BGP Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 316 429
Rank change year-on-year +59 +113 +71
Contract jobs citing BGP 390 445 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.19% 6.25% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 259 309
10th Percentile £335 £363 £324
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £563
90th Percentile £613 £661 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 6
10th Percentile £19.93 £43.40 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £61.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £39.25 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.93% +169.23% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £80.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £62.00 £82.62 £28.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -69.35% +181.82% -2.22%

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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 14 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 1 June 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 +107 370 £475 -5.00% 96
UK excluding London +41 233 £457 -5.88% 70
London +94 129 £513 -11.64% 42
Work from Home +23 100 £488 - 55
South East +33 91 £450 -13.46% 28
Midlands +64 78 £375 -25.00% 9
West Midlands +62 75 £375 -16.67% 8
South West +12 37 £495 +0.25% 2
North of England -5 25 £500 +11.11% 14
North West -7 21 £508 +12.94% 9
North East - 4 £385 - 1
East Midlands +14 3 £575 +21.05% 1
Scotland +11 3 £450 -9.09% 12
East of England -2 2 - - 3

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 31 (7.95%) Confluence
2 29 (7.44%) SharePoint
2 29 (7.44%) SharePoint Server
3 9 (2.31%) Apache
3 9 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 67 (17.18%) Azure
2 38 (9.74%) AWS
3 28 (7.18%) Azure Stack
4 14 (3.59%) GCP
5 5 (1.28%) OCI
6 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.77%) GitHub
7 3 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.51%) Akamai
8 2 (0.51%) IaaS
8 2 (0.51%) PaaS
8 2 (0.51%) SaaS
9 1 (0.26%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.26%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 210 (53.85%) MPLS
2 181 (46.41%) OSPF
2 181 (46.41%) WAN
3 177 (45.38%) Firewall
4 145 (37.18%) IPsec
5 131 (33.59%) VPN
6 94 (24.10%) EIGRP
7 80 (20.51%) LAN
8 70 (17.95%) Cisco ASA
9 59 (15.13%) Cisco Firepower
10 56 (14.36%) Network Security
11 55 (14.10%) Junos
12 53 (13.59%) HSRP
13 49 (12.56%) DNS
14 46 (11.79%) Wireless
15 44 (11.28%) TCP/IP
16 43 (11.03%) Cisco Nexus
16 43 (11.03%) SD-WAN
17 41 (10.51%) SSL
18 39 (10.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.05%) MongoDB
1 8 (2.05%) NoSQL
1 8 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (12.56%) JIRA
2 13 (3.33%) Git
3 9 (2.31%) GitLab
3 9 (2.31%) Robot Framework
3 9 (2.31%) TestRail
4 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 75 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.18%) Finance
3 33 (8.46%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.54%) Banking
9 3 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Advertising
10 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.26%) German Language
11 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 188 (48.21%) Network Engineer
2 42 (10.77%) Architect
2 42 (10.77%) Senior
3 39 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 39 (10.00%) Network Support
4 37 (9.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 33 (8.46%) WAN Engineer
6 32 (8.21%) Network Specialist
7 29 (7.44%) 3rd Line Support
8 25 (6.41%) Senior Network Engineer
9 20 (5.13%) Support Engineer
10 17 (4.36%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 14 (3.59%) 2nd Line Support
11 14 (3.59%) Design Engineer
11 14 (3.59%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (3.59%) Test Engineer
12 13 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
12 13 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Network Design Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.46%) YANG
2 31 (7.95%) NETCONF
3 26 (6.67%) JSON
4 25 (6.41%) Jinja
5 22 (5.64%) XML
6 12 (3.08%) REST
7 10 (2.56%) 802.1X
8 9 (2.31%) RESTCONF
8 9 (2.31%) SOAP
9 6 (1.54%) RESTful
10 3 (0.77%) Django
11 2 (0.51%) LDAP
12 1 (0.26%) .NET
12 1 (0.26%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.97%) PKI
2 40 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 30 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 16 (4.10%) Distributed Architecture
5 11 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.28%) Clustering
7 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.77%) CCTV
9 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.51%) Replication
11 1 (0.26%) CMDB
11 1 (0.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.26%) IoT
11 1 (0.26%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.72%) Windows
2 6 (1.54%) Linux
3 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (25.90%) Network Design
2 86 (22.05%) Network Management
3 69 (17.69%) Load Balancing
4 53 (13.59%) ITSM
5 52 (13.33%) ITIL
6 43 (11.03%) Change Management
7 35 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (8.72%) Capacity Management
9 33 (8.46%) DevOps
10 30 (7.69%) Service Management
11 29 (7.44%) Migration
11 29 (7.44%) Technical Leadership
12 28 (7.18%) Security Monitoring
13 26 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
14 22 (5.64%) Network Monitoring
15 21 (5.38%) Agile
16 18 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (3.85%) High Availability
18 14 (3.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.56%) Python
2 12 (3.08%) Perl
2 12 (3.08%) Tcl
3 11 (2.82%) SQL
4 5 (1.28%) Bash
5 4 (1.03%) Java
6 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.51%) Go
7 2 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 186 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 112 (28.72%) Cisco Certification
3 98 (25.13%) CCNP
4 66 (16.92%) SC Cleared
5 54 (13.85%) DV Cleared
6 51 (13.08%) CCNA
7 28 (7.18%) CCIE
8 15 (3.85%) JNCIA
9 14 (3.59%) Degree
9 14 (3.59%) JNCIS
10 9 (2.31%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.79%) CCDP
12 6 (1.54%) JNCIP
13 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.28%) CCIE Service Provider
13 5 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.03%) VCAP
15 2 (0.51%) BC Cleared
15 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.44%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.31%) SLA
3 3 (0.77%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.77%) NCSC
3 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.51%) QA
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (4.87%) Firmware
2 10 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.05%) Docker
4 6 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.51%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (10.26%) FortiGate
2 26 (6.67%) Ansible
2 26 (6.67%) Endace
3 18 (4.62%) SCOM
4 11 (2.82%) Terraform
5 8 (2.05%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (0.77%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.26%) CASB
8 1 (0.26%) Observium
8 1 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 235 (60.26%) Cisco
2 177 (45.38%) Juniper
3 88 (22.56%) Palo Alto
4 84 (21.54%) F5
5 64 (16.41%) Fortinet
6 41 (10.51%) SolarWinds
7 37 (9.49%) Microsoft
8 30 (7.69%) Nokia
9 29 (7.44%) Atlassian
10 23 (5.90%) Citrix
11 21 (5.38%) CheckPoint
12 19 (4.87%) Aruba
13 15 (3.85%) Infoblox
14 13 (3.33%) Zscaler
15 12 (3.08%) VMware
16 9 (2.31%) Huawei
16 9 (2.31%) Meraki
17 8 (2.05%) Arista
18 7 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
19 6 (1.54%) Google