BGP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 219 310
Rank change year-on-year +24 +91 +44
Contract jobs citing BGP 224 227 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 1.00% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.81% 6.43% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 125 114
10th Percentile £303 £350 £302
25th Percentile £363 £424 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +8.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £531
90th Percentile £575 £611 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £60.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.35% +181.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £24.75
90th Percentile - £80.40 £25.80
UK median hourly rate £39.25 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -43.93% +169.23% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK excluding London

BGP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +25 88 £450 -16.67% 33
Midlands +57 72 £375 -25.00% 11
West Midlands +58 69 £375 -16.67% 11
South West +10 36 £495 -5.71% 5
North of England -12 24 £500 +11.11% 13
North West -13 21 £508 +12.94% 8
Scotland +24 4 £463 -6.57% 4
East Midlands +9 3 £575 +21.05%
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England -2 2 - - 1
Wales +19 1 - - 3
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 29 (12.95%) Confluence
2 27 (12.05%) SharePoint
2 27 (12.05%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (2.68%) Apache
3 6 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 43 (19.20%) Azure
2 26 (11.61%) Azure Stack
3 10 (4.46%) AWS
4 6 (2.68%) GCP
5 3 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.89%) GitHub
6 2 (0.89%) IaaS
6 2 (0.89%) PaaS
6 2 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (59.38%) MPLS
2 106 (47.32%) WAN
3 100 (44.64%) IPsec
4 81 (36.16%) Firewall
5 72 (32.14%) VPN
6 70 (31.25%) OSPF
7 51 (22.77%) EIGRP
7 51 (22.77%) Junos
8 49 (21.88%) Cisco Firepower
9 31 (13.84%) Cisco ASA
10 29 (12.95%) SSL
11 25 (11.16%) DMVPN
12 24 (10.71%) HSRP
13 20 (8.93%) Cisco ISE
14 19 (8.48%) SNMP
14 19 (8.48%) TCP/IP
15 18 (8.04%) LAN
16 17 (7.59%) Network Security
17 16 (7.14%) Spanning Tree
18 15 (6.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.68%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.68%) NoSQL
1 6 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.34%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (19.64%) JIRA
2 6 (2.68%) GitLab
2 6 (2.68%) Robot Framework
2 6 (2.68%) TestRail
3 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.84%) Finance
3 16 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.46%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.89%) Advertising
8 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 80 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 38 (16.96%) Architect
3 36 (16.07%) Network Architect
4 35 (15.63%) Network Support
5 30 (13.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 27 (12.05%) 3rd Line Support
7 25 (11.16%) WAN Engineer
8 24 (10.71%) Senior
9 17 (7.59%) Network Specialist
10 14 (6.25%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
11 13 (5.80%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Support Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Test Engineer
13 10 (4.46%) Analyst
14 9 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 8 (3.57%) Network Support Engineer
16 7 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 7 (3.13%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.36%) Jinja
2 9 (4.02%) REST
2 9 (4.02%) YANG
3 6 (2.68%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.68%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.68%) RESTCONF
3 6 (2.68%) SOAP
4 3 (1.34%) Django
4 3 (1.34%) JSON
4 3 (1.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.55%) PKI
2 27 (12.05%) Private Cloud
3 17 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.45%) IoT
7 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.05%) Windows
2 4 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.48%) Network Design
2 71 (31.70%) Network Management
3 49 (21.88%) ITIL
4 44 (19.64%) Load Balancing
5 37 (16.52%) ITSM
6 28 (12.50%) Capacity Management
6 28 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (12.05%) Service Management
8 26 (11.61%) Security Monitoring
9 24 (10.71%) Customer Requirements
10 18 (8.04%) Change Management
11 17 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (5.80%) Migration
13 13 (5.80%) Network Monitoring
14 12 (5.36%) Agile
14 12 (5.36%) DevOps
15 11 (4.91%) Backlog Management
15 11 (4.91%) CI/CD
15 11 (4.91%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.27%) Python
2 12 (5.36%) Perl
2 12 (5.36%) Tcl
3 9 (4.02%) SQL
4 3 (1.34%) Bash
4 3 (1.34%) Java
4 3 (1.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (72.32%) Security Cleared
2 51 (22.77%) DV Cleared
3 50 (22.32%) SC Cleared
4 46 (20.54%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (18.30%) CCNP
6 30 (13.39%) CCNA
7 9 (4.02%) Degree
7 9 (4.02%) JNCIS
8 7 (3.13%) CCIE
8 7 (3.13%) JNCIA
9 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.79%) VCAP
11 3 (1.34%) HND
12 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.45%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.45%) CCDP
13 1 (0.45%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.05%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.34%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.34%) SLA
3 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 13 (5.80%) Firmware
2 7 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (11.61%) FortiGate
2 25 (11.16%) Endace
3 16 (7.14%) SCOM
4 15 (6.70%) Ansible
5 2 (0.89%) Cacti
5 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 140 (62.50%) Juniper
2 110 (49.11%) Cisco
3 38 (16.96%) F5
4 32 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 28 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 27 (12.05%) Atlassian
7 24 (10.71%) SolarWinds
8 22 (9.82%) Palo Alto
9 14 (6.25%) Citrix
10 7 (3.13%) VMware
11 4 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.79%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.34%) Aruba
12 3 (1.34%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.34%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.89%) Blue Coat
13 2 (0.89%) McAfee
13 2 (0.89%) Splunk
14 1 (0.45%) Barracuda Networks
14 1 (0.45%) Forcepoint