BGP Contracts in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 251 330 445
Rank change year-on-year +79 +115 +36
Contract jobs citing BGP 350 340 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.26% 5.74% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 195 221
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £550
90th Percentile £600 £727 £610
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 4
10th Percentile £19.45 £30.95 -
25th Percentile £20.88 £61.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +169.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £44.38 £80.25 £27.44
90th Percentile £56.75 £80.78 £29.13
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
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in England

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in England

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for BGP in England

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in England

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in England

BGP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the England 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
London +71 120 £500 -13.79% 30
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
East Midlands +9 3 £575 +21.05%
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England -2 2 - - 1
BGP
UK

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.29%) Confluence
2 27 (7.71%) SharePoint
2 27 (7.71%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (2.29%) Apache
3 8 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.29%) Azure
2 37 (10.57%) AWS
3 26 (7.43%) Azure Stack
4 14 (4.00%) GCP
5 5 (1.43%) OCI
6 3 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.86%) GitHub
7 2 (0.57%) Akamai
7 2 (0.57%) IaaS
7 2 (0.57%) PaaS
7 2 (0.57%) SaaS
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.29%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.29%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 190 (54.29%) MPLS
2 157 (44.86%) WAN
3 155 (44.29%) OSPF
4 152 (43.43%) Firewall
5 129 (36.86%) IPsec
6 114 (32.57%) VPN
7 86 (24.57%) EIGRP
8 66 (18.86%) LAN
9 57 (16.29%) Cisco ASA
10 54 (15.43%) Cisco Firepower
11 53 (15.14%) Network Security
12 51 (14.57%) Junos
13 47 (13.43%) DNS
13 47 (13.43%) HSRP
14 42 (12.00%) TCP/IP
15 38 (10.86%) SSL
15 38 (10.86%) Wireless
16 37 (10.57%) Cisco Nexus
16 37 (10.57%) SD-WAN
17 36 (10.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (2.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (13.43%) JIRA
2 12 (3.43%) Git
3 8 (2.29%) GitLab
3 8 (2.29%) Robot Framework
3 8 (2.29%) TestRail
4 5 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.43%) Finance
3 26 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.71%) Banking
7 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.57%) Advertising
9 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 170 (48.57%) Network Engineer
2 40 (11.43%) Architect
3 37 (10.57%) Network Architect
3 37 (10.57%) Network Support
3 37 (10.57%) Senior
4 33 (9.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 28 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 28 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
6 24 (6.86%) Network Specialist
7 21 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (4.86%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 17 (4.86%) Support Engineer
9 14 (4.00%) Design Engineer
10 13 (3.71%) 2nd Line Support
10 13 (3.71%) Cisco Engineer
10 13 (3.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (3.71%) Microsoft Engineer
11 12 (3.43%) Test Engineer
12 11 (3.14%) Network Design Engineer
13 10 (2.86%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.29%) YANG
2 27 (7.71%) NETCONF
3 23 (6.57%) JSON
4 22 (6.29%) Jinja
5 19 (5.43%) XML
6 11 (3.14%) 802.1X
6 11 (3.14%) REST
7 8 (2.29%) RESTCONF
7 8 (2.29%) SOAP
8 5 (1.43%) RESTful
9 3 (0.86%) Django
10 2 (0.57%) LDAP
11 1 (0.29%) .NET
11 1 (0.29%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.43%) PKI
2 35 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 27 (7.71%) Private Cloud
4 14 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.43%) Clustering
8 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.57%) CCTV
10 2 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.57%) Replication
10 2 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.29%) IoT
11 1 (0.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.86%) Windows
2 6 (1.71%) Linux
3 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (27.14%) Network Design
2 80 (22.86%) Network Management
3 66 (18.86%) Load Balancing
4 49 (14.00%) ITIL
5 48 (13.71%) ITSM
6 36 (10.29%) Change Management
7 30 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (8.29%) Capacity Management
8 29 (8.29%) DevOps
9 28 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
10 27 (7.71%) Service Management
11 26 (7.43%) Security Monitoring
12 25 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
13 24 (6.86%) Migration
14 18 (5.14%) Network Monitoring
15 17 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (4.57%) Agile
17 13 (3.71%) CI/CD
17 13 (3.71%) High Availability
18 12 (3.43%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.86%) Python
2 12 (3.43%) Perl
2 12 (3.43%) Tcl
3 10 (2.86%) SQL
4 5 (1.43%) Bash
5 4 (1.14%) Java
6 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.57%) Go
7 2 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 172 (49.14%) Security Cleared
2 99 (28.29%) Cisco Certification
3 86 (24.57%) CCNP
4 59 (16.86%) SC Cleared
5 52 (14.86%) DV Cleared
6 46 (13.14%) CCNA
7 25 (7.14%) CCIE
8 12 (3.43%) Degree
9 11 (3.14%) JNCIA
10 10 (2.86%) JNCIS
11 9 (2.57%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.00%) CCDP
13 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.43%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.14%) CCIE Service Provider
14 4 (1.14%) VCAP
15 2 (0.57%) BC Cleared
15 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.71%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.57%) SLA
3 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.57%) NCSC
4 2 (0.57%) QA
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (5.43%) Firmware
2 9 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.00%) Docker
4 5 (1.43%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.57%) PowerDNS
6 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (9.71%) FortiGate
2 25 (7.14%) Endace
3 24 (6.86%) Ansible
4 16 (4.57%) SCOM
5 10 (2.86%) Terraform
6 8 (2.29%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.86%) Kibana
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.29%) Cacti
9 1 (0.29%) CASB
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 207 (59.14%) Cisco
2 157 (44.86%) Juniper
3 80 (22.86%) F5
4 73 (20.86%) Palo Alto
5 53 (15.14%) Fortinet
6 37 (10.57%) SolarWinds
7 35 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 29 (8.29%) Nokia
9 27 (7.71%) Atlassian
10 21 (6.00%) CheckPoint
11 19 (5.43%) Citrix
12 17 (4.86%) Aruba
13 14 (4.00%) Infoblox
14 12 (3.43%) Zscaler
15 11 (3.14%) VMware
16 8 (2.29%) Arista
16 8 (2.29%) Huawei
16 8 (2.29%) Meraki
17 6 (1.71%) Google
18 5 (1.43%) Splunk