Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 343 441
Rank change year-on-year +93 +98 +44
Contract jobs citing BGP 420 436 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.60% 5.96% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 259 303
10th Percentile £313 £370 £313
25th Percentile £366 £444 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £550
90th Percentile £613 £663 £602
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £486 £450
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
10th Percentile £21.83 £60.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £61.00 £24.38
Median hourly rate £39.75 £73.75 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.10% +175.70% +37.18%
75th Percentile £68.13 £80.44 £35.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.03 £52.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.75 £62.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -29.44% +138.46% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

BGP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BGP in the UK

BGP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BGP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BGP in the UK

BGP
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +137 402 £475 -5.00% 102
UK excluding London +71 248 £450 -7.41% 74
London +130 154 £525 -4.55% 38
Work from Home +38 97 £490 +0.51% 42
South East +50 93 £450 -10.00% 21
Midlands +83 88 £375 -25.00% 18
West Midlands +76 85 £375 -16.67% 11
South West +35 41 £490 +0.51% 9
North of England -2 22 £502 +3.29% 10
North West -1 20 £508 +10.07% 4
East Midlands +21 3 £575 +21.05% 7
Scotland +16 3 £500 +1.01% 10
North East +16 2 £345 -37.27% 2
East of England +11 2 - - 4

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.81%) Confluence
2 35 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (3.10%) Apache
3 13 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 73 (17.38%) Azure
2 40 (9.52%) AWS
3 34 (8.10%) Azure Stack
4 14 (3.33%) GCP
5 6 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.19%) OCI
7 3 (0.71%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (0.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.71%) Cohesity
7 3 (0.71%) GitHub
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.48%) Akamai
8 2 (0.48%) IaaS
8 2 (0.48%) PaaS
8 2 (0.48%) SaaS
9 1 (0.24%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 240 (57.14%) MPLS
2 200 (47.62%) WAN
3 195 (46.43%) Firewall
4 186 (44.29%) OSPF
5 159 (37.86%) IPsec
6 155 (36.90%) VPN
7 90 (21.43%) LAN
8 81 (19.29%) EIGRP
9 70 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
10 59 (14.05%) HSRP
11 56 (13.33%) Junos
12 53 (12.62%) Wireless
13 52 (12.38%) Network Security
14 47 (11.19%) Cisco Firepower
14 47 (11.19%) DNS
14 47 (11.19%) SNMP
15 45 (10.71%) Cisco Nexus
16 41 (9.76%) SSL
17 39 (9.29%) TCP/IP
18 38 (9.05%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 12 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (13.33%) JIRA
2 24 (5.71%) Git
3 13 (3.10%) GitLab
3 13 (3.10%) Robot Framework
3 13 (3.10%) TestRail
4 8 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.95%) Finance
3 37 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.95%) Banking
8 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (0.48%) Advertising
9 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.48%) Aviation
9 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.48%) Police
10 1 (0.24%) German Language
10 1 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 202 (48.10%) Network Engineer
2 43 (10.24%) WAN Engineer
3 41 (9.76%) Architect
3 41 (9.76%) Senior
4 40 (9.52%) Network Support
5 39 (9.29%) Network Architect
6 38 (9.05%) Network Specialist
7 36 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 28 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
9 27 (6.43%) Senior Network Engineer
10 21 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
10 21 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 21 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.05%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 17 (4.05%) IP Expert
11 17 (4.05%) Microsoft Engineer
12 16 (3.81%) 2nd Line Support
12 16 (3.81%) Design Engineer
12 16 (3.81%) Network Design Engineer
13 15 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.38%) YANG
2 50 (11.90%) NETCONF
3 41 (9.76%) JSON
4 37 (8.81%) XML
5 32 (7.62%) Jinja
6 16 (3.81%) REST
7 13 (3.10%) RESTCONF
7 13 (3.10%) SOAP
8 11 (2.62%) 802.1X
9 6 (1.43%) RESTful
10 3 (0.71%) Django
10 3 (0.71%) SAML
11 2 (0.48%) LDAP
12 1 (0.24%) .NET
12 1 (0.24%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 93 (22.14%) PKI
2 49 (11.67%) Data Centre
3 36 (8.57%) Private Cloud
4 25 (5.95%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.19%) Clustering
7 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (0.95%) CCTV
9 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Replication
11 1 (0.24%) CMDB
11 1 (0.24%) IoT
11 1 (0.24%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.95%) Windows
2 12 (2.86%) Linux
3 8 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.43%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (25.71%) Network Design
2 84 (20.00%) Network Management
3 71 (16.90%) Load Balancing
4 63 (15.00%) ITIL
5 47 (11.19%) Change Management
5 47 (11.19%) DevOps
5 47 (11.19%) ITSM
6 42 (10.00%) Capacity Management
7 37 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (8.81%) Service Management
8 34 (8.10%) Security Monitoring
9 33 (7.86%) Agile
9 33 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (7.38%) Migration
11 25 (5.95%) Customer Requirements
12 24 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (4.76%) Roadmaps
15 19 (4.52%) Network Monitoring
15 19 (4.52%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (15.95%) Python
2 18 (4.29%) SQL
3 15 (3.57%) Perl
4 12 (2.86%) Tcl
5 5 (1.19%) Bash
6 4 (0.95%) Java
7 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.48%) Go
8 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 196 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 116 (27.62%) Cisco Certification
3 97 (23.10%) CCNP
4 70 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 62 (14.76%) DV Cleared
6 47 (11.19%) CCNA
7 30 (7.14%) CCIE
8 24 (5.71%) Degree
9 14 (3.33%) JNCIS
10 12 (2.86%) JNCIA
11 9 (2.14%) CCDP
11 9 (2.14%) CCIE Service Provider
12 8 (1.90%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.19%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.95%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.95%) VCAP
15 3 (0.71%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (2.14%) SLA
3 4 (0.95%) QA
4 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.71%) NCSC
4 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (4.52%) Firmware
2 12 (2.86%) Docker
3 9 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.71%) NFS
7 2 (0.48%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (11.90%) FortiGate
2 32 (7.62%) Ansible
3 25 (5.95%) Endace
4 24 (5.71%) SCOM
5 11 (2.62%) Terraform
6 7 (1.67%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.71%) Kibana
7 3 (0.71%) vRealize
8 2 (0.48%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.48%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.24%) CASB
9 1 (0.24%) Icinga
9 1 (0.24%) Nagios
9 1 (0.24%) Observium
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 239 (56.90%) Cisco
2 194 (46.19%) Juniper
3 88 (20.95%) F5
4 84 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 78 (18.57%) Fortinet
6 44 (10.48%) Nokia
7 42 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 35 (8.33%) Atlassian
9 31 (7.38%) SolarWinds
10 18 (4.29%) CheckPoint
11 15 (3.57%) Aruba
11 15 (3.57%) Infoblox
12 13 (3.10%) Arista
12 13 (3.10%) Citrix
13 11 (2.62%) Extreme Networks
13 11 (2.62%) VMware
13 11 (2.62%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.14%) Huawei
14 9 (2.14%) Meraki
15 6 (1.43%) Google