BGP Contracts

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 227 260 438
Rank change year-on-year +33 +178 +42
Contract jobs citing BGP 393 458 454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 0.97% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.86% 7.01% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 244 314
10th Percentile £354 £377 £325
25th Percentile £411 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £730 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £32.38 £21.50 £21.75
25th Percentile £34.06 £24.63 £22.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £29.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.73% +18.00% -26.68%
75th Percentile £44.75 £37.53 £29.31
90th Percentile £56.90 £60.65 £52.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -46.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,436 6,533 9,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.13% 13.85% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,559 4,082 6,419
10th Percentile £223 £213 £230
25th Percentile £368 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £685 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 336 373
10th Percentile £17.71 £17.23 £15.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £48.56 £55.00 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +35.55% +84.43%
75th Percentile £66.01 £66.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -7.06% +25.53% +125.00%

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 31 October 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 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 17 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 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
England +35 329 £500 -4.76% 77
UK excluding London +6 207 £525 +7.69% 53
Work from Home +73 149 £500 +2.56% 43
London +35 123 £494 -14.13% 26
South East +18 80 £525 - 11
North of England +62 59 £503 +3.40% 21
North West +49 48 £525 +8.02% 13
Midlands -27 28 £500 +15.61% 10
South West +16 26 £500 -9.09% 3
West Midlands -35 18 £458 +8.28% 7
Yorkshire +31 16 £275 -51.33% 6
Scotland +20 14 £400 -35.22% 3
East Midlands +14 10 £575 +21.05% 3
East of England +17 9 £555 +23.33% 8
Isle of Man - 4 £525 -
North East - 3 £425 - 2
Wales - 1 - - 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 15 (3.82%) Confluence
2 2 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (20.36%) Azure
2 68 (17.30%) AWS
3 42 (10.69%) GCP
4 21 (5.34%) IaaS
4 21 (5.34%) SaaS
5 20 (5.09%) PaaS
6 18 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (3.05%) IBM Watson
8 10 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (1.27%) GitHub
10 4 (1.02%) Akamai
10 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.76%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.76%) OCI
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 284 (72.26%) OSPF
2 219 (55.73%) Firewall
3 162 (41.22%) VPN
4 134 (34.10%) WAN
5 131 (33.33%) LAN
6 130 (33.08%) MPLS
7 124 (31.55%) TCP/IP
8 112 (28.50%) DNS
9 105 (26.72%) EIGRP
10 91 (23.16%) IPsec
11 76 (19.34%) DHCP
12 74 (18.83%) Network Security
13 72 (18.32%) Cisco ASA
14 65 (16.54%) Cisco ISE
15 64 (16.28%) VLAN
16 59 (15.01%) Cisco Firepower
17 55 (13.99%) Wireless
18 48 (12.21%) Cisco Nexus
19 47 (11.96%) HSRP
19 47 (11.96%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.07%) MongoDB
1 16 (4.07%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (10.43%) JIRA
2 23 (5.85%) GitLab
3 13 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.53%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.76%) Git
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 78 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (12.21%) Finance
4 41 (10.43%) Telecoms
5 35 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.09%) Banking
7 14 (3.56%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.31%) Legal
9 12 (3.05%) Marketing
10 9 (2.29%) Electronics
10 9 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.53%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Local Government
13 4 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.76%) Military
15 2 (0.51%) Retail
16 1 (0.25%) Billing
16 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 247 (62.85%) Network Engineer
2 61 (15.52%) Senior
3 57 (14.50%) Architect
4 41 (10.43%) Senior Network Engineer
5 38 (9.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 37 (9.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 34 (8.65%) Network Architect
8 26 (6.62%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 24 (6.11%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.60%) Technical Architect
11 18 (4.58%) Firewall Engineer
12 17 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (4.33%) Data Network Engineer
12 17 (4.33%) Network Security Engineer
13 15 (3.82%) Consultant
13 15 (3.82%) Juniper Engineer
14 14 (3.56%) Data Engineer
14 14 (3.56%) Network Consultant
14 14 (3.56%) WAN Engineer
15 12 (3.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.87%) NETCONF
1 27 (6.87%) RESTCONF
2 18 (4.58%) REST
3 17 (4.33%) SOAP
4 16 (4.07%) YANG
5 11 (2.80%) 802.1X
6 8 (2.04%) Kafka
7 7 (1.78%) Gherkin
8 5 (1.27%) XML
9 3 (0.76%) JSON
9 3 (0.76%) YAML
10 2 (0.51%) HTML
11 1 (0.25%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.72%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.60%) PKI
3 10 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.51%) FMCG
8 2 (0.51%) NHS
8 2 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.25%) CMDB
9 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.25%) IoT
9 1 (0.25%) Life Science
9 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.87%) Linux
2 20 (5.09%) Unix
3 17 (4.33%) CentOS
4 10 (2.54%) AIX
5 9 (2.29%) Windows
6 8 (2.04%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.25%) CatOS
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (15.27%) Network Management
2 59 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (13.99%) Load Balancing
4 52 (13.23%) Network Design
5 43 (10.94%) Migration
6 38 (9.67%) Change Management
7 33 (8.40%) ITIL
8 32 (8.14%) Test Automation
9 31 (7.89%) CI/CD
9 31 (7.89%) Mentoring
10 28 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (6.87%) ITSM
12 26 (6.62%) Incident Management
13 25 (6.36%) Configuration Management
14 24 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (6.11%) Network Monitoring
15 23 (5.85%) Agile
15 23 (5.85%) High Availability
16 22 (5.60%) Network Virtualisation
16 22 (5.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.85%) Python
2 18 (4.58%) Bicep
3 16 (4.07%) SQL
4 12 (3.05%) Lisp
5 6 (1.53%) Perl
6 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.25%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 139 (35.37%) Cisco Certification
2 103 (26.21%) Security Cleared
3 98 (24.94%) CCNP
4 73 (18.58%) SC Cleared
5 44 (11.20%) CCIE
6 40 (10.18%) CCNA
7 22 (5.60%) Degree
8 21 (5.34%) JNCIP
9 16 (4.07%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.31%) JNCIA
11 10 (2.54%) JNCIS
12 9 (2.29%) CCSE
13 8 (2.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (1.53%) JNCIE
15 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.27%) CISSP
16 4 (1.02%) CCDP
16 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
17 3 (0.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.29%) QA
2 4 (1.02%) SLA
3 2 (0.51%) DICOM
3 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.51%) HL7
3 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.58%) Docker
3 14 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.27%) Firmware
4 5 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.02%) KVM
6 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.76%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.76%) vSphere
7 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) XenApp
8 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (12.47%) Ansible
2 28 (7.12%) FortiGate
3 24 (6.11%) Terraform
4 16 (4.07%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.78%) SolarWinds Orion
5 7 (1.78%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.53%) Grafana
7 4 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (1.02%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.76%) CASB
8 3 (0.76%) Podman
9 2 (0.51%) Cacti
9 2 (0.51%) Nagios
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco LMS
10 1 (0.25%) Endace
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 297 (75.57%) Cisco
2 124 (31.55%) Palo Alto
3 109 (27.74%) Juniper
4 87 (22.14%) Fortinet
5 77 (19.59%) F5
6 70 (17.81%) CheckPoint
7 50 (12.72%) SolarWinds
8 34 (8.65%) Aruba
8 34 (8.65%) Citrix
8 34 (8.65%) VMware
9 32 (8.14%) Arista
10 26 (6.62%) Blue Coat
11 21 (5.34%) McAfee
12 20 (5.09%) Infoblox
13 19 (4.83%) Zscaler
14 15 (3.82%) Meraki
14 15 (3.82%) Nokia
14 15 (3.82%) Splunk
15 13 (3.31%) NetScout
15 13 (3.31%) SevOne