BGP Contracts in England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 343 436
Rank change year-on-year +115 +93 +30
Contract jobs citing BGP 365 323 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.62% 5.47% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 180 216
10th Percentile £332 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £550
90th Percentile £613 £770 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile £18.98 £60.20 -
25th Percentile £19.69 £61.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £70.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +156.88% +18.48%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £35.63
90th Percentile £23.33 £80.85 £45.30
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £73.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -68.14% +183.65% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,791 5,904 7,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.25% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,859 5,188
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 419 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.13 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.60 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

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 18 May 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
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 18 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
London +94 127 £523 -9.52% 37
South East +60 92 £450 -10.00% 27
Midlands +69 76 £375 -25.00% 21
West Midlands +67 73 £375 -14.29% 16
South West +16 39 £490 +0.51% 5
North of England +3 24 £500 +11.11% 20
North West -8 20 £508 +12.94% 12
North East - 4 £385 - 1
East Midlands +16 3 £575 +21.05% 5
East of England -2 2 - - 4
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 37 (10.14%) Confluence
2 35 (9.59%) SharePoint
2 35 (9.59%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (3.01%) Apache
3 11 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 70 (19.18%) Azure
2 34 (9.32%) AWS
2 34 (9.32%) Azure Stack
3 13 (3.56%) GCP
4 5 (1.37%) OCI
5 4 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.82%) GitHub
7 2 (0.55%) Akamai
7 2 (0.55%) IaaS
7 2 (0.55%) PaaS
7 2 (0.55%) SaaS
7 2 (0.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.27%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 207 (56.71%) MPLS
2 169 (46.30%) WAN
3 160 (43.84%) Firewall
3 160 (43.84%) OSPF
4 135 (36.99%) IPsec
5 128 (35.07%) VPN
6 80 (21.92%) EIGRP
7 74 (20.27%) LAN
8 59 (16.16%) Cisco ASA
9 53 (14.52%) Junos
10 47 (12.88%) Cisco Firepower
11 46 (12.60%) HSRP
12 45 (12.33%) Network Security
13 44 (12.05%) DNS
13 44 (12.05%) Wireless
14 42 (11.51%) SNMP
15 41 (11.23%) Cisco Nexus
16 39 (10.68%) SSL
17 38 (10.41%) TCP/IP
18 34 (9.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.74%) MongoDB
1 10 (2.74%) NoSQL
1 10 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (15.07%) JIRA
2 16 (4.38%) Git
3 11 (3.01%) GitLab
3 11 (3.01%) Robot Framework
3 11 (3.01%) TestRail
4 8 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.99%) Finance
3 29 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.66%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.10%) Banking
9 3 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.55%) Advertising
10 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (45.75%) Network Engineer
2 43 (11.78%) Architect
3 41 (11.23%) Network Architect
4 37 (10.14%) Network Support
4 37 (10.14%) Senior
5 35 (9.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 31 (8.49%) Network Specialist
6 31 (8.49%) WAN Engineer
7 28 (7.67%) 3rd Line Support
8 21 (5.75%) Senior Network Engineer
9 18 (4.93%) Support Engineer
10 17 (4.66%) Microsoft Engineer
11 16 (4.38%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 14 (3.84%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (3.84%) IP Expert
12 14 (3.84%) Test Engineer
13 12 (3.29%) Cisco Engineer
13 12 (3.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 12 (3.29%) Design Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.68%) YANG
2 37 (10.14%) NETCONF
3 30 (8.22%) JSON
4 28 (7.67%) Jinja
5 26 (7.12%) XML
6 14 (3.84%) REST
7 11 (3.01%) 802.1X
7 11 (3.01%) RESTCONF
7 11 (3.01%) SOAP
8 5 (1.37%) RESTful
9 3 (0.82%) Django
10 2 (0.55%) LDAP
11 1 (0.27%) .NET
11 1 (0.27%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.45%) PKI
2 38 (10.41%) Data Centre
3 35 (9.59%) Private Cloud
4 20 (5.48%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.37%) Clustering
6 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.82%) CCTV
8 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.55%) Replication
10 1 (0.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.23%) Windows
2 9 (2.47%) Linux
3 4 (1.10%) Unix
3 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (26.30%) Network Design
2 84 (23.01%) Network Management
3 66 (18.08%) Load Balancing
4 57 (15.62%) ITIL
5 46 (12.60%) ITSM
6 40 (10.96%) Capacity Management
6 40 (10.96%) Change Management
7 35 (9.59%) DevOps
7 35 (9.59%) Service Management
8 34 (9.32%) Security Monitoring
9 32 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (6.85%) Customer Requirements
12 24 (6.58%) Migration
13 21 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (5.48%) Agile
15 17 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 17 (4.66%) Network Monitoring
16 16 (4.38%) CI/CD
17 15 (4.11%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (14.25%) Python
2 16 (4.38%) SQL
3 15 (4.11%) Perl
4 12 (3.29%) Tcl
5 5 (1.37%) Bash
6 4 (1.10%) Java
7 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.55%) Go
8 2 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 178 (48.77%) Security Cleared
2 101 (27.67%) Cisco Certification
3 84 (23.01%) CCNP
4 61 (16.71%) DV Cleared
5 57 (15.62%) SC Cleared
6 44 (12.05%) CCNA
7 27 (7.40%) CCIE
8 16 (4.38%) Degree
9 14 (3.84%) JNCIS
10 11 (3.01%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.19%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.19%) CCDP
12 7 (1.92%) CCIE Service Provider
13 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.10%) VCAP
15 2 (0.55%) BC Cleared
15 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.59%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.47%) SLA
3 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.55%) NCSC
4 2 (0.55%) QA
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (5.21%) Firmware
2 10 (2.74%) Docker
3 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.55%) PowerDNS
6 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (10.68%) FortiGate
2 27 (7.40%) Ansible
3 26 (7.12%) Endace
4 24 (6.58%) SCOM
5 10 (2.74%) Terraform
6 7 (1.92%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.82%) Kibana
8 2 (0.55%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.27%) CASB
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 207 (56.71%) Cisco
2 171 (46.85%) Juniper
3 82 (22.47%) F5
4 69 (18.90%) Palo Alto
5 62 (16.99%) Fortinet
6 42 (11.51%) Microsoft
7 35 (9.59%) Atlassian
8 34 (9.32%) Nokia
9 30 (8.22%) SolarWinds
10 17 (4.66%) CheckPoint
11 14 (3.84%) Infoblox
12 13 (3.56%) Aruba
12 13 (3.56%) Citrix
13 10 (2.74%) Zscaler
14 8 (2.19%) Arista
14 8 (2.19%) Meraki
15 7 (1.92%) Extreme Networks
15 7 (1.92%) Huawei
16 6 (1.64%) Google
17 5 (1.37%) VMware