69%) GCP
4 6 (4.88%) IaaS
4 6 (4.88%) SaaS
5 5 (4.07%) PaaS
6 4 (3.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 105 (85.37%) OSPF
2 72 (58.54%) Firewall
3 57 (46.34%) TCP/IP
4 47 (38.21%) LAN
5 46 (37.40%) VPN
6 44 (35.77%) WAN
7 37 (30.08%) MPLS
8 30 (24.39%) EIGRP
9 28 (22.76%) DNS
10 27 (21.95%) Cisco ISE
11 25 (20.33%) DHCP
11 25 (20.33%) Network Security
12 23 (18.70%) Wireless
13 22 (17.89%) Cisco Nexus
14 21 (17.07%) HTTP
15 18 (14.63%) Cisco IOS
16 17 (13.82%) SD-WAN
17 16 (13.01%) NX-OS
18 14 (11.38%) Multicast
18 14 (11.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) GitLab
2 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 27 (21.95%) Finance
2 22 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.01%) Telecoms
4 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.13%) Banking
6 10 (8.13%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.69%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.25%) Prime Brokerage
9 3 (2.44%) Electronics
9 3 (2.44%) Marketing
10 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (74.80%) Network Engineer
2 25 (20.33%) Senior
3 23 (18.70%) Senior Network Engineer
4 19 (15.45%) Cisco Engineer
4 19 (15.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Architect
6 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Junior
7 7 (5.69%) Network Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) AWS Architect
9 5 (4.07%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Junior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Juniper Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) LAN Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.07%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Design Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.07%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.81%) NETCONF
2 1 (0.81%) REST
2 1 (0.81%) RESTCONF
2 1 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.82%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.63%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) PKI
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.32%) AIX
2 5 (4.07%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) CatOS
3 1 (0.81%) CentOS
3 1 (0.81%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (18.70%) Network Management
3 21 (17.07%) Network Design
4 18 (14.63%) High Availability
5 17 (13.82%) Change Management
5 17 (13.82%) ITIL
6 15 (12.20%) Migration
7 14 (11.38%) Incident Management
8 12 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (8.13%) DevOps
9 10 (8.13%) Low Latency
9 10 (8.13%) Zero Trust
10 9 (7.32%) Configuration Management
10 9 (7.32%) Network Monitoring
10 9 (7.32%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (7.32%) Project Management
11 8 (6.50%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.50%) Electronic Trading
11 8 (6.50%) Load Balancing
11 8 (6.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.07%) Python
2 6 (4.88%) Lisp
3 3 (2.44%) Bicep
4 1 (0.81%) Bash
4 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (37.40%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (26.02%) CCNP
3 23 (18.70%) Security Cleared
4 20 (16.26%) CCIE
4 20 (16.26%) SC Cleared
5 13 (10.57%) CCNA
6 6 (4.88%) JNCIA
6 6 (4.88%) JNCIP
7 5 (4.07%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 3 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.63%) CCSE
9 2 (1.63%) Degree
9 2 (1.63%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.81%) CCDE
10 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.81%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.63%) DICOM
1 2 (1.63%) HL7
1 2 (1.63%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.81%) Firmware
2 1 (0.81%) KVM
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (16.26%) Ansible
2 7 (5.69%) FortiGate
2 7 (5.69%) ZABBIX
3 6 (4.88%) Grafana
4 3 (2.44%) CASB
4 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (2.44%) Terraform
5 2 (1.63%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.81%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (0.81%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.81%) Puppet
6 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (72.36%) Cisco
2 39 (31.71%) Palo Alto
3 29 (23.58%) Juniper
4 24 (19.51%) Arista
5 22 (17.89%) F5
6 18 (14.63%) Fortinet
7 13 (10.57%) CheckPoint
8 9 (7.32%) Meraki
9 8 (6.50%) Nokia
9 8 (6.50%) SolarWinds
10 7 (5.69%) Aruba
10 7 (5.69%) Citrix
11 6 (4.88%) ADVA
11 6 (4.88%) Zscaler
12 5 (4.07%) Infoblox
12 5 (4.07%) SAP
13 4 (3.25%) Ericsson
13 4 (3.25%) Huawei
13 4 (3.25%) Microsoft
14 3 (2.44%) Blue Coat