Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 360 428
Rank change year-on-year +126 +68 +42
Contract jobs citing BGP 442 418 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.68% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.66% 5.51% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 259 312
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £366 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £552
90th Percentile £635 £650 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £436
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.81% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 9
10th Percentile £24.05 £30.95 £21.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £61.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +154.55% +41.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £72.65 £82.22 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +1.61% +138.46% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,767 7,592 9,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.15% 12.36% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,463 4,939 6,473
10th Percentile £205 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +3.00% +12.23%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £427
% change year-on-year - +11.24% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 511 366
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £14.31
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -
75th Percentile £61.94 £60.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.18
% change year-on-year +149.38% -12.65% -15.28%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +165 417 £475 -5.00% 93
UK excluding London +77 257 £450 -7.69% 67
London +153 164 £525 -3.45% 34
Work from Home +55 110 £488 - 47
South East +47 92 £450 -10.00% 22
Midlands +91 85 £350 -30.00% 14
West Midlands +82 85 £350 -22.22% 10
South West +49 52 £495 +1.54% 8
North of England 0 20 £500 +15.94% 14
North West +3 18 £504 +26.00% 11
Scotland +12 8 £450 -9.55% 4
North East +19 2 £345 -37.27%
East of England +5 1 - -

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (8.14%) Confluence
2 35 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 35 (7.92%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (2.94%) Apache
3 13 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (16.97%) Azure
2 39 (8.82%) AWS
3 34 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 10 (2.26%) GCP
5 6 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.13%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.13%) OCI
7 3 (0.68%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (0.68%) Cohesity
7 3 (0.68%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.45%) Akamai
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.45%) GitHub
8 2 (0.45%) IaaS
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.45%) PaaS
8 2 (0.45%) SaaS
8 2 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 235 (53.17%) MPLS
2 218 (49.32%) WAN
3 214 (48.42%) Firewall
4 200 (45.25%) OSPF
5 165 (37.33%) IPsec
6 154 (34.84%) VPN
7 107 (24.21%) LAN
8 88 (19.91%) EIGRP
9 80 (18.10%) Cisco ASA
10 61 (13.80%) HSRP
11 54 (12.22%) Cisco Nexus
12 53 (11.99%) Network Security
12 53 (11.99%) Wireless
13 52 (11.76%) DNS
14 49 (11.09%) Junos
15 48 (10.86%) Cisco Firepower
16 47 (10.63%) SNMP
17 44 (9.95%) SD-WAN
18 43 (9.73%) VLAN
19 39 (8.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.71%) MongoDB
1 12 (2.71%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (11.76%) JIRA
2 23 (5.20%) Git
3 13 (2.94%) GitLab
3 13 (2.94%) Robot Framework
3 13 (2.94%) TestRail
4 7 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 95 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.48%) Finance
3 41 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
9 5 (1.13%) Police
10 4 (0.90%) Banking
11 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.68%) Aviation
12 2 (0.45%) Billing
12 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.23%) German Language
13 1 (0.23%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 219 (49.55%) Network Engineer
2 47 (10.63%) Senior
3 43 (9.73%) WAN Engineer
4 42 (9.50%) Network Support
5 40 (9.05%) Network Specialist
6 39 (8.82%) Architect
6 39 (8.82%) Network Architect
7 35 (7.92%) Senior Network Engineer
8 29 (6.56%) Cisco Engineer
8 29 (6.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 27 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 26 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
11 20 (4.52%) Support Engineer
12 18 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support
13 17 (3.85%) Design Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) IP Expert
13 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) Network Design Engineer
14 13 (2.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 12 (2.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.31%) YANG
2 49 (11.09%) NETCONF
3 39 (8.82%) JSON
4 36 (8.14%) XML
5 32 (7.24%) Jinja
6 15 (3.39%) REST
7 13 (2.94%) RESTCONF
7 13 (2.94%) SOAP
8 12 (2.71%) 802.1X
9 5 (1.13%) RESTful
9 5 (1.13%) SAML
10 2 (0.45%) Django
10 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.45%) FIDO
10 2 (0.45%) LDAP
10 2 (0.45%) OAuth
11 1 (0.23%) .NET
11 1 (0.23%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 93 (21.04%) PKI
2 57 (12.90%) Data Centre
3 36 (8.14%) Private Cloud
4 24 (5.43%) Distributed Architecture
5 14 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.36%) CCTV
10 5 (1.13%) Clustering
10 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.90%) CMDB
11 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.45%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.45%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.45%) Replication
13 1 (0.23%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 52 (11.76%) Windows
2 16 (3.62%) Linux
3 14 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.13%) Unix
5 2 (0.45%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.23%) Debian
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (24.21%) Network Design
2 91 (20.59%) Network Management
3 66 (14.93%) ITIL
4 64 (14.48%) Load Balancing
5 49 (11.09%) ITSM
6 47 (10.63%) Change Management
7 46 (10.41%) DevOps
8 42 (9.50%) Capacity Management
9 37 (8.37%) Service Management
10 35 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
12 31 (7.01%) Agile
13 30 (6.79%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (6.11%) Migration
15 26 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (5.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (5.20%) Customer Requirements
16 23 (5.20%) Incident Management
17 22 (4.98%) Network Architecture
18 21 (4.75%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 69 (15.61%) Python
2 17 (3.85%) Perl
2 17 (3.85%) SQL
3 12 (2.71%) Tcl
4 5 (1.13%) Bash
5 3 (0.68%) Java
5 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.45%) Go
6 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.45%) Scala
6 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.45%) VBScript
7 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 207 (46.83%) Security Cleared
2 127 (28.73%) Cisco Certification
3 103 (23.30%) CCNP
4 70 (15.84%) SC Cleared
5 68 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 49 (11.09%) CCNA
7 30 (6.79%) CCIE
8 21 (4.75%) Degree
8 21 (4.75%) JNCIS
9 15 (3.39%) JNCIA
10 13 (2.94%) CCDP
11 9 (2.04%) CCIE Service Provider
12 7 (1.58%) JNCIP
13 6 (1.36%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.90%) JNCIE
16 3 (0.68%) BC Cleared
16 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.92%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.04%) SLA
3 4 (0.90%) QA
4 3 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (4.30%) Firmware
2 15 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.71%) Docker
4 8 (1.81%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.68%) NFS
7 2 (0.45%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.45%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 30 (6.79%) Ansible
3 24 (5.43%) SCOM
4 23 (5.20%) Endace
5 11 (2.49%) Terraform
6 6 (1.36%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.68%) Kibana
7 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.68%) vRealize
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.45%) Nmap
8 2 (0.45%) Observium
8 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.23%) Icinga
9 1 (0.23%) Nagios
9 1 (0.23%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 260 (58.82%) Cisco
2 199 (45.02%) Juniper
3 88 (19.91%) Palo Alto
4 87 (19.68%) Fortinet
5 85 (19.23%) F5
6 45 (10.18%) Microsoft
7 43 (9.73%) Nokia
8 35 (7.92%) Atlassian
8 35 (7.92%) SolarWinds
9 23 (5.20%) CheckPoint
10 18 (4.07%) Infoblox
11 17 (3.85%) Aruba
12 16 (3.62%) VMware
13 15 (3.39%) Arista
14 14 (3.17%) Citrix
15 12 (2.71%) Extreme Networks
16 11 (2.49%) Huawei
16 11 (2.49%) Zscaler
17 10 (2.26%) Meraki
18 5 (1.13%) Google