BGP Contracts in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 348 426
Rank change year-on-year +87 +78 -36
Contract jobs citing BGP 129 130 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.73% 5.03% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 81 100
10th Percentile £350 £450 £407
25th Percentile £441 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +10.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £581
90th Percentile £743 £810 £725
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £27.43 - -
25th Percentile £33.69 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £44.25 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.79% +169.23% -64.14%
75th Percentile £54.69 - £28.38
90th Percentile £60.88 - £29.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -66.43% +169.23% +13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,668 2,583 3,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.54% 10.16% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 1,814 2,550
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +0.50% +14.05%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -40.31%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.02%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +33 9 £500 -14.31% 4
East London - 1 - - 2
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 (1.55%) Apache
1 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.93%) AWS
2 21 (16.28%) Azure
3 8 (6.20%) GCP
4 5 (3.88%) OCI
5 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.55%) Akamai
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.78%) GitHub
7 1 (0.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 87 (67.44%) OSPF
2 76 (58.91%) Firewall
3 61 (47.29%) MPLS
4 57 (44.19%) WAN
5 55 (42.64%) LAN
6 47 (36.43%) VPN
7 40 (31.01%) Wireless
8 35 (27.13%) DNS
9 34 (26.36%) Network Security
10 33 (25.58%) IPsec
11 32 (24.81%) EIGRP
12 30 (23.26%) Cisco ASA
13 29 (22.48%) DHCP
14 26 (20.16%) Cisco Nexus
15 24 (18.60%) HSRP
15 24 (18.60%) SD-WAN
16 22 (17.05%) TCP/IP
17 19 (14.73%) SNMP
18 18 (13.95%) Cisco IOS
19 17 (13.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
2 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.55%) GitLab
3 2 (1.55%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.55%) TestRail
General
1 32 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.93%) Finance
3 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.75%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.65%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.55%) Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 85 (65.89%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.63%) Network Specialist
2 15 (11.63%) Senior
3 13 (10.08%) Design Engineer
4 11 (8.53%) Network Design Engineer
4 11 (8.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) IP Expert
6 7 (5.43%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) Network Security Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) Security Engineer
7 5 (3.88%) Cisco Expert
7 5 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Implementation Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.83%) NETCONF
2 22 (17.05%) JSON
2 22 (17.05%) YANG
3 21 (16.28%) XML
4 12 (9.30%) Jinja
5 6 (4.65%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.55%) LDAP
6 2 (1.55%) REST
6 2 (1.55%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.55%) RESTful
6 2 (1.55%) SOAP
7 1 (0.78%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.40%) Data Centre
1 16 (12.40%) Distributed Architecture
2 12 (9.30%) PKI
3 5 (3.88%) Clustering
4 4 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.33%) CCTV
5 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Replication
6 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Windows
2 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (17.05%) Network Design
3 19 (14.73%) Change Management
3 19 (14.73%) DevOps
4 18 (13.95%) Load Balancing
5 14 (10.85%) Migration
6 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (8.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 10 (7.75%) High Availability
8 10 (7.75%) Network Architecture
8 10 (7.75%) Test Planning
8 10 (7.75%) Threat Management
9 9 (6.98%) Business Strategy
9 9 (6.98%) ITSM
9 9 (6.98%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (6.98%) Network Monitoring
9 9 (6.98%) Roadmaps
9 9 (6.98%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (6.20%) Agile
10 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.28%) Python
2 2 (1.55%) Bash
2 2 (1.55%) Go
2 2 (1.55%) Scala
3 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (44.19%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (38.76%) CCNP
3 19 (14.73%) CCIE
4 17 (13.18%) CCNA
5 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
6 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.43%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.65%) CCDP
9 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.88%) CCIE Service Provider
9 5 (3.88%) Degree
9 5 (3.88%) JNCIP
10 4 (3.10%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.78%) CCIP
11 1 (0.78%) CCSE
11 1 (0.78%) CCSP
11 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.78%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) SLA
2 2 (1.55%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.65%) Active Directory
1 6 (4.65%) Firmware
2 2 (1.55%) PowerDNS
2 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.78%) Docker
3 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (10.08%) FortiGate
2 9 (6.98%) Ansible
3 8 (6.20%) Terraform
4 7 (5.43%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (2.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.78%) CASB
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.78%) Puppet
6 1 (0.78%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 100 (77.52%) Cisco
2 56 (43.41%) Palo Alto
3 37 (28.68%) F5
4 30 (23.26%) Fortinet
4 30 (23.26%) Nokia
5 23 (17.83%) Juniper
6 16 (12.40%) CheckPoint
7 14 (10.85%) Infoblox
8 12 (9.30%) SolarWinds
9 11 (8.53%) Aruba
10 9 (6.98%) Huawei
11 8 (6.20%) Arista
11 8 (6.20%) Meraki
12 7 (5.43%) Extreme Networks
12 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
12 7 (5.43%) Zscaler
13 6 (4.65%) Google
14 4 (3.10%) VMware
15 3 (2.33%) Citrix
15 3 (2.33%) Ericsson