BGP Contracts in London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 357 444
Rank change year-on-year +97 +87 -47
Contract jobs citing BGP 128 132 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.70% 5.08% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 78 101
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £441 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +10.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £734 £575
90th Percentile £743 £813 £713
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +169.23% -64.14%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £28.38
90th Percentile - - £29.50
England median hourly rate £21.25 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -69.64% +169.23% +13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,663 2,599 3,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.99% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,823 2,551
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 87
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.96
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £29.12
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +24.55% -38.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.74%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +29 6 £513 -6.82% 8
East London - 2 - - 6
BGP
England

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (1.56%) Apache
1 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.09%) AWS
2 22 (17.19%) Azure
3 9 (7.03%) GCP
4 5 (3.91%) OCI
5 3 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.56%) Akamai
6 2 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.78%) GitHub
7 1 (0.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 87 (67.97%) OSPF
2 77 (60.16%) Firewall
3 64 (50.00%) MPLS
4 57 (44.53%) WAN
5 55 (42.97%) LAN
6 49 (38.28%) VPN
7 39 (30.47%) Wireless
8 37 (28.91%) IPsec
9 34 (26.56%) Cisco ASA
10 33 (25.78%) Network Security
11 32 (25.00%) EIGRP
12 31 (24.22%) DNS
13 29 (22.66%) Cisco Nexus
14 26 (20.31%) HSRP
15 24 (18.75%) DHCP
16 23 (17.97%) SD-WAN
17 22 (17.19%) TCP/IP
18 21 (16.41%) SNMP
19 18 (14.06%) IPv4
19 18 (14.06%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) Git
2 6 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.34%) JIRA
4 2 (1.56%) GitLab
4 2 (1.56%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 32 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.88%) Finance
3 14 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.69%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.34%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (64.06%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.72%) Network Specialist
3 13 (10.16%) Senior
4 12 (9.38%) Design Engineer
4 12 (9.38%) IP Expert
5 11 (8.59%) Network Design Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Cisco Expert
8 6 (4.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Core Network Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Implementation Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) IP Network Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Network Implementation Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.53%) NETCONF
2 24 (18.75%) JSON
2 24 (18.75%) YANG
3 23 (17.97%) XML
4 14 (10.94%) Jinja
5 7 (5.47%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.56%) LDAP
6 2 (1.56%) REST
6 2 (1.56%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.56%) RESTful
6 2 (1.56%) SOAP
7 1 (0.78%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.06%) Data Centre
1 18 (14.06%) Distributed Architecture
2 12 (9.38%) PKI
3 5 (3.91%) Clustering
4 3 (2.34%) CCTV
4 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.56%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.91%) Linux
1 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 4 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (16.41%) DevOps
2 20 (15.63%) Network Design
2 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (14.84%) Change Management
4 16 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 13 (10.16%) Migration
6 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (9.38%) Roadmaps
6 12 (9.38%) Test Planning
7 11 (8.59%) Network Architecture
7 11 (8.59%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 10 (7.81%) Threat Management
9 9 (7.03%) Business Strategy
9 9 (7.03%) High Availability
9 9 (7.03%) ITSM
9 9 (7.03%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (6.25%) Agile
10 8 (6.25%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.75%) Python
2 4 (3.13%) SQL
3 3 (2.34%) Perl
4 2 (1.56%) Bash
4 2 (1.56%) Go
4 2 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (42.19%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (35.94%) CCNP
3 19 (14.84%) CCIE
4 12 (9.38%) CCNA
4 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 11 (8.59%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.69%) CCDP
6 6 (4.69%) CCIE Service Provider
7 5 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.91%) Degree
8 2 (1.56%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) CCIP
9 1 (0.78%) CCSE
9 1 (0.78%) CCSP
9 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.78%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.78%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) SLA
2 2 (1.56%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.69%) Firmware
2 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.56%) PowerDNS
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.78%) Docker
4 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (10.16%) FortiGate
2 12 (9.38%) Ansible
3 8 (6.25%) Terraform
4 6 (4.69%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (2.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.78%) CASB
6 1 (0.78%) Puppet
6 1 (0.78%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 100 (78.13%) Cisco
2 52 (40.63%) Palo Alto
3 40 (31.25%) F5
4 31 (24.22%) Fortinet
4 31 (24.22%) Nokia
5 23 (17.97%) Juniper
6 15 (11.72%) CheckPoint
7 14 (10.94%) Infoblox
8 12 (9.38%) SolarWinds
9 11 (8.59%) Aruba
10 8 (6.25%) Arista
10 8 (6.25%) Meraki
11 7 (5.47%) Extreme Networks
11 7 (5.47%) Zscaler
12 6 (4.69%) Google
12 6 (4.69%) Huawei
12 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
13 4 (3.13%) VMware
14 3 (2.34%) Citrix
14 3 (2.34%) Dell