The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the East Midlands region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 78 83 75
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing BGP 5 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.401% 0.073% 0.425%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.333% 0.595% 3.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £313 £238 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -36.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -29.68%
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
150 168 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 12.03% 12.20% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 76 47
Average daily rate £313 £263 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -13.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £171 £146
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £461 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 18
Average hourly rate £15.50 £30.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.33% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.78 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
BGP
England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BGP across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East Midlands BGP Jobs Demand Trend

BGP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BGP across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands BGP Daily Rate Trend

BGP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BGP across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands BGP Hourly Rate Trend

BGP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BGP within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Derbyshire - 3 £313 -
Nottinghamshire -1 2 - -
BGP
England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing BGP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BGP.

1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (90.91%) Firewall
3 8 (72.73%) Cisco PIX
3 8 (72.73%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
3 8 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (63.64%) Juniper
4 7 (63.64%) OSPF
5 6 (54.55%) DNS
5 6 (54.55%) Internet
5 6 (54.55%) CCNP
5 6 (54.55%) SMTP
5 6 (54.55%) HTTP
6 5 (45.45%) F5
6 5 (45.45%) BIG-IP
7 4 (36.36%) FWSM
7 4 (36.36%) Network Security
7 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
8 3 (27.27%) CCNA
8 3 (27.27%) HP
8 3 (27.27%) LAN
8 3 (27.27%) PBX
8 3 (27.27%) EIGRP
8 3 (27.27%) Wireless
8 3 (27.27%) VLAN
9 2 (18.18%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (18.18%) Degree
9 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
9 2 (18.18%) Video Conferencing

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing BGP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BGP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) Cisco PIX
2 8 (72.73%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
3 7 (63.64%) OSPF
4 6 (54.55%) DNS
4 6 (54.55%) Internet
4 6 (54.55%) SMTP
4 6 (54.55%) HTTP
5 5 (45.45%) BIG-IP
6 4 (36.36%) FWSM
6 4 (36.36%) Network Security
7 3 (27.27%) LAN
7 3 (27.27%) PBX
7 3 (27.27%) EIGRP
7 3 (27.27%) Wireless
7 3 (27.27%) VLAN
8 2 (18.18%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (18.18%) IP Telephony
8 2 (18.18%) WAN
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Network Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Security Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
1 2 (18.18%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL
1 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
1 2 (18.18%) PRINCE
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CCNP
3 3 (27.27%) CCNA
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Juniper
3 5 (45.45%) F5
4 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
5 3 (27.27%) HP
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) Nortel