The first table below looks at the demand for BGP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BGP over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Rank 46 42 47
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Contract jobs citing BGP 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.249% 0.723% 0.765%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.449% 6.383% 9.677%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 47 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.16% 11.33% 7.908%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 8
Average daily rate £325 £380 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +23.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £146 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £15.10 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £28.70 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
BGP
East of England

BGP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex BGP Hourly Rate Trend

BGP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (90.00%) MPLS
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
4 6 (60.00%) Wireless
4 6 (60.00%) Siemens
4 6 (60.00%) CCNP
4 6 (60.00%) VMware
5 5 (50.00%) CCNA
6 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (40.00%) Windows
6 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (30.00%) UAG
7 3 (30.00%) VLAN
7 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (30.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 3 (30.00%) LAN
8 2 (20.00%) UNIX
8 2 (20.00%) SQL
8 2 (20.00%) VPN
8 2 (20.00%) IPsec
8 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
8 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (20.00%) Network Security
9 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (10.00%) DFS Replication
9 1 (10.00%) vSphere

BGP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) MPLS
2 7 (70.00%) Firewall
3 6 (60.00%) Wireless
4 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (30.00%) VLAN
5 3 (30.00%) LAN
6 2 (20.00%) VPN
6 2 (20.00%) IPsec
6 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
6 2 (20.00%) Network Security
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
7 1 (10.00%) MGCP
7 1 (10.00%) SAN
7 1 (10.00%) ISDN
7 1 (10.00%) VoIP
7 1 (10.00%) SMTP
7 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (60.00%) CCNP
3 5 (50.00%) CCNA
4 1 (10.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) UAG
2 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) DFS Replication
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Siemens
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Clearswift
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) HP