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 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 269 363 427
Rank change year-on-year +94 +64 -42
Contract jobs citing BGP 127 132 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.64% 5.12% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 78 102
10th Percentile £350 £413 £405
25th Percentile £448 £475 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £734 £572
90th Percentile £743 £813 £677
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £25.63
25th Percentile £23.25 - £25.81
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +156.88% -62.41%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £29.31
90th Percentile - - £29.88
England median hourly rate £21.25 £70.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -69.64% +156.88% +18.48%

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 2,577 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.96% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,810 2,529
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 84
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +7.47% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £47.69
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% +0.41%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in London

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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 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
Central London +39 4 £500 -9.09% 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 (1.57%) Apache
1 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.26%) AWS
2 22 (17.32%) Azure
3 9 (7.09%) GCP
4 5 (3.94%) OCI
5 3 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.57%) Akamai
6 2 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 84 (66.14%) OSPF
2 74 (58.27%) Firewall
3 67 (52.76%) MPLS
4 56 (44.09%) WAN
5 54 (42.52%) LAN
6 49 (38.58%) VPN
7 39 (30.71%) Wireless
8 34 (26.77%) IPsec
8 34 (26.77%) Network Security
9 31 (24.41%) DNS
10 30 (23.62%) Cisco ASA
11 29 (22.83%) EIGRP
12 28 (22.05%) Cisco Nexus
13 25 (19.69%) HSRP
14 24 (18.90%) DHCP
15 23 (18.11%) SD-WAN
15 23 (18.11%) SNMP
16 22 (17.32%) TCP/IP
17 20 (15.75%) IPv4
17 20 (15.75%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.60%) Git
2 6 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.36%) JIRA
4 2 (1.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.57%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.57%) TestRail
General
1 34 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.05%) Finance
3 14 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.30%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.72%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.36%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Banking
8 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (62.99%) Network Engineer
2 14 (11.02%) IP Expert
2 14 (11.02%) Network Specialist
3 13 (10.24%) Senior
4 12 (9.45%) Design Engineer
5 11 (8.66%) Network Design Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (6.30%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (6.30%) Security Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Cisco Expert
9 6 (4.72%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Support Engineer
12 3 (2.36%) Implementation Engineer
12 3 (2.36%) IP Network Engineer
12 3 (2.36%) Juniper Engineer
12 3 (2.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.36%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.05%) NETCONF
2 27 (21.26%) JSON
2 27 (21.26%) YANG
3 26 (20.47%) XML
4 16 (12.60%) Jinja
5 7 (5.51%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.57%) LDAP
6 2 (1.57%) REST
6 2 (1.57%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.57%) RESTful
6 2 (1.57%) SOAP
7 1 (0.79%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Distributed Architecture
2 18 (14.17%) Data Centre
3 12 (9.45%) PKI
4 5 (3.94%) Clustering
5 3 (2.36%) CCTV
5 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.57%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.72%) Windows
2 5 (3.94%) Linux
3 4 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.11%) DevOps
2 20 (15.75%) Network Design
2 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (14.96%) Change Management
4 16 (12.60%) Load Balancing
5 14 (11.02%) Migration
5 14 (11.02%) Test Planning
6 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (9.45%) Roadmaps
7 11 (8.66%) Network Architecture
7 11 (8.66%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 10 (7.87%) Threat Management
9 9 (7.09%) Business Strategy
9 9 (7.09%) High Availability
9 9 (7.09%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (6.30%) Agile
10 8 (6.30%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.30%) Network Monitoring
10 8 (6.30%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.69%) Python
2 4 (3.15%) SQL
3 3 (2.36%) Perl
4 2 (1.57%) Bash
4 2 (1.57%) Go
4 2 (1.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (43.31%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (36.22%) CCNP
3 20 (15.75%) CCIE
4 12 (9.45%) CCNA
5 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.51%) CCIE Service Provider
7 6 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.72%) CCDP
8 5 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.94%) Degree
9 2 (1.57%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.79%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.79%) CCSE
10 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.79%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.72%) SLA
2 2 (1.57%) NCSC
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.72%) Firmware
2 5 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.57%) PowerDNS
3 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.79%) Docker
4 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (10.24%) FortiGate
2 12 (9.45%) Ansible
3 8 (6.30%) Terraform
4 6 (4.72%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (2.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.79%) CASB
6 1 (0.79%) Puppet
6 1 (0.79%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 98 (77.17%) Cisco
2 49 (38.58%) Palo Alto
3 41 (32.28%) F5
4 34 (26.77%) Nokia
5 33 (25.98%) Fortinet
6 23 (18.11%) Juniper
7 15 (11.81%) CheckPoint
8 14 (11.02%) Infoblox
9 11 (8.66%) Aruba
10 9 (7.09%) SolarWinds
11 8 (6.30%) Arista
11 8 (6.30%) Meraki
12 7 (5.51%) Extreme Networks
12 7 (5.51%) Huawei
12 7 (5.51%) Zscaler
13 6 (4.72%) Google
13 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
14 4 (3.15%) VMware
15 3 (2.36%) Dell
15 3 (2.36%) Splunk