BGP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 174 251 310
Rank change year-on-year +77 +59 +22
Contract jobs citing BGP 254 220 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 0.91% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.34% 6.10% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 126 114
10th Percentile £299 £356 £271
25th Percentile £363 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £442
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +12.49% +4.55%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £493
90th Percentile £575 £609 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile £20.23 £29.90 -
25th Percentile £22.81 £60.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.75 £62.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +138.46% +33.33%
75th Percentile £68.13 £80.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £80.40 £53.55
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
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,460 3,605 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.64% 14.97% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,989 2,287 2,646
10th Percentile £205 £207 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 328 235
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.44
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.45
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +5 4 £500 +0.50% 11
North East +19 2 £345 -37.27% 2
East of England +10 2 - - 5
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 37 (14.57%) Confluence
2 35 (13.78%) SharePoint
2 35 (13.78%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (4.33%) Apache
3 11 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.90%) Azure
2 34 (13.39%) Azure Stack
3 7 (2.76%) AWS
4 4 (1.57%) GCP
5 2 (0.79%) GitHub
5 2 (0.79%) IaaS
5 2 (0.79%) PaaS
5 2 (0.79%) SaaS
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 150 (59.06%) MPLS
2 132 (51.97%) WAN
3 114 (44.88%) IPsec
4 92 (36.22%) Firewall
5 82 (32.28%) VPN
6 79 (31.10%) OSPF
7 55 (21.65%) Junos
8 53 (20.87%) EIGRP
9 47 (18.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 31 (12.20%) Cisco ASA
11 30 (11.81%) SSL
12 25 (9.84%) LAN
13 24 (9.45%) DMVPN
14 22 (8.66%) HSRP
15 19 (7.48%) SNMP
16 18 (7.09%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (7.09%) Spanning Tree
17 15 (5.91%) Cisco Nexus
17 15 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (5.12%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.33%) MongoDB
1 11 (4.33%) NoSQL
1 11 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (19.69%) JIRA
2 11 (4.33%) GitLab
2 11 (4.33%) Robot Framework
2 11 (4.33%) TestRail
3 2 (0.79%) Git
3 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.42%) Finance
3 23 (9.06%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.79%) Advertising
7 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.79%) Aviation
7 2 (0.79%) Police
8 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 104 (40.94%) Network Engineer
2 40 (15.75%) WAN Engineer
3 39 (15.35%) Architect
3 39 (15.35%) Network Architect
3 39 (15.35%) Network Support
4 30 (11.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 25 (9.84%) 3rd Line Support
6 24 (9.45%) Senior
7 19 (7.48%) 2nd Line Support
8 17 (6.69%) Microsoft Engineer
8 17 (6.69%) Network Specialist
8 17 (6.69%) Senior Network Engineer
9 15 (5.91%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 12 (4.72%) Test Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Analyst
13 10 (3.94%) Cisco Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.30%) YANG
2 14 (5.51%) REST
3 13 (5.12%) NETCONF
4 12 (4.72%) Jinja
5 11 (4.33%) RESTCONF
5 11 (4.33%) SOAP
6 5 (1.97%) JSON
7 4 (1.57%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.18%) Django
8 3 (1.18%) RESTful
9 2 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (29.13%) PKI
2 35 (13.78%) Private Cloud
3 16 (6.30%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.39%) CMDB
8 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.78%) Windows
2 5 (1.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.50%) Network Management
2 73 (28.74%) Network Design
3 58 (22.83%) ITIL
4 51 (20.08%) Load Balancing
5 41 (16.14%) ITSM
6 36 (14.17%) Capacity Management
6 36 (14.17%) Service Management
7 34 (13.39%) Security Monitoring
8 30 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (9.84%) Customer Requirements
10 22 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (7.87%) Change Management
12 16 (6.30%) CI/CD
13 15 (5.91%) Agile
14 13 (5.12%) DevOps
14 13 (5.12%) Incident Management
15 11 (4.33%) Backlog Management
15 11 (4.33%) Containerisation
15 11 (4.33%) Knowledge Transfer
15 11 (4.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.81%) Python
2 14 (5.51%) SQL
3 12 (4.72%) Perl
3 12 (4.72%) Tcl
4 3 (1.18%) Bash
4 3 (1.18%) Java
4 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (74.41%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.80%) DV Cleared
3 56 (22.05%) SC Cleared
4 52 (20.47%) Cisco Certification
5 44 (17.32%) CCNP
6 34 (13.39%) CCNA
7 14 (5.51%) JNCIS
8 12 (4.72%) Degree
9 10 (3.94%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.97%) CCDP
10 5 (1.97%) CCIE
11 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.18%) VCAP
12 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.79%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.39%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.78%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.18%) SLA
3 2 (0.79%) QA
4 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (5.12%) Firmware
2 11 (4.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (11.42%) FortiGate
2 25 (9.84%) Endace
3 24 (9.45%) SCOM
4 16 (6.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (0.79%) Terraform
6 1 (0.39%) Observium
Vendors
1 160 (62.99%) Juniper
2 117 (46.06%) Cisco
3 41 (16.14%) F5
4 36 (14.17%) Microsoft
5 35 (13.78%) Atlassian
5 35 (13.78%) Fortinet
6 25 (9.84%) Palo Alto
7 23 (9.06%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.12%) Citrix
9 3 (1.18%) Forcepoint
9 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.18%) Nokia
9 3 (1.18%) TOWER Software
9 3 (1.18%) VMware
9 3 (1.18%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.79%) ADVA
10 2 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.79%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.79%) Siemens
10 2 (0.79%) Splunk