BGP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 254 293 419
Rank change year-on-year +39 +126 -49
Contract jobs citing BGP 98 182 221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.70% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.04% 6.15% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 123 149
10th Percentile £335 £366 £325
25th Percentile £418 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £534 £569 £550
90th Percentile £655 £619 £626
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £20.40 £28.48 £23.70
25th Percentile £23.25 £65.38 £25.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £78.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.79% +185.45% -62.07%
75th Percentile £24.75 £80.44 £29.50
90th Percentile £50.40 £81.00 £40.05
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,623 2,957 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.55% 11.44% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,970 2,945
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 101 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.13 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.79% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

BGP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP.

BGP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BGP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

BGP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP.

BGP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BGP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

BGP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (19.39%) Confluence
2 17 (17.35%) SharePoint
2 17 (17.35%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) Azure
2 17 (17.35%) Azure Stack
3 13 (13.27%) AWS
4 2 (2.04%) GCP
4 2 (2.04%) GitHub
4 2 (2.04%) IaaS
4 2 (2.04%) PaaS
4 2 (2.04%) SaaS
4 2 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Akamai
5 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 67 (68.37%) Firewall
2 64 (65.31%) OSPF
3 32 (32.65%) WAN
4 30 (30.61%) MPLS
5 28 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (24.49%) VPN
7 23 (23.47%) EIGRP
7 23 (23.47%) IPsec
8 21 (21.43%) LAN
9 19 (19.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 19 (19.39%) SD-WAN
10 17 (17.35%) DNS
11 15 (15.31%) Wireless
12 14 (14.29%) SNMP
12 14 (14.29%) TCP/IP
13 12 (12.24%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (12.24%) Network Security
14 11 (11.22%) HSRP
14 11 (11.22%) NX-OS
15 10 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
1 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) JIRA
2 5 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.04%) Git
General
1 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.18%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.02%) German Language
5 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (62.24%) Network Engineer
2 17 (17.35%) Microsoft Engineer
3 12 (12.24%) Senior
4 10 (10.20%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (5.10%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (5.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (5.10%) Network Operations Engineer
5 5 (5.10%) Network Specialist
5 5 (5.10%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Architect
6 3 (3.06%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Design Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Implementation Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Network Architect
6 3 (3.06%) Network Design Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Jinja
2 4 (4.08%) JSON
2 4 (4.08%) YANG
3 3 (3.06%) Django
3 3 (3.06%) REST
3 3 (3.06%) RESTful
4 2 (2.04%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.02%) .NET
5 1 (1.02%) LDAP
5 1 (1.02%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) Private Cloud
2 17 (17.35%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.10%) Clustering
3 5 (5.10%) PKI
4 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.02%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) IoT
7 1 (1.02%) IPTV
7 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.39%) Windows
2 7 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Debian
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.57%) Network Management
2 26 (26.53%) ITIL
3 24 (24.49%) ITSM
4 19 (19.39%) Capacity Management
5 18 (18.37%) Change Management
5 18 (18.37%) Service Management
6 17 (17.35%) Security Monitoring
7 13 (13.27%) Migration
8 10 (10.20%) High Availability
8 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.18%) Load Balancing
9 9 (9.18%) Network Design
10 8 (8.16%) DevOps
11 7 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
12 6 (6.12%) Agile
13 5 (5.10%) CI/CD
13 5 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (5.10%) Mentoring
13 5 (5.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.35%) Python
2 7 (7.14%) Perl
3 6 (6.12%) Tcl
4 4 (4.08%) Bash
4 4 (4.08%) Java
5 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.06%) SQL
5 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.02%) Go
6 1 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (41.84%) CCNP
3 35 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 21 (21.43%) DV Cleared
5 16 (16.33%) CCNA
6 14 (14.29%) SC Cleared
7 10 (10.20%) CCIE
8 8 (8.16%) CCDP
9 7 (7.14%) JNCIS
10 6 (6.12%) JNCIA
11 4 (4.08%) BC Cleared
11 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (3.06%) CCIP
12 3 (3.06%) JNCIP
13 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
13 2 (2.04%) Degree
14 1 (1.02%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.35%) Government Security Classifications
2 4 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Firmware
2 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.06%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.02%) PowerDNS
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.35%) SCOM
2 12 (12.24%) Ansible
3 9 (9.18%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.06%) Kibana
4 3 (3.06%) Terraform
5 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.02%) Icinga
6 1 (1.02%) Nagios
6 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.02%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 65 (66.33%) Cisco
2 28 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 22 (22.45%) Juniper
4 21 (21.43%) F5
5 17 (17.35%) Atlassian
5 17 (17.35%) Microsoft
6 13 (13.27%) SolarWinds
7 12 (12.24%) Fortinet
8 8 (8.16%) Arista
9 7 (7.14%) Aruba
9 7 (7.14%) Citrix
9 7 (7.14%) Zscaler
10 6 (6.12%) Nokia
11 5 (5.10%) Infoblox
11 5 (5.10%) Splunk
12 4 (4.08%) VMware
13 3 (3.06%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 3 (3.06%) Meraki
13 3 (3.06%) TOWER Software
14 2 (2.04%) ADVA