BGP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 177 245 326
Rank change year-on-year +68 +81 +18
Contract jobs citing BGP 234 213 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.93% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.15% 6.12% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 118 110
10th Percentile £313 £346 £298
25th Percentile £363 £406 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +6.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £513
90th Percentile £575 £587 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £47.55 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £60.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.35% +158.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £32.81
90th Percentile - £80.48 £44.18
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,273 3,480 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.12% 15.12% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,855 2,191 2,661
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £348 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 308 244
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.94
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £73.98 £60.00
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 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 18 May 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 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
South East +60 92 £450 -10.00% 27
Midlands +69 76 £375 -25.00% 20
West Midlands +67 73 £375 -14.29% 15
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
Scotland +14 2 £500 +1.01% 10
East of England -2 2 - - 4
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 37 (15.81%) Confluence
2 35 (14.96%) SharePoint
2 35 (14.96%) SharePoint Server
3 9 (3.85%) Apache
3 9 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.09%) Azure
2 34 (14.53%) Azure Stack
3 6 (2.56%) AWS
4 4 (1.71%) GCP
5 2 (0.85%) GitHub
5 2 (0.85%) IaaS
5 2 (0.85%) PaaS
5 2 (0.85%) SaaS
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 139 (59.40%) MPLS
2 112 (47.86%) WAN
3 100 (42.74%) IPsec
4 86 (36.75%) Firewall
5 77 (32.91%) VPN
6 74 (31.62%) OSPF
7 53 (22.65%) Junos
8 51 (21.79%) EIGRP
9 47 (20.09%) Cisco Firepower
10 30 (12.82%) SSL
11 29 (12.39%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (9.83%) DMVPN
13 21 (8.97%) HSRP
14 20 (8.55%) LAN
15 19 (8.12%) SNMP
16 18 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (6.84%) Spanning Tree
17 16 (6.84%) TCP/IP
18 15 (6.41%) Wi-Fi
19 13 (5.56%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 9 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (22.22%) JIRA
2 9 (3.85%) GitLab
2 9 (3.85%) Robot Framework
2 9 (3.85%) TestRail
3 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.68%) Finance
3 18 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 18 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (35.90%) Network Engineer
2 41 (17.52%) Architect
3 39 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 35 (14.96%) Network Support
5 32 (13.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 28 (11.97%) WAN Engineer
7 27 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
8 24 (10.26%) Senior
9 17 (7.26%) Microsoft Engineer
9 17 (7.26%) Network Specialist
10 14 (5.98%) 2nd Line Support
10 14 (5.98%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.98%) Test Engineer
11 13 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 13 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Analyst
13 9 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) Network Support Engineer
15 7 (2.99%) Network Operations Engineer
15 7 (2.99%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.13%) Jinja
1 12 (5.13%) REST
1 12 (5.13%) YANG
2 9 (3.85%) NETCONF
2 9 (3.85%) RESTCONF
2 9 (3.85%) SOAP
3 4 (1.71%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.28%) Django
4 3 (1.28%) JSON
4 3 (1.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.21%) PKI
2 35 (14.96%) Private Cloud
3 16 (6.84%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.43%) CMDB
8 1 (0.43%) IoT
8 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.96%) Windows
2 4 (1.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.19%) Network Management
2 76 (32.48%) Network Design
3 54 (23.08%) ITIL
4 48 (20.51%) Load Balancing
5 41 (17.52%) ITSM
6 36 (15.38%) Capacity Management
7 35 (14.96%) Service Management
8 34 (14.53%) Security Monitoring
9 29 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (10.68%) Customer Requirements
11 21 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (8.12%) Change Management
13 14 (5.98%) CI/CD
14 13 (5.56%) Agile
15 12 (5.13%) DevOps
16 11 (4.70%) Backlog Management
16 11 (4.70%) Knowledge Transfer
17 10 (4.27%) Migration
17 10 (4.27%) Network Monitoring
17 10 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.11%) Python
2 12 (5.13%) Perl
2 12 (5.13%) SQL
2 12 (5.13%) Tcl
3 3 (1.28%) Bash
3 3 (1.28%) Java
3 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.64%) DV Cleared
3 48 (20.51%) SC Cleared
4 46 (19.66%) Cisco Certification
5 39 (16.67%) CCNP
6 33 (14.10%) CCNA
7 13 (5.56%) JNCIS
8 11 (4.70%) Degree
9 10 (4.27%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.99%) CCIE
11 4 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.71%) VCAP
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.85%) CCDP
13 1 (0.43%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.43%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.96%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.28%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.28%) SLA
3 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 13 (5.56%) Firmware
2 9 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (11.54%) FortiGate
2 26 (11.11%) Endace
3 24 (10.26%) SCOM
4 15 (6.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.85%) Terraform
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.43%) Observium
6 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 147 (62.82%) Juniper
2 106 (45.30%) Cisco
3 38 (16.24%) F5
4 36 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 35 (14.96%) Atlassian
6 30 (12.82%) Fortinet
7 22 (9.40%) Palo Alto
7 22 (9.40%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.56%) Citrix
9 4 (1.71%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.28%) TOWER Software
10 3 (1.28%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.85%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.85%) Splunk
12 1 (0.43%) ADVA
12 1 (0.43%) Alcatel-Lucent
12 1 (0.43%) Aruba
12 1 (0.43%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.43%) Dell
12 1 (0.43%) VMware