BGP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 253 269 400
Rank change year-on-year +16 +131 -9
Contract jobs citing BGP 92 192 224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.78% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.00% 6.75% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 124 157
10th Percentile £335 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £529 £569 £550
90th Percentile £575 £619 £627
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £18.98 £53.15 £22.35
25th Percentile £19.69 £76.50 £24.38
Median hourly rate £21.25 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.93% +201.92% -64.14%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.63 £27.44
90th Percentile £23.33 £81.00 £29.13
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

BGP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BGP trend for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP.

BGP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BGP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

BGP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BGP.

BGP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BGP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (20.65%) Confluence
2 17 (18.48%) SharePoint
2 17 (18.48%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.61%) Azure
2 17 (18.48%) Azure Stack
3 13 (14.13%) AWS
4 2 (2.17%) GCP
4 2 (2.17%) GitHub
4 2 (2.17%) IaaS
4 2 (2.17%) PaaS
4 2 (2.17%) SaaS
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Akamai
5 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (66.30%) Firewall
2 59 (64.13%) OSPF
3 28 (30.43%) WAN
4 27 (29.35%) Cisco ASA
5 24 (26.09%) MPLS
6 22 (23.91%) EIGRP
7 21 (22.83%) VPN
8 20 (21.74%) IPsec
9 19 (20.65%) Cisco Nexus
9 19 (20.65%) LAN
10 18 (19.57%) SD-WAN
11 17 (18.48%) DNS
12 15 (16.30%) Network Security
13 13 (14.13%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (14.13%) SNMP
13 13 (14.13%) TCP/IP
14 12 (13.04%) Wireless
15 11 (11.96%) NX-OS
15 11 (11.96%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (9.78%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
1 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.09%) Git
General
1 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Finance
3 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 55 (59.78%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Engineer
3 10 (10.87%) Senior
4 8 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Network Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Network Operations Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Design Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Implementation Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Network Design Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Network Specialist
6 3 (3.26%) Network Technical Architect
6 3 (3.26%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) Jinja
2 3 (3.26%) Django
2 3 (3.26%) JSON
2 3 (3.26%) REST
2 3 (3.26%) RESTful
2 3 (3.26%) YANG
3 2 (2.17%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.57%) Private Cloud
2 15 (16.30%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.43%) Clustering
4 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.26%) PKI
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) IoT
7 1 (1.09%) IPTV
7 1 (1.09%) Replication
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.65%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Debian
3 1 (1.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) Network Management
2 26 (28.26%) ITIL
3 24 (26.09%) ITSM
4 20 (21.74%) Change Management
5 19 (20.65%) Capacity Management
6 18 (19.57%) Service Management
7 17 (18.48%) Security Monitoring
8 10 (10.87%) High Availability
8 10 (10.87%) Load Balancing
9 9 (9.78%) Network Design
9 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.70%) DevOps
10 8 (8.70%) Migration
11 7 (7.61%) Network Monitoring
12 6 (6.52%) Agile
13 5 (5.43%) Capacity Planning
13 5 (5.43%) CI/CD
13 5 (5.43%) Mentoring
14 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 4 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.30%) Python
2 6 (6.52%) Perl
2 6 (6.52%) Tcl
3 4 (4.35%) Bash
3 4 (4.35%) Java
4 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.26%) SQL
4 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.09%) Go
5 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (44.57%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (43.48%) CCNP
3 29 (31.52%) Security Cleared
4 18 (19.57%) DV Cleared
5 14 (15.22%) CCNA
6 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
7 10 (10.87%) CCIE
8 7 (7.61%) CCDP
8 7 (7.61%) JNCIS
9 6 (6.52%) JNCIA
10 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.17%) BC Cleared
10 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.17%) CCIP
10 2 (2.17%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Firmware
2 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) PowerDNS
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) SCOM
2 12 (13.04%) Ansible
3 6 (6.52%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.26%) Kibana
4 3 (3.26%) Terraform
5 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.09%) Icinga
6 1 (1.09%) Nagios
6 1 (1.09%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 61 (66.30%) Cisco
2 26 (28.26%) Palo Alto
3 22 (23.91%) F5
4 18 (19.57%) Juniper
5 17 (18.48%) Atlassian
5 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
6 12 (13.04%) SolarWinds
7 11 (11.96%) Fortinet
8 10 (10.87%) Aruba
9 7 (7.61%) Arista
9 7 (7.61%) Citrix
9 7 (7.61%) Zscaler
10 5 (5.43%) Infoblox
10 5 (5.43%) Splunk
11 4 (4.35%) VMware
12 3 (3.26%) Meraki
12 3 (3.26%) Nokia
12 3 (3.26%) TOWER Software
13 2 (2.17%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 2 (2.17%) Extreme Networks