The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 of England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 115 124 120
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -4
Contract jobs citing BGP 6 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.268% 0.364% 0.437%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.550% 1.803% 3.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
Average daily rate £210 £275 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.63% -7.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £235 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £370 £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £308
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +13.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -50.00%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
387 610 388
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.28% 20.17% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 210 108
Average daily rate £320 £325 £299
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 65 79
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.04 £11.06
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
BGP
England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England BGP Daily Rate Trend

BGP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BGP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

East of England BGP Daily Rate Histogram

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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +10 4 - -
Essex -4 2 £210 -47.50% 1
Hertfordshire - - - - 3
Suffolk - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
BGP
England

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 15 (83.33%) MPLS
2 14 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (77.78%) Cisco
3 10 (55.56%) Firewall
3 10 (55.56%) Wireless
4 9 (50.00%) CCNP
4 9 (50.00%) CCNA
5 7 (38.89%) Siemens
5 7 (38.89%) OSPF
6 6 (33.33%) VMware
6 6 (33.33%) VLAN
6 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
7 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
7 5 (27.78%) LAN
7 5 (27.78%) VPN
8 4 (22.22%) Windows
8 4 (22.22%) Juniper
8 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
8 4 (22.22%) IPsec
8 4 (22.22%) Network Management
8 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (16.67%) UAG
9 3 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
9 3 (16.67%) Network Security
9 3 (16.67%) Internet
9 3 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 2 (11.11%) CSS

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) IIS
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) MPLS
2 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) Wireless
3 7 (38.89%) OSPF
4 6 (33.33%) VLAN
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (27.78%) VPN
5 5 (27.78%) LAN
6 4 (22.22%) IPsec
7 3 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
7 3 (16.67%) Network Security
7 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (16.67%) Internet
8 2 (11.11%) HSRP
8 2 (11.11%) FWSM
8 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (11.11%) VRRP
8 2 (11.11%) NetScreen
8 2 (11.11%) RIP
8 2 (11.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Network Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Device Driver
2 1 (5.556%) PKI
2 1 (5.556%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.556%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Network Management
2 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (50.00%) CCNP
2 9 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
3 2 (11.11%) JNCIE
4 1 (5.556%) CCSA
4 1 (5.556%) CCIE
4 1 (5.556%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) UAG
2 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.556%) DFS Replication
3 1 (5.556%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Siemens
3 6 (33.33%) VMware
4 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
5 4 (22.22%) Juniper
6 2 (11.11%) Nokia
7 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.556%) HP
7 1 (5.556%) McAfee
7 1 (5.556%) Clearswift
7 1 (5.556%) F5
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