BGP Contracts in Reading

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 63 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing BGP 15 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.24% 2.10% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.41% 11.17% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £254 £494 £363
25th Percentile £335 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +6.00% +18.20%
75th Percentile - £600 £525
90th Percentile - - £663
Berkshire median daily rate £388 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +18.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £78.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -75.80% +201.92% +22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 234 197 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.35% 18.82% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 100 118
10th Percentile £205 £300 £273
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £555 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +20.00% +22.52%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £575
90th Percentile - £728 £642
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £488 £464
% change year-on-year +5.02% +5.10% +22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - £66.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +188.46% -44.39%
75th Percentile £87.53 £76.99 £26.50
90th Percentile - £79.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £73.92 £17.00
% change year-on-year +13.32% +334.81% -49.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in Reading over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (40.00%) Apache
1 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) MPLS
2 10 (66.67%) VPN
3 9 (60.00%) Firewall
4 7 (46.67%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (40.00%) IPsec
5 6 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (33.33%) EIGRP
7 4 (26.67%) HSRP
7 4 (26.67%) OSPF
7 4 (26.67%) SD-WAN
7 4 (26.67%) WAN
8 3 (20.00%) GLBP
8 3 (20.00%) Network Security
8 3 (20.00%) SNMP
8 3 (20.00%) SSL
8 3 (20.00%) VPLS
8 3 (20.00%) VRRP
9 2 (13.33%) DMVPN
9 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 6 (40.00%) Robot Framework
2 6 (40.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Network Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) NETCONF
1 6 (40.00%) REST
1 6 (40.00%) RESTCONF
1 6 (40.00%) SOAP
1 6 (40.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) Scrum
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Workflow
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) User Stories
5 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CCNA
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) CCIE
3 1 (6.67%) JNCIA
3 1 (6.67%) JNCIS
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Juniper
3 3 (20.00%) Aruba
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) Blue Coat
4 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (13.33%) McAfee
4 2 (13.33%) Zscaler