BGP Contracts in the North of England

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 161 164 186
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing BGP 24 54 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.96% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.32% 8.07% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 35 33
10th Percentile £389 £288 £230
25th Percentile £428 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +2.97%
75th Percentile £518 £486 £550
90th Percentile £543 £510 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 556 669 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.00% 11.94% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 448 632
10th Percentile £200 £200 £180
25th Percentile £316 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £612 £566 £550
90th Percentile £775 £665 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 24
10th Percentile £13.31 - £12.25
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.17
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.35% +3.30%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.72 £22.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.00 £53.79
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -8 20 £508 +12.94% 12
North East - 4 £385 - 1
BGP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (95.83%) OSPF
2 17 (70.83%) EIGRP
3 16 (66.67%) Firewall
4 15 (62.50%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (54.17%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (54.17%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (54.17%) HSRP
5 13 (54.17%) IPsec
5 13 (54.17%) NetScaler
6 12 (50.00%) SNMP
6 12 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
6 12 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (33.33%) MPLS
8 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
9 4 (16.67%) Value-Added Service
9 4 (16.67%) VLAN
9 4 (16.67%) VPN
9 4 (16.67%) Wireshark
10 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (4.17%) DNS
General
1 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Network Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 9 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Change Management
2 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 13 (54.17%) Network Management
3 12 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (50.00%) ITSM
4 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (8.33%) High Availability
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 1 (4.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Perl
1 12 (50.00%) Python
1 12 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) CCNP
1 21 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (66.67%) CCNA
3 14 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
4 5 (20.83%) CCIE
5 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (16.67%) Degree
5 4 (16.67%) JNCIA
5 4 (16.67%) JNCIS
5 4 (16.67%) VCAP
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) SolarWinds
2 18 (75.00%) Cisco
3 13 (54.17%) Citrix
3 13 (54.17%) Palo Alto
4 4 (16.67%) Juniper
4 4 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft